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WTH, I'll jump in. Electric cars plug in, and yes, coal produces most of the power to plug into in the US... but the scale of the sources of 'plugging in' can be changed rather quickly once the infra is in place; setting up 150k safe hydrogen (an alternative path) stations is a bit more involved, for example. Other alternatives are equally problematic. Someone is currently developing a tech that may make power transmission 10-20x more efficient; this will make a difference for solar and nuclear sources... Oil is a bad energy source right now, so is natural gas, but it's the one with all the money behind it, and the infra, so we have little choice... for NOW.
Please Milady's, green tech may not be perfected, but it's a step on the right path. We may not be able to get to the goal if we wait YET ANOTHER 20 years to take another substntial step. I hope science beats politics in this race, though that is a tough goal, but maybe opening our eyes to the damage done by Fossil sources will help. -
Hmm. After reading some of the responses here, (some good, some bad), if I got my hands on it... and if I could muster the will to do what I currently consider the 'right thing', I think I would... destroy it.
The amount of bad stuff that could happen so far outweighs the amount of good, that I think we can't yet trust that kind of power to one person. (Not that it's completely godlike, but still).
Just one example of how it might be seen by others: imagine the threat people of differing cultures might feel if, for example, the USA got a hold of this tech. (I use differing here to mean, 'disagreeing with'.) If I were them, I think I might feel... threatened. And feeling threatened, well, Yoda said it: "Fear leads to anger... anger leads to hate... hate leads to suffering."
Superman, which is what people would think of the wearer of this suit as, (though Supes is much stronger), wouldn't really work in the real world - it would be hard to find someone willing to restrain their use of their superpowers to that extent, and a whole buncha problems would ensue the more it was used. -
20-33 on my fire/dark corr.
20-29 on my ice/ice blaster.
37(?)-50 on my WP/Fire Tank. Wheee!
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Aw, El, you should know by now, just because they didn't find any health issues doesn't mean there's nothing "wrong' with you.
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Quote:Hans, Hans, Hans!Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
yes but that's 6.2 million dollars they didn't have before (minus PayPal's cut of course)
and when your average income is $0.03 per hour, $6.2 mil is a lot. And will pay for 4 extra missiles to aim at the "enemy" -
Cpl things.
1) I for one welcome our new NK overlords. Even if they have apparently not yet discovered indoor heating for their advanced high-powered happiness-draining (look at that guy on the keyboard!) CRT-driven computrons. And thank His Eminence that he has gathered the top cutting edge minds on computer technology in the form of wizened old men who are obviously tech savy, taking notes on their as-yet unreleased beta-version iNotepads using their iPencils. Bleeding edge stuff people.
2) 6 million dollars? In two years? Well, hopefully they'll spend it on mac-and-cheese for their unhappy citizens (look at that guy on the keyboard again!) and not crazy money-making schemes they read about on the secret illicit wow-boards. -
Sorry I couldn't make practice last night, I should be there tonight no problem afaik.
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Quote:You keep using that word...Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
... and I'm a very casual player.
Hyperstrike beat me to it! /em shakefist!
Still, I made the linky
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Quote:Wait a second...Originally Posted by Rodion
Yes, in exactly the same way that 9 women can produce a baby in one month, instead of waiting nine whole months for one woman to do it.
I hadn't heard of this!
Is this the new BoT (Babies over Time) tech I've been hearing of?
Or is it like RoB (Rain of Babies), where they're not quite as big as the Standard Baby, but you can toss them out a lot more often? (apologies to Luminara and my beloved Archery powerset)
Are these Babymaking Superteams, and can one team take out Lusca all by itself? If so, how do they pick the Bomb? (apologies to the Rad superteams of yesteryear, of which I was a sometimes Bomb)
Ok, I'm out.
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I own several reptiles myself, the kind more people tend to dislike. My wife interacts with them a lot more than I do, but they are kinda fun to have.
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Quote:It just came to my mind, that all the 'problems on the earth' seem to come down to 2 things:Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
I'd rather man kind fix all problems on this Earth before venturing outwards, we might not be as welcome to leave this world as we may think, and yes.... I do know something.
Who 'owns' what,
and how we can get those things (the 'what') from one place to another.
Maybe if we were obsessed less with the former, and more innovative with the latter...
