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You calling anyone else a troll on scientific topics is pretty laughable.

Hodj, you have claimed that ethics are universal. I don't agree with this or perhaps I am not understanding your pov. I mean, in practice, there is some sort of consensus on ethics. However, it isn't universal in that it changes over time and will change in the future as more things become...

Let's stop the derail from the science thread.

Making it possible for modders to make some money from doing so doesn't some like an inherently bad thing. Steam, Valve, etc benefit greatly from modding and the people doing that work get fuckall. The problem is them taking 75% off the top.

Do you think the Chinese will stop with this work? If they don't, will the international community come down them? If not, and discoveries start to come from it, it seems like other countries will be hard pressed not to try and keep up with it.

Ethics clearly isn't an imaginary line. However, different cultures and groups draw those lines in different places. Now I grant that there is some international consensus on what is ethical or not. However, I am not sure China agrees with us on where that line is. That doesn't mean we should...

Original developer gets 75%

While I can understand ethical concerns being something you definitely need to keep in mind, I am not a fan of avoiding publishing because of them. Science is pretty much always worse (both in progress and safety) when done in secret and without peer review.

Shitloads of people have made the connection that characters introduced for the first time in book 4 probably aren't going to matter that much overall. Even more people have made that connection since the tv show decided to ignore them completely.

Victarian seems to have done one thing, which is to bring a navy to Merreen. I don't expect him to live much past that, so yeah, I pretty much believe "the greyjoy story line goes nowhere".

If you were playing it on PC, the durability shit was a huge problem. Yes, you could "play around" it by carrying around a smorgasbord of weapons and swapping between them or refusing to use entire classes of weapons, but that was ridiculous. Falling all over yourself to apologize for an obvious...

My apologies at the charge that you are bad at math. Indeed, it was my implicit assumption that the ban length was in days that was the problem.

It appears that Tanoomba has been RRPed for 196 days (or Hodj is bad at math). While I am not here to argue for his release, I would like to humbly beg that he be allowed probation after 2 weeks given that he and Hodj agree to the following conditions, proposed by ZyyzYzzy: 1) His name be...

I don't see why you think Lyrical would admit it. He just showed a comic of Darkseid losing to Bat's super lifepowered suit or whatever the fuck. Now I grant you that isn't exactly your scenario, but pretty close.

I'm all in for this shit. Burt Macklin + Raptors vs super T-rex. If that doesn't sound awesome, you suck.

Yeah, might as well throw out everything you know about viable builds atm. Pretty much every defensive and offensive mechanic is getting reworked. Caster projectiles not shotgunning, ondar's guile good against ranged but bad against melee, prolif being redone, etc.

Just bought it for the second time. Sounds like the gunfights will be more fun with mouse, the shooting part of GTAV I hated the most on ps3.

Lying and being mistaken are different things. There is no doubt that Tanoomba fills the forums with idiotic positions and posts, but I am fairly sure he honestly believes that he is correct. Kind of like his lukewarm defense of Anita. Paraphrased, he isn't a fraud, because you can't prove...

Looks good, don't get the hate at all.

You have never been a transexual, yet you seem to feel qualified to have an opinion on it. Or is there something you want to share with us Kegkilla?

No single player game? Sigh

Just finished Lost to the West: The forgotten Byzantine Civilization Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization: Lars Brownworth: 9780307407962: Amazon.com: Books Great overview of the history of the Byzantine empire, from Constantine all the way to...

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Furry isn't a quantum physicist but that doesn't stop him from lecturing physicists on quantum mechanics. Maybe he can fill us in on how SpaceX should really be doing this?

Those are probably my two favorite sci-fi books, love them. The direct sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep is also out, Children of the Sky, though I think it suffers greatly from "middle book" syndrome in a series, in that it seems built to kind of set up the 3rd book and people were generally...

Uh, I'm an educated white male? I got so much privilege I think I could literally spit on a cop and still not get a ticket. God its awesome.

No biggie. I bet another rhino can just choose to become a western black one. Gene's don't override choice bro.

Very few people actively want you to leave Tanoomba. They want you to just stop shitposting. I suggest two things to get you rolling and not end up here again... 1) Try staying away from threads that trigger you. 2) If you find yourself siding with people like a_skeleton_03, Dumar or...

Well, the problem is that these people use the idea that it is a "choice" to try and say they should be able to discriminate against them, just like you can choose not to serve someone if they violate a dress code. Anyway, Furry jumped the shark in this conversation when he started trying...

Furry is trying to say that Hodj believes that, or really that anyone that thinks being gay isn't a choice is saying that it is a genetic disease.

I love Cersei in this show. Every scene with her and another character you like is terrifying.

Why would you assume that? Mance "dies" in the books also. Only later do we find out it isn't the real Mance. Now I grant you that he probably won't be coming back, simply because I don't know how they can pull off the "its Mance but he looks like someone else" but I wouldn't be convinced he...

Absolutely no self-reflection on why he got RRPed and still tries to compare his RRP for shitposting to someone that was RRPed for posting something from a legit news site. Unreal. No wonder his last few non-gamergate posts were in threads sympathizing with the poor plight of the posters...

Tanoomba, it used to be that you did have your defenders when you got RRPed. God forbid you ever do any real introspection though.

I have never understood the moral problem people have with the state killing someone that is guaranteed guilty. The problem is not in the action, but in the "guaranteed" part for me. Our justice system is filled with examples where people were convicted and it didn't seem like anyone had a...

Furry is derailing the fuck out of pretty much any thread that tangentially touches on science. It is really annoying and he seems immune to any sort of rational argument or even embarrassment at his own ignorance.

If the civil rights act had allowed voluntary discrimination, it would have done virtually fuckall. Especially with your definition of the government, where it's literally only people paid directly by the government. Doctrinaire libertarians are the fucking worst.

I'm surprised that you are saying it was too simple. I am finding many challenging fights. Did you do it with a party of 6 maybe? Then again, I am pretty rusty on NWN2 and my gear is probably not where it should be crafting wise.

I am about halfway I think through NWN2 IWD campaign, lvl 10 atm with my party of 4. Pretty fun, though the early going was really problematic for me and the companion AI is horrible.