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Well, all the report says is that the previous (wobble) method for planet detection didn't handle solar systems with multiple stars very well. Now Konachi's (body velocity) system will allow the more common multi-star systems to be checked for planets.

Who forgot to pretend to talk to England before the big attack? Baley: you were meant to, weren't you?

Roads weren't in the same league of ugliness as rail, though. Unless this means the raillinks will look more like the roads of Civ3 than the raillinks of Civ2 ... then that's a Good Thing.

They're still making King's Quest? I was still at school when they were popular ..!

Sleep is for wimps.

Hey, neat idea! I think I'll do that next time I play, too. :D For the record, I think it's pretty silly that rail travel is infinite. Then again, I think it is a game balancing issue, not a realism hook. With rail being so

... And have you tried to travel by air, recently? It takes longer to get to-and-from the aerodrome than to actually fly to the destination.

... But no-one is really evil, are they Steve: just misunderstood. That poor serial killer was just not given a nice upbringing.

I don't think that is true. In the US, there is little or no stigma attached to therapy especially in the media; to a large portion of the population it is regarded as normal mental hygiene to visit a therapist regularly, just like it is a good idea to see a doctor or a dentist. There are an enormous amount of psychologists in all parts of society: at schools, in the Human Resources departments of companies ... (they're bloody everywhere!).

Firstly, although interesting, this is still anecdotal. All it shows is that there is a correlation between Grub and commiting violence, either virtually or IRL. Considering "he's done some out[-]there stuff", I think that qualifies him for special consideration, anyway. Secondly, being subjected to real images of pain and horror, like Rwandan attrocities, is completely different to playing a game; remember the magic circle: ... 8. Video game play is desensitizing. Classic studies of play behavior among primates suggest that apes make basic distinctions between play fighting and actual combat. In some circumstances, they seem to take pleasure wrestling and tousling with each other. In others, they might rip each other apart in mortal combat. Game designer and play theorist Eric Zimmerman describes the ways we understand play as distinctive from reality as entering the "magic circle." The same action

The first point is interesting, but it relies on another, undocumented a posteriori cause: that the contraceptive pill became legal after Roe v. Wade about twenty years ago, and there was a marked and significant drop in unwanted pregnancies, the babies of which would now be prime crime-commiting age. (This was actually documented in a year-on-year fall of about 5% (iirc) exactly seventeen years after the court ruling.) :D Regarding point Five, again, this is correct; other studies show that children learn different, and unpredictable, things from the same lesson. Try it with a class of school pupils: teach them a new mathematics technique, say, and then test them to see what extra knowledge the children actually have afterwards. Good article. Regarding the second point, Henry Jenkins is quite correct (remember that last link about violence in video games, when the leading study was quoted?) that there is no causal relationship. When you read this point in concert with point Eight, it is possible to understand the danger implicit in your misapprehension.

I refer you the Monkeysphere.

The Caliph has returned from his Winter Residence and repaired to his Summer Residence. The Divan met, concluding "Nothing much happenning, just a big war in Europe."

Deus Ex p4wn50xz0rz ALL

But Revan is a grrrrrrrrrrl.

= quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat = English "pearls before swine" Only if the sow is the insulted one, and the purse is a metaphor for a decent IQ ...

Unless I've been horribly misled ..!

What an outstanding contribution to the discussion, Jodo. Boy, you really are earning that post count!

Well, no-one seems to be excited about Duke Nukem, so we're all here ...

Well, that should take care of the dumbed down control scheme and GUI and it should allow for levels that are larger than my bathroom. And no, I can't launch ICBMs from my bathroom, so don't ask. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Numbers finally, accidentally, reveals his true alter ego ...

Freudian slip ..? Don't forget the Retard Groups (unless you count them in Society): Some Examples: Anti-Violance, Pro-Familiy, Anti-p0rn. And to GhostofAnakin: Yes, most likely the same parents. "Yes, my 14 year old son killed somebody, and he played a lot of Manhunt" "How did he got it?" "Bought for his birthday by us" Parent Rating: 0/100 = RETARDS <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The recent British murder of a young boy by another young boy was farcical in the extreme. The tabloid that began the slow-news-day-stir-up-the-vested-interest-loonies story about the killer having a copy of manhunt was subsequently disproved by the police, who confirmed that the copy of manhunt was actually owned by the victim, not the perp. Good ol' Daily Mail: don't let the facts get in the way of a good story ...

Might wanna warn Meta about that too. :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nah, I'll just banish the big diaper to Room 101. :cool:

I still blame the parents. And society.