alanschu

Well, with the impending death of our planet in 5 billion years, we better think of something!

Money well spent...hehehe.

I'm well aware of this. It existed in Baldur's Gate 2 as well. You were the one that commented about the name and how it made it easier to do the trilogy, not me. Maybe, maybe not. Because, as I said, the issue still existed even in Baldur's Gate 2.

I could see the advantages of having the rewrite. However, I'm not convinced that it'd be impossible to do for XP. Though I don't have any idea what the differences are between the two operating systems.

Because they didn't have the cap room to go after Sykora!!!! Woo!

This is the problem, given the huge amounts of public dollars they get, in addition to huge exceptionally cheap access to public venues. I'd have zero problems if the Boy Scouts of America were purely a private corporation. EDIT: And just to clarify, you get excessively defensive when someone points out something bad about CHristianity and then applies to all Christians. Do you afford homosexuals the same respect?

Such as? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What do you mean "such as?" If they create their own IP, then they've created something new. There couldn't be any sort of "such as" because there's nothing to compare it to.

I'm not familiar with it. I have heard of the concept of folding space, which IIRC is a man made wormhole. I'm not sure how one can expect to maniuplate whole chunks of space-time though.

Eberron would at least be different, but I'm curious why they'd have to be constrained to a D&D RPG.

ERrrr, not exactly.

Well then you just need to be concerned with the exceptional gravitational pulls. Quantum singularities are incomprehensibly massive, and will have incomprehensibly huge gravitational forces attached to them. Same goes for those worm holes. As for warp travel, I'm still not convinced that you're going to be able to travel faster than light. While time dilation would let you get to Alpha Centauri in a relative instant (assuming you could travel roughly the speed of light, which would take incomprehensible amounts of energy), if you went there and back, 8.6 years would have elapsed on Earth (this is the foundation of the original Planet of the Apes movie). Don't forget that science fiction is still fiction. Stuff like wormholes and whatnot are still entirely theoretical. I'm not sure how it'd actually be possible to bend and maniuplate space-time, and especially to keep things stable.

I'd rather they make a game that is better than the Baldur's Gate games, in a brand new, fresh setting that I'm not already pretty familiar with.

Except that Polaris is like 100 times farther than Alpha Centauri, weighing it at 430 ly, giver or take 100 ly. To clarify, that's 4.06802721

Datsyuk has insane skills. As much as I don't care for Detroit, I hope he has a solid playoff (assuming Detroit makes it) just to get the critics off his back.

Well, if you're talking about a virus attaching to an .exe (which I would categorize as being exceptionally uncommon), then that's not a bug that Dashus is takling about.

The funny thing was I think our average grade between the four of us was 90%, and that's because we had someone that was only getting 70s.

We did the same at our school. Loaded up shareware quake and played games. They didn't like that, so they became draconian in their security.

Every system is different. I would be surprised if this mod went off without a hitch. This is nothing negative. I personally believe that different systems will have different issues, which you people haven't forseen. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Unless they are doing alterations to the actual engine or something, I'd be surprised if there were system specific bugs in what they have done.

If we're lucky, we can get to Alpha Centauri before our sun starts expanding!

If a KOTOR 3 comes out, then people will just want a KOTOR 4.

Ahahahahaha.

Unless BF2142 is completely different than the other ones (which were online multiplayer games, that contained no AI agents in the game), I suspect putting in a whole bunch of AI analysis when the only AI that exists is for a singleplayer, offline mode, would be a really large waste of resources. The question I asked was more rhetorical, because the BF games are games that don't really contain AI agents. You didn't really answer why at all. You just said it needs to be regulated because it "can slide into real spying quite easily." Provide something to substantiate your claims. An example about credit cards doesn't exactly clarify the point. And besides, your point was that politicians were needed to curb or stop the type of stuff that EA is doing, nothing mentioned about how it should be "regulated and monitored." I'm thinking that the laws should be created to stop the "real spying," rather than what EA is attempting to do.

Our Sun will not go Boom, it does not have enough mass. When it burns off enough mass it will expand into a red giant, and then later compress into a white dwarf. And when it expands, it's expected to expand out about 1 AU (the Earth's distance to the sun. However, in the 5 billion years when this happens, the Earth is suspected to be about 1.7 AU away from the Sun. Our Sun would need to be 1.4 times the mass it is for it to explode (Chandrasekhar limit). And even then, we might as well do something in the mean time. To say that it won't be an issue is a bit premature. I'm not sure what you mean by "burning the heavier elements" because the Sun is overwhelmingly made up of hydrogen. In fact, the sun will expand because it will have burned off enough mass through the fusion of hydrogen (the lightest element), and eventually when enough of the mass has been released via radiation, there will not be enough gravitational force to counteract the expansive force that the fusion reaction has. And by the time this happens, the only planets expected to be pooched are Mercury and Venus. But the sun's mass is about 71% hydrogen, and 21% helium (a byproduct of hydrogen fusion). While a spectrum analysis has shown other elements as well, none of them are believed to make up more than even 1% of the Sun's mass, though Oxygen is close. I think he was referring to it being the point of no return. How exactly have we passed the point of no return, when the article you referenced comments about how the Peat Bogs of Siberia didn't exist 11,000 years ago. Prior to that, the methane gas would have still been released into the atmosphere, and it probably still would have been wet so that it wouldn't oxidize. Though at the same time, you're the exact same person that said people were essentially stupid simply because they were Muslim, so I'm thinking people should take your comments with an exceptional grain of salt. Especially when you toss out such gems as "You believe in God don't you. I can tell" in this thread, I'm not so sure you should be the one insulting people in this thread.

Right....

I was at my best friend's wedding on Saturday, so I didn't catch the game. According to my roommate, he was sort of under the impression that the Oilers were doing the old "play better than the other team, but don't score and then let them score on a rare opportunity to tie it up" system. Stoll got smashed at one point. Wow, what a hit