In other news, the Pope recently condemned waging war in the name of God.

Not digging the Abrams feel. Star Trek needed it for the younger generation, but Star Wars doesn't have that problem.

Also, the lightsaber looks retarded and I'm hoping it turns out to be some sort of pike or staff.

I didn't think the Snowden/Manning leaks were even particularly interesting. Of course the government needs to be checked and held accountable, and that efforts to enforce its will can infringe on liberties, but the idea that liberty and security are to be balanced is just silly, in my opinion. Look at Iraq, under Saddam they had significantly more rights and freedom, as well as security. Now under pseudo-democracy they have very little of both. Or the USSR: low freedom, high security. Or America now: high freedom, high security. Or Britain during the Blitz: restricted liberties for marginally more security. There are tons of conflicting cases, and it's shortsighted to think that it could never be acceptable to give up a freedom to be safe for a time.

P.S. Happy Thanksgiving from the states!

Quote from: E̲n̲ga̲ge̲d̲T̲u̲r̲k̲e̲y on November 27, 2014, 09:14:25 AM

It's titled as a teaser trailer so they're just referring to a full length trailer I presume.

I wasn't even thinking of it in that way >.>

I looked it up on the Google, and apparently the official trailer releases on Friday.

Oh, awesome.

It's titled as a teaser trailer so they're just referring to a full length trailer I presume.

I think it's a false dichotomy.

Used to be abortion, but this week, it's...Thanksgiving.

Quote from: GodspeedGojira! on November 26, 2014, 07:51:24 AM

lmao Treyarch is pissed off at Bungie

I'm amazed at how everyone is playing this game, and every is pissed at it.

Its like school, or the dentist.

Probably because it's fun as hell despite being repetitive and empty.

Progressivism   55
Socialism   25
Tenderness   62.5

Your test scores indicate that you are a tender-minded cultural centrist; this is the political profile one might associate with a protective parent. It appears that you are accepting of religion, and have a balanced attitude towards humanity in general.

Your attitudes towards economics appear capitalist, and combined with your social attitudes this creates the picture of someone who would generally be described as a libertarian.

To round out the picture you appear to be, political preference aside, a sensible radical egalitarian with many strong convictions.

you are a tender-minded cultural centrist

Economy is a tool; humans are exploitative.

You might want to consider the newly announced DS2 version for next gen. Sounds pretty good and includes all DLC.

I've got it in PC already. Did they do any graphical improvements? Can you transfer your character like you can for Skyrim?

More crap at the borders while the rest of the country pretends illegal immigration is harmless.

Your strike team opened the cell to prevent the Fallen from restoring his soul. I suspect 'soul' is just a culty/pseudo-science Fallen thing to describe that he was in some sort of suspended animation. Why did he have a gun? I dunno, maybe he was captured with it on his person and it didn't really make a difference. I think it would have made more sense to see him pull it out of a ship or crate like the Fallen were bringing it to him, but whatever.

Basically you woke the dude up so that he wasn't fully restored and thus a bit weaker. If you had let the Fallen finish, he would've been massively more difficult. Or so sayeth Bungie.

Quote from: E̲n̲ga̲ge̲d̲T̲u̲r̲k̲e̲y on November 24, 2014, 08:48:53 PM

I don't think a MAC round would do much since the deflector shields cause projectiles to deflect off, rather than trying to just stop the force.

That would be true. The mac round would be going slower than the speed of light which warp causes things to warp around the ship faster than the speed of light. So that round would be just like anything else in its path.

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The Forerunner energy weapon wouldn't do much either since their shields can be tuned to specifically block certain frequencies.

I don't know the power of those weapons, but I think Voyager or some other Star Trek ship went into a sun. That right there would be some serious shield strength.

Yeah, it's kinda ridiculous but I think their shields are basically immune to thermal or other energy weapons that don't use a varying frequency like a phaser.

Dude got attacked and fatally shot a guy in self defense. Did he instigate the conflict? Maybe, but that doesn't invalidate the right to defend himself. Yeah it sucks that this all happened and it's very tragic, but nobody should be surprised by this.

In recent news, a cop shot a 12 year old kid after he reached for a lifelike toy gun in his waistband after being told to comply.