It does sadden me for the entire human race when someone repeats that tired chestnut. It's like a miner saying to his wife about their son, "Why bother to teach Jimmy to read? I never learned anything good from anything I read, so it's worthless. Give him a shovel and a pick, and he'll be fine."
OR we could give our next generation the tools with which to see further than the end of their own noses. As messed up as our generation (I'm ~40) is/was/has been, we are responsible for a few advances here and there.
I'm pretty sure, as much as I like to watch them play/etc., that people like Michael Jordan and Derek Jeter and Serena Williams and Brad Keselowski would freely admit that people should really check their scales when comparing their 'heroism' to the heroism of the people in NASA. Too bad the former, as great as they are in the American 'heroscape', are considered first when people ask kids who they look up to, rather than the latter.
I think having a frontier that a few Real heroes* venture into occasionally for the sole purpose of venturing there, to see what we see, and sometimes coming back with a surprise or 2, is worth what we spend on it. It's the Next Thing. And it's a thing for the Human Race, not just Americans - but as an American, I'd like to say we continue to be at the front of that journey, all due respect.
(IRL, Real Heroes include, among many others, all of our Military service personnel, and anyone willing to strap on 1.2 million pounds of high explosive in a tube and ride it into a vacuum in the name of Science. And the people who design that tube.) -
Quote:Wait... you have... Gingervitis!Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
I would like a server for only people with red hair. One of my characters often gets harassed because of the color of his hair, and it is very sensitive to me since I also happen to have red hair in real life. Everyone who sees my character is obviously aware of this, and that's why they choose to torment me.
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I'll bite (so to speak...)
One point:
Is it ok for me to look without the person in question finding out that I'm looking?
I would think the answer is generally no, because I didn't invade anyone's space.
Then, it's the 'discomfort caused by the looking', and not the 'looking' that is the issue.
Another point:
And 'looking' is generally not considered 'Neanderthal', right?
Just a few points I thought might merit consideration.
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Quote:Not that I'm trying to be argumentative or anything... (<.<.) but I believe your use of the word 'cartoons', a word sometimes used as derogatory of animated films, betrays a certain ... viewpoint.Originally Posted by Acemace
I'd remove the cartoons or even comprise their own separate list from the l/a films.
It's taken over 50 years of hard work for people to consider animated films like the "Toy Story" franchise with the same seriousness as Hi-tech effects films (which have themselves been demeaned for a long time) and they have often been relegated to 'also-ran' status in such considerations as the Oscars. (Sorry for the terrrible sentence.)
But to put them in a different category really misses the point. The Incredibles raised the bar for superhero movies in a way that even the Batman reboot films, as much as I like them, didn't. -
Quote:I do believe the way meaning 2 came about was by repeated misuse by people who lacked the very perspective of which we speak.Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
a·troc·i·ty/əˈträsitē/Noun
1. An extremely wicked or cruel act: "war atrocities".
2. A highly unpleasant or distasteful object: "the house was a split-level atrocity"
Nothing loaded about the word.
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Quote:All due respect Nal, but I think you might wanna 'simmah down' a bit throwin' that 'atrocity' word around. Pretty soon it'll lose all meaning, like we learned from a Very Special South Park episode.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Dude, it's as if Blizzard's Gorilla suddenly vomited all over the CoT, and my favorite superhero game. I'd rather see those pieces for the players. And yes, atrocity. Leave the iconic visuals of the CoT as the visuals of the CoT. We don't need spandex-y "look at my glorious ***" mages. We need creepy cultists and robes.
I'm not here to argue, so take your provocation and do something else with it.
And the perspective I'd like to have is one of a player getting to see changes before they're implemented, LONG before they're implemented. If someone hadn't caught this at Comic Con, it'd have gone to the Training Room and we'd have a last minute "DO NOT WANT" followed by a dev saying "too late."
It's a pretty extreme word to use repeatedly about a personal preference in a game. Some people feel they weren't great, in context. Others were 'meh'. Unless you birthed the CoT from your nascent man-womb after 14 hours of extended unmedicated labor, (which might actually make the word atrocity appropriate in perspective), I'm not sure that word applies. (also eew.)
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Quote:Who would do such a thing? Treat one's teammates like so much cannon fodder, use them in such a selfish and destructive way???Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
That's what I get for skimming
OK, then - "How soon do you want to turn your dead teammates into bombs, 26 or 35?"
