I mean, if you don’t like Turn based tactics games than it probably isn’t for you, but there is nothing better than when you get to the late game with a Colonel ranked sniper wielding a plasma rifle headshotting an enemy from across the map. Sooooooo satisfying. Plus the base building and research aspects of it are…

We aren’t fat enough to be worth eating. Orcas are very picky about what they eat to ensure they get the most calories that they can get. For example, often when orcas kill a whale, they will eat only a very small portion of it, such as the tongue, and leave the rest. They specifically target very fatty animals and…

Soooo...it sounds like in none of the accidents was the self driving car at fault. I fail to see how this is a problem. If anything, having lots of accidents where human drivers caused an accident with a self driving car is just convincing me even more that we need to get human drivers out of the driver seat...

How difficult/feasible would it be to completey replace the ECU with an aftermarket open source version? If their main issue is tinking with code that you are just “licensing” than can we just completely replace the code? Also, theoretically, since it’s the code that you technically don’t own, not the ECU it’self,…

So my question is, if they were able to do this in the 90s, what exactly have we achieved since then? I have to imagine that even if the current stuff being done isn’t the first, that it has improved in some way.

You must spend a lot of time on 4chan to know it so well....

I'm going to plug the Noom weight loss coach (for android and I assume iOS as well). It has a free trial and then a paid subscription after that (but it's like less than 30 bucks a year I think, they are pretty liberal with discounts). It has a calorie logger where you enter what you eat, and it has tips, excercises,…

Ding ding ding! Mosquitos kill about 1 million people a year. Of course you have to decide if it really counts as the mosquito killing since what actually does it is the malaria parasite that many mosquitos carry. An uninfected mosquito bite is pretty harmless.

You clearly haven't had beer in the US recently. Our craft beer industry makes the best beer in the world and is growing by double digits every year. Plus Coors. Miller, and Budweiser are all owned by European companies now.

I wonder how many of those kids parents have any idea what they are allowing their offspring to do. If, as a parent, you have made a reasoned decision to let your kids play FPS games online at what (from the voices) is clearly a young age, that's fine. But if you are doing it because you are too lazy/uninformed and…

I agree it will have challenges and probably won't happen anytime soon. But I honestly think that that will be safer than any of the current solutions for turn by turn nav, including having a mount above the dash (which is the best/closest alternative currently available). Needing to look down for directions takes…

Until they are projecting the turn by turn onto the windshield overlaying the actual road, circling exit signs you are supposed to be taking etc, I won't be that impressed.

I've been playing for a month or so now and it's pretty great. I am wondering whether I will stick with it when I reach the level cap though. Basically the only reason at that point is if you are involved with the community. They are a great bunch of people in my area but I'm not sure if it will be enough to keep me…

The mean bean machine is a horrible wannabe.

I was with you until you completely failed to mention bulbasaur. I was going to forgive giving charmander the best starter because I understand that some people need to go with the "ooh shiny fire" thing, but to give bulbasaur NO MENTION when even Ratata got a nod? That is just unacceptable.

Not just "can". Patrick has already said that is the plan. The current trilogy will not go beyond the present or into fixing it.

Number 10 is wrong. Patrick has already stated that he is writing a second trilogy that takes place after he finishes telling his past. He will fix the world then.

I thought about re-reading the entire series but man does it drag on in the middle there for a little while.

regulating the types of guns people own won't help anything. Unstable people who would do this kind of thing could do it with any weapon. Instead, make psych evals mandatory. Make classes on gun safety mandatory. Make ownership of a gun safe mandatory. And yes, my parents would be for every one of these measures. If…

and a lot of those guns are just plain fun to shoot at a shooting range. Some people (in the case of handguns I am willing to admit most) own them for protection, but a lot of people (like my parents) have them solely because they enjoy shooting. And there is nothing wrong with that.