I think it's a shame that Battlefield does this now. Pointless side distractions on par with CoD Zombies, evolving tidbit references that deserved an "Oh, that's pretty cool" and moving on, to having whole gameplay revolving around it.

At least they were smart enough to keep most of it to unranked battles so there won't be people messing around an actual match, but still.

Strange. I don't remember rampaging around for the last 500 years...

Joceph.

Not super-serious about everything and gets on with everyone. The latter may be a drawback for him to ban people if it ever came to it, but it's a double-edged sword; who would disobey the law of friendly dug?

I would say Slash as well but he already was one and stepped down by choice, IIRC.

IMO is just a way of saying what you think on the matter but without getting into it or being fully committed to it. Sorta similar to "Personally, I think/believe..., but whatever"

Seems a bit counterproductive to shutdown a potential discussion because someone cba's to, on a forum of all places, but eh...

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Quote from: Brian Butterfield on December 20, 2015, 08:00:36 AM

It's inefficient, has a history of doing good things and bad things... but who hasn't?

You compare countries by their present values. I could easily say America would be a better choice to live than Somalia for a whole variety of reasons, and probably a few  compared to Russia or India.

HDI is a wonderful statistic that can quantify the present value of countries that can be used for a quick spot judgement if you acknowledge it's flaws for qualitative data.

Why are you comparing it to shit countries instead of like, any of the other western nations, and even Canada right above us? The US then suddenly doesn't look as great, but when you talk about Somalia in comparison? Sure.

The Western world cannot be proud it isn't a shit hole? By global standards, it's a pretty big accomplishment. . .

You're not getting what I'm saying. I'm saying you can make the US sound like the pinnacle of society by comparing it to any country in Africa. But when you actually compare it to countries that are just as successful and well off as the US, the US suddenly doesn't have that "American exceptionalism" that people think makes the US better than any country for whatever reason.

I just chose those countries to accentuate my point, I could've chosen more closer ones but then the difference wouldn't be so obvious. The US may be considered a great country but it is no better than other Western countries.

And I can't say Norway because using HDI, it's an objectively better country. And I hate using that word.

I thought it was good, but the Empire have really got to stop building massive spheres of death that can be stopped by a single attack on a weakspot. There were a lot of minor references to the older episodes, some which I liked (Gonk droids, old alien characters re-appearing) but I thought some were a bit forced. I get it, I'm watching a Star Wars sequel, I don't need hints of the past to remember that.

Very noteworthy is that the trailers didn't spoil anything, which considering how many were released is quite a feat. Also, found out afterwards that the island with Mark Hamil on it is off the coast of Galway, and my Uncle had to monitor them filming.

Overall I thought it was great, and I will certainly watch the next one to see how that turns out, though as many have said it does play out as  A New Hope 2.0.

Quote from: Brian Butterfield on December 19, 2015, 02:32:43 PM

Damn, I know hookahs are bad for health but it's nicer than cigarettes.

Plus unless you've got your own at home, it's not a regular occurence either.

Hookah is worse for you than cigarettes.

I know, but a regular habit is worse than the occasional is what I ws getting at.

Regular hookah is a big no-no

Quote from: Batch on December 17, 2015, 05:27:21 PM

Well this isnt real, so what ahould we feel?

Only 3% of the CO2 in the air is causes by humans and hell a 1.5% of that  3% is caused by us here in Australia.

So no, Im not worried.

3% extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere a year is a lot.

Gotta remember the Earth was in equilibrium, absorbing what was being emitted naturally, that's 3% just accumulating in the atmosphere, being absorbed into the ocean and causing other problems.

The acidification of the oceans is the balancing act the Earth's trying to pull off and keep levels in the atmosphere stable, it's just it's going too fast for it to remain that way.

That is unless the subduction zones work double time to recycle precipitated Carbon from the oceans back into the mantle/crust, but that's impossible.

I was always told it was unhealthy because of the sugars.

I occasionally get some though, usually witj something else unhealthy because things like curry chips don't go with orange juice...

Varied normal faces, but with weird hair.

I'd still be single playing on consoles, bored of shitty AI.

Reading more books in my spare time, and shitting myself when finding sources for essays and GIS assignments.

Fair enough, but it doesn't really cleanse them of casualties. If anything, it shows that despite knowing there were civilians amongst certain military targets, that they decided to attack at least some of them, in the full knowledge that civilians could be harmed in the process. I'll accept that mistakes are made, but it does make them more responsible than if they just fired willy-nilly at missile sites without concerning themselves over whether it was in a civilian area.

I'm not debating whether Israel is the most humanitarian in warfare, that much is clear by this video (most of which is already well known). But there is a few dodgy bits... spreading the leaflets for Palestinians to evacuate, for example. If they well know that Hamas forces civilians to stay around their missile launchers by threat or by force, why do in some cases do they attack the targets anyway? Is it ever a case of killing a few Palestinian civs to save several magnitudes more Jewish civs, despite the fact that the latter has A) Possibly the greatest missile defence system in the world, B) Bunkers and warnings for said civs if the odd missile does pass through the Iron Dome, and that the former has outdated, indiscriminate weapons which are highly likely to land in a random field than an actual intended target.

I'd be more than happy to have this laid out and explained as to hopefully why I've got this all mixed up, but that's what I got out of the video.

The second one.

More avatar per avatar.

Only problem with Cali is the tectonics. Gotta love a major fault system and associated inland volcanism (although that's more up the coast by Alaska or East towards Wyoming).

Would love to move back to where I used to live, in the middle of nowhere. Nearby Tralee had enough interesting things for me:

So, how many people have you stabbed in the stomach?