Also, war is an amazing catalyst for invention. Both world wars lead to huge strides in the creation of new things.
That's because war gives government an incentive to be efficient and to innovate. Like red sox mentioned, the efficient government is the one that wins the war. So while normally, there is no motivation for efficiency, the life-or-death scenario that war allows the government to put their massive amount of resources to good use.
Yeah.
And this also highlights why I don't like America's current warfare research very much (at least compared to WW2 stuff). There's no reason to be efficient. You don't need to be efficient to get funding--in fact, the way most military projects get funding is to be very inefficient--they make a manufacturing plant in every state, so that if any senator opposes funding of the project, they will get angry letters from people losing their jobs. Essentially they get funding through lobbying rather than through having an efficient or innovative product. And the US doesn't get punished for this inefficiency, because hey, it's not like there's an opponent who can really threaten America right now.
It's like those people who get way ahead in a game of Starcraft, and decide it would be a good idea to mass the worst unit in the game. They don't end up losing, because they were way ahead to begin with, but the stuff they're building is still crap....
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How much did the Manhattan Project cost us, not just in monetary cost but in the opportunity cost of all those brilliant scientists who could have been working on something more productive to mankind?
Far be it for a leftist like me to defend military spending but...
Actually a significant number of inventions in the 20th century were created during WW1/WW2 for military purposes (like superglue).
More recently, if I recall correctly, the internet started as a US military project.
And in terms of modern stuff...well, I have my eye on all these drones and whatnot--maybe someday that technology will become household robots.
For all of the horrible nasty downsides of wars, I really don't fee like "slows down the pace of invention" is one of them.
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One of my best friends (basically my best friend) briefly posted here in, like, 04.
Oh wait, if "posted here once seven years ago" counts, then waaaaaay higher. Too many close friends and even coworkers sometimes have done so.
I was thinking more "dont go to the boards, chat, wiki, or IM people I don't know outside of B8."
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Not that much. I mean, best gamefaqs board, sure, but half the time when I come here it's just for karma. Still, though, would need to be enough money to make me notice.
$25,000?
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And I've totally picked up a game just because it seems to be popular and I wanted to see what the fuss was about. I started playing FF7 right after summer contest 2003, for instance.
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This poll's results prove remarkably little, actually.
The Wii is a dying platform. I'd expect a "how much money have you spent on boxed games" poll to still cause the Wii to lose. (Maybe lose less badly). If people aren't turning on the system, then of course they're not buying from the online store.
The other three platforms are basically tied......and probably SFFing each other, but it's anyone's guess on whom might be SFFing whom. Hard to draw any conclusions.
And sure, most people have bought something online...but there's a lot of games only available through online purchase. (Like megaman 9, to name one that showed up in a GF contest). It's still possible to have primarily boxed purchases while having at least one online transaction in the past year.
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Yeah, this is one of my top choices. If FFT counts towards FF I might just be boring and say FF, though....
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And yeah, a lot of us were groaning at some of the dialogue while it was in development too. Particularly the Mary Jane stuff. I don't know how or when some of that dialog was written.
Hey mc. Kind of surprised you actually worked on this game.
The dialogue is sooooooo bad, and I'm glad those who worked on it agreed. I'm kind of curious what part you worked on though. I want to know if I should blame you for a part of this game that makes me angry or not.
Umm...lots of stuff you can't really see like debug menus and updating compilers, and freeing up memory. The visible stuff I did was procedurally generated debris in the third act. (Burnt out cars, bricks scattered on the ground, etc). Not the highest quality art, but we had limited time and memory to make the city look destroyed.
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Allow me to raise the average quality of posts in this topic.
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... *RKOs ExTha*
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Gannondorf (or stop making him a clone, I'd be happy either way). Wolf
hrm...third slot.....
Diddy Kong. (Don't like the playstyle he encourages, I guess).
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And yeah, a lot of us were groaning at some of the dialogue while it was in development too. Particularly the Mary Jane stuff. I don't know how or when some of that dialog was written.
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Ahh...didn't realize those were all the same game.
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* Undecided on whether to include Nintendo Land with the WiiU, very popular at the show.
Err...what?
