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5791
« on: May 18, 2015, 10:07:22 PM »
Busy with Bloodborne. It'll have to wait its turn.
5792
« on: May 18, 2015, 05:18:15 PM »
That fish basically developed internal refrigeration (like a water-cooled PC) so it can eat other fish better.
That's badass.
(Also, to clarify, this isn't at all the first "warm-blooded" fish. Many others are warm-blooded because they're very active, like sharks. They're not actually warm-blooded like mammals, but because they generate so much heat through movement they tend to be warmer than the surrounding water.)
5793
« on: May 18, 2015, 04:55:42 PM »
Oh yeah, watching Fury Road made me realise how bored I was in age of Ultron, with all the weightless action scenes of mini Ultrons being smashed over and over, there is literally no tension at any point now that I think about it.
Superhero movies aren't about tension, they're about watching superheroes beat the shit out of waves of evil robots/aliens/whatever keeps it PG-13 for two hours and saving the day.
5794
« on: May 18, 2015, 03:38:52 PM »
I like to use other players to practice. Just write your name outside the door and if you die in their world, they take the hit. At the very least you'll take a chunk of the boss's health and make the fight that much easier for them.
5795
« on: May 17, 2015, 08:59:41 PM »
The best action I've seen in a long time.
5796
« on: May 17, 2015, 08:12:24 PM »
Well, let's look at some alternate hypotheses:
It doesn't look like a rise in the cost of driving:
Has any sort of interaction hypothesis testing been done? Graphs don't mean anything without statistical analysis.
5797
« on: May 17, 2015, 06:56:56 PM »
Any preferences for genre or difficulty? Fiction/non-fiction?
5798
« on: May 17, 2015, 04:53:03 PM »
Fury Road was incredible, but it might as well have been a spin-off.
well yeah it was written and filmed like 25 years after thunderdome came out, this was bound to be very different. but from that very first scene i think you can tell that miller has had this sort of vision for the franchise for a long time
Definitely. It was great in-universe and a fitting continuation, but Max himself felt replaceable.
5799
« on: May 17, 2015, 04:49:37 PM »
I plan to get it once I'm done with Bloodborne. Good to see it's cheap on G2A.
5800
« on: May 17, 2015, 04:48:05 PM »
Fury Road was incredible, but it might as well have been a spin-off.
5801
« on: May 17, 2015, 02:47:10 PM »
Nope, a coalition of sovereign states sharing the burden is a better alternative.
5803
« on: May 17, 2015, 12:51:03 PM »
Milliways.
5804
« on: May 16, 2015, 11:44:25 PM »
I'm not going to judge it before seeing it, but I'm not confidant Snyder can smoothly introduce so many big-hitters.
5805
« on: May 16, 2015, 09:53:22 PM »
At least in gladiatorial games there won't be any innocent collateral damage.
5806
« on: May 16, 2015, 08:03:17 PM »
Does NMS actually have gameplay beyond flying around and looking at stuff? Is there action, or story, or world building to be done?
5807
« on: May 16, 2015, 08:01:07 PM »
Has there been any statistical research into the effect of the booming automobile industry during that nationalized period? I imagine nearly every adult having access to a car would reduce the number of train rides. I think it's also important to take into account the fact that it probably wasn't just the act of privatization but also a general effort to expand railways and make them a more economical option. Add that to the fluctuations in oil prices in the last two decades and I see a lot of extraneous reasons why people be preferring to use trains more than they had in the past.
You know I'm not just playing devil's advocate because of anti-privatization, but from my statistical background I'd prefer to see actual evidence of correlation between nationalization and poor performance in this market.
5808
« on: May 16, 2015, 05:44:01 PM »
I don't necessarily think that a slow natural death in supermax ISO is more humane. I don't think humanity has anything to do with it really. If we throw away his life needlessly, we're not any better than him. Oh come on, you have to see the ethical difference between murdering several people and maiming and dismembering hundreds, and giving that same person a lethal injection. We can make use of him as a warden of the state if we keep him alive. We can literally hijack his entire existence and make him work for the very thing he sought to destroy. Why should we wait 10 years and waste millions of dollars on appeals just to stick a needle in him and watch the life drain out of his eyes? That's pointless. It accomplishes nothing. You have to see that.
I'm definitely not comfortable with an alternative to the death penalty being a form of forced labor. And his life sentence would have been 23 hours per day of solitary confinement, not hard labor (which the military still institutes for courts martial). You can't argue that he'll be working or providing some sort of value to anybody in a life sentence. He's martyred either way; killing him ten years down the line once ISIS is long gone is less damaging than showing to the world that we'll let a guy blow up hundreds of people for Islam and give him a cell for the rest of his life.
5809
« on: May 16, 2015, 05:35:10 PM »
It's been #offtopic for nearly two years.
5810
« on: May 16, 2015, 05:19:50 PM »
Nail in the coffin of this story: http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/wifoodstamps.asp FALSE: Wisconsin has passed a bill banning poor people from purchasing shellfish, potatoes, and ketchup.
TRUE: Wisconsin has passed a bill that (if enacted as law) would restrict food stamp recipients from spending more than one-third of their benefits on foodstuffs such as shellfish, non-white potatoes, and ketchup. And like I said, as does the link in the OP, white potatoes are totally fine in any amount.
