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Drakona

Heh, if we're posting comic strips, can't forget Penny Arcade.

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Wow, that was short. I feel like there ought to be lots more to do, still. I think the turrets were the best part. Every single thing they say cracks me up. Did you finish all the bonus maps too? Oooh. No, I hadn't noticed those. Most of the advanced rooms aren't too bad, but the challenges get cra...

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Wow, that was short. I feel like there ought to be lots more to do, still.

I think the turrets were the best part. Every single thing they say cracks me up.

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Oh wow. Those names bring back some memories. The faces on some of those folks look nothing like I imagine, though. I'm not sure what I was imagining--it's not like I haven't seen pics before, it's just . . . you get know people so much by their font, color, and personality. I'm surprised on some su...

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I need the opposite. I weigh 103 and want to know how I can ADD weight. No matter how much I eat, I weigh the same. Get married. ;) Seriously. It works. You will go from, "I have thirds of ice cream all the time and am unhealthily skinny" to "I'm not sure I should eat two slices of p...

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Lothar wrote:I'm not Tyranny, but I remember you. I remember a little LAN at your house, even.

You even met my wife back before she was my wife.

I definitely remember that. That was my first game of multiplayer DOOM2.

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Hey, don't look at me. Duper started it.

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Seemingly everyone had stories of what they saw as super-natural events. But I still remember as a younger person, realizing that in the majority of those stories, the miracle wasn't something unexplainable... the miracle was that someone acted in a way that went against the norm and followed the e...

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Heh. You know what the funny thing is? I noticed that before I posted. I thought to myself, \"Heh, that's a funny turn of phrase. No matter.\" Of course, I've been hanging out exclusively with adults for the past couple years. I forgot that on the DBB people don't quietly smirk at your acc...

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On the contrary, faith is remembering what you know, even when it isn't right in front of you. Its opposite is not reason, but forgetfulness. It's funny to me how many folks proclaim they'd believe if they saw a miracle--just one! It's easy to say that whey you haven't seen one; you'd be surprised h...

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I played all the way through D1 on insane a long time ago. Like, a decade ago. Almost half my lifetime ago. I went on a run after than in which I tried to play through without losing a life, but I got bored with that around level 8. It encourages sniping and safe play, and safe play is dull . I also...

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Drakona.... I would not vote for you because IMO your ideology reveals a kind of place I don't want this to be. Never mind your real views on homosexuality but to allow freedom, at the cost of widespread racism, is disturbing and that alone causes society to be self destructive. That's okay. Your v...

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[Continued response to Roid] Early on you say that Homosexuality is wrong and you think truth will win in the end. Then later on you say it's good that Society is on the path to allow more and more Homosexuality. The only way these 2 points go together is that you are betting that more and more homo...

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Roid - I believe you misread me, so I shall line-by-line you with yeas and nays. We'll see if that helps. So you yearn for the good ol days when most people hated homosexuality (the act, lol) just like you. Upon careful consideration, I give this a "nay". There is no historical time I can ...

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Jeff - I had to think about your post for several minutes. At first glance, it seems like a really good argument. If I'm saying challenges are good, and people need to learn to overcome them without help, then more challenges should be better! How about all challenges all the time--tyranny, anarchy,...

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Drakona: Everyone has midterms they fail, everyone gets stuck in traffic on a day they can't miss work, everyone experiences a market downswing at just the right time to collapse their business. You live amongst that most privileged of classes. Those with intelligence. There are millions of people ...

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The Article wrote:And French parents must choose from an approved list. The laws are designed to prevent teasing.

Wow. France has laws designed to control playground teasing. I did not think it was possible to enhance my perception of the French as weenies.

I was wrong.

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Why do you feel that the person who starts off poor should have to work much harder than the person who starts off rich to reach the same position, keeping in mind that they start off poor or rich because they were artificially held down low or up high right at the beginning? I believe this, so I'l...

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What you're asking, in the original post, is really two questions: do I agree with those old values, and do I wish society embodied them? Here's what you listed: The role of women in society was incredibly limited. I like the way things are now. Nothing destructive seems to have happened, and a lot ...

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Awww. Thanks for thinking of me.

