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Optimistically, well done physics does lend itself to more gameplay improvements than any further graphics improvements at the time. An important step on making a more interactive and immersive game world IMO.

Where are you from? In Canada it's 18 all around for voting, and for most provinces for drinking. Some I believe have 19 for a drinking age. In the U.S. 18 is the age when you are allowed to vote (which is one corner stone for measuring when someone is an adult....others use drinking age). In the Dominican Republic, the drinking age is 15, and the driving age is 17, and 18 for voting (though if you're married, I hear it's 12.....ooo, how about that, I learned something on vacation!).

I'm thinking that in a discussion such as this one, which seems to be predominantly about mental illnesses and whatnot. When discussing insanity in the context of mental illness, I typically don't think of the slang usage. Furthermore, even with his slang usage, it's obviously still subjective. I wouldn't consider his need to open doors to be extremely foolish, nor would I interpret his behaviour as strongly deviating from social norms. I agree with meta, as it does depend on what what someone has experienced. If he's exceptionally insecure about his actions at times, then his perception of those actions as being insane is amplified. Having a friend of mine develop schizophrenia and be absolutely terrified of me because they are absolutely convinced that I am intending to inflict bodily harm upon them seems much worse IMO. In fact, as far as OCD goes he's probably gotten way relatively "easy." As an aside, I think people are too quick to apply the OCD label. It doesn't sound like any of True Neutral's conditions are particularly disabling...at least in the way that he described them. OCD is believed to be quite common, but people write off any nuances (especially if someone is in a nervous situation). I have a friend (anecdote, so take it for what it's worth), that just submitted his PhD thesis. The whole time while on the way to turn it in, he was worried that he might have forgotten something, some key diagram, or maybe a page was missing. But it wasn't disabling. When he finished looking at the paper and put it away, he wasn't immediately going through it again to verify that what he had just seen was actually there. He did go through it a few times, checking the page order, making sure they were all there and whatnot. We even joked about his "OCD" since he was so concerned about it. There were confounding variables though. Submitting a PhD thesis isn't a small deal. And the last thing he wanted was to have it rejected because of some stupid little detail because he didn't think to check something. It's a very expensive scenario (in both time and money). But he wasn't incapable of handing it in. And once he had handed it in, he wasn't not persistently worried that something was wrong with it. We all have our little quirks, and for all I know maybe TrueNeutral does constantly check that his glass is immediately in the middle when given a coaster. Maybe he is incapable of being around closed doors, and is constantly checking to see if they have closed when he wasn't looking. As for the number thing, I'm surprised he's even able to post, as there's a natural conundrum that the only way to make a thread have an even number of replies, is to make an odd numbered post. (Note: The American definition of OCD states that the "time investment" of an OCD disorder must exceed 1 hour a day...though it's typically much more). In the end though, TrueNeutral openly commented that he wishes to use his own definition of insanity, so it's all moot.

Hmmm, if you are taht afraid of death, I wonder if you would actually be willing to help a guy getting jumped on a bus. I'd like to say I would, but I wouldn't be too surprised if I froze up.

Errr, if they jack the price up to $4, then you will most certainly be utilizing your reserve. If you buy 100 liters of gas at $2, and the price goes up to $4, you'd be on crack to decide to not use this place, because you'd effectively be getting your gas at half-price.

Touche.

It took you a couple of hours? Ours sold out in THREE MINUTES!

I imagine 18 is chosen because, for the most part, it's when the right of passage of school graduation occurs and whatnot. Aside from that...who cares?

You should highlight improved combat AI too.

If by nitpickers, you mean the entire field of psychology, then I guess so.

No, you were just demonstrating the difference between what I said it was and what the axiom says it was. OCD makes me insane. Because it fits my definition of insane. I really couldn't care less what society says the word means. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If you just use any definition of a word to suit your needs at a whim, then what is the point of words at all? I could call someone a twit...but I don't really care what society says the word means, I use it for upstanding individuals that make a real difference in their community.

It looked like you were making a blanket statement about people running into burning buildings.

Are you considering a future in firefighting? If not, that's hypocritical of you to say. I have no problem with people saying there's absolutely nothing in the world that they find worth dying for, mind you. As a matter of fact, I'm one of them, and I'm joining the military after summer. I do find it funny when people delude themselves, though. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have to be a firefighter to run into a burning building when a woman's screaming about her baby still being inside? Don't need a uniform for that. You do, however, need a degree in idiocy. And there's a lot I'd die for, just not this particular thing. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Did you just call firefighters idiots?

And the reserve is going to run out eventually, so it's not like people will continue to buy the gas at much cheaper prices. Unless they make a heck of a deposit, at which point the company has made a huge capital gain that they can invest with.

I just saw Encino Man. I somehow missed this gem while growing up, and figured I should catch up. Pauly Shore at his finest.

I wouldn't be too surprised if Jacques gets a look-see, because he's a fast high-energy player. I'm not sure if Harvey is healthy enough either. Good to see Pronger turn away when Niemminen got that late hit in. I'm surprised nothing was called on that actually. The play had been dead for quite some time, and it was clear it was going to be dead because of a high stick some time before. Ville continued to zoom in, and after Pronger took the puck and skated around, he got stapled into the boards pretty good.

He also has a plethora of time too it seems. I'm jealous

He is persistent.

Apparently elsewhere. Maybe it was just him complaining that there were no games on it. I guess I just figured he was deciding to wait for it to get some games before buying it

Sharks played very, very well. Held on for the 1 goal lead. I don't know if Edmonton really played as poorly as it looked, but rather the Sharks just played really, really well.

What was that?

Wouldn't that require buying an XBOX 360 though? I thought you skipped on the 360?

Thanks, that cleared a few things up for me but I still cannot shake the feeling that the effort and cost spent to take advantage of PhysX really outweighs the gain. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think people were saying the same thing when 3D accelerators were breaking in as well.

I can hardly wait (w00t)

So you are saying that one of the greatest genrals of US history, Patton, is wrong. Interesting. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't think that's what Eru was saying at all.