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  1. Re:At the risk of sounding elitist... on Videogames Doomed for a 'Comics-like Ghetto'? · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is why the female fanbase of manga wants to ruin Death Note so badly.

  2. Re:Label maker. on Videogames Doomed for a 'Comics-like Ghetto'? · · Score: 1

    Further proving your point--people are perfectly willing to watch 2-hour movies with the same spandex-clad fighters as the failing comic books. Let me also note that it's quite hard to even find a lot of old issues--Warren Ellis compared it to the memory hole from 1984. Everybody, read this. It's important.
    And remember that Marvel Entertainment, Inc. is an American entertainment company formed from the merger of Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. and Toy Biz, Inc. (ref: Wikipedia) Guess where their profits are coming from now?

  3. Re:Not a chance on Videogames Doomed for a 'Comics-like Ghetto'? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Shakespeare was the Stephen King or maybe J. K. Rowling of his time. It's just that because he wrote plays his stinkers weren't distributed.

  4. Re:Excuses, excuses... on Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted · · Score: 1

    "I'm off to fight for that guy atheists worship*, but only in conventional warfare somewhere atheists are being oppressed and killed"?

    *Richard P. Feynman

  5. Re:Well, they are just students, after all. on Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted · · Score: 1

    It ended in 1877.

  6. Re:Well, they are just students, after all. on Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted · · Score: 1

    they declared their independence from the crown by writing a letter, You completely ignore that the Sons of Liberty at that point were constantly finding Loyalists and killing them by the method of tar and feather.
  7. Re:Islamofascists are the new Communists on Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted · · Score: 1

    America's founders did not do that... They tarred and feathered Loyalists. How is that not terrorism?
  8. Re:Well, they are just students, after all. on Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted · · Score: 1

    I don't think YouTube counts as seeing them. Did he see them in person? No? It doesn't count.

  9. Re:Precision, what? on Whatever Happened To The Joystick? · · Score: 1

    I remember when playing Halo on the XBox I couldn't hit a single person. I'm not very good but I can actually aim with a mouse.

  10. Re:Sounds safe on Laser Light Re-creates 'Black Holes' in the Lab · · Score: 1

    It really counterpoints the surreality of the underlying metaphor.

  11. Re:Just to be clear... on US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms · · Score: 1

    Incidentially, the electoral college.

  12. Re:Am I slow? on Laser Light Re-creates 'Black Holes' in the Lab · · Score: 1

    You'd have to compress a Planck mass into a Planck length to do that. And that is very hard to do.

  13. Re:So, what... on 'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes · · Score: 1
  14. Re:And the beat goes on. on US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms · · Score: 1

    My physics teacher, from Windsor, Ontario, has had pretty much the exact reverse of your experience.

  15. I think you were just trolled on Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted · · Score: 1

    Seriously. Only ESR and trolls actually use the term "Islamofascism" unironically. He then started talking about sexual stereotypes. As I said, only trolls use the term "Islamofascism" unironically.

  16. Re:"Win the nod"? on Microsoft Standing Firm On OOXML ISO Vote · · Score: 1

    However, ISO has the same idiotic notion as the UN that all countries are equal Got any better ideas? Population? Oh yeah, letting China and India take 1/3 of the votes is a great idea. Democracy? Well, first, you have to define democracy.
  17. Re:Bad Zoot! Naughty Zoot! on 3D Crystal Grown On a DNA Lattice · · Score: 2, Funny

    And thus, Galahad was saved from almost certain temptation.

  18. Re:Just to be clear... on US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms · · Score: 1

    The Seventeenth Amendment was passed because before it was the mafia-type families running the Senate.

  19. Re:Taxation without representation on US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Isn't that the guy who voted to block the Supreme Court from hearing 1st Amendment Cases? (Before you give me bullshit about the states let me remind you that many of the cases that gave people free speech were against states...)

  20. Re:And the beat goes on. on US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Walk from the US to Canada. Walk from Canada to the US. The borders of the United States are for all intents and purposes a police state.

  21. Re:protest? chance of stopping this? on US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, if you look at the history of the United States from George Washington to now, you'll notice that the media is much more free now than it ever was. It's just that the illusions have been shattered.

  22. Re:Kind of sad on An Older Demographic May Soon Dominate Gaming · · Score: 1

    The PC has the most diverse market and biggest back catalog of any game system to date and it always will. I can't wait until the developers finally realize that and all we have to do in the future is plug a laptop into an HDTV.

  23. Re:Graphic Superiority on An Older Demographic May Soon Dominate Gaming · · Score: 1

    Constantly I see games that are visually appealing receiving glowing reviews Constantly I see people bringing up this strawman, but not a single A-list FPS since Doom 3 has put graphics over gameplay/story. And that one was only successful because it was Doom.
  24. Re:Playability for the win! on An Older Demographic May Soon Dominate Gaming · · Score: 1

    Enough ultra-graphic-environment-Doom-clones Aside from Doom 3, are there actually any of these? (As opposed to the Wii games, all of which only exist so that you don't have awkward pauses in conversation)
  25. Re:Back to basics on An Older Demographic May Soon Dominate Gaming · · Score: 1

    However, there is a difference: Monopoly exists because people in the Depression wanted to pretend they had money. It continues to exist because of inertia and it's easy to theme. Settlers exists and continues to exist because it's fun.