Because the short and medium term profits that can be made with petroleum are HUGE. Like, billions … no, trillions of dollars. If you aren't a CEO of an energy company, or a major shareholder, or an employee? Well, maybe if you have learned to distrust policy makers in general, you could easily be convinced that…

Yeah, dammit Left, why can't you just come up with a bunch of simple answers to all of our problems already? Lazy "elites".

How many people are born every day? Could you get even a fraction of them into space, every day, forever? No. We aren't all "moving to another planet", not ever.

(answer: 360,000)

That reminds me, in The Stick Of Truth Al Gore assigned me a mission involving ManBearPig, and as I remember it that's where I died. Obviously death has no serious repercussions in games these days, but it still felt like I screwed up and I took a break and that was several years ago.

It's a fun game and I should play…

Newly relevant. A recommended read.

I still remember the thrill of unlocking that weapon and sneaking it behind lines with an invisible trooper. "Never know what hit 'em."

The first two times I played Left For Dead online, I got kicked for being a griefer. In reality, I just sucked.

Did the first StarCraft even have online multiplayer? If it did, I never tried it. Loved the solo game. LOVED it. I probably spent twice as long winning the human campaign as most people, but who cares? I had fun. Then, you got to be another race, I guess? I lost interest after just a few hours of that.

I pre-ordered…

I played a free shooter game put out by PETA, and everything you shot was a robot. I think. The mean farmer that was cutting the wool off of sheep with terrifying shears that worked like a threshing machine seemed to be human.

I haven't played a huge amount of Disney Infinity, but the first time I fought "The Hulk" it…

Having low gaming skills aptitude helps a lot, extending the playing life for most game out to literally infinity. I don't have a single platinum trophy, haven't "beaten" any AAA game, not ever. Sure, it's rare that I'll put more than 40 hours into a single game, but even then, I'll only be about 1/3 of the way…

I split ownership of a PS1 with two different friends, we exchanged every weekend or every other weekend. It actually worked out! I wound up buying them both out, eventually. Yes, I still own it (though I can't find my memory cards).

Playing Persona 4 was an eye-opening experience to see how much of life I might be missing out on by giving in to my social anxieties. I'm painfully shy around strangers and I don't ever talk to them and find it incredibly rude when I see other people do this. They either want your money, or to get you in bed, or…

There's an article called "The Surprising Cause of Most 'Spider Bites'" on the LiveScience site.

You didn't do the research. It's not spiders. It's not spider-looking things. It's chemicals. Or fleas. I guess fleas look sort-of like spiders, but no, it's not "bullshit biology". It's spiders getting the blame for things they didn't do. People wake up with the rash / bite marks and just automatically say, "a spider…

Humans actually DO eat humans. Spiders do not. This article is nonsense.

"Spider bites" aren't caused by spiders. Research it.

Wasn't The Dark Tower supposed to be several movies and also a TV series, with some stand-alone stories thrown in too? And now it's just one movie. Huh.

Maybe the stand-alone movies I'm thinking of are actually part of Star Wars.

Does this have something to do with that Giraffes? Giraffes! song, I Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Are Me And We Am I And I Are All Our Together: Our Collective Consciousness' Psychogenic Fugue?

Duran Duran

Their other options including getting hooked on heroin, beating plowshares into swords, or somehow convincing the army to let them enlist.