Yes, that's exactly right. But it seems like there's a bit of a divide between the natural sciences and social sciences in that regard. People are quick to accept the truth of "hard" scientific facts like the terminal velocity of an apple, or the period of a pendulum being the same no matter the amplitude.

I mean, how do you actually carry on a debate about social science issues where no surveys have been conducted and everyone's conclusions are based entirely on conjecture? How can you cite sources if there are no sources because the necessary research simply hasn't been done? How can anyone come to any agreement on…

I think people these days, in their hyper-connected SIGNAL BOOST internet-based culture, think it's perfectly fine to sling mud at people on a recurring basis. At some point, you really have to consider the matter settled instead of making it your personal mission to remind others of someone's poor reputation at every…

What's even worse is when people completely refuse to debate the central point and sidestep the issue entirely, cherry-picking the parts of your posts that they can refute. Or when they ask for "evidence" and "sources" for something that is entirely speculative.

To "put the fear of god into" someone is a figure of speech. Holy crap. Did the literacy level drop across the board or something? Is English your first language? Not to be rude or anything, but good grief. Was everyone on the internet this utterly incapable of registering sarcasm ten years ago? I think not.

This is absolutely mental. I mean, I live in Washington and I've met Marty before. It was the best day of my life. I do a little amateur composing work myself and this guy is my idol. He's been with Bungie for over twenty years, and they couldn't have just let him stay on long enough to retire? What the hell? This is…

Joke's on you. I'm an atheist.

Two years later, and everyone's sarcasm meter is broken. And I thought the Machiavelli comment was a dead giveaway, too.

It does seem a little threadbare in places, but I've got this one co-op partner with a Buzzard that I play contact missions with, and we basically blitz through all the tough ones on Hard in about five to eight minutes with just the two of us. He provides close air support and aerial transport, and I sweep and clean…

It's an MMO. It requires server infrastructure and professional administration. What Sega is too embarrassed to admit is that even if they had a translated version on hand, they don't have enough money to support a western release, which would merely parasitize the profits from their Asian operations.

This is exactly what will happen. If reports have penalties, griefers will give them to rule-abiding players en masse to purposely invoke these effects. Hell, even beating them might not be necessary. They could report anyone, anywhere, whenever they felt like it. You could be in the same session of GTA Online with…

The Phantom Ray is just a straight delta, but the flying wing in the grainy photo looks like it has a cranked delta. Notice how the leading edge straightens out midway back, towards the wingtips. This is a never-before-seen aircraft.

The Titan is a high-end gaming card. Nvidia's workstation cards are their Quadro line. My current rig has a Core i7-2600k, 16 GB of RAM, a Sabertooth Z77 mobo, an EVGA GTX 670 FTW and a boot SSD, and it cost me about $1800 for the parts when I put it together year before last. I've been thinking about upgrading by…

I've had a lot of interesting moments already.

The last time I had a bounty on me, I grabbed a whirlybird and posted up on top of a skyscraper with a heavy sniper, shooting people out of the cockpits of their helicopters as they approached. Hell, I've even shot someone off their motorcycle from the top of the Maze Bank tower all the way to the driveway of Los…

I've had plenty of uplifting moments in GTA Online. While I was out swimming by the beach, one of my fellow crew members came up to me on a watercraft, and we went up the coast on a cruise to all the diving spots with undersea wrecks and the like, eventually grabbing a couple submersibles to explore deeper. Someone…

Things I hate about GTA Online:

I never even played Duke Nukem Forever or Aliens: Colonial Marines. I was having too much fun playing Borderlands to give a shit.

There are a crapload of 12-year-olds playing GTA:O. There was this one kid I ran into who has to be the most talkative person on Earth. From the things he's told me while we grinded Rooftop Rumble about fifty times, he:

On the one hand, I like it how she really stuck it to him. He really picked the wrong person to get a freakin' high school crush on, that's for sure.