If the Pres or the Dept of Ed had anything to do with this, all the states would have the same standards. This is the result of individual states setting their own levels of scientific rigor for their standards. So this isn't the fault of Obama or Bush or Clinton. If anything, you can only blame current and past…

That actually sounds kind of interesting. Play a character class that has no or very low combat skills and must rely on other talents to further their agenda.

Our loss of non-existent friendship saddens me to the point of breaking. But maybe, just maybe, since we been such good and long standing non-friends, I'll pick it up next time I'm in the book store.

Uh, who is Kvothe?

As a GL fan and middle/high school teacher, I know all about the John Stewart as THE Green Lantern misconception. It is fun, but rare to have the opportunity to give them more of the GL mythos and characters.

Uh, I don't think so. Gimping or Nerfing Superman would be something like Krytonite or Mister Mxyzptlk actually nerfing his abilities. None of the senarios that I set up have Supes being gimped. He's facing villains that can fight on his level and/or use his limitation against him. I too would not want to play a…

Mario: Lex puts Lois in a soundproof room. He uses other means, possible mundane investigative skills, to find her.

I think he's referring to the golden age Green Lantern, Alan Scott.

Yeah, I was really looking forward to the digital interface. Promise broken. :(

That police video sounds horrible. I haven't played the single player from COD or MW, but I have played Battlefield 3's single player. I know some people didn't care for it and over all kind of dragged at points.

Yes, to everything you've said. In particular, 'The problem isn't the labels blurring; it's that there aren't enough.' If only shorter versions of the labels you suggested could be adopted. Hardcore and Casual are less of a mouthful than Complex-Rules Gamers.

I've come to see Buddhism as a pearl of philosophy, with an unfortunate clam of a religion around it.

I going to have to finally sit down and finish that series.

Syncretism. My new word of the day. I'll have to find a way to torture my students with it.

Ah, Red Dwarf.

Agreed. Parallax has too many things going against it for use in the origin story. If he's handled right, then he's too god-like an opponent for a still very green Hal Jordan.

I think part of the flaw was that Hector Hammond was the sub-plot instead of the main plot. They had two villains, Hammond and Parallax, but spent most of their time developing Hammond. I think that's part of why Parallax failed as the main villain. And I thought they did a great job with Hammond, with no small…

Even as a Green Lantern fan, I can't agree with that. Cap's Movie was solid. GL was...just sad.

I can't take credit for the idea. I read Kim Robinson's Red Mars, the first in a trilogy about terraforming Mars. I think it was at the end of it that a faction of the Mar's population revolted against Earth control. So they 'broke' the elevator with a massive explosion. I have no idea of the physics on this, but…

Look how well that turned out.