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I dunno, "asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk" doesn't really roll off the tongue, either...

I believe in gravity. It helps me keep my feet on the ground, as it were.

How do you know that less than 10 % of the people who responded are not from America? Do you know a poll was run on these forums to see where people lived and the majority of people who responded are not from America. Could you maybe refer to the US as Hillbilly-Yankee land? I was always bothered by how they usurped the term used for the entire continent. You act like Canada and Mexico and places south on the two American continents matter. I KID! I KID! Sadly the United States of America doesn't lend itself to easy nationalistic references like "Canadian", "Mexican", "Belgium", etc does. USAers looks wrong USers looks ironic Statesperson sounds like you're making a governmental speech Citizen of the United States of America is accurate but wordy. Abbreviation to CUSA sounds vaguely dirty.

I mostly remember neon colors for everything in the 80s.

I liked Hunted: The Demon's Forge. replayed it a few months back.

I find the "like" button to be an amenable substitute for the overwhelming urge to post "me too!" or "lol" to be honest.

I remember a story of a guy who just made up a research paper and got it published in a supposedly "peer reviewed" journals. The journal system itself is a bit suspect; its a requirement for many faculty positions to be published in a journal whose primary market includes the institutions whose employees are required to publish in the journal. So in essence, many institutions end up paying to get copies of the work their own people are doing. That said, there is a rise in cheating in general (I don't think its that we're just better at catching it; I think the stakes placed on education, on publishing on "getting things out" rather than "getting things right" has increased people seeing cheating as their path to success). There was a recent news piece that because things like TURN IT IN have become popular with teachers, now students are paying people to write bran new spec papers to turn in so that they can't be matched on the internet.

I think they should roll for it based on the GAMMA WORLD mutations chart. Whoever gets a "Hopeless" character gets to decide that day.

No, but the person with the most likes gets a special in-game "Most Liked" Sash to wear.* *Offer void where prohibited. Sash may appear invisible on some monitors.

And a good part of what people enjoy about Dark Souls is the idea he might be there. People are really just trying to figure out what to do with multiplayer now other than arena combat. Sadly, this won't fix the problem of feature bloat and design by checklist. But hopefully it won't make it worse. You are right, but Dark/Demons Souls is a completely different playground... Although only time when I was connected to the net when playing Demons Souls was when I was killing the Old Monk... And I bet lot of other players played it only singleplayer too I played Dark Souls and Demon Souls solo and didn't like either. I also played Dragon's Dogma solo which was a pain since earning rift crystals was originally tied to sending your pawn out over the internet.

Fermat did, or else it wouldn't have been his last theorem...

If you don't know or can't understand the science behind why a scientific community might hold theories about certain subjects, you're really only deciding to accept one thing on faith over the other. I imagine that the inability to understand the science - particularly when the science breaks away from the kind of science people learned (that was often basic and lacking in nuance) - leads to an easier time rejecting the science. Add in controversial topics in the field - where top scientists disagree or where politicians seem to "drive" the science for non-scientific agendas...and I can see why people have trouble following the scientific theories.

Seems to me we should just ask the mods to delete the creepy stuff and make this the "attractive women in flag-based swim wear" thread.

Well I'd have reacted differently, but I'd still have reacted. I ran it by a couple of people I know who are not well-versed sci-fi geeks.. and none of them have a problem with the name. In fact, none of them recognised the soylent name in the first place... A sad state of affairs, indeed...where's Heston when you need him? Solvent Green was someone you knew, I take it?

Paul was cute, its funny how many people actually thought he was psychic I need an "unlike" button. Don't doubt the Paul.

Its a point that's been brought up before and I have no answer for it (which is why, for now, I don't buy that Snowden was acting out of a desire to do good for "the US people"). Since a senator could have presented the evidence in the house or senate and be protected by the "Speech or Debate" clause, in theory the information could have been put out there to "protect" the US citizens without having to reveal how the information was obtained protecting Snowden. But it would have also left Snwoden anonymous, and I gather that being known was important to him.

I'd suspect when casting about for multi-limbed critters with which to show a long grasping reach of political leaders, the political cartoonist finds themselves with a short supply of animals with which to appropriate the body of and jam a caricature of a political leader on top. They could have thrown a squid in though just to shake things up a bit, though, to be fair.

Well I'd have reacted differently, but I'd still have reacted.

Then they really should have thought up a different name for their product (in fact a different name for their company too).

According to the 2010 census, 75.25% of the US had personal income less than 50K; 48.01% of that total was persons with income less than 25K. 88.10% earned less than 75K.

FC2 induced motion sickness while I was driving, so I never finished it.

Its unclear, to be honest. Most of what I've read about the early info on THE DIVISION actually describe it as an MMO with opponents being other players who, in groups, are looking for the same resources as your group.

There's an interesting problem that I think Video Games have over most other forms of entertainment in that their length may prevent the ability for a reviewer to be 100% accurate. Film and music time investment can be rather low, time-wise. Literature and video games are definitely up there in time commitment, but (traditional) publishing tends to work so far in advance that the ability to get reviews completed for publication is probably a lot easier to manage. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that a certain amount of reviews for any given game were done with the reviewer not completing the game at all.

Thing about reviews - to me at least - is that they have to be contextualized as "one person's opinion". A professional reviewer may have just as much bias as a non-professional one. The key - IMO - to the reviewer-reader relationship is understanding where you fall in relation to what the other is writing, not in taking the reviewers opinion as the final word in opinion on the subject of the review. I agreed mostly with Roger Ebert but also had read enough of his reviews to know what kind of things we disagreed on. Roger Moore from the Orlando Sentinel almost never agrees with me on a film and yet I can use that too to know which films I might like too.

Its been done, I'm pretty sure. Like most things have been turned into porn. Also, I'll just leave this here...not porn but humorously "naughty" in its own way - http://www.whoguide.com/anunruly.htm Opening of An Unruly Child by Charles Daniels -