The Asian markets demand the ivory. No demand, no poachers. The problem is with the Asian markets.

38% of Kenyans live in absolute poverty. If I was struggling to feed myself and my family I don't know what I would capable of, honestly. I don't feel rage, just sadness.

Ugh. Every single thing I hear about this new game makes me want to play it less and less.

Well, if it happened in Japan, it might have made the newspaper.

Good thing Miyamoto is the ultimate Link, then.

This is one of those occasions where I think Freud was reaching for it more than a little. In his interpretation, his patient's concern led his mind to subconsciously suppress a word that (in Freud's interpretation) was very very tenuously connected to whatever was bothering him. A much simpler explanation would be…

So, TL;DR, vampires who get drunk off of drunk people's blood are lightweights who should be mocked mercilessly for it by their heavier-drinking non-undead peers.

FYI - the symptom of giving approximate answers is called "vorbeireden." As a neuropsychologist, it's one of those things you have to rule out in brain lesion patients as opposed to apperceptive agnosia, where they can describe an object, but be unable to name it.

I wish I could find the reference, but there's an unrelated conversation (with Tyrion, I think, or that could be the Perfumed Seneschal I'm thinking of) that mentions how "valonquar" is a root word that has a context of "little brother" in common, everyday usage or slang... but was more literally translated as "little …

I am just the same, my surgeon removed the wrong kidney and I was like "I can't criticise you, as I'm not a qualified surgeon".

Maybe they should have used a trampoline..

Do I? Let's see: I have a pretty good job (I'm a game programmer and also I'm a part time professor at a university, which I do pretty much for fun since I love teaching). I'm in a long term relationship with a beautiful girl who I think I'll marry soon, I'm in shape (I go to the Gym and I practice Kendo) and I'm also…

Of course, denying gay people the right to get married in a game about relationships and marriage is itself "social commentary."

One thing I hadn't known about measles before the recent outbreaks is how incredibly contagious it is; a person without immunity (through vaccination or through already having measles) who is exposed to the virus has a 90% chance of becoming sick themselves, and the virus can survive for 2 hours outside the human…

I heard '3D Action' in there!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the Metroid Prime games. Though I'm in my 30s the GameCube was my first console due to parents being against having any gaming console (or a TV that did anything besides play VHS on a Fri/Sat night for that matter) in the house, and I can say without a doubt that Prime was…

Since Alien is an obvious choice I got another one I will say. Digimon Tamers(3rd season of the show).