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To be completly honset I think you are better off in the long run with both of those actions - it's time to seriously move towards renewable energy and coal is not a viable option. If the US wants to be the undeniable center of scientific progress and beacon of freedom and hope again, the left-wingers are imho much better equipped for taking you there. Republican policy will help you in the short run, but following their ideology you are basically competing on a commodity (the worlds premiere manufactures) that you have no hope of winning in the long run. So I'm happy for you, but I also hope that Obama realizes that he needs to make concessions and reach across the isle. The amount of doom and gloom in your media is seriously hurting your internal strength and the growing wedge between the political parties and their supporters is a serious problem. To put things in perspective, compared to a European political spectrum, your parties only really cover the right (and are actually very close). If we had the democrats and republicans in Denmark, they would've formed a government together as their ideologies are basically the same compared to opposition.

Cheers to that - it's not every day you get offered a hideout from your mistakes!

Yeah the cheapest PS3 here is about 310$/240€. While a prebuild mid range PC (all included) would be 520$/400€ (you could probably build one yourself for 300-400$). And you'd have to upgrade it every 5-7 years (for about 200-400$ I would guess) to play the new games. To me that seems like consoles win in the long run money wise - but I don't know about discount on games for consoles, new ones are about 100$ while it's ~60$ for the expensive ones on PC. But with Steam is easy to get fairly new games for 20€/25$.

I think the biggest problem (and where you really notice it) is when a game/story is inconsistent according to it's own internal logic. Like a zombie game, which for instance only focus on slow zombies, suddenly have teleporting Z's that couldn't move so fast to ambush you according to the internal logic of the game - if a game is consistent we tend to be a lot more forgiving when it asks us to suspend our disbelief.

Seriously trying to do my job and responsibilities, but life is being quite insistent on getting in the way.. Broke up with my gf, lost a friend, getting behind - things suck, but at the same time I feel alive, challenged and like, for the first time in a long while, I'm really looking forward to (and slightly afraid of in a good way) what tomorrow is gonna bring.. I had no idea I was this into drama heh.

Of Orcs and Men, where orcs and Goblins are trying to fight back against the Empire of Man, who are trying to exterminate all non-humans.

The problem with that kind of metaphysical extensialism is of course that you hinder intersubjectivity and truely destroying the self would also destroy/negate any kind of observation of this "Absolute".. So how would "you" experience it?

I lost an entire team trying to stun a disk and a chryssalid - you can't stun them. It only works on the sentient aliens.

True and I never expected a level of storytelling close to PT - but they made a very rich and interesting background for their stealth game, so interesting in fact that I was a little disappointing that it wasn't used and explored better. I was left with so many questions after the game and that was great - but I really wish they'd dug as deep as they clearly wanted to.

It's a game that has (or should one say had) a lot of potential that isn't realized. The flexibility is great, you can possess people for a short time and yourself sneak in or them out that way, you can crawl through pipes and on rooftops or just go ballistic and hack everyone down.. But the story is a little too linear and a predictable, the setting seems absolutely fantastic, but you never really explore it outside of a few books, notes and some dialouge, but you get a real sense that there's a well thought-out world underneath.. The mechanics are good and it's easy to control, the powers are fun to use and abuse. So in short it's a game with a big heart that's wasted on a rather bland narrative (the ending is a little too abrupt for my taste too). Definitly worth one's time, but wait till when it's on sale.

Thank you Cant, heh.. that's good to know but don't worry, no angry husband to worry about.

I did something stupid and deliciously bad - not looking forward to the fallout though.

Danish busses are going all in.. I actually didn't know about Movember this until I saw them. and the chauffeurs have been asked to let their moustaches grow (if they want) to support the cause.

I made something similar a while back and ended using a self-modified Gurps system. But mostly because I decided to run a comedy scenario where all the superheroes had various mental and physical disabilities, which Gurps handles very well. Otherwise perhaps you should consider going system-free or creating a very stylized and easy system yourself? It's not that hard and is usually the solution in our group when we do something that mainstream RPG systems can't cover.

I was a bit baffled when I saw it myself, but after thinking about it I do believe Disney can do some good with the franchise. Besides, I'm sure they realize what a gold mine it is, if they handle it right.. And when they are willing to spend so much money, I have assume they want to make a lot of different stuff with the license.

Greatest phycis engine in the world.. Skate 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UaUR6u8nHoM#!

Apperantly nothing of note, except my birth and Hillary Duffs' and some semi-famous athletes. Of course in Scandinavia it's the yearly midsummer celebration, so everywhere people were partying, drinking, burning "witches" on huge bonfires and singing - that's something at least.

I'm not saying there is no thruth I'm saying assuming one based on no tangible evidence is dangerous - if we go through life only on assumptions you are probably gonna end up dead very quickly. We adapt our world view through observation and rationale (ideally). If I believed/assumed I was immortal you would scoff at my assumption as it not based on reality. But you're right, I assume gravity as a thruth, but only because it has so far proven itself through my oberservations - God has not therefore I can't see how one can assume this 'thruth'. So to rephrase; to hold assumptions based on intangible or non-present evidence is frowned upon in almost any case, but in religion a requirement.

Lost my iron man game - Everything was going great, I decided to to try and capture a muton, but suddenly I was ambushed by a disk. My entire team of best soldiers were killed. The following turns a sattelite got shot, I lost 2 territories and another team was wiped.. Did you know it's now for Iphones?

Well philosophy has it's place, but I can say from personal experience that philosophers tend to worry more about how they say things than what they say. It's true however that the physical science can get a bit narrowminded, but I think that's actually true for every field, especially in this day and age where it feels like everything has been prodded, weighed and measured. I guess that calls for an ever narrowing of interests and fields to study where true multi disciplinary research is becoming more and more a thing of the past and experts from every field and ever smaller and concise subjects have to work together. In a way that probably enforces "box thinking", or maybe I'm a bit jaded - I study history and it seems like we have to go deeper and deeper as all the macro history has been written and rewritten countless times over.

A mindless mind .. he kinda disproves his own argument there. But it's somewhat pointless to discuss imo - as science is based on tangible falsifiable evidence and models whereas religion is based on belief and non-physical entities.. So there is really no common ground on which to discuss as one group will fundamentally require evidence or a thought pattern that the other group cannot produce. Prove God science says, disprove God religion says.. None of them can do that. To quote Prof Kraus from the article; "People who are religious believe they know the truth and they know the answer before even asking the question. Whereas, with scientists, it's the exact opposite." And that is why I'll always side with science when it comes to answering questions - assuming a truth is a no-go in almost any other venture - but somehow a requirement for religion.

This goat doesn't need autotune!

Redirected here, as another thread is already covering it.

I have a hover one, which I take on missions if I need some heavy firepower and my heavies are out, they are actually really effective - especially on terror missions as they have a larger move radius and can save civilians (and take a heavy beating).. they can quickly move to flank an enemy and just plow them with the plasma minigun. Plus you can heal then with the arch thrower with a foundry upgrade. But they also essentially take away experience from soldiers as they don't level up, so I only use them for very critical dangerous missions.

I guess an Amiga-500 and after that a 386 40mhz 2mb ram with windows 3.1.. but the first that I bought myself was a 600mhz Pentium III in 96 with a Vodoo 1 graphic card I think.