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This statement always bugs me. If you don't like how people live there are a lot more options than that. You can peacefully protest, you can organize awareness campaigns, etc. You can work within the confines of the law to make progress. That is a wonderful thing about the US.

It's pretty dang clever, really. The idea that you can bring your toys to life in the game is really awesome to see. My kids are basically living in the future.

I did assume that also meant my tablet, which I've bought a couple games for.

Who is this and what have you done with WoD? Seriously, I couldn't agree with you more.

I'm pretty sure that if it was possible, Lucasarts would have milked Star Wars to death already. Alas, it only grows stronger with each generation.

1000 years of darkness!

We still have earthquake drills. We actually do a full scale disaster drill once a year. My job is to turn off the gas.

I'm surprised you have drills at schools for SWAT showing up armed to the teeth. The only drills we had at our school were the once a year fire drills, if the teachers remembered to do it. Welcome to the post-Columbine world. We practice Code Red drills, which involve barricading ourselves in our classroom. I believe most states do this now.

Bah, I've worked so hard to steer my kids towards Skylanders instead of Disney Infinity. It keeps getting harder.

You broke my precious links. ;C My point is that a) militarized SWAT teams are deployed at the drop of a hat and b) they don't **** around and people often die, not necessarily the bad guys (assuming there are bad guys present at all). If you aren't worried about those two factors combined in a school environment... I don't know what to say to you. If there is a shooter situation at your school, the lockdown protocols themselves are more likely to prevent fatalities than a bunch of trigger-happy Delta wannabes dropping by 10-12 minutes later. I have major concerns over swatting and how police are trained to handle these types of situations. I really don't disagree with you, and the way many SWAT teams approach homes is frightening. It is a murky situation where information is limited. I'm less worried about it in a school environment because both the police and the schools train in order to best protect the students. The protocols that went into place after Columbine are pretty much as good as they are going to get.

My neighbor is a sheriff, and his kit for going out into the forests to bust drug farms is pretty cool looking. He still gets poison oak rashes like the rest of us though.

If there is an active shooter situation at my school, I have absolutely no problem with a well-trained SWAT team showing up loaded to bear. We have practice drills to prepare for precisely that. Not quite sure what your links have to do with a school lockdown situation.

Hey, everything is bigger in Texas! I agree with you for the most part, but again, Texas is a bit different. If the incident turns into a manhunt across the desert, then all that gear might be needed. It also explains the desert camo.

Just as an aside, the officer in the picture is clearly in his SWAT or other special task force gear. His equipment is likely because much of Texas is a sprawling desert. It is likely standard response to an officer involved shooting to send in this type of unit. I know that if there is a shooting at my school, the response team will look much the same. But yeah, I don't get the Chris Kyle patch. Maybe the guy served with him?

I think I did it.

I'm sure there would be some pretty serious health code violations if you went around dumping loads of bacon.

Just finished Corellia, and now I think I'm almost done with the Jedi Knight storyline in TOR. It's been a pretty good ride, the story has a bit more going for it than the trooper plotline.

Society already says the art exhibit was tasteless and antagonistic. This is a fringe group. How do you plan on dealing with fringe groups? The idea that everyone is just going to accept something to benefit society as a whole is fairly naive. I expect that stuff out of my 7th graders when we are discussing the 1st and 2nd amendments.

What is your punishment for those that step over that line? Fines? Imprisonment? We police this stuff with public condemnation and mockery already, they don't need to bring in actual laws. Balancing consequences with free speech seems like a good way to slow down societal change tremendously.

You don't seem to really understand how free speech works. Obsidian is free to run their message board however they like. The government is not going to stop in and tell them what they can and cannot say. If swearing is really important to you, you are free to make your own forum. I recommend something from the Swedish Chef.

I'm pretty sure you guys are getting trolled by Bruce. The American Freedom Defense Initiative is super gross. But this is a free country, people are allowed to be stupid. I am thankful that the attack was apparently carried out by extras from the movie The Four Lions.

Decided to try H1Z1 on a whim, seems like a pretty neat little game.

I don't really consider the SWAT games part of the Police Quest adventure series. They are a separate spin-off.

Captain America has strong patriotic undertones?!? *le gasp*