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M-16, easily. And frankly, I was under the distinct impression almost any assault rifle had better accuracy than the AK-47 :P

On the note of string theory and proofs; remember that there are few "proofs" in science - only strong evidence in support of theories. For example, the CERN experiments will attempt to find evidence for (or against - either is equally informative) the Standard Model of Physics. We have no true proof (or at least, very little) that the models we have are true; we must base our models merely on what evidence suggests. There's a reason they're called models :P As another example, the wa

Well said, sir!

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="14" id="2064026"] we as a civilization which is successful under the current state of the biosphere we should try to keep the current state as every deviation is a risk. This is the principal conceipt - that we can somehow 'arrest' the environment & maintain it in some arbitrarily defined condition. Every argument for 'doing something' is premised on this unprovable, not to mention futile, assumption.[/quote] I agree w

[quote]increased CO2 levels also change the pH of the oceans. I am not denying that this might have happened before (standard response from you guys) but the point is that we as a civilization which is successful under the current state of the biosphere we should try to keep the current state as every deviation is a risk.[/quote] Of course, but the debate hinges on anthropogeny. Otherwise, it becomes hubristic and pointless to assume we can change the environment "back" to what it "sh

[quote] No, no. It's ever decreasing or it's constant, the two current end of universe scenarios stemming from the big bang are that it will end in fire or ice [e digicons]:)[/e] depending on the total mass of the universe.[/quote] tldr: Apparently expansion is accelerating, according to this next guy. It was published in 2001. [quote]Since a decelerating galaxy [due to possible decelerating expansion] is closer, its light would appear a little brighter than a

http://needsofthemany.blogspot.com/2007/04/global-warming-melts-mars-polar-ice.html Hmm. Hmm. I suppose we should alter the pressure and direction of our factories' smoke stacks, since they all seem to be aimed directly at Mars's polar ice caps. Why, it can't be solar activity at all! That would be irrational. Everyone knows humans have a far bigger capacity to alter the environment than

Luckmann , great way to put it! I am satisfied :P I am only ashamed that I assume hedonism in statements such as "living every day as one's last". My apologies :P

[quote who="suspended_animation2" reply="12" id="1993871"]There is a trait that many people exibiht that is quite an extrodinary trait to possess. They live there day like its there last. They have no regrets about the choices they have made, and they always are smiling, because they are genuinally happy. World War III could be tommorow, but these people don't care all to much. I want to be like those people[/quote] I suppose it depends on what you mean by living a day

I think this trend is great! I hate to disagree, but I have so little space at home that I always threw away the bigger boxes. Back before they were book-sized they were, indeed, impossible to manage, so I always had to find space for both the manual and the CD case. Then came the smaller book-sized ones. Though still cardboard boxes, they weren't as impractical to fit into a shelf as trophies. As the boxes (I'm not sure if they've all undergone this change) turned into DVD containers

The semicolon; should it be a colon?

kk then :P i'm sure the devs will take all this into account when developing, so our discussion is probably academic, though interesting. Ah no! I rather think I got it (Forsaken) confused with the WoW undead group. My bad. There goes the correlation :P

Good idea, although unfortunately "Forsaken" was also a name used in Armies of Exigo (though thankfully not a playable race) :P Magisterium sounds cool, but people might think it refers to a Catholic-Church-like authority. Sorry, I don't want to be pedantic about this :P Wildlings sounds awesome though!

Perhaps I didn't read it well enough, but the following similarity jumped out at me: Available races in Elemental: Men, the Fallen, and the Beasts. Available races in EA's Armies of Exigo: The Empire, the Fallen, and the Beast. Wait, what? Er... coincidence?

Great! In that case, I agree with you. I rather shamefully forgot to mention the minidumps in my last post, so my apologies for that as well :P I must agree with the patching problem as well, though to be honest I rather consider that more of an ongoing support thing... IC was quick with their first few patches, though the major 1.1 is indeed taking a while. They do seem to go on the forums a lot, though... and it's not as if they have a 70-man development team. IMHO they've d

Shush yourself. Does multiplayer automatically mean an out-of-the-box ability to host? I, for one, have never hosted an online game, because I have never had a need to. Am I abnormal in this respect? Is hosting the only problem? Great - we can debate whether it counts as fundamental failure. Is the entire multiplayer system badly designed? Then it's just that - a flaw in design, not a bug or an unintentional side effect (and which, I might add, is, as Monk said, being improved in 1.1)

Perhaps some people should actually read the reply comments to the OP. I believe that's two people in a row who didn't seem to realize that Blackspot took notice of The Monk's post (something that trolls in general gladly ignore) and responded more than appropriately. Faugh! :P

Agreed, but might it not get clumsy? There might be a better way...

[quote]In fact not only that I want to marry stardock have kids with it [/quote] Spawning babies. You'll have so many babies. 400 babies.

[quote who="Craig Fraser" reply="13" id="1892434"]"It is at this juncture that I realize the flaw with a "Gamers Bill of Rights" written by the anyone in game selling industry. They will always be more concerned with producers rights, than consumer rights." If our customers are happier than we should be too - it is good for business. I don't understand this false barrier you are creating. Its not a matter of gamer vs publisher/developer, its about improving the industry for everyon

[quote who="MysticRhythms" reply="7" id="1891395"] It is good of Stardock to bring up the idea. But the definition belongs in the consumers hands, not the producers. Having a producer write the "Gamers Bill of Rights" is putting the fox in charge of the Hen House. Monitoring can be checked with review sites to give consumers a quick number to know how consumer friendly this product is. Stardock would score high, but not perfect. EA would score very low.[/quote] I just reali

[quote who="Gurren" reply="11" id="1871198"]DRM doesn't stop pirating, Spore has a lame DRM SecuROm bs on it and gamers are pissed about it. Even with DRM the game still got pirated and rather quickly too, so DRM in games is pointless.[/quote] I support no DRM, but don't bother trying to single out Spore. Gamers are pissed about Spore's DRM, but they're also pissed about every other game that has DRM, in the same way. I've got used to it, so I'm not even pissed. Besides, your poi

[quote who="ZarX88" reply="13" id="1864343"]Relic OWNS the Tactical area of RTS Games..You simply really can't compete.[/quote] What about WiC? I haven't actually played CoH, but I do know that Massive has had three RTT's that were absolute stars. Even if CoH is better, you can't just say that they can't compete, because it seems WiC is a damn good game.

[quote]-.- Are you serious? Are you really that stupid? The United States has taken the role of the "world police", we give our mens lives for others to be free... and you say we are there for oil? For the record, not only does the US have reserve oil, but also many untapped oil in -our- ground. If this was really for oil? Would we reallly still be there? No, we would of taken it and left... did we leave? No. If it was seriously over oil we would of simply stopped when it got rough and spend