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Quote:Nah.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
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Quote:Pure science is never a wasted investment. You never know what might turn out from something seemingly frivolous.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Whose talking about confirmation bias. I'm just facetiously poking fun at the types of some incredibly stupid studies that are being done.
For example the US gov has spent
$492,000 to determine whether or not tweets can be trusted
$168,766 to study monkeys as they throw poop at each other
$700,000 to study cow burps for methane emissions
$216,000 to study why politicians make vague statements
$442,340 studying male prostitutes in Vietnam
$3 million to study World of Warcraft
$175,587 to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior
$500 million on a program that will, among other things, seek to solve the problem of 5-year-old children that "can't sit still" in a kindergarten classroom
$30 million on a program that was designed to help Pakistani farmers produce more mangos
$239,100 to study how Americans use the Internet to find love
$400,000 to find out why gay men in Argentina engage in risky sexual behavior when they are drunk
$800,000 in "stimulus funds" to study the impact of a "genital-washing program" on men in South Africa
And these are just some wierd studies funded by the government. Who knows what wierd things are going on in the public sector.
When I was in college, Senator Proxmire ridiculed everything scientific, including NASA. One study he mocked was that of screwfly mating habits. Turns out that study has saved the US cattle industry more than $20 billion (with a B) to date. A much-derided study on dog urine led directly to treatments for diabetes, something that no one predicted at the time.
So mock all you like, the people who fund these things are smarter than that and they know the payoffs for such tiny investments could be gargantuan. Sure, they don't all pan out, but that's science, brother! You have to seek in order to find! -
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8 Ball, come on. Don't do that.
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That's a cool tie-in to get kids interested in science. Marvel used to do that with English back in the day, by throwing in one big word per issue that helped me stretch my vocabulary.
Although the one small problem I have with "finding" Krypton is that it exploded. Shouldn't they be finding a debris field? -
Gotta say, I did not see that coming. I agree with what they said during Talking Dead: it felt like a season finale rather than the 4th episode of the season. Still six more this season! Time to conflagrate!
Taking their time to set up the Governor as an epic villain against Rick's Badass Hero means a potentially big finale. I have the comics but haven't read them yet, and although I know they aren't following the book exactly, I suspect there are broad strokes of the plot they're echoing. -
Quote:LolliBOP!Originally Posted by Interface
I always wanted to create a Mace character named Herbie Popnecker, but this thread inspired me to reach for the stars...
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I really enjoyed this 5-part series, the last one uploaded this past Friday. Master Chief is played by the same actor who played Colossus in the X-Men movies.
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I don't know why people get upset that changes have been made to comics in order to streamline the story for movies. That always puzzles me. I mean, I get that someone might have made different choices, but that streamlining needs to be done.
The problem with the X-Men movies is that there is no internal consistency among them. Which really just underscores the brilliance of what Marvel is doing by gathering a braintrust of its top creators in the same room and hashing out an overall arc for all their movies to comply with. (Which is something that has never been done before in cinema, amazingly enough.)
I'm not a huge fan of the X-Men films, although I do like X2 despite the fact there's an awful lot going on. Kind of feels like stuffing 8 pounds into a 5-pound sack. Continuity-wise, they most resemble the Alien and Predator movies to me where each creative team brings their own sensibility to the tale, but those ideas just clash with everything else. I kind of suspect Days of Future Past will come across the way Prometheus did.
I know one thing for sure, though: zere vill be Nazis!
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It suddenly occurs to me that setting the clocks back tonight (in the US) will make it confusing come morning. Fortunately, I'm going to bed hours earlier than usual.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Rodion
And in the long run, I don't think it's really worth it: I find that I just skip through the audio with space bar anyway to speed things up (especially when I've already run the same mission four times with alts).
Spoken dialog a cute idea, and it's fun for a while. But I don't see how it can be sustained cost effectively for 50 levels over hundreds of missions for five different character classes, which all require different variations for their particular circumstances. It's an interesting programming problem, but in the long run it just seems like a maintenance nightmare.I agree about the spoken dialogue. That slowdown effect was my big fear going in to the game and it played out pretty much as I had dreaded. The problem with actors is that they want to emote, but I can read 3 or 4 times faster than they can speak. I would've been on my way already.Quote:Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I agree the quality of the voice acting is great, there's just too much of it. I don't need cutscenes for every single bloody contact. Using it in the main story arc is fine, but having to go thu it with every tom, dick, and harry is too much. Just give me the damn mission.
TSW's might seem a little long but they only use it for the main story arc.
Yeah, I call that BioWare's "thesaurus problem." Some parts of the Mass Effect games in particular suffer from that, too. They try so hard to not exactly replicate the dialogue they often go astray and you think you're clicking something different from what you're actually choosing.Quote:And my personal pet peeve. If you are going to make a player choose what his character says by offering 3 written choices, then it gorram better match what the voice actor says. It really bugs the hell out of me when the voice acting says something completely different than what I selected for him to say.
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Yeah, I've been running Crimson's missions, but I can't get them to combine. I don't care about the badge, I just want to do it for the yuks and the demorecord. It's such a cool feature of the game.
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Wow, what a lot of work for an incredibly dull and pointless scene. Raise your hand if you thought either of the main characters were in any danger whatsoever.
It's like they watched Galaxy Quest, saw the Chompers sequence and went, "God, that's brilliant!" Completely missing the point of the joke. "Well, this episode was badly written!" Amen sister. -
That's very cool.
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I got the badge with my first Blaster, but that was back in '05. I can't find any info on how to do it any more, though. I restarted the mission a couple times to no avail.
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