5811
« on: May 16, 2015, 05:17:49 PM »
I agree with an NPR commentator that said, "if he doesn't deserve the death penalty, then no-one does."
You're right, no one deserves the death penalty. Not even if they're the next Stalin.
I'm not sure if you're purposefully misrepresenting my position, but I support the verdict.
I know you do, and it shows your character.
That's an odd way to judge someone's character.
I'd say a willingness to take someone's life shows a lot about a given person's character
Then I'd say your criteria are lacking. Evolution has built a capacity for killing into the human race, and there are numerous scenarios where taking a life is justified, such as self defense and war. There's a lot of hypocrisy in saying a painless lethal injection is less humane than spending remainder of one's life in solitary confinement. I would love to see an end to the death penalty, but out of lack need, not out of unwillingness to respond in proportion to the crime; that ideal is predicated on a society where someone would never think to maim hundreds of innocent people because he thinks god wants it.
5812
« on: May 16, 2015, 05:07:59 PM »
I agree with an NPR commentator that said, "if he doesn't deserve the death penalty, then no-one does."
You're right, no one deserves the death penalty. Not even if they're the next Stalin.
I'm not sure if you're purposefully misrepresenting my position, but I support the verdict.
I know you do, and it shows your character.
That's an odd way to judge someone's character.
5813
« on: May 16, 2015, 04:48:11 PM »
Okay, I'm still confused about what you're talking about, and my post hasn't been addressed. The pamphlet you link shows that potatoes are currently not allowed specifically under the fruits and vegetables checks, and the first link, the proposed bill, states that white potatoes will be allowed: Not to mention that the prior ban is because potatoes are largely inferior in terms of nutrients to other sources, and a typical American diet already includes too many servings of potatoes. Someone else addressed shrimp and other crustaceans, which are expensive compared to other meats. Nuts aren't included because they're expensive and high in fat. Spices aren't included because they're not part of a daily diet. WIC is about providing essentials, but it seems that the bill is proposing the exact opposite of what you're claiming it does.
5814
« on: May 16, 2015, 04:38:42 PM »
I agree with an NPR commentator that said, "if he doesn't deserve the death penalty, then no-one does."
You're right, no one deserves the death penalty. Not even if they're the next Stalin.
I'm not sure if you're purposefully misrepresenting my position, but I support the verdict.
5815
« on: May 16, 2015, 02:40:33 PM »
Pretty sure that first link specifically says potatoes are allowed.
5816
« on: May 16, 2015, 07:31:24 AM »
>there are people in this thread right now who think he's going to get a Green Mile tier execution
qeq, enjoy waiting 10-12 years for the bureaucratic process to fall through only for him to be euthanised with chemicals behind closed doors.
Not to mention how much of your taxes he'll likely be draining what with all the extra paperwork required for death row inmates.
Eh, it's less than 60+ years of incarceration.
5817
« on: May 16, 2015, 07:28:45 AM »
I agree with an NPR commentator that said, "if he doesn't deserve the death penalty, then no-one does."
5818
« on: May 15, 2015, 02:45:16 PM »
You're a garbage person if you go and shoot some harmless animal just for the sake of shooting him, and then take a picture next the corpse smiling. That's some disgusting shit.
I don't like the photo either, but she was asked to do it because it was dying and they were able to use its remains. It wasn't for the sake of shooting it.
5819
« on: May 15, 2015, 02:27:56 PM »
I don't really see a problem in her joy and pride in participating in such a rare hunt, since it's a very special opportunity. But see, that's a loaded statement because you are saying that killing an animal is a "special opportunity" (rather than a tragic necessity) and that joy and pride are repectable feelings to have about it.
There should be nothing joyful about killing an animal. You might be proud of yourself for doing what had to be done (assuming that was the only option of course) but I don't think that was the type of pride you meant.
And it's anything but a special occasion. Getting to see an endangered animal is a special occasion, having to kill it is not. I'm not trying to be pedantic; these are the subtle, yet toxic views on hunting that need to be quashed. And the difference between taking pleasure in killing an animal and not taking pleasure is a significant one where ethics are concerned.
I don't think she enjoyed killing the animal, but rather the unique opportunity. I don't know this person, but from my perspective there would be a great deal of responsibility in painlessly ending the life of an endangered animal. I'm not a hunter, but I imagine the vast majority aren't doing it out of some sadistic enjoyment of killing. When I fish I don't get excited the fish is dead, I'm happy that I've managed to succeed at the task. My biggest objection is to posing with the carcass. I was under the impression it's disrespectful and in poor taste to do so.
5820
« on: May 14, 2015, 09:06:57 PM »
Hypocrisy.
I won't say she was doing anything charitable, but I don't have a problem with someone getting a once in a lifetime opportunity while painlessly ending a dying animal's life and feeding a village for a few days. This was no different from putting down the family dog.
That's not the whole story.
I'm not a hunter, and I don't think I'd be comfortable hunting, but I don't really see a problem in her joy and pride in participating in such a rare hunt, since it's a very special opportunity. She wasn't poaching, it wasn't a canned trophy hunt, and ultimately it did little but end the life of a dying animal. Honestly I think it's incredibly inappropriate to pose next to dead animals after a hunt, but I think Ricky is blowing this out of proportion.
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