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If there was a global catastrophic event I think the world would end up as some weird hybrid of the ancient and modern worlds. In the ancient world, technology levels and societies varied greatly. Some areas were experiencing societal collapse while others where flourishing. Even after hundreds...

For balance issues, the easiest way to implement path abilities is to make all of the abilities out of combat skills. Things that make the players life easier but do not effect their combat prowess at all. If they want to keep out-of-class combat abilities, they should make them available to...

Ok so there is a wide spectrum of belief found in every religion. From othodox, conservative, or extremist to moderate, modern, new age and weird interpretive variations. My point is simply that these violent acts are claimed to be gross misrepresentations of the faith of Islam. But the...

The critical reaction is coming from official groups only. There is no widespread shame or outrage coming from the Islamic community when extremists rise up again and again and again. Fear of reprisal doesn't cut it. This religion is supposed to be their life, it is supposed to be the most...

Last MMO I really played was WoW for a few months towards the end of Cata. I have friends who still raid in wow regularly; but I really just don't care for that kind of gaming anymore. I have been on a bit of a retro kick for a while. I like strategy/tactical rpg's. So that almost forces me to...

If you think this situation is bad, imagine the horror show if the kid who got attacked had actually defended himself and killed all three assailants: One white dude kills three black muslims. That right there would have started the London Riots 3.0. I am still waiting for all of the moderate...

What will be really weird... is if the early attempts at inter-stellar travel rely on deep sleep or mobile biospheres to deliver living humans to a new planet. And in the interim, faster technology is developed that essentially allows people to leapfrog over the slower ships. If the disparity in...

Men and Women can be friends if at least one of them are in a serious relationship and the friendship stays relatively casual; That or the guy is gay. Women love gay men because it lets them have their cake and eat it too. They get all the emotional support with none of the sexual baggage...

I can't remember the last time I cried emotionally. I know I was a kid, but it's been a long ass time, at least 15 years. I still feel emotion though, I ain't a robot. So here are some movies that definitely hit a chord. Plague Dogs, 1982; It's an animation done by the same people that did...

Stealth is a tricky ability to implement well in pvp. The absolute number one advantage in a pvp setting is information. If you know where the enemy is, what classes and numbers they have, what their resources levels are and so on... you can then form a strategy to deal with it. If you don't...

Thisarticle details an experiment that gives a pretty convincing result and explanation. The hexagon is a result of the polar vortex spinning much faster than the surrounding atmosphere. This not only creates a jet stream circling the vortex, but also creates powerful eddies outside of the...

Shit jokes aside, I think it's interesting that the only thing separating gas giants from stars is mass. Add enough mass and the gas giant will exert enough pressure on its core to start fusing hydrogen with neutrons producing deuterium. This results in a brown dwarf and they are around 13 times...

I remember some all day AV's. There was just this laundry list of things your team could do to try and ruin the other guy's day. The best was when both sides were in an arms race to try and summon their boss, send out riders and bombers and all the other stuff. I remember watching the giant...

The thing about infinity, things get reduced to two states: possible and impossible. Chance is eliminated. If something is possible, then it occurs, if it is impossible then it doesn't. That's it. So even the weirdest, most outlandish, improbable thing occurs; provided it is a possibility. So...

Real Sci-fi. That's an interesting oxymoron. Technically all science fiction isn't real. Good story telling is good story telling regardless of setting or genre. You could take all the excellent Star Trek characters (Kirk, Spock, Khan, McCoy, Scottie ect.) and transplant them into a period...

Well the actual text is what moderate Muslims refer to when they defend their religion and claim it is one of peace. But the text itself creates a situation that responds to violence, with violence. In fact it demands that violence is the only way to resolve a conflict with an enemy of Islam...

Ok so dregg are the undead exile race. Looks like that got leaked? Some design shit found below:

Islam calls for the killing and fighting of any who would attack members of Islam, but also to live peacefully with those non-believers who have no quarrel with Islam. It does not allow any member of the faith to deal peacefully with aggressors against Islam or else those members become...

