It didn't have to run that way though, so it's by no means a solution. Slaves were well fed by the state, because they were merely tools for the state, and slaves no doubt kept with the program because, well, how else are they going to feed themselves since everything came from the state. It's the ultimate form of…

Alright, so the Inca civilization functioned more like a bee hive than a market based civilization, everything was the empire and nothing for the individual. Sounds pretty shitty to me, especially since it seemed to doom every person to the state to get their bread and water. Not to mention, such a centrally…

I don't think so. It's used as the game central mechanic, because the premise of the game is that the party is running against time to defy fate and save their world from destruction. It doesn't make sense that in such a situation you could have the opportunity to all of a sudden stop and take on side-quest. Remember…

I wasn't really laughing until the Rick Santorum is Siri bit. Classic! Though technically all of them kinda of do that, Santorum is just really weird about it, and lets face it is rather two dimensional.

The basic forumla doesn't have to change for the franchise to move forward: Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword are as you say, a dungeon crawler, utilizing different weapons, but they all play very differently, because the execution is different. Even on handheld, where the differences aren't as striking…

Mario, Zelda, and even Metroid, I'll give those: they change, for the better usually, and try new things. It's a different story altogether though with the Pokemon franchise. You more or else are still playing the same game from '95, just with updated graphics and a larger roster of monsters to collect, the story…

It's likely to be the expansion for Black and White. If Nintendo wants this information out there to entice people to purchase a 3DS, when so far a DS will do just fine, it will likely be something that they know will sell and sell big, which probably isn't going to be a just a spinoff.

I plan on buying the Vita, it's not likely that it will be leaving my apartment much, so many of the social functions probably won't be taken advantage of, which sucks, I guess, but then again right now there aren't many social gaming engagements I attend so I don't think I will miss much anyway

Neil deGrasse Tyson was having a conversation with Richard Dawkins and this issue of whether or not we are intelligent came up. They rightly pointed out that us calling ourselves intelligent is really relative to what we are comparing ourselves to. To the rest of the animals species on Earth an adult human is pretty…

I don't doubt that the Japanese are killing the whales simply because it is a luxury good and they don't give a shit; however, does that matter? It's a stupid practice, and I get that the whales do not have very sustainable population numbers, but that doesn't mean that potentially killing the guys working on the…

Flying cars are one of those futuristic innovations that never really made sensed to me. Sure, the concept seems cool, but the closer you got to an actual blueprint, and the closer you got to seeing what practical use would be like after that made the whole premise really ridiculous.

I get what you are saying, and when I wrote that above I didn't think about the rovers or satellites that we've just left behind, so I guess that does give some credence to the suggestion that relics of alien visits might just be stranded on the moon. However, I don't think left behind junk should really be the go to…

I'm not saying that we're the only reason the Earth is interesting, we have whole fields of study dedicated to studying non-human things, so obviously we can think of something else interesting about this planet than us. However, this entry was about the possibility of a probe on the Moon, observing the planet; and I…

Okay, I'll give, that sentence was going a bit too far. I should have confined it to intelligent life. My larger point being, randomly sending probes unless you have some assurance that you will bump into something seems like a waste of resources, even if you live in a post-sanctity civilization just wasting stuff…

I agree, it would be dirt cheap for them and technologically very easy, which brings up the issue of why would a civilization so advanced bother with a civilization that isn't. The situation moves from one where it is technologically burdensome to pursue the search for extraterrestrial life, to one where isn't really…

"It's too bad they don't have Predators carrying torpedeos or some AGM-65 Mavericks." Really!? The Japanese whalers might be committing a crime whaling in waters they shouldn't be in; however, they are still people. Jesus, Jesus, are you suggesting that their ship should destroyed, potentially put the lives of many…

Why would they have sent probes here of all places? Unless these alien civilizations have mastered economics and have currency to burn, why would they just randomly shoot probes around the universe. And I say randomly because prior to just over 100 years of human history on earth, when we first developed the use of…

Okay, we know that Fang and Vanille are still in Cocoon floating around, but what about Sazh? It's kind of weird that he just left out. Based off his character I know he probably wouldn't want anything to do with them, but seeing as if he was just part of the gang it seems weird to just forget about him.

The success of this really all depends on what the Apple TV will be. If it's just the current box set in full fledge TV form it will be a waste, because as annoying as it is to misplace the remote it's not that big of a deal. Does anyone actually use half of the buttons on some of these new remotes.

Within the games themselves it talks about Mewtwo's creation in a laboratory in the Cinnabar mansion, and how to create Mewtwo they needed an extraction from Mew. So even within canon this game already is saying "whatever". Which is fine, it's a game, it's just annoying. The movie didn't change that.