Walsingham

I bought Blast Tyrant by Clutch. The whole album. It is just awesome.

My eyes are like saucers. Unlike your ears, which will be full of holes!

Suicide is a complex phenomenon. I'd argue it's only partly rational. You know what's a comparable logical model? Migration. If a society sucks, how many people leave and where do they go?

'If'?

I'm fascinated by your notion that no-one wins cases against the federal government. Please do continue.

Is it childish that this made me snigger?

That is one stylish alpaca.

Interesting point: doxycycline isn't the only antibiotic you should strenuously avoid taking on an empty stomach. Acid refluxing like an ornamental acid fountain.

Interesting point about customisation. I think there's a generic point here that once a technology plateaus in effectiveness, it's all about fine tuning to suit users and situations.

Ouch! Those three words at the end of your sentence don't sit well in this context. Occurred to me after posting, but meh, if that makes anyone upset they can deal with it. I love it when you're all butch.

There's this thing called breasts, old boy. They are quite literally magical, and they make everything better. Even tank tops.

While I appreciate the thought I'm not going for any more female squaddies. I swore off them after the last ...incredibly fierce and athletic... nutter I went out with. On a different note:

Great authors have a tendency to revise large chunks. I'd recommend scrapping the whole chapter, at the very least. Maybe the one before it as well.

So what you're basically saying is that this is a legal issue, which is being dealt with legally. In a country with a robust if imperfect legal system. With some associated angry people. Who haven't actually shot anyone or anything.

You let the player decide what "kills the mood" and what doesn't. Everyone has their own speed that they feel comfortable playing. Some like it faster, some like it slower. Sometimes you want to bump it up, sometimes slow it down. Let the player decide. In general I'm in favour of customisation. But customisation can ruin a game experience. If I give a man a 25 year old malt whisky and he tries to neck it in one shot then he's a fool. And he's wasted the whisky. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY he will complain about the price. Customisation should not be encouraged where it will wreck the playing experience.

Thinking a bit more about this I see what you mean. I think. There's a joy in taking what chance gives you and making the best of it. However, following this logic I'd make it part of the Iron Man approach to a run through. i.e. you start with a random gen character, and your NPCs get randomly genned. Not going in this release, probably, but I'd genuinely like to see it come out as a mod or something.

With bit editing that would be is excellent phrase to put in t-shirts that support atheism. Small quantities of madness are necessary for virtue though. I wouldn't want to argue aginst patriotism. Just because most of my compatriots are lazy swivel eyed p***s doesn't stop me enjoying Rule Britannia and paying my taxes.

My first thought was "What the hell has Afghanistan got to do with Nevada?" Turns out there are several Maidans. EDIT: Also, calm the **** down. As if this is the first time a militia has tried to stage a local coup. And it won't be the last.

It's funny until you understand that many insurance policies won't cover some **** comedian wrecking your way of getting to work, and quite possibly the most expensive thing you own. The car wasn't _driven_ away so they don't cover it as theft. Friend of a friend had their car flipped onto its roof. Damage to bodywork so extensive that they wrote the bastard off.

Acknowledging that I'm a total noob at guns, I reckon the AR-15 is just the Levis jeans of guns. It's good, but its success is not down to what it's made of, or how its made.

Only that's not at all what's being suggested in this thread. I'm curious, why do people insist on putting stock on what official and mainstream sources say, by default, without any sort of critical review or personal fact checking, when said sources have been known to stretch the truth, misrepresent, make mistakes and outright lie in the past. I suspect this is related to the theorised innate psychological vulnerability of people to authority figures, but there has to be more to it than that. The argument is not "believe every conspiracy theory because otherwise you are sheep", and turning it into that is very much strawmanning. The argument is, "when there is conflicting evidence and expert opinions, why do you choose to believe one version over the other?" Heh, the link I posted a few pages ago questioned even whether this is an actual choice at all, and this is reinforced by the cognitive dissonance videos Valsuelm posted. Arguably, there is no difference between the conspiracy crackpot that takes every word that comes out of Alex Jones' mouth as gospel, and the honest-to-god upstanding citizen that believes it's his duty to trust every press release by an alphabet agency—both have renounced their ability to form their own opinions, relying on others to provide prefabricated ones instead. So why the selective derision? That's an interesting view. But I don't think that's the real tension. By far and away the trend I witness both online and in public is for people to reflexively doubt any official story. I think it's because the truth is complex and it's usually hard to know what to do next. In fact I'd go so far as to argue that your conspiracy believers have a GREATER need for authority figures, because they live in a world where power players control big events. Let's be absolutely clear: I am not saying that an undetected conspiracy influencing political events is impossible. But I am saying that allowing anything undetected and unprovable to influence your personal behaviour is logically indistinguishable from going mad.

I'm not saying it's a great film. There are moments of interesting narrative. Mainly it's carried by Pascale Bussieres.

Ditto Hurlshot. If you think for just a few seconds about the circumstances under which she was shot then you'd see that not everyone wants women hidden away. Because if there weren't families and kids eager to learn then the Taliban & Co. wouldn't _need_ to shoot anyone in their heroic heavily armed stand against little girls who can read.

Mucus finally started flowing yellow. This means that the 'National Guard' have finally turned up to fight the horrifying invaders. White blood cells in the mucus. On the downside I just spent fully ten minutes in a coughing cycle. I think at one point I actually turned inside-out.

So you mean you're a lunatic or a reprobate if you assume a shadowy, and possibly fictional, organization is behind every atrocity with flimsy evidence(at best) to support that view? I'm saying that if you take the logic that an absence of evidence is evidence of guilt then you may as well start burning witches.