They might not pick up on you firing, but there are a lot of eyes scanning the situation and only one of them has to glimpse you or the flash from the firearm. That said they will 100% know that the brothers were hit by someone other than an LEO, once the forensics team analyzes the scene and...

That's interesting... but this quote is jumping the gun a little: There is a big difference between growing some cells in a lab and managing to get those cells to heal an injury. It will be very interesting to see if they can take those same marrow stem cells and transform them into any other...

Except we are a very fragmented society of individuals. There are few communities that will band together in opposition to authority. In face of a threat from without, Sure. We see this every time an attack from a disturbed individual or militant group or mother nature happens. Communities band...

I don't know if they have clarified this... but when they mention that a friend can come and harvest your plots for you, and they get a portion of what is collect as a reward, is that portion taken out of what your plot yields, or is this reward in addition to what your plots yields? Because...

Yeah under that definition the U.S. military has been deploying WMD's, non-stop, for over a decade. Maybe we need a scale for WMD's. WWMD: weak weapon of mass destruction (not to be confused with the inspirational WWMD "What Would Muhammad Do?" bracelets.) WMD: the run of the mill Nuclear...

The waves of unity and division experienced in this one thread is making me feel queesy. I get motion sickness easily. Everyone comes together in shock (or just jaded disgust) over the attack.Quickly, people become divided by the speculation and conspiracy theories.Everyone agrees that the...

Anyone who thinks violence is justifiable, outside of self defense, because of their beliefs. That is what makes them a radical-[insert preferred social, political or religious group here] There are people who think perpetrating violence is fine, but do not affiliate with any particular...

This feels like a turning point for crowd media sources, especially compared to traditional sources. Hopefully news agencies have to adapt or die in the coming months and years. I wonder if there is going to be any issues with scanners as a result of this. Or maybe police are going to utilize...

Hostage Recovery Team

I wonder if there is a backroom in Vegas taking wagers on what happens while listening to this. Scanner: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ma-rt-9-window-cam

Just mentioned possible negotiations

There is a local lumber mill that fuels it's wood kiln boilers using wood-chips mixed with oil. I think they have had two or three incidents where the air became so choked with wood-dust that the boiler flame ignited the dust causing an explosion. It didn't level the building, but it blew parts...

The only way you would get person to person background checks is if you essentially make those sales illegal and force people to use gun stores as agents to oversee private sales. The sale would be subject to all of the same checks as a regular in-store sale. If such a method was adopted the...

I didn't say anything about conspiracy. It was an unfortunate coincidence. Art imitating life is not new, it's been going on for thousands of years. It's just usually the imitation is done after the fact.

I remember watching that episode. For quite a while on the show website it was said the second part of the season finale never aired. I was like... no way, I remember seeing it. (I really did say no way) Another art predicts life scenario is from "cowboy bebop" episode 19 Wild horses. The...

I think there might be some credence to the idea that the Boston PD got some sort of bomb threat or tip. The amount of anti bomb units they mobilized prior to the race seems much higher than what would be expected as a routine; even for a marathon. That isn't me talking, that is experienced...

Probably a photographer getting a better viewpoint of the race.

This is how it starts... The thread that is about removing EQ derails, is about to get EQ derailed. That is inception level irony.

When a new frontier is being explored, the known risks involved, and inherent uncertainties whenever anyone does something for the first time, push most activities found there well outside of the realm of profitability. So government becomes the premiere driver of such activities. Once a...

If you kill someone you know to be innocent, and you try to just move on after you do, you've effectively done both options. So might as well just go with option two; at least then you aren't the monster as well. Would you rather be forced to eat steak until your stomach almost burst, every...

Combat/adventuring and crafting/economy systems show up in most games, but political/nation building systems are under represented. I would love to see more of that. Letting players move borders around and conquer cities would be interesting. Effort to build needs to be less than the effort...

The strength of any theory, or concept relies on the amount of evidence that supports it. All such evidence can be reduced to nothing, if there is even one instance where the theory is proven wrong. Any such incident would come under heavy scrutiny if it were to fly in the face of established...