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Hah, that reminds me of all the MMO crazies that max level a bunch of characters and then complain about how terrible the game is.

I'd probably go with a strong dose of commercialism. Basically the Christmas model. It's worked pretty dang well.

Still bummed that only Shady acknowledged my play on words.

American Ultra - I was expecting a bit more humor from this stoned super soldier movie. It had some good parts, and I don't regret watching it, but I feel like it could have been better. It started off slow, so that was probably my biggest issue.

I don't think he needed that much convincing. He did go to Saudi Arabia to find a wife. So, totally not another Islamic terror attack huh? >BUT LETS NOT CONDEMN AN ENTIRE GROUP OVER Does it seem reasonable to condemn nearly 2 billion people every time there is an Islamic terror attack? Is that going to solve any problems within Islam? Is that going to stop Islamic terror attacks?

Troll account gonna troll. I do think this is one of the more imaginative ones though. Probably our best since Lord of Flies.

Just Cause is not really like the Far Cry series. It is more of an amazing sandbox where you can do crazy stuff. For simple fun, it is hard to go wrong with JUst Cause or Saint's Row.

I enjoyed Massive Chalice. Yes, it was repetitive, but the combat was not too bad and the lineage lines were interesting. I would say it was worth a bargain bin pickup, maybe $10 or so. It was really more of a few good concepts with unfulfilled promise. The hallmark of Doublefine games, really.

Yeah, that seems to be the way this is playing out, and his family is backing that up. Crazy.

I remember when I was going through some family issues a few years back, this forum was the best sounding board I had available. People were incredibly supportive and helpful. So yeah, it's a good place to hang.

Thanks for checking in Cant.

I've been there, and you just need to add moose and maple syrup to the list to be accurate. Oh and hockey sticks.

That might be infected.

I'd probably change their mascot, if I had my say.

I'm not entirely sure how I want to do it yet, so for now I'm going to stick them on magnetically and see how it looks. Eventually I may seal them in. I also need to build the bar. I'm a terrible carpenter so that might be tough.

The dinner thread often becomes a recipe thread. But yeah, a hobby thread would be cool. I have been collecting bottle caps to create a bar top. I have enough now and just bought the magnets, now I need to glue them on. I want something like this:

A ban on guns is about as feasible in the US as a ban on religion. It's not.

I guess Oby got bored of the Qistina alt.

The big difference being that WWI happened before the Nuclear Age.

That is not really obvious to me.

"You can take religion away from the killer and he or she can still kill people with a different ideology. If you take the killer way from the religion the religion does nothing."

In a somewhat perfect world, the loudest to condemn the use of guns in this type of attack should be gun owners, and the loudest to condemn the use of Islam in this type of attack should be Muslims. I believe both need reform, but I'm neither a gun owner nor a Muslim.

You can basically replace Muslims with Guns in this sentence. No you can't. "When guns do this again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again the "Guns are not the problem" argument fails to hold water." You quite literally can. As Barothmuk already mentioned, we just had the planned parenthood shooting. We have mass shootings with alarming regularity in the US, and yet very few are tied to Islam. It's easy to blame guns, or blame a religion, for this type of senseless violence. But I fail to see how that will help us move forward and prevent them in the future, unless you plan on banning guns and religion.

You can basically replace Muslims with Guns in this sentence. How does that help in any way?

It is hard to argue that his religion didn't feed his instability. But it is way to simple to just say "Oh it was Islam that made him do it."