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Wait, you're a real person? This is....new.

Wait, you're a chick? lol sexism. I'm being ironic, don't ban me

In theory anyway, it seems that a few areas of practical science have become a bit full of themselves recently (areas surrounding electromagnetic readiation and homeopathy spring to mind). But this is no suprise since there is big money involved.

Hence why religion has places where science can't go and vice versa. EDIT: also, 'Don't ask for proof if you don't beleive it.' is a hugely counter intuative statement and basically amounts to 'la la la, i'm not listening'. Being religious isn't a stance you have to defend right up until the point where you start preaching.

Of course, with knowledge and understanding of a divine being, the next obvious question is 'what made god'. This is where the 'science/religon' fusion people really start to fall down.

Dude, I burned you.

Yeah, god is a /b-tard. Remember all those biblical plagues? Someone linked him to Goatse.

Haha, they wish. <3 Finland You're basically looking at the same thing that happened when they invaded Afganistan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter_War

I'm not sure, it probably depends on your own personal definition. Dictionary definitions say things like 'a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research' and 'a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study'. It's a human concept, so i'd have to assume it's bound by human limitations in some way, but i'm as much in the dark as the rest of you.

Artists ask the questions that make scientists uncomfortable. We could trace back human evolution to the primordial soup, we could isolate the exact condictions that created life, we could track the formation of our planet, our solar system, our galaxy and trace the history of our entire known universe right back to the big bang and beyond. BUT, our understanding is still within the limits of our perspeption. This isn't me being some wishy washy artsy fartsy type, but the limits of science, as we define it now, are very literally the limits of human understanding, and no matter how much we could possibly understand, there's still the scope for somthing more completely outside our feild of vision. What it amounts to, I guess, is how you define 'all the answers', because you can go out and out and out, understand everything that can be possibly understood and still not be able to explain why there was anything to begin with. I'm not even saying it's a valid question, but it's still a question, and it will still nag, infnitely, at the minds of cirtain people and for as long as it does, science doesn't have all the answers.

Yeah, it's on my 'to do' list after I clear out the current backlog.

Because science only answers the how and not the why. And until human perseption and understanding are infinite, the 'why' will always be unanswerable.

It should be noted that 'Steel Battalion' has a perma-death system of being able to save between levels, but a death in that level means the save is removed. Brutal, but given that the game comes with its own control deck, those without 'hardcore' tatooed into their foreheads need not apply.

I guess it's possible to lean too far both ways. 'Lightning-proof' athiests are pretty funny too.

Actually, now that you bring it up Hades, how do you rate Mass Effect from a purely roleplaying standpoint? Would Mass Effect in the Fallout Engine with Fallouts gameplay and no VA be a step up or down in this department? I still havn't played the game, so I have no opinion either way, but in terms of actual 'roleplaying' Fallout gave the player more options than just about any other RPG out there.

Slightly offtopic, but what I love is the religious types who will try to throw science out of the window rather than intigrate it into what they belive. DINOSAURS TEST OUR FAITH, CARBON DATING DOESN'T WORK! kind of crap.

I didn't know that indecent exposure laws extended beyond what can reasonably be seen with the naked eye.

They're both still awsome, so it's good either way.

Hades is a team of sociological scientists testing your reations to stimuli. EDIT: and is it kind of sad that you can tell how long someone has been here by what name they refer to him with?

Brace for Hades rant.

If you mean that Orks american football game, then actually, you might be in luck, i've heard of a Blood Bowl game coming to the 360. Early days yet though.

<3 Fire Emblem. I found Sacred Stones to be the weaker of the two GBA versions though.

if 09 is only a few months away, yeah, i'll wait and pick it up after the inevitable price drop.

Hmm, still pretty pricey.

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