Isn't annual XBL subscription roughly comparable to half a new game's cost? For people that buy a new one each few weeks that's hardly much. There's no point to it outside of multiplayer though.
not to mention PSN getting hacked, though I guess that's like a 1 time thing?
I wouldn't count on that. After all, Sony never learn from their mistakes. It's quite literally amazing how a technological giant with metric tons of money at their disposal falls prey to simpliest of hacks and still claims high security and similar bullshit.
PS: What makes one Iceland thread real and the other fake? Neither of these Iceland splits seems to be more relevant to the original question than the other.
Maybe you could try comparing? Especially considering this thread isn't relevant to anything whatsoever, other than itself maybe.
Slim models are robust enough. Actually my Falcon from 2008 (in use since 2010 though) has never shown any signs of problem either.
I bought it for a few shmups, and it was worth it.
So... why exactly are you guys (Fabian in particular) upset/amused by the topic being split? And what does the amount of replies have to do with anything?
What would you say if I postulate that aging (and death itself, in the form of phenoptosis) are mostly programmed organism behavior installed to facilitate evolution? There is a very interesting link between life expectancy, reproduction rate, and position in the food chain indeed.
The man has not released his methods. Of course they cannot be replicated (unless it is through sheer luck).
sonicpacker wrote:
His research is not being suppressed. However, his want to make his method public is. That is why he can still treat his own patients. Now I don't know about you, but considering he WANTS his method to be available to the public (and has been trying to do so for ~30 years), I don't believe he is in it for the money.
Uhh, excuse me? Did FDA cut off his tongue and fingers?
You should try to contact Blublu and schneelocke. IIRC they are both from Iceland, but they don't seem to be around anymore, so they probably won't notice this thread.
I'd rather say it's based on the lack of available evidence, and that's pretty much the reason it's pointless to argue it, especially with people like nfq who believe just about everything as long as you can justify it with words, no matter how batshit insane your justification is. I don't even know what you were trying to achieve, lol.
"Do you believe that fairies exist?"
"No."
"Would it at least be possible that they exist, but we simply haven't detected them?"
"I suppose."
"So do you believe they exist?"
"No."
There's nothing illogical in this argumentation. Conceding that something is possible doesn't mean you have to believe it exists, and there's nothing nonsensical there.
Right. Nonsensical is your argument with nfq where you specifically imply his belief is wrong, while neither you nor him can prove or disprove it in the first place. There can, however, be particular reasons justifying said beliefs. The only way to be right here is not to argue, science isn't (yet) involved here.
This was very hit-and-miss for me. Rounds that relied on high hit combos achieved by the same attacks and/or infinite juggling got old very quickly, as did fatalities made after "Shang Tsung wins!". Instead of those I'd like to see more fatalities from rare characters available in the Trilogy. Fast-paced rounds with high attack variety were, on the other hand, quite awesome.
Indeed, that is exactly my point. We don't know or we can't know doesn't really translate to it isn't so. Blind assumptions hurt scientific development in many ways.
This thread just has all sorts of awesome. I'll even bring up a really good article relevant to the subjects posed here.
mmbossman wrote:
In other, much more sad news, the collective intelligence of this forum has apparently been decreasing quite quickly within the past two years. Apparently logic and reason easily fall to emotion and ignorance.
That's because intelligent people (like yourself) post less, while the others post as usual. It's that simple! Don't draw conclusions from nfq and Kitsune in particular, they have a very long and known history by this point. I suggest not bothering with them.
Warp wrote:
You seem to give nature some kind of sentience and will, like it's a benevolent being who tries to protect and benefit us, as long as we obey nature. Nature/evolution does not "mean" to do anything. Nature is. It doesn't have sentience or will.
Actually there is no particular scientific reason nature (well, the universe or some smaller part of it: a galaxy, a star or a single planet) can't have developed a form of sentience. If you were a sentient microbe living among other sentient microbes on an average human, you would never be able to tell that your host is also sentient. It just is. But since it wouldn't care about you (or even be aware of your existence), you wouldn't have any strong evidence confirming its sentience. Likewise, as a human you also wouldn't be able to confirm or deny sentience in a microbe living somewhere on you. It just is! Having a vast difference in subjective perception of time (which is very strongly connected to total lifespan and physical size) would make any attempts at communication moot, anyway.
At the present science cannot say what exactly can and cannot be a prerequisite for developing sentience. However, considering that celestial bodies are the oldest, the largest, and very often in no way less complex than a living organism (both chemically and physically), it wouldn't be too far-fetched to have them among the prime candidates for sentience.
Sorcs get crowd control and delayed kills (to be able to farm exp without remaining in one spot) much quicker than most other classes, melee especially.
And since getting hit in a TAS is something that shouldn't happen anyway, she can safely ignore everything defense-related, vitality included, and focus on offense power and mana replenishment solely.
Before the confusion gets out of hand, /players n (where n=1 is normal conditions and n=8 is the maximum) is a command that emulates the presence of multiple players in a single-player game. It affects mainly enemy HP, experience gain, and drop probabilities (so you get way more/better loot that way). For characters that have attack power advantage in early game (like Sorceress) the 400% enemy HP is not a problem, while potential exp gain rate is borderline hysterical.
Well, seems like redoing from 1-6 was a good idea after all. However, it does worry me somewhat that after two years of work you're still near the beginning. I really hope we will all enjoy this TAS before the wheelchairs claim us. :)
Actually Portal 2 jokes were comparatively high-brow for a video game (although a bit lower than the first game, but that's probably the only thing that got any worse). It's generally not easy to find a high budget video game that isn't oriented towards the lowest common denominator.
Edit: Gah, I'm blind, you were talking about Postal 2. >_<
