http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/08-1448.pdf

I do not think anyone considers alcohol, automobiles or fireworks mediums for the expression of speech. Video games on the other hand are a mode of expressing speech and fall under first amendment protection. As such this bill is doomed to failure even if it manages to pass, in fact the supreme court has already ruled…

Personally I prefer the idea that as you advance in level the world does not advance with you (I mean I think I should expect my high-level mage to one-hit kill generic npcs). Sure it makes battles against many generic NPCs gradually less challenging but the game should then make up for this with more epic named NPCs…

As the little old lady said, "it's turtles all the way down!"

BTW, I should have edited out that last line of my first post, I didn't set out to attack religious belief but I sort of got carried away in noting how the reality of new scientific paradigms has made the once simple prohibition incomplete and archaic. I actually liked the Emerson quote once I read the rest of it, and…

Ok. Well. To start off the fun, you misused that Emerson quote by taking it out of context. The full quote deals with consistency across time, not consistency in a single moment. The difference is that consistency in a single moment means you don't believe that something is both true and false at the same time, while…

Heresy! She should be burned at the stake.

That is true. However, it is not the more significant effect. Far more important is the time it takes the signal to travel the optic nerve and be processed by the brain. This is an interesting article about it, which states that the time is about 80 milliseconds.…

You have great faith in humanity I see.

Precisely. Mr. Glass was a fanatic, willing to sacrifice anything and everything to succeed. Which he did.

I am playing devil's advocate. I am not actually the devil. Please take your complaints to the editors. Just so you know though, I pretty much agree with you that using "essence of humanity" to stretch this story into the science realm is a little far fetched. It would have been better had they focused on scientific…

While I cannot speak for the editors,

Brilliant.

You do realize this works both ways don't you? Gay children born to heterosexual parents should be taken away from their family and given to gay parents so they won't experience social pressure, right? Clearly your argument is flawed, and needs to be rethought.

Yes, but it would be meaningless from our perspective. What could we gain, should we do what the voice tells us or not. We cannot really understand god's motives, so we cannot really decide how to act, regardless of what we are told. Furthermore, if we could understand god's motives, then god is more like a powerful…

I didn't respond to your first post, but just so you know your post made me add it to my "to watch" list for the holidays.... so yeah, you are doing good.

How can a/the god speak to humans. Is god equal to super advanced alien, or is it something more fundamental. Either way the problem of how can a human speak to an ant arises. What could possibly be said. If god is not as or more advanced than humans are to ants then it does not deserve to be called god. But if it is,…

So many possibilities. Here are two that have great addictive potential and are a lot of fun.

Both brilliant, but I think you should add that they are a little on the dark side (for instance the opening of Elfenlied is kinda intense) which some people might not like for escapism.

What you've stated makes sense now, but probably won't make sense in the future. That is because we will likely go through a major paradigm shift, whether the singularity, transhumanism, extraterrestrial life, space exploration, or what have you the fact of the matter is a world government will likely make much more…