@Helvetica: Haha, I recognized it, and it was all in good fun. I just figured I'd give Paul's counter-point.

@resvrgam: You don't get it. An argument is based on two sides presenting facts or compelling arguments so as to convince the other side that they are incorrect.

@KirbyMorph: Seriously. Remember how hard the Elder Scrolls games were? I expected the same from Oblivion, but I watched my friend play it, and there's a whole wiki detailing every quest, item location, everything! What's the point?

@resvrgam: I said your point was winnable, not your argument — another red herring argument by you.

@Michael Cody: Well, since the slug this launches is considerable larger than a .45 round, it would have more mass. It's uncertain whether it has more or less force than a .45. Since F=ma, and the coilgun shoots more mass but a .45 shoots with more acceleration, you can't say either way which one is more powerful.

@Helvetica: So are the Guildsmen's. Spice addiction does not a Fremen make.

@resvrgam: Exactly. It is related but not relevant. Obviously piracy contributes to the decline in PC gaming, but it has little to no bearing on whether or not Microsoft has adopted an active or passive stance on ridding the PC market of consumers.

@resvrgam: Your point about piracy is invalid, because it is a red herring argument.

@resvrgam: Maybe you didn't see what I said. That's a red herring argument.

@resvrgam: That's a red herring argument.

@Taggart6: Wait, whut? Link me to the appropriate Wikipedia article, please!

@dgkz0idberg: Except, under his protein-shake-enhanced blubber, he's got a thick coat of muscle.

Gosh, they've found every possible way to make money off of this game. I don't fault them — I think it's just amazing.

@resvrgam: Obviously it wasn't clear at all. And the Harrison Bergeron thing doesn't really make sense — they would have to be cutting the console market's competitiveness to equal that of the PC. But that's a digression — I'm arguing that your assertion is obviously not the case.

@MarkB: Well, science defines 'constant' as constant, not in intervals. That would be 'intermittent.' You're right that neither of us can know for sure. You know who can get pretty damn close? NASA.

@resvrgam: You're arguing something different now. You were saying before that Microsoft was purposely pushing the market towards consoles ("The ONLY reason people are developing shooters on consoles more is because of Microsoft's encouragement of killing the PC gaming markets"). Now you're saying that Microsoft has…

@MarkB: No, it would not look constant. (For one, your example isn't accurate because the gases are not always the same gases and they are not distributed in the same way, but I'll roll with it.) Take your example. The bullet would slow down only when it hit a bubble. These bubbles are not evenly spaced. If they took…

@SurprisedFace: I hear RL is optimized completely. But you have to buy something called "glasses" if your video card isn't good enough.

@resvrgam: "Market maneuvering" is synonymous with "self-competition" in this situation. The only way to influence consumers in our economy is with prices and market changes. Thus, to force consumers into another market, they would have to make the other one a less rational option. How would they do that? Having a…

@MarkB: Gas pockets do not have the same density, distance between them, or diameter. Therefore they could not cause uniform slowdowns that would look like a constant slowdown.