Remember they didn’t have a gun and weren’t experienced bushmen. Pearce, for example, went straight from Ireland to Van Dieman’s Land.

I was going to bring this guy up too! But you beat me to it... I think the part that weirds me out the most is the idea that he took Thomas Cox the second time specifically as a source of food.

I hate to bring this up, but doesn’t something have to be harvested and provide value to be a crop?

Yeah, my personal theory of how Homo sapiens beat out all the other human species was that they developed the concept of genocide first.

This was my question. Why are hexagons so (relatively) easy?

3) Bowgentle’s Fleeting Journey

Couldn’t there also be situations where you wanted someone out of the way without actually destroying them? I suppose if all you ever did was dungeon crawling there’s no point, but if there was any other part to a campaign it could be useful.

More to the point, I don’t see how their service addresses any of those issues.

There is a lot of this happening, especially in the Indie world. To the point where authors call groups of books “series X” and individual books “episode x”. Truant and Platt do this a lot.

When those forces push a building in one direction or the other, a sensor detects the movement, and the huge weight of the sphere counteracts the forces, and keeps the upper floors in a relatively static position

That was my point. But I confused what hawkingdo was saying, so basically no-one understands what anyone else is saying, and I blame Hubert Phillips. :-)

Oh, sorry. I thought you meant you were the second person being didactic, not that you were being didactic about bewareofgeek’s point number 2. My bad.

That doesn’t matter, because it’s “All animals eligible for the Tintinnabulum Club prefer Mozart to Beethoven”, not “All animals who are members of the Tintinnabulum Club prefer Mozart to Beethoven”.

Pedant trolls are, anyway.

This is suspect for a whole range of reasons, but in terms of modifying the planet it would be disastrous. Top-level predators are vitally important to maintain stable ecosystems. If we were to remove them we would have to take their place, either by hunting their prey ourselves (and so far the effects haven’t been…

Given that humanity has instigated the Anthropocene Era, we’re going to have to give the plants and animals of the world a helping hand every once in a while.

Yeah, I know, and it bugs me. Not as much as putting a sentence-ending period inside quotation marks that don’t cover the whole sentence, but still a fair bit.

I think that’s the correct place for the comma.

“Aliens! Getcha Aliens here! Cheapest Around!”

Writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein say that we won’t “revisit” Spider-Man’s origin at all in their reboot film. Meaning that we won’t see him get bitten by a spider, and we won’t see Uncle Ben die, at all. “I think that everybody feels like: You know that he gets bitten by a spider, and you know that…