Oh yeah, I do that...
And it's loads of fun!
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Quote:For making this concept public, i hate you for all time and in all dimensional realities.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
This is why I prefer to store inf as really low ball bids on expensive IOs
I keed.
But seriously.
No really, I keed.
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Quote:I think measuring on "I can't have everything that's new now, so it's bad" and comparing that as equal to, "I can have everything I had before, and there's more if I'm able" is a false comparison. You can still enjoy the solo game, but if you can't get the new stuff, would you accept that the old stuff is still there to be had?Originally Posted by Stardanno
Glah...
I used to love CoH because whether you solo'ed or teamed, it was fun and rewarding, even if you just jumped on for a few missions. Now, unless you can gather a large group and a significant chunk of time... not so much.
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Quote:I recommend this. Build for high recharge and melee softcap.Originally Posted by Seldom
Dark melee/Fire brute.
Two heals. Two endurance drains. Two buildup-ish powers. Two rare damage types, and fiery embrace is one of the few boosts that stacks with fury, and can put you over the damage cap. This is a click-heavy combo, but gives you many valuable tools, and the secondary helps make up for the primary's lack of AoE.
Run into clump - Blazing Aura gets their attention... Soul Drain/ (Alternate Dark Consumption and Consume)/Burn/Siphon Life/Midnight Grasp/Air Superiority/Smite/repeat until everything is dead, you're near 100% health/Fury is HIGH/Run to the next spawn.
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I think I can get behind this new strategy! Pain Dom to damage selves/Confuse/7 SD readygo!
(Yeah I know it's not really thought out. Its a joke ppl! )
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Quote:Well, first I'm kinda shocked that most ppl responding don't like it. But whatever, I love it and think it's brilliant.Originally Posted by SuperOz
It used to be an Australian show actually, where Wilfred wasn't the only dog that was a person in a dog suit....which meant you had a fun little subculture of dog life going on, and every human in the cast could talk to him too.
This one is as Elijah Wood put it, 'just like Harvey (the movie) except you can see him.'
S.
Since this probably won't matter to most of you anyway, I have a working theory about the show - I have a suspicion that not only is Wilfred a dog, but I think most, if not all, of the characters on the show are dogs. And that we're seeing everything as though we were dogs, and everythign is an anaolgue to a human experience. (for example, Ryan's 'house' is what a dog might experience another dog's doghouse to be, were they human... hard to express, hope I got it through there. Erm, 'smoking' is the feeling dogs get when doing that thing that dogs do that makes them happier than anything else; ie, basking on a sunny porch, or whatever it is for that dog, metaphorically expanded to a human experience.)
If anyone cares I can cite some more examples, and it's not a foolproof theory (there are holes in some significant places), but at least Elijah seem to have some specific examples of where he is acting as a dog would. -
SPOILERS
Loved it, particularly the Tone. The beginning shot really sets you up for, "This is BAD, people. This is not heroic swords and sorcery, this is grim getting-killed-by-random-artillery-shrapnel-warfare." The movie had me in the feel of a WW1 epic for most of it, which I found very appropriate, and I liked the choice.
And as for the offscreen deaths, I thought that was a good thing - showing more of the carnage of war and less of the heroism... we all know that Lupus and Tonks didn't go out with a whimper, and neither did anyone else, and that all that's left after a 'heroic' battle is the mourners who have lost those that they love, and to show them the way they did was both touching and infuriating.
But as in the book, Harry's anger seemed to be quashed by his realization his friends would keep dying, that Voldemort had no friends to lose, that more killing was NOT the answer, that it would just go on forever until they resolved his 'status'.
(BTW, The Bridge over the River Kwai reference was Brilliant!)
It fit as well as any story I've read to date. Kudos. -
Is anyone watching this show? Does anyone have any thoughts? I have some theories about the show, but if no one is watching, they'll be moot...
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Quote:It's not the extra minute. It's the fact that I didn't get to to 'that cool thing that my powers let me do to the good/bad guys' that ruffles my rhubarb. Gathering a nice clump to Soul Drain/Consume/Burn into charred hulks only to have them knocked away by some numhead who does 5% damage to them is like having someone &^*(( in my Cheerios.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Does that extra minute per mission that occurs because of some knockback really matter all that much? It's not like you're not still steamrolling through everything.
While I am still eating them.