Schismatrix

Based on all the extant evidence i suspect it's actually lodged in your frontal lobe. Common mistake.

*heh*
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Wait, are you serious?

Uhm... Republicans as a party are not socially liberal by any bizarre, contorted stretch of the imagination. Which is fine (for you) if you want it that way, but libertarians do tend to be somewhat socially liberal, and seem to generally hold their noses at the anything but liberal social policies in hopes that Republicans enacting fiscally conservative policies will somehow result in governments being shrunk to where they will be unable to enact the social policies. Didn't work during the last time Republicans had majorities in all three legislative branches (which was pretty recently even by goldfish standards), so i don't know why it will magically happen the next time.

Then again i think that the definitions of fiscally liberal and conservative in the US are sort of missing a much larger and more complex picture in order to keep peddling a false dichotomy. Basically i agree more with David Brin's take on it. Although not entirely.

Well, i live in an urban area of New England and at least eight of my close friends have and ride mountain bikes. As do i. Several of them have multiple bikes. Admittedly you'd rarely see them since they usually ride off road.

Still, the industrial revolution started well before electricity was commonly used, and i'd hope fifteen years would be enough time for some groups to get some industry switched over to non-electric power sources. It might be just a quirk of the sort of people i know, but i know quite a few people who are quite familiar with pre-electric technology and manufacturing, and between them all i could put together a robust machining facility and foundry using equipment old enough that the only electric was for motors that could easily enough be replaced with steam or water drive. Lathes, press brakes, drill presses, milling machines, and the like. This group also has things like basic industrial chemistry and gunsmithing equipment. Actually, the biggest initial problem would be securing enough supplies like saw blades and acetylene before being ready to produce our own, but then i doubt most people would think to hoard either. Probably the toughest initial proposition would be getting the foundry going. Now if we also made trips to some nearby machinery dealers selling old and "useless" industrial machinery, all within several hours by wagon, it gets a bit easier. A lot of my friends are maker types.

With preexisting stockpiles of refined parts and materials available it would be far easier than starting from scratch. The biggest issue would be dealing with interference from other people. Then again a slightly lower tech in some ways but otherwise functional society would make for a less interesting drama. Not to mention that such places would probably be very scattered and vulnerable to attacks from mobs of people eager to steal and break what they can't make themselves. *shrug*

And along came a...
Spellcheck and any sort of social graces or grasp of appropriateness optional. Discouraged even.

Your evidence mostly seems to be as convincing as the evidence that hemlines control the stock market while ignoring all the other factors out there affecting hemlines and markets both. You might as well pick some celebrity who died the same year the international financial crisis started and claim their death caused it. Did MA also cause the similar declines seen in many other MMOs at the time?

You do realize that many (or most) systems in the great majority of cars are mediated by the car's computers? In fact it's been that way for at least twenty years now. Even more so if the car has cruise control.
One example: Anti-lock brakes? Computer controlled.
Beyond driving vintage/antique cars there are few designs where computer glitches are not a possibility, even if they remain less likely than mechanical failures.

Um, yeah. This is even more incoherent and irrelevant than most of your posts. So... uh... good job? (Incidentally, "creator faced"=face of a god, or maybe Rick Dakan? Not clear what that meant, but a lot of your posting barely qualifies as English, so i guess it's par for the course.)

This pretty much encapsulates why the shutdown was so jarring and aggravating to me. This wasn't a cutting back on resources or other sorts of winding down common to properties performing below expectations that tends to happen. This was a game studio going full bore on expanding a long-running game with a major update nearly ready for release and a second project well under way being told with no warning at all that everything they'd been working on up to that day was terminated completely. Doing the day before a major US holiday was also really poor manners.

*huh*
Maybe you two ran into each other?
i've never had anyone try to RP any sort of sexual activity, and i've played on Virtue about half the time for years. That's even with occasionally stopping in Pocket D. Honestly, the most common RP activity i run into besides people chatting about general superhero stuff in character is "(("...
i've had more come-ons from players on other servers.
Some people have all the luck.

i know. Even worse, if you dry them out, pulverize them, and shape them into polyhedrons for easy transport you can't even make back the processing costs. (Ignoring the small segment that actually offer ridiculous sums for the powdered version. Freaks.) Star Trek lied to me!

To be fair, i should have been suspicious when they did it in an instant instead of requiring many hours. And that reconstituting thing that looked so easy in the episode? Still haven't gotten that to work yet.

Who?

This.
An even better surprise is that at certain locations it can drop you outside the normal Talos Island map boundaries. (unless it was fixed.)
...Haven't tried that one in a while, BRB.

Just tried it and it didn't work anymore. Oh well.

My older characters almost always started in Galaxy City. Somehow the Echo just isn't the same.

Okay in the "smile and nod while slowly backing away" sense.

Completely bat$#!+ crazy in the business sense.
Like the people who think that if a shop is paying someone $15/hour to work on a project they should only be charged $15/hour for the work; completely ignoring the other expenses required to keep a shop open at all.

Hmm...

That about sums it up.
<Burns>Excellent.</Burns>

It's g_b.

If this world was the world of Thomas the Tank Engine he would be a bus.

Honestly i've been trying out the current CO and it's not bad, but because i had an old Cryptic account it's been a PITA dealing with (im)Perfect World, so i'm currently unable to acquire a freeform character, and the very narrow selection of premades i've tried so far are uninspiring. i may grab a time card soon and see if i can get them to take that.

The art style is more Cartoon Network than Silver Age, which i find somewhat unappealing, and the first thing i was turn off the cel shading which does improve things a little bit, but my only real quibble so far is that i haven't been able to find a setting to invert the mouse y axis. Call it a legacy of too many flight sims, but i cannot get used to the default setup and the settings in general seem to have a lack of options and granularity for everything except graphics unless i'm overlooking something. The gameplay is fairly easy overall except for the y axis setup and my ingrained reflexes clashing.

No issues with the community, but that's because i haven't been using the chat so far since i'm focused on getting used to the gameplay aspects, so other than getting a duel challenge in the tutorial i haven't had any real interaction with other players.