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But why do you still pay him to throw water on you if you're still in bed now that you don't have any finals?

So...essentially your alarm clock is your sister?

I'm afraid that it is you who are wrong here.Despite all the atrocities that happen during crusades and afterwards complete city razing was not one of them. Well Saladin destroyed the towers of Ascalon IIRC. That's about all I got.

Which confederate flag? I can't help but imagine the 1st Flag of the Confederacy would be mistaken for an early US flag (in fact I'm pretty sure I remember some people in real life doing that). The 2nd Flag of the Confederacy would probably be mistaken for a post-50s defiant state flag that incorporated what most people think of as the "confederate flag" in defiance of Federal edicts (for example, like the 1956-2001 Georgia flag). Probably the same for the 3rd Flag of the Confederacy with an added bonus "what the hell is up with the red stripe down the side?" for good measure. Actually the war led to a complete economic collapse, so yeah they basically fought against the north fearing a possible economic collapse ensuring that in the end they got an economic collapse. Oops.

My alarm clock awakes me by flashing a light rather than using sound. I find it actually doesn't jar me awake like a rattling alarm, buzz or sudden pop tune.

I thought the organization used the Red Crescent symbol in Muslim majority countries instead of the cross (officially being The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies).

Hahaha, I wish we had more students like you. The ones I meet are all convinced it is the college's fault they missed important information given to them, important dates and deadlines posted on the academic calendar... important tests... their entire class schedule for three months... ...worse is when their parents are convinced of same...

I liked it - laughed a lot during it actually (so much I hurt, to be honest).

Well I'll watch it and see how it develops and make a decision before it ends. I've not played any of the Double Fine games, but I like the idea of this.

I think eventually it will "go away". Not in our lifetimes - heck there are far too many people alive now who were alive during WWII - or whose parents were - for the symbols of that era to be considered a bygone age. Three of four centuries from now...a millennium*, my guess is that if its recognized at all by anyone outside of major history buffs its for its use in Buddhism or Hinduism.** *assuming we haven't had societal collapse or something. **not necessarily that the history itself would be forgotten, but the power of the symbolism won't last if current history tells us anything.

I took Spock being emotional in the new movies as a reflection of where he was in "The Cage" (which isn't really fair, given that the Cage had a differrent conception of Spock, however it establishes the idea of a younger Spock being quite emotional prior to the original timeline Kirk-lead Enterprise). Sadly, most aesexual characters will never be translated to media without change. The Downey Holmes films did, several earlier Holmes films did. It makes the characters more typical male leads, but makes them less interesting in many respects. And realistically you're right, there's no reason why Elementary couldn't be new characters modled after Holmes et al other than trying to trade on the Holmes name (but House did it successfully, so its not impossible even if I didn't ultimately like the show).

Hitler is long dead. It's time to reclaim the symbols that his regime perverted instead of engaging in Politically Correct self-flagellation. Go, Finland! No. Just no. Hitler was a gigantic monster, and the swastika is a symbol of that. It should continue to remind us of how important it is to be vigilant against evil. You also still have extremist groups using it to spread their hateful messages. Political correctness has nothing to do with it. If there was some big Buddhist movement to reclaim the symbol, I might get behind that. But I doubt you are Buddhist. Its also used in Hinduism, IIRC. And of course was a symbol of good luck in the west up to the adoption by the Nazi party, first use documented in Greece IIRC in the 8th century . Amazing how easily a symbol can be perverted in many ways.

dislocated knee cap?

The whole point of things going in the public domain is for creators to, essentially, riff on the concepts created by previous generations. With that in mind, I don't see anything done in ELEMENTARY that actually divorces it from Holmes anymore than other productions that aren't direct adaptions of a Holmes story. Certainly its no less far afield than say, SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE 22ND CENTURY or any of the Holmes-Cthulu stories that are out there...

Alternatively, Irene Adler's position as the person who could challenge the perceptions of the time is less interesting now (possibly impossible without seeming hipster alternative or making her a cannibal or something) and the rest of the things that describe Adler (beyond her specific relationship with Holmes - the "smart, capable and challenged Holmes" stuff) could also describe Moriarty as well. And Moriarty as Adler doesn't preclude her as being "The Woman" (who even in the cannon Holmes had 'lost' or "had intellectual admiration for" depending on how you want to read/interpret it) So in that sense, I'm not convinced you've really lost anything with this change; if you accept all the other changes in the show, this one seems par for the course (which makes clear midway through the season from what I've been told that this Holmes had a romantic relationship with Adler, departing wildly from the books)...

I dunno that I care too terribly to be honest, functionality being greater than form in this case, I suppose. I do like the "feel" (for lack of a better word) of a paper/scroll//wood/stained glass/stone solid UI in RPGs, but honestly as long as I can orient myself to the UI, I'm not going to care too much. I thought Lionheart's really large UI was okay and TOEE little boxes and small windows was okay although both took some time to get used to (Lionhearts because I kept hitting the UI when I didn't intend to, TOEE's because I had trouble figuring out what the fairly abstract button options meant, as I recall).

Weirdly enough, I can't think of a game I've ever changed from the default settings for the UI* on. So I guess I don't care. But I like the old IE UI, so I voted for something like that. *I did customize buttons on IWD2

No longer having full range of motion in my left ankle pretty much rules out manual transmissions for me (unless I got a wheel on the right side of the car, in which case my difficulty would be the gas peddle so still out).

Pretty sure that this phrase is a reference to "bloodguilt" or unlawful killing, of which killing during legitimate battle in warfare is not counted.

Isn't the point of businesses to make money? Is Gamestop doing something that any other secondhand market (eBay, used car lot, used book store, flea market) does - scale doesn't count (as Best Buy and the late Media Play both did used sales with less success so selling used games alone is not a winning model by necessity)? I can't blame them for wanting to find a way to tap the market themselves. I can blame them for punishing the end user. The only reason why I ever buy used games is availability, something that this move really won't address. It was also nice to be able to get rid of a game that you bought that ultimately you "played out" rather than have it sit in a box in your storage bin somewhere or throwing it away as there's nothing else to do with it. This argument is fatuous. I see it being made over and over, but the situations aren't really similar since used game sales have an initial purchase, the question is about controlling the secondary market. Piracy doesn't have the first purchase, but "might" lead to sales in the primary/secondary market.

Did you forget how to Star Trek? Must every Star Trek discussion turn to "slash fiction"?

Pretty much, at least it doesn't use half of its memory like the Wii U. I suspect the PS4 uses less considering they were planning on only having 4GB up until recently. Do console gamers really complain about installing games on HDD? "Ahhhh they're going to make my games load multiple times faster, now I will have to pause to make coffee". I never complain about installing games on the HDD; in fact its how I managed to avoid the RROD for many years as constantly running the disc drive increased the heat of the system (still ended up RRODing though on a hot summer day with bad circulation of air).

My condolences astiaks.

I think the biggest problem with the PC vs Console is that the strengths of the PC don't seem to be leveraged very well (which probably helps perpetuate some of the anti-Console feelings of the PC player). The PC can have a lot more robust input via the keyboard which can leave a lot of room to do complex things a controller can't. I don't think that makes consoles bad - not every game has to be the same - but it does seem that PCs strengths aren't really being played with. I certainly don't remember anyone I knew caring whether you were playing on an Amiga, an Amstrad, a C64, bbc micro. Didn't know people cared about such things until I got online - and it was never kids, it was always adults arguing their SNES was better than you Genesis, their PC was better than your mac, their AMD graphics card was better than your Intel graphics cards, etc.