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I got very predictable results: The \"hit\" about omniscience extending to illogical things, and the \"bitten bullet\" about evolution. The first I might have expected from a philosophy website, and I very much disagree with it. I usually answer 'yes' to the question 'Can God do ...

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Birds, Palz, Mercury - since you all asked - here's my fuller opinion on 'systems winding up', and why I find the idea of evolution so implausible. ------- A 'system', in the sense I meant it above, is an integrated set of pieces functioning together to accomplish something none of the individual pi...

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In case your asking Lothar indicates an interest, I'll include my view too. It's pretty simple though: I haven't yet encountered a theory of origins well enough supported to persuade me that it's correct. I was raised a young-earth creationist, but discarded that view very quickly when I first start...

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How does reason interact with religion? I've seen two opinions on this - one that says it doesn't, and one that says it does. Some people say that reason and religion occupy separate spheres: reason deals with the natural and objective, while religion deals with the supernatural and subjective. Scie...

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I guess since I'm highly skeptical of the existance of god I just assumed any historical proof has been exagerated and wasn't nearly as absolute as would be a real live apeearance of a supreme being as laid out in the hypothetical example I was going on about. Yeah. I realize that. I know the evide...

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[Edit: You could even consider the history of this forum. Politically speaking, it began dominated by one viewpoint and eventually became dominated by the other. What did people say, that in light of the fact that years of public discourse seemed to sway opinions to one side, that side had won? No,...

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Off topic, but... I think you give folks too much credit, Will Robinson. The human capacity for self-delusion is limitless, even when people witness something with their own eyes. History testifies to many great philosophers and scientists who were slain or mocked, even though their ideas were self-...

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Glee!

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I don't see how this would encourage underage sex when there's still dangerous and incurable diseases like HIV, hepatitis C and herpes*. Because you'll have to explain to your 6th grader what the vaccine is for and what it prevents.. Americans have the wierdest moral standard towards sex I've come ...

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snoopy wrote:My question is this: do you think they regret having done it?

No. But only because they're stupid, and think they'll win.

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I'm 24. I've been playing since my 13th birthday, I think. Or maybe my 14th. It's been a long time, I don't remember. My dad had bought me D1 for my birthday. I didn't know what it was, and was disappointed because I'd asked for a C compiler. I was lucky. The Descent community in the D2 glory days i...

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Wow, roid. That site title doesn't lie.

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"After every "victory" you have more enemies" -J. Winterson This is an amusing quote because of its application. You hear this said a lot about the islamikazis, but it isn't true: they're already as angry as they can get, already fighting with every resource available to them. I...

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Your initial post makes a lot of very tall, very unlikely claims, Roid. It seems to me that nobody in the government has the power to do exactly what they want to do. I mean, look at all the various politicans trying to accomplish welfare and welfare reform and raising taxes and lowering taxes and o...

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I'm glad about the whole thing. I kinda like Pluto, but I like consistent definitions a lot more. It's Progress. To heck with tradition.

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I'm with Topher and Snoopy. This is pretty old. I played with one of those things in a science museum once. They had a knob to adjust the frequency of the light. It was kinda cool, playing with the persistance of vision effects, but... meh. Though I like the whole sticking a spoon in it thing. I'll ...

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You seem to not realize that the terrorists would eventually get wise to this and use people who are not islamic, or at least, not obviously islamic. First, all security measures are possible to defeat by a sufficiently determined enemy. And, conversely, any given enemy can be frustrated by a suffi...

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A fellow engineer told me that chickens can be efficiently shipped in chick format - they pack 'em in just as densely as they were seen in that video. It was a pathological heat dissipation problem for a particular airplane.

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Well, going off the top of my head, Prince William was born on June 21, 1982. I don't know this because I have an interest in royalty (I don't), but because my mom thought it was important, and saved various magazines mentioning him during my childhood. More interesting to me -- and something I've a...

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The thing I dont' understand about monogamy is how do you know if the shoe will fit if you don't try it on first? Wouldn't you at least like to know? Well, if your sexual tastes are defined by experience, then the very act of monogamy causes the shoe to fit. And having trouble finding shoes that fi...

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