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She was entirely aware. How are you defining awareness? If you define awareness as "being able to form short-term memories," then she wasn't aware, but that's not the definition of awareness by any standard I'm.... aware of.

Cue Seth Rogen casting himself as the Saint of Killers. Cue the Sheriff not literally ****ing himself in the ass. And no Herr Starr's faucet-****. Yes, those are my greatest concerns, that antagonists' phalli remain intact for the duration. I just threw up in my mouth a little. This is more nauseating than even the most grotesque scenes of sexual violence in Preacher.

But we are capable of understanding things that are outside the realm of human senses through mathematics and technology. Microscopes and telescopes allow us to see that which is invisible to our senses, more esoteric devices such as Neutrino detectors (pictured) provide virtually concrete (thanks to repeat observations by different devices in different parts of the world, peer-reviewed,) evidence for physical realities which were first hypothesized through the application of mathematics to the study of the physical universe. You cannot detect a neutrino directly, it cannot be observed by any means, but its interactions with other particles produce observable reactions for which there is no other explanation. If human understanding of the universe were limited by our senses, none of this would exist because the internet would not exist. You cannot directly perceive the actual workings of a computer. You can't expose your CPU and watch the electrical currents flow along different circuits or see every frame to be displayed until it is transformed from intangible information into the light emitted by your display. Information exists as intangible, imperceptible phenomena regardless of human observation. You can record information on a storage device, but once you remove all the inputs and outputs, how do you know that information exists? You cannot sense it in any way. You can sense the color, shape, weight, texture and so on of the device, but the information stored on it is unseeable, and if we can only understand the perceivable, that information cannot possibly be understood. Yet you can understand it because the device can be connected to other devices which turn that information into something you can perceive. Which is tangential to the fact that, yes, science is an ongoing process in which new ideas frequently supplant discredited hypotheses as a result of new advances in all aspects of the pursuit. All that said, minor gripe: Omniscient is, by definition "all-knowing," there are no degrees of omniscience. It's a binary state. There is omnis "all" scientia "knowledge," and there is everything less than "all." http://www.radiolab.org/story/161754-repeat/ Skip to the story of Christine Campbell, and note the fact that her experience is something her doctor had seen before. You may begin to question your belief in the idea of free will. For those who can't be bothered to listen: A woman suffered a form of temporary amnesia in which the brain cannot form and retain short-term memories; the result is that the victim/patient repeats the same thoughts and actions once that memory is "reset," the only time variation arises is when inputs are varied. There is no variation unless the inputs vary, every time her memory resets, her "choices" are the same.

I can't help but wonder why you're even bothering to draw a distinction. The people at the top echelons of power are the same group that occupies the same tier of both the private and public spheres (i.e. Fed or Treasury chairmen are almost exclusively drawn from the pool of Wall Street goons who think The Wolf of Wall Street was a celebration of their values and lifestyles.) In today's world, power flows to wealth, so anyone who wants either must covet both.

No, you've got it backwards. You're vastly overestimating the reach and popularity of D&D and tabletop RPGs in general. D&D is the only one known to "the masses," and it's only known to "the masses" as a bar by which nerdiness is measured or as a verbal prop in a joke about nerds. The vast majority of the so-called masses to which you are referring have never played D&D in their lives, and almost certainly do not know anyone who has.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25330947

OHMYGOD a game that doesn't match every detail of its game world with reality? Unthinkable. Let's start at the beginning by listing all the inconsistencies with reality in Dungeons & Dragons. Every single minute detail. We'll move on once we're finished with D&D. Obviously misspellings, grammatical errors and incorrect punctuation count, as they are inconsistent with the real-world rules of English (and other languages.) I'll start with a minor issue: Dragons aren't real and never were. How could that Gygax hack make such a rookie mistake?

I'd expect that would be easier to do in a game that defines what area of the body got hit. When you're dealing with something more all-encompassing I'd imagine the abstraction might be difficult to handle on the extremes. It doesn't need an individual body part targeting system for something so obvious to apply. The chances of hitting unprotected naked flesh on someone wearing a bikini are very high. You don't get to have 90 slashing, piercing and crushing DT when you're wearing a bikini.

