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Uh, well it was me who brought up evolution/creationism actually. Visc: Yeah I agree. I think that looking at plant evolution is the best way to understand evolution on a macroscopic scale, since it's the most well-documented and has the most dots connected up. Here's an interesting tidbit: Birds are the only surviving dinosaurs. Odd isn't it? You'd think that more than one species of the thousands of dinosaur species would have survived to this day... then again a lot of what people consider dinosaurs weren't dinosaurs. E.g.: pterosaurs (flying reptiles) weren't dinosaurs, but were very closely related. Crocodiles weren't dinosaurs, but lived at the same time and were very closely related. Turtles weren't dinosaurs, they lived at the same time, but are as related to Humans as they were to dinosaurs. For example, here is one of the closest ancestors of mammals: The Dimetrodon. We didn't actually evolve from that, but it was the closest relative of the "reptile" we DID evolve from. Which is funny because most people think the Dimetrodon is a dinosaur, let alone a mammal-like reptile. And, not that it's probably a shock, velociraptors are very close cousins to birds, which are both living members of the dinosaur group maniraptor. Which isn't that hard to believe if you examine illustrations of the velociraptor: Further, T. Rex had feathers and was also a close relative of birds. These birds here seem to be the closest to the other raptors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratite#Galler..._Living_Species A not to scale comparison of velociraptor feet with pigeon feet: Oviraptors (mistakenly called egg snatchers) didn't actually steal and eat the eggs from other dinosaurs, but sat on their own nests to keep them warm - like birds do, and like other dinosaurs didn't. You sort of realise that your old conception of reptiles being hard, stiff, big, slow and scaley isn't exactly correct considering they gave rise to birds and mammals and indeed many of them resembled/were birds and mammals.

Baah. Baaaaah.

I'm not sure what your stance on creationism/evolution is, but yeah, unicellular organisms: fungi, bacteria, archaea, viruses, etc tend to evolve very rapidly. Their evolution is both assured and documented, as it occurs in real-time. IIRC, viruses are the fastest - evolving something like 10^6 (one million) times faster than eukaryotic genomes (what fungi, animals and plants have). This is why we get the flu (influenza virus) each year - it is always evolving so our immune systems never fully recognise it when it comes back. Here is a nice paper on it: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlere...cgi?artid=55305

SCi owns Eidos? What will happen to Eidos?

This him? Yeah, that's not really you... anymore. But hah - it was a good impersonation at the time, no? Maybe you'll get a name change soon?

No more name changes for this rabbit. None whatsoever. REALLY! I gotta say, Visceris was way cooler.

Maybe I just like arguing. It seems more like you have a bad argument.

Really? I've never heard anybody say so, and nobody has been interested enough in System Shock 2 to try it with me. Hmm, I'll try and get my friend to do it with me. Could be fun.

Well the door was locked and the glass was reinforced...

Pardon me. Was sauced at the time. I agree with your points, and in that respect I would actually consider myself agnostic.

Evyone i've asked thas thought the same in some way. they're all like "it was a really good movie... i suppose i'd recommend it but i dunno". But yeah I guess what you said makes the most sense, though obviously it had other flaws. i think it's awesomeness in the first 2/3 was based of the "silent film" idea which they were emulating 1930/1904's films off deliberately (hence talking with dog, mannequins, trap, crazy car scene - all to counter the lack of dialogue). lack of dialogue wasd a deliberate choice pardon spelling/cohesiaon. durnk.

Only as irrational as the notiun that the origin of the universe and life had something to do with some greater power. Hypoctrical much?

Geeza you gusy suck. let me quote Monotheistic Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.

argh don't remember this though drinking around the computer does explain the mysterious liquid i found on the floor this morning haha. my computer keyboard is porous for somereason but it shelps when you drink onntop of it and the water goes everywhere

"Shiyt **** the stupid atheists they are too stupid too belive in god because they caqn't conceptualise some omnipotent infallibel being who is deeply interested in their sexual lives dumbatses - generoic religious zealot

Conversely, games with a lot of depth and complexity tend to make poor co-op games.

Nah. It's actually been colder than normal here this summer. Like, the hot days started a month late, and will probably end early too. I'm in a town where in summer temperatures between 30 and 40 C (86 to 104 f) are the norm, while -10 to 10 (14 to 50 f) is the norm in winter. I live about 4 hours northwest of Canberra, but strangely, the climate is near IDENTICAL to Canberra's - down to exact temperature each day, storms, winds, etc all year.

I already have Dungeon Siege.

I'll drink to that!

Yeah, I'm interested in the Spine of the World, too.

Thanks for the feedback, guys. Looks like MoTB is the game I've been waiting for from BIS/Obsid since IWD1 and FO2.

Dungeon Siege 1 was awesome beautiful. But it got really boring after you got over that. It didn't do either hack and slash or RPG very well. Dungeon Siege 2 wasn't as beautiful as Dungeon Siege 2, IMO, which pissed me off. Still, it looked ok. I had better combat elements and was much more RPGish than DS1. I thoroughly enjoyed the game, but it wasn't replayable. I looked forward to Space Siege and Demigod, because GPG has proven that they can listen to fan feedback and use it to improve their games.

Yep. Which is why you should replace your bacterial cultures after a course. Typically with yoghurt and milk.

It is in question. So many households use antibiotic cleaners at home, for example. On your second point: viruses will always survive antibiotics... antibiotics for colds is a bad idea because it's almost always a virus rather than a bacteria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic#An...otic_resistance EDIT: But you're correct about antibiotic courses. You should always finish them, even if the symptoms are gone. EDIT2: Also, the vector of resistance transfer between bacteria, fungi, viruses and unicellular eukaryotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_ge...fer#Prokaryotes

Well, it definitely has a lot of promise for an awesome CRPG. Well, it would if it were Obsidian doing it.