This is probably TMI, but I tend to sleep naked and occasionally I'll get up and try to go straight into exercise mode without having clothed myself. Let's just say that sensitive testicles moving about of their own free will and fast moving legs are not a nice combination.

As a guy, beyond having to deal with the knowledge that everyone in the class would assume I am a super-creeper, all my shit would just really swing around and get in the way of me being able to focus on maintaining positions properly. In theory this seems better that normal yoga to me (because there is a certain…

*slow claps*

Anybody want to get a little point and click with it?

Aww man, it's all about shared/semi-shared consciousness though.

I'd argue that body and genetic modification are just as much a part of natural evolution as anything else. I'd also say that influence and control aren't the same thing. Our social systems, the mostly rapidly evolving elements of the human being, are far from our control even though nearly all of the factors that…

Deus Ex was always about worldwide conspiracy and the accumulation of power by a globally reaching elite. That was true in both the original and Invisible War.

"this feels a lot more like Deus Ex than Invisible War did."

The question is, would you be willing to go post-human? Say what you will about Deus Ex 2; the whole post human discussion was pretty sweet.

I keep trying to come up with something fitting to say in response to all of this, but I have failed to find anything better than pointing at the screen and looking horrified and confused.

But the Morlocks are from the future... THE FUTURE. Think of what it would mean for the future to be dominated by an underworld filled by Michelle Bachmanns. You had your joke but now I can't stop crying.

Fair enough. Though it could be argued that the secessionists started the war on the grounds that they were well aware that secession would lead to war (hence Jefferson Davis initially being against it).

I don't know any Irish people who, if they saw a British flag hanging from a wall/window/etc. would fear for their lives.

There is certain truth to what you are saying. The Union's primary interest in the war was to maintain itself, but the original purpose for secession, as stated by Jefferson Davis was protection of slavery. The whole "states' rights" wording doesn't even appear until near the end of the war. So it is very true that…

The Civil War actually was fought over slavery. Early in the conflict, Jefferson Davis spoke publicly saying that the Confederacy would secede to protect their right to own slaves. Later in the conflict, Jefferson Davis re-cast this into the "states' rights" terminology, but slavery was always at the forefront of…

I have always had severe inconvenience using EA's online services. I don't think I have ever had a problem with updates through Steam. This is a sad cover for EA trying to leverage its power to make Origin viable.

"the Union Jack has FAR greater negative connotations associated with it"

The work of the south has largely gone into producing raw materials which take similar amounts of work as manufactured goods but are worth far less. This does not change the fact that there are those at the top of the economic food chain who are still able to profit greatly from it.

One negative facet? A flag created for a movement to defend slavery and then used for a hundred years as a symbol of racial terror only has one negative facet? You've got to be pulling my chain.

Massive destruction from going to war is not the same thing as your end slavery>economic collapse>anarchy argument. The end of slavery is not the reason that the south is poor and blacks continue to be in a disenfranchised economic position. The south was and is poor because it has always been at the exploited…