Because /v/ is one of the worst boards on 4chin.

No, that's untrue on both counts. Measurement is wrong because, do to the fact that arm length  and thumb size vary from person to person and that there are effects that persist in a nuclear fallout ouside of the blast radius, the "thumb" trick is completely bogus.

And the vault boy is just giving you a thumbs up:

Image is from the Vault Dweller's Survival Guide, the original Fallout manual.

Copies have released early. Watch out for screencaps/spoilers.

Quote from: Prime Quinx on August 24, 2015, 05:15:42 PM

Apparently fine if Johnson and every other marine on the planet can run around without an enclosed helmet.

i dunno, they could've worked around that somehow

point is, he would die--and he wouldn't last long, either
otherwise, why bother with the suit at all

Let's put it this way.

Out of a suit, a spartan is equal to a squad of marines in terms of combat efficiency.
In a suit, a spartan is equal to a platoon of marines in terns if combat efficiency.

Quote from: Prime Quinx on August 24, 2015, 12:42:37 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on August 24, 2015, 12:30:46 PM

the days before he became a spartan don't count

He, and other Spartans, had skirmishes with Covenant before they got the Mk V armor.

the days before he first landed on halo, then

how's the atmosphere on halo

Apparently fine if Johnson and every other marine on the planet can run around without an enclosed helmet.

He's still crazy strong without his armor. Example being the ODST incident very soon after augmentation.

Quote from: Prime Quinx on August 24, 2015, 09:39:02 AM

Quote from: Saladin on August 24, 2015, 09:15:06 AM

Plisken=Snake

But he took the name out of respect or something, right? The real Solid Snake died in that tanker accident two years ago.

No, he took it to keep his identity a secret. He used "Plissken" as a reference to "Snake Plissken" from "Escape from New York", and he used "Iroquois" as a reference to one of the biggest Native American tribes based in New York, "Iroquois". "Iroquois" also means "black snake" in Huron.

Then what is Plisken's true identitiy? He can't be Liquid or Solidus, so was there a fourth clone that survived the LET project?

Plisken=Snake

But he took the name out of respect or something, right? The real Solid Snake died in that tanker accident two years ago.

"You never asked." - Iroquois Plisken

Spiders
Actually all arachnids
Zombies
Things that go bump in the night
Eternal crippling loneliness
Looking at my life once I reach old age and regretting everything

Also clowns are creepy tbh

One of my Skyrim screenshots.

Literally.

A nine-year-old who was bullied for having only one hand has become the first boy in the UK to be fitted with a new child-sized bionic hand.

Josh Cathcart, from Dalgety Bay in Fife, was tormented by classmates for his disability but now he said he cannot wait to show off his "awesome" new hand to friends at school.

His parents Clare and James told the Press Association they were motivated to find a solution after Josh became withdrawn because of the bullying and they came across Touch Bionics in Livingston, West Lothian.

Touch Bionics had just developed the i-limb Quantum, an extra-small prosthetic which gives Josh a range of motion.

Alison Goodwin, a prosthetist at Touch Bionics, told the BBC:

    "We do fit the hand worldwide but he's the first one that we have fitted here in Scotland, so it's great that he's a local lad."

Josh is delighted with his new hand, which he can control by gestures and movements which signal electrodes on the surface of his skin within the prosthesis' socket.

    "I got to put it on about two days ago. I can stick my thumb up. I can make a pinch grip, I can get a grip for cutting with a knife, I made myself a bagel yesterday. I can open bottles and packets, I can build Lego and pull my trousers up."

My avatar is now "Frowning Frog" (Christina Puccelli) in preparation of MGS5.

I would like to point out that I never argued against improving current drugs or implied that you should be happy with what we currently have available; all I said is that there is no such thing as a perfect drug. Ibuprofen, a drug which hundreds of thousands of people use ever day, has possible side-effects that involve headache, nausea, bleeding, vomiting, et cetera. Until I just googled it, I had no idea that taking an Advil could give you a headache, or make you bleed. That's how rare that side-effect is.

If all drugs had side-effects that occured at that same likeliness, it would be fantastic. And if those side-effects weren't even a thing? Even better. But that's not what's currently happening, and I accept that. I don't think it should stay that way, gOD no, but am I not allowed to speak in terms of the present? In the future, I'd love to see hereditary conditions phased out by advanced genetic screening during before a child is born; I'd love to see someone who has lost their legs have new legs, whether they be artificial tissue and muscle or cybernetic, and even more amazingly a total upgrade from normal legs; I'd love to see surgeries and drugs that assist in living a healthier and/or more "pure" life. But that's what I want, not what I have.

That's not saying that it isn't important to work for the change we want to see. I just don't think saying, "I'm not happy with the current state" means much. I don't think anybody who doesn't profit from it is happy with the state of the medical industry. It just strikes me as either redundant or an absurdly overemotional response to the situation, and Verb generally isn't the kind of person to speak redundantly. That was my issue with your argument.