Go to parties and try to interact with people you've never met. Boy, girl, doesn't matter for the time being. It gives you a better feel of people and generally helps, taking this from experience.

But then again this advice is coming from someone just as inexperienced (though less bothered by it), so take it with a grain of salt

It's not the funniest thing I've seen ever, but it's the funniest I've seen recently.

I don't get the appeal of the pokemon games, or any modern Nintendo stuff tbh.

*Retreats to Bunker*

Being a resident of Pripyat.

Leaving near the Aral Sea/desert on the Uzbekistani side

Getting sunburnt a lot

Eating burnt toast, and inhaling smoke.

I suppose it depends how far you're intruding past "the line" compared to the use of the knowledge gained.

I mean, are these Nazi experiments on Eastern European/Jewish/"Undesirables" completely useless information or have these experiments, though obviously cruel and brutal, helped anyone? I would probably say no (definitely for Mengele's experiments regarding pain tolerances for different races).

But the experiments in OP are pale in comparison for the effects, and arguably have been a benefit to those with depression or other similar psychological problems through scientific understanding of the conditions. Otherwise we could still be throwing people with mental conditions in the old Victorian asylums, and treating them far worse through ignorance.

Maybe if you promoted it with scantily dressed women, it might change the opinion of the hardline haters...

I frankly don't care. It's weird, but I'm not going to stop others going around doing their furry thing.

I reckon it'll be announced and released faster if they restrict it to only the next gen consoles and PC.

Though that'll be offset by (hoping) a better QA for the amount of bugs that are now synonymous with Bethesda games.

Is seems a more cultural thing (except going to the toilet - I'm marking that down as just an Eastern thing), seeing as the Ganges is supposed to be a spiritual river.

On the other hand, you'd think that as they've been ding this for centuries that they probably have some sort of waste/biohazard management system better than just chucking them in the water.

India's still developing to be fair, so obviously there's going to be a massive fucking discrepancy between having nuclear and space programs to the quality of living people on the river banks have.

Oh god yes they have secret agendas.I think the whole reason the government scrapped it's Nuclear Program in the 80's/90's was because there was a sudden abundance of North Sea Oil and Gas found a decade before.

And now that the oil has peaked a decade ago along with gas...oh, would you look at that? We suddenly have new Nuclear programs being implemented, expected to be operational about a decade or so before we expect the UK oilfields to run out in 2030's.

Others probably have less nefarious profit-oriented agendas. Some politicians may get into that career because they want a new swimming pool or something for their community (but mostly for them to use it) and then mask it under a range of other policies to gain popularity and get voted in.

Innocence is the ignorance of the cruel things that happen in this world, or that you're prejudice and trust towards a new person is automatically a positive/high one.

It might mean you are a nice, altruistic person, but it also means you are open to being taken advantage of by those of a malicious disposition.

Unfortunately, I used to have such innocence until I became the fall guy far too many times.

Quote from: SuperIrish on December 05, 2014, 02:20:22 PM

What a delicate situation this hypothetical world is in. It clearly wasn't a Utopia in the first place if taking care of an impoverished child has sent this world to hell.

I've already dealt with the semantics. Trying to paint it as "not really a utopia" doesn't change the behavioural realities of this hypothetical world. You could call it a dystopia, if you want but the equilibrium remains the same.

It doesn't change my stance on the matter.

I'd rather everyone lived in the "2nd World"* rather than a majority in the 1st World because someone is in the 3rd World.

*_{By this definition I don't mean the old Communist bloc, before anyone brings it up.}

Quote from: SuperIrish on December 05, 2014, 02:12:22 PM

It isn't a Utopia. Assuming this situation has been running for a long time, it doesn't seem like they've tried to address and solve the problem of this child.

If taking care of the kid results in average-ness overall, I'd rather have that than live in a "Utopia" of selfishness or leave and live with the constant guilt that I did nothing to change the situation there.

So you'd be ok with making tons of people suffer instead of it being reduced to one person?

Just because it's not a Utopia, does not necessarily mean that now everyone's in the shit.

It isn't a Utopia. Assuming this situation has been running for a long time, it doesn't seem like they've tried to address and solve the problem of this child.

If taking care of the kid results in average-ness overall, I'd rather have that than live in a "Utopia" of selfishness or leave and live with the constant guilt that I did nothing to change the situation there.

*Searches for my name*

*Pleasantly relieved*