Apparently a black 20-year-old was murdered during the riot, I wonder if there will be as much of an outcry over him...

What portion of the current Bungie employees were actually involved with anything pre-Reach? All the big figures have abandoned ship so it's likely these are totally different people who've only adoped the name of the company we remember.

I haven't been following gamergate for a while now, has the movement even done anything lately? All I know is that people on the anti-gg side have been acting like the fucking inquisition, targeting anyone who's even sympathetic to gamergaters.

- An expanding universe and a model that shows us we should be contracting. According to a physical model of the Universe, we should be contracting not expanding. But yet here we are, expanding. The mathematics simply don't work.

Which "physical model" is that? Can you name it? To my knowledge a complete, accepted universal model doesn't exist yet. The Big Bang theory is the leading cosmological model, and it does in fact account for expansion despite being incomplete.

- Life from non-life. According to evolution, life arose from a "hot mix of chemical goop". But there's no evidence for it and the process cannot be recreated in a lab. As a means of damage control, scientists then claimed that life came from somewhere else in the galaxy. But that still leaves the question as to how that strain of life came to be. Is there just a never ending cycle of strains of life that come from another planet?

That's abiogenesis, not evolution. The theory of evolution is completely unrelated to the origins of life, seeing how it only works when there are already living things present. The Miller–Urey experiment proved that all the basic molecules of life, amino acids, nucleotides and lipids all form naturally under conditions simulating early earth. There is no standard model for how life came to be, the assumption is that since all the materials required for life were present and are highly interactive with eachother, given enough time they could form membranes, proteins and DNA, but that is an assumption, not an assertion.

- Consciousness and free will, a contradiction to evolution. How are you to act upon instinct, survive, and reproduce if you're not being told you have to? Scientists claim that consciousness is explainable through biological processes, and that its purpose is to give humans the illusion that we operate under free will. But there's still no purpose in evolving towards free will if our biology dictates us to act the way they want us to act and not the way we act through free will. And if consciousness is simply an illusion, who is this illusion being relayed to? Another consciousness?

I don't think you understand the goal of evolution, or rather the lack of one. All that matters to evolution is reproduction, since quite simply the only creatures alive today are ones whose parents were able to reproduce. That's all natural selection is. Everything beyond that is secondary.

Also I don't know about you, but I personally don't have the ability to exercise my free will to not feel hunger, arousal or emotions. If I choose not to eat for too long, my body is sure as hell going to try it's best to convince me to eat. My body gets thirsty, horny, too hot, too cold, happy, sad, angry and I have no concious control over these things. How is this not my biology dictating my behavior?  I also did not know science denies the existence of consciousness. This whole point is null on two fronts.

- The four fundamental forces. There's no reason why or how the fundamental forces exist, and in fact we can only measure their effect, but the particles that should make up these forces don't seem to exist. We invent names like the Graviton to make it seem like they exist, but they have as little evidence for them as dark matter.

What exactly is contradictory here? I mean none of the others were really contradictions either, but this is just simply "we know this thing happens we just don't know the cause of it." Your not seriously going to tell me you think gravity isn't real just because we don't know why there is gravity yet.

Weeboobs pls.

Is there any way to watch it without an Xbone?

If only Project Brazil chapter 2 had a release date yet.

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20 pounds. Did they cast it out of Lead?

Also, how could you hold that without hurting yourself?

You tellin' me you can't effectively carry 20 pounds around with ya?

That does give me a good idea though. Have one of those rifles mounted on a wall. Home introduer comes in, is the red one as a blugeon!

I can, but there's a reason why guns and swords don't weigh 20 pounds.

I'll have you know that the average weight of a scottish claymore was 16 pounds. 20's not that big of a jump.

I end up finding very different sword weights.

Hmm. Must have mixed shit up then. I do remember something having an average weight of 16 pounds.

Guns are a different story though, an M16 is almost 8 pounds, and a loaded M249 is up to 23 pounds. So your original point stands.

That just looks like team Elimination, which has been in Halo since CE just never used in matchmaking for some reason.

Not a big fan of faster kill times and their art and sound direction irk me, but the gameplay doesn't look bad. I honestly think Halo 4 had the best weapon balancing in the series, just was held back by poor additions like ordinance.

I've already lost my credibility as a member

>Concerned about "credibility" on an anonymous forum

It's really getting out of hand.

Are you really this mad or is this a poor attempt at a joke?

If cortana and Siri were fused, wouldn't they be Serina?

As an American I've only ever heard of BBC, so that one.

Dear god that font makes my eyes bleed.