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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 -

Oh yes it is! The intent of the personal fouls is quite clear; exploiting that for an advantage is poor sportsmanship.

Watched MAN OF STEEL and enjoyed it. Also watched Battle Royale for the first time; it was good but I feel like there's some sort of overarching theme that I'm not quite fully grasping. The film feels like its making a statement, I'm not 100% sure I got the statement though.

I certainly am not interested in any game where I'm online. And generally speaking I'd rather play single-player games; I don't think Skyrim would have been better had I been forced to group or trade or deal with other players.

Its poor sportsmanship; the rules being exploited are there to protect players from injury and it seems a bit unfair to exploit that, IMO. Its also against the rules in the NBA starting this season, so the idea that its not a problem is false (or else the NBA wouldn't have seen fit to create a rule against it albeit one that was 60 years coming...)

"Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our Admiral Anderson, but they'll never take... OUR ROMANCES!" ~ speech from Bioheart

My thought on this is - we know they were cloning people. There's no reason why Gat couldn't have been cloned, the clone killed and left as the "message" (and the never seen body for the funeral). That said, for this game I wouldn't be surprised if we see some Not-Quite-Really-Gats as they've also said in some of the VR missions we'll see some other dead characters (like members of the Vice Kings). Is that Laura Bailey? Yes

They're already financing the 2016 Summer Olympics though (which may be part of why the population is feeling a taxation crunch).