It's from Dawnguard, the first. I don't think any reasonable person can make a valid argument that Bethesda's writing and quest design, overall, is good. There are occasional rare gems but overall it's mediocre with more terrible (anything with the label "Thieves' Guild" attached in Skyrim is almost certainly going to give you a headache,) than fantastic exceptions. Same went for Fallout 3. I have a special place in my mind reserved for a festering hatred for the abysmally awful writing of the quest "THOSE!" It's incredibly grindy and the world just lacks... something. It's generally bland and unmemorable on most accounts, which shouldn't be any surprise since a guy who was a major designer of Oblivion helmed the world creation. And yeah, it definitely feels like an offline MMO, the visuals especially look like WoW if it were done a generation later than its original release.

Never heard of it. This "Evolve" thing. Change is a fundamental aspect of technology, nobody's running NT servers from 1998 anymore for a reason. i.e. The reason why most of your Windows 3.1 programs won't run on anything newer than XP (if even that,) is because the fundamental kernel-level programming has changed substantially to keep pace with advances in hardware as well as improvements in coding. Just like with viruses and other malware, IT security is constantly responding and adapting new defenses, the whole computing sector has always been constantly evolving.

....I'm pretty sure I did all that stuff in bold in Skyrim. And we all know what kind of "RPG" Skyrim was.

Yeah, one mistake and it's baaaaaaaaaack you go. One really bad mistake that doesn't play out for two hours and you're back to a new game.

For the record, Primm, if you leave your fate in the hands of a guy named "Deputy Beagle," you really have no grounds to complain when you suddenly find yourself a less-than-willing subject of NCR taxation. Edit: The fact that I'm using a Mexican flag as a rag to soak up sweat and beard grease (come on, don't tell me your post-apocalyptic hygiene is any better, you brotherhood pricks,) does not in any way diminish the utmost respect I hold for the nation of Mexico and her peoples.

How do you feel? EDIT: Agreed to store a huge bunch of crap for a bloke I barely know. I really think this may have been an error. But he does need the help. Hence can't sleep. For the record, it's -1/12 Not actually a difficult feat of arithmetic (not even Algebra-level mathematics,) if you know the proverbial score. But the maths are a beautiful thing, the language of the cosmos, and all.

Well, it's pretty clearly a matter of class. You should have chosen a different class at puberty during the class-selection בר מצווה if you wanted to use the magicks.

Sun Tzu wrote this: 是 故 百 戰 百 勝 非 善 之 善 者 也 不 戰 而 屈 人 之 兵 善 之 善 者 也 "To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill." That is, to say, the players of P:E will never reach the acme of skill.

Kind of way-too-late, brudder. Enit. Not even touching on the dangerous levels of stereotyping. Except to make a joke about ancient indian burial grounds on account of the dead rising from their metaphorical graves here.

It wouldn't. I guess there should be some bookend to that statement, but...

It's good to see the splendiferous full-body pubes make their triumphant return, I was afraid that was simply an ephemeral phase in the illustrious career of the appropriately named Prosper.

I was about to disagree but then I realized you might not have played the prettiest game I ever played or even share a remotely similar visual aesthetic. I'm surprised no modders actually go to the trouble of replacing the LOD assets with higher quality ones, that would go a long way to making Skyrim look the best. What kind of DPI are you rolling, exactly? But really, I shouldn't be getting a drop in FPS in the Rift with a video card that's beyond the level of what was top-shelf in late 2011. The vicinity of Autumnwatch Tower was always, visually, my favorite area in Skyrim.

Replaying New Vegas, because it is my favorite game. I, surprisingly, never actually made any endeavour to shove sticks of dynamite up the rectums of my enemies, so that's my goal for the newest courier. Powder Gangers: Complete. Van Graffs: Complete. Not finished: C4 chunks in the colons of Caesar and his bodyguards (that's some impressive dexterity, Courier.)

Because it was poorly written. Remember how the Prothean ruins on Mars were picked clean of any technology in ME1-2 and then suddenly they happened to be the location of the key Macguffin to defeating the reapers right as Shepard happened to be fleeing away from Earth (and toward Mars) in 3? And it was always reliant on space magic, that's what Bioware called "biotics," even though that's an existing term which refers to living (or formerly living) thing (and not space magic.) Which is a funny mistake for a company called Bioware, founded by two actual medical doctors, to make. The supposedly brain-exploding moral decision around which ME2 revolved boiled down to a change of one line of dialogue with TIM in ME3.

Calculated the sum of the set of all real numbers.