Yamato 2199 would make a great game in the same spirit of Skies of Arcadia. You can essentially mush Arcadia and Xenogeers together and you are off to a pretty good start.

Ah, I must have forgotten that. I guess that makes the case that there was a shortage that led up to the war.

Why do you think it was the last robe that they were fighting over? I can't remember anything else from the scene or stage that suggested they were at low on the resource. I saw it as two tribes, who use to work cooperatively, at war with each other, eventually splitting the robe and going their separate ways to…

I interpreted the story differently. The robes weren't discovered, but rather developed with the ancient magical energy of the people of that world. Their society flourished, but eventually ideological disputes within the society divided them, and they went to war with each other, eventually killing off everyone but a…

Why at all is this surprising? The majority of Americans identify as Christians, and the majority say they believe the story as written in the Bible, and the country is politically split down the middle—with there being slightly more Democrats than Republicans. So, the shock around the 41% should only be a surprise to…

Johto/Kanto Map for the win?

I don't know what Square is thinking, but I don't think the situation is as dire as you make it out to be. While a lot of fans hated XIII, for its stark deviation from the traditional mold, on its own merits it wasn't a bad game.

Yes, more or less. While the Earth doesn't have as many, because of our atmosphere and the fact that the tectonic plates move about recycling the surface, it is covered in craters that you can't see very obviously.

I had the exact opposite reaction to XIII-2. I felt the story was small and disjointed, and the game environment was tiny by comparison. All of the worlds of XIII-2 could have fit into Grand Pulse from XIII. The changes in battle where nice, but the monster collecting was either and you weren't really forced to…

I'm glad to hear that one of my favorite series are back. I've got my reservations about such a major change in the staffing, but who knows maybe it can be better. So long as it is a radical departure from what made GitS great, which was the realism of the story, the frankness of the characters, and the honest…

The kicker for me in Scientology is the e-meter. It's not like prayer or confession, where one believes something will come from it, it is a machine. If it does what they say it does, anyone should be able to pick it up and measure the engrams leaving the body. But if you have to believe it then it's not really doing…

You can't say that government should provide more services to socio-economically distressed women, but that in the meantime while we work on that the government should be able to force them to carry out their pregnancies. You first have to create a world where the idea of an optional abortion would never enter a…

They should copyright those images as some of them are really marvelous and they shouldn't let someone take credit for it.

The last sentence of this piece says it all. While I am with Harris that if the science says so, we just have to come to terms with it, either I just need to read up on this more or I fail to see how the science has shut the book on this issue.

For starters, opponents of abortion access are not "pro life", to be technical they are "pro birth"—which is weird because birth never needed an advocacy group. They most certainly aren't "pro-life", because as group their general positions on the compounding issues related to pregnancy, health, and raising a child…

Wait, what makes you think the human mind by nature likes to be "free" and alive. Despite being much more advanced than our early lives, we still have more or less a caveman's brain, which functions on basic instincts which it adapts, in many cases badly, to modern circumstances, i.e. investment banking. Our mind…

Our planet doesn't need a lung. Our planet is a dead rock in space. It was a dead rock before any life originated on it and it will be a dead rock when all life is gone either when its iron core stops spinning and its magnetic field disappears or when it is absorbed by the sun, whichever happens first. All life is…

The Times philosophy page a great bit about whether or not God needed to be all powerful to still be God. That is, would Christianity fall apart if God was all-loving but not all powerful. The writer argued that God didn't need to be all-powerful, which then allows for evil and everything works fine. Which I suppose…

What exactly has they human race done that is outside of its natural instincts, instincts which they developed like all animals through evolution. But perhaps more importantly, what gives you any indication that if we weren't here, another species wouldn't be doing the exact same thing.