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Everyone thinks their childhood was the best. Yes, but this is different -- it's not just people being curmudgeons and complaining that "kids these days" aren't subject to as much physical labor as them, or have more conveniences. It's college professors, mental health professionals, etc....

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I suspect this whole thread is targeted at some specific politician (Bernie?) But hey, I'll play along by voting in the poll.

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I grew up on the tail end of Gen X; my parents had rules about how far I could ride my bike alone at different ages, starting with being able to ride to the neighborhood school (a block away) when I was like 6, and escalating to "anywhere in the city, but tell us where you're going first" ...

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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... nd/399356/

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From a FB friend who absolutely despises Trump: I subscribe to the theory that Trump's popularity is not because people actually like him or think he'd make a good president or even necessarily agree with his political beliefs. Rather, it's that they've hit a breaking point with the overly sensitive...

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I haven't noticed any difference in public behavior.

There are plenty of shops around. No indication that there's been any significant increase in crime. Some issues with smuggling out of state. Great tax revenue. I don't know anyone who's done anything stupid as a result.

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http://www.enspiar.com/dmdb/viewMission.php?id=988 is quite good in cooperative mode.

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if nobody else is interested, I'd be willing to give you like $30 for it and add it to my gifting pile. I expect you can get more for it, though.

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I think you're both wasting everyone's time playing this game. I agree and said so at the outset....Woody seemed to differ. I generally try not to listen to woody for advice on how to conduct myself on forums ;) We all know exactly how this sort of exchange will go. You can both keep coming up with...

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I think you're both wasting everyone's time playing this game.

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I don't know if you and Drak have made any models in your days... I've worked in test & evaluation basically my whole career & have developed a relatively heavy dose of scepticism for just about any type of "model" that attempts to extrapolate data. My experience is that you devel...

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I'm not sure how I'm supposed to analyze this guy's math, since I can't find it.

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To clarify: the "I did it my way" package should come with 3 ship tokens, and will automatically get the torch when it's unlocked (whenever that is -- probably within the next couple weeks, given the uptick in funding when alpha went live.) So that's 4 total ships available at launch. (Sil...

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Hey slick, you do realize that if strict gun control laws just like the ones you are regularly pushing for had existed back in the 1700's, we would still be paying taxes to the royal family. no, I don't realize that, because I never once mentioned taking a single weapon away from any mentally stabl...

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you're probably good. Don't know about the 650, though.

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Pumo, what are your system specs? I can give you a good idea of whether or not you can run it based on the current specs of people who have been playing.

Generally speaking you need a dual-core 2.5 GHz or faster processor, 8 GB ram, and like a GTX-560 or above to run it on minimum settings.

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and that's enough to say "we don't need any kind of psychological screening"? That's not the position I stated. Please reread my posts until you see the difference between "we don't need any kind of psychological screening" and what I actually said (hint: "checks and balanc...

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Checks and balances. Systems in place to prevent abuse by vindictive mental health professionals. Is there really a rash of vindictive professionals running amok? Is this really a reasonable concern, or an irrational fear? Do you play poker? One of the important factors in poker is understanding yo...

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I merely meant you were focusing on a what-if that had essentially negligible possibility of occurring in comparison to another scenario that's also actually quite low-probability. People were talking about "mass shootings" -- which have killed a few hundred people in the US this year. We...

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I think you are both missing the boat, while raising valid points. Yes, the idea of mental health component to the screening process has to be thought through, and CANNOT be slap-dashed onto current law And since that's what we've been discussing, I don't know why I'm missing the boat. You can't ex...

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Lothar wrote:nice of you all to address my thoughtful post

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But to dismiss any reasonable background checks based on the unlikely chance of malpractice, when the assessee and assessor don't see each other is quite unrealistic I'm not dismissing reasonable background checks. I'm suggesting that including mental health assessments in background checks require...

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nice of you all to address my thoughtful post

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What the video game scenario shows is that privilege can take many forms. You can start with better gear or boosted stats, which makes it easier to get more better gear, which pretty much puts you ahead of the curve for the whole game -- there's no presumption of an equal start point. There's also n...

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http://markmanson.net/school-shootings

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The only explanation of "privilege" I've ever heard that wasn't cringe-worthy was someone talking about how it's like playing a video game on different difficulty settings. Playing as "white" gives you fewer random encounters with police, and most of the outcomes of those encoun...

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The only explanation of "privilege" I've ever heard that wasn't cringe-worthy was someone talking about how it's like playing a video game on different difficulty settings. Playing as "white" gives you fewer random encounters with police, and most of the outcomes of those encount...

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And there have never been bigots in any of those professions. wait a minute.....your whole defense to your rationale boils down to some kind of paranoia about health professionals? That's nowhere close to the most charitable interpretation of what I said. You're looking to criticize too quickly, wi...

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Oh, and for what it's worth, I absolutely take mental health seriously. I have a special needs child. I have family members who have suffered from all sorts of mental health disorders. Suggesting that I think mental health diagnoses are "completely subjective" is way, way off. But there is...

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The issue isn't that we can't recognize problems. It's that as soon as you let people judge others' worthiness , you introduce the possibility not just of outright bigotry, but of implicit systemic bias. we're talking about mental health professionals, doctors, specialists, giving the diagnoses. An...

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The same could be said for literacy . nope. not even close. Exactly. The. Same. The issue isn't that we can't recognize problems. It's that as soon as you let people judge others' worthiness , you introduce the possibility not just of outright bigotry, but of implicit systemic bias. I'm sure we can...

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Ferno wrote:mental health criteria is about as subjective as gravity.

The same could be said for literacy.

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if you allow subjective criteria like "mental health evaluation" to be used in order to deny someone important rights, there's high potential for abuse. It wasn't until 1970 that the US finally stopped allowing " voter literacy tests " that were designed to deny blacks the right ...

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That’s because all of the dissenters were scared to death to show up at the polls, I seen a good many interviews with these people. That's kind of what I'm implying. When's the last time you saw a legitimate vote that was over 90% in favor of one party or one position, in any country? You can occas...

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Avder wrote:So what kind of scope can we expect for the campaign?

Right now, there's a planned short (~12 level) mini-campaign. If the game sells to around $2m in revenue, there are plans for a bigger campaign with more epicness.

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sigma wrote:by a unanimous vote

If you meant "popular vote" (like, they voted more than 50%) say that. But if you meant "unanimous" (100%), that's a fake result. You never get 100% agreement on anything with more than just a handful of people voting.

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Only a very small minority of the population would ID their fellow man as targets. We have to figure out who those people are and make it far harder to obtain firearms and when a few of them obtain firearms, what do we do? Eventually it comes down to "we can shoot back" (not to mention, i...

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as I showed, it is extremely possible to actually turn the situation into a WORSE nightmare Yes. Nobody contests that. Of course it's possible to make things worse. Why don't we spend some time and money and find out the MOST effective way to curtail mass violence? We probably should. But people ke...

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what you fail to add is that most Americans are equally sick of the folks IGNORING background checks I addressed the majority of Americans wanting background checks right there in the post you quoted. you all better be the LOUDEST voices demanding strict background checks, waiting periods, mandator...

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