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That's so last decade man! Yeah! Today is all about forcing patches so all your save games stop working!! So Awesoem you get to replay the game aghain!!! Oh Gabe, you sexy mountain of man... excsuer me Ill be bakc in five minutes On3 looks like a disaster, nothing learned from Win8, too much focus on peripheral crap. MS aren't Apple or Valve, they can't offer an inferior product and expect it to be lapped up on name/ captive audience alone- even on PC any more, let alone somewhere there's competition. How dare you question Steam! Burn the heretic! Let no dissenting view exist!

If it does then I may actually buy it....... Or just assemble a PC myself that could out perform it without having to use whatever abomination of an operating system Microsoft decides to go with.

I certainly don't. I don't mind the casting, but they damn sure didn't a **** job at character development. I find that to be the only way to watch most episodes of this season. Frankly, it has to be the worst yet. Maybe Doctor Who should feature more women in bikinis, that would be watchable.

But it is part of climate change. Referring to the whole phenomenon as "global warming" is just so some deniers can say "HA, it's cold out side, global warming doesn't exist". Wals, your on the internet. People will be hostile over children's cartoon shows.

I'm going to hold your guns for ransom until you convince the Republican party to legalize marijuana.

Damn Lephys, with all your posts I figured your avatar would have evolved into Sloking by now... I also agree on the random immunity. How the hell does random thug 1154 have an immunity to fire?

I will put this as clearly as I can. 1. Most deniers like to point out that climate change(or evolution) is just a theory and is not proven to be true. 2. I stated something to the effect of "quantum mechanics are just as unproven as climate change", to show that something that is not explicitly proven is commonly accepted as fact, because it has the vast majority of scientific consensus behind it. I'm not claiming that science explicitly proves anything or that quantum mechanics are not true because they have not been proven. Yeah, it isn't like scientists have predicted the polar ice caps melting, thinning of the ozone layer, or increasingly erratic weather patterns. They've obviously been faking it for the past 20 years to force Americans into evil socialist habits like recycling and energy conservation. Maybe if we pretend poverty isn't a problem it will go away too.

Who knows?

I believe it happened when the Sex Pistols played their first gig.

Quantum Mechanics. Dude, I was pointing out that it was just as unproven as climate change to make the argument that while climate change is not explicitly proven, it has been functionally proven. I'm not claiming that quantum mechanics aren't valid or anything.

I agree, but with BG2, it was practically required that you have a Mage in your party. That is one aspect of the mechanics I absolutely loathed, fortunately PE will avoid that.

Self defense. Imagine the statistically unlikely but still very real threat of armed home intruders. Such things happen daily; even in our perfectly save bubble-world. When said situation happens do you rely on your ability to.... a.) beg to them to not get hurt b.) talk them down c.) scare them away simply with showing presence d.) jump to the phone to call the police and wait for them which will take a couple of minutes (15 in my case) e.) lock yourself and your loved ones in a save room OR do you do all the things mentioned above BUT with a gun in your hand in case nothing works and the worst case scenario happens - you have to defend yourself and your loved ones in the only way left. In my opinion its never a bad thing to have more options, it would be extremely unlikely that armed robbers would engage me when I SHOW them that I'm armed and equal, nobody wants to risk their life for some furniture, a computer and a couple of bucks. The even more extreme way almost never gets ignored - a warning shot. If that fails, well... Its never bad to have more options. *edit* Even here in Austria its not such a great place when it comes to crime like armed robbery, only a couple of kilometers where I live a homeowner got attacked in the middle of the day by several intruders, got nearly beaten to death with an iron pipe and got robbed. The police arrived at the scene 20 minutes later. Such robberies happen increasingly often. Follow the rules of gun safety, store your gun in a safe and its impossible to have an accident. There is no naivety, only logic and responsible firearm handling. Never heard of a case of armed home intruders here in germany since a very long time. In pretty much all cases, the intruders are waiting till you are not at home to start their robbery. Now I am not saying that it can't happen, just that it is a lot more likely to get your home cleared if you are at work or in hollidays than with gun wielding thugs in the night. And in such cases, a gun won't be worth anything to you. That might be different in other countries, but then again... maybe the intruders must be armed there, because home owners have guns too? :> Besides, imagine your guns are stored safely in whatever room. You are in a different room. Now you have armed intruders getting into your home... and you won't be able to reach your gun store, because the intruders are in front of you. Again, your guns won't be worth anything to you now. Besides #2, if you are armed and in front of the intruders, you might scare them / make them aggressive, so a firefight is actually more likely than without guns. Erm... why would you assume you have your guns in another room? Are you just basing that on 1/x where x is the number of rooms in the house? Well if you're going to store guns in a safe, it would be likely that most people would only have one safe, that sits in one location. Spending all of your time in that room to have easy access to the safe is a bit impractical.

I think I've seen Lord of Flies post a few things recently, although he isn't as prolific as his super-Russian alt. Is Flewllian( or whatever the super-Christian called himself) still around? Seeing him post in the scientific threads was damn funny. "Minister of Russian Fantasies"?

If you can successfully kill a bear with your bare hands, then by all means go ahead.

As long as women don't go around dressed like Red Sonja, I'm good. Couldn't care less about form fitting armor.

You don't seem to understand what shale oil and gas mean. Shale is the source rock for oil. Before we could only get oil that seeped out of shale over millions of years and then got trapped in some other structure. Now we can actually go to the source and get it directly from there. There are vast, almost unlimited amounts of shale oil and gas all over the world. That is why the outdated curve you linked turned in the other direction, and US is now expected to be energy independent in just a few years, something I never thought would happen.As far as nuclear power I'm for it too, but unfortunately I just read an article I can't find anymore that says that nuclear energy is just way too expensive compared to the cheap natural gas, so the prospects for it are once again grim. Whatever happened to all those modular designs that were supposed to revolutionize it?As far as population growth, industrialized countries actually have a problem with shrinking population, not overpopulation. If anything Westerners should have more children, not fewer. More generally, you simply can not project in a straight line like that professor was doing. There are technological breakthroughs and cultural paradigm shifts which completely change the equations every few decades.I read this and heaved a big sigh.Alright, let's do this one by one, shall we?1. Bull****. unlimited fuels would have crashed the oil prices, and yet they're higher than ever.2. That slight uptick at the end of the curve is well within expectations, like the finding of a new well, but it won't stop the trend. If you'd watched the video (which I noticed yesterday I've posted twice in this thread) you'd have actually accounted for it3. US energy independent in a few years? HAHAHAHA, so I guess those expensive wars in resource rich countries were for the actual reasons stated, right, bringing democracy (ignoring the many other oil-less dictatorships around the world)and findign weapons of mass destruction.Energy companies always promise the moon, otherwise they'd never get permission to drill in nature reserves and the like. Don't believe everything you hear.4. Nuclear power is expensive, compared to gas, it's also much less polluting, even so, it's hardly the best solution.5. Yes, western countries have population decline, the important exception is the United States, with it's nuclear family values, anti-abortion protests and religious nutcases has a birthrate which only with the economic crisis has fallen below it's shocking highs.But since we have about 3 times the population in the world that we did in the 50's of the last century, and because the world is not just the western world, your point is moot. Although it does say something against strict immigration policies, does it not!?6. Technological breakthroughs can't be relied on, and can't be predicted. the Technologists as I like to call them, want to solve world hunger with bio-tech, bypassing that if we don't solve the underlying problem of growth, that it will just increase the amount of stress the world will get. The Green revolution was fantastic, but it also helped increase the world population exponentially. To be fair, the high birth rate in the US is highly concentrated in low income families, immigrants, and Mormons. I do agree with your points however, and lower birth rates would be much better for the environment, the financial situation of families, and the economy.

Incorrect. Law's are not anymore proven than theories (they are usually equivalent, excepting that theories usually try to attempt to describe causal relationships, whereas Laws are just summaries of repeated observations). Newton's Laws are actually less accurate than the Theory of Relativity. They just work well enough for most of our cases, that we can ignore relativistic elements of motion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_law In summary, however, Laws are as accurate as theories, in that they continue to be relevant until they are proven incorrect. Which is what science is most interest in (trying to prove things wrong, since it's easier to do so). Another, perhaps more readable explanation can be found here (which further summarizes that science community does not consider anything to be truly "provable."): http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistry101/a/lawtheory.htm I concede I was wrong to use "Law". However, my argument that quantum theory is unproven is still true.

When you use the word "things", you are using a term that is completely vague. You should insert qualifiers into your statements if you do not want it to apply to any conceivable scenario. Also it is perfectly acceptable to judge guns or sports without trying them. If you have a history of depression, avoiding having a weapon that you could kill yourself with around is a good idea. Avoiding American Football because the high percentages of player injury worries you is a good idea. Anytime is a good time to drink!

Scientific evidence has a well known liberal bias.

Just wait until rhinos start harvesting human gentials to cure rhino cancer...

I don't have a problem condemning gang raping 5 year old boys. I have never tried, seen in person, or experienced such a thing. Do you find that worrisome?

3 minutes. I was expecting Fleweteliian(or whatever Christian Oby alt is calling himself these days) to be the one.

You can educate. Yes, the Khmer Rouge tried that too. Seriously, you are well-intentioned (of that I have no doubt) but woefully misguided. The only way you will ever get these things to work is to make them profitable. To be fair, having less children and having them later in life and building renewable energy infrastructure can be considered profitable.

Not enough capitalization or series of exclamation points.

I wonder how long until someone posts that they don't believe in extinction.