That game where you throw shurikens at pop up targets?
Is there more to the game than that? Because I think that's all I saw on the show floor.
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metroid wanna meet somewhere today? i'll say hello
I was already in the car when you posted this, unfortunately. :(
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Oh, and there's an indie section--it's hidden, but you should go find it; totally worth-it.
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Also, go see the gravity game in the vita section; it's pretty cool.
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Nobody ever actually leaves board 8. They all come back....
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Pennies average about 3 grams. Pennies are about 0.4 cubic centimeters, or 0.4 ML.
There are 100,000,000 pennies in a million dollars.
So...we're talking 300,000 kg. We're talking 40,000,000 cubic centimeters, or 40 cubic meters.
The volume isn't so atrocious; maybe completely fill a couple of spare bedrooms or an entire basement. I mean, don't get me wrong it would be annoying. But the weight...would destroy most houses. That's about 100x the weight most houses are designed to support.
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LinkMarioSamus posted... PrivateBiscuit1 posted... Sounds like a terrible idea!
Wouldn't be the first time Metroid had to deal with this before launch.
Metroid Pinball?
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MRNlCEWATCH posted... "Atheists value their life more than Christians, because they know that there is no afterlife. They live each day to the fullest"
There is a degree of historical truth to this claim.
Particularly, when the mercantile middle class was formed in Europe, and they cared more about enjoying life and making money than they did about doing what the catholic church told them.
Granted, they weren't necessarily "atheists" per-se (they probably had been baptized) they just lived more secular lives.
Nowadays I'd say the majority of christians don't care so much about, say, not having sex before marriage, so there's no real division between most christians and the typical atheist.
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rammtay posted... AlphaRayAllen posted... You wipe while standing?
Sorry, I'm going to have to inform the mods that there's an eight year old on the board.
I think you're the 8 year old since you apparently don't worry about getting crap on your tiny balls the way you wipe.
Easy solution: always wipe front to back.
Just saying.
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Eeeevil Overlord posted... I have posts in a couple of sticky topics, and I'm constantly annoyed that they never go away.
I know, right?
I have a very rude post in a sticky topic, and get annoyed when it's one of like...five active posts I have, because I'm usually pretty friendly on forums....
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So...fires of undeath may not be *as* trashy as it initially looks, just because of the whole "flashback is a really strong mechanic" thing. Geistflame is still bad, just maybe not "awful" levels of bad.
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Lopen posted... From: UltimaterializerX | #012 One of the best pieces of art in MTG history: http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/l.aspx?k=106906704 You have no idea how disappointed I was to find this wasn't a legend or planeswalker or even a random creature but some terrible (okay not that terrible but) burn card.
I still forced myself to make a deck for it, though. Art matters, bro.
What does that card do again?
I remember the art, but I don't even remember the card..........
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It took me a while to understand what it was saying.
At first I thought it was saying that real women get hooked on Diablo, and I was like "Ok, I've known some people like that, but I don't get the joke?"
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kevwaffles posted... To be fair, most of the "fast-food" versions of those foods lose a lot more in quality than hamburgers.
It's true.
Really high quality hamburgers don't impress me at all compared to other high quality food, but low quality hamburgers aren't that much worse than high quality hamburgers.
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ShadowHalo17 posted... The chick from Twilight. But of course she's the protagonist of a terrible series, so maybe that shouldn't count.
Well...I hated her on the first couple of reads, and then something clicked in my perspective where I "got" her character, and now think she's actually pretty fantastic.
I mean, it's a good question why anyone would make a submissive martyr blood-doll who regularly gets mind controlled as a main character, but it's not like she's poorly executed within the scope of that role. Hell, a lot of the humor tends to revolve around and be directed at her, too, so it's not like the other characters in the book take her seriously or respect her.
No, I still think the real problematic character in Twilight is Edward. What the hell is his motivation? Ok, so he falls madly in love or something...but why? How does this happen? It's not like any of the other Vampires are doing something so stupid.
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I suggest you use Jogurt in every fight you can, and try to keep him alive!
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I'm happy with Starcraft 2, and anticipating HotS. No real interest in D3 at this moment.
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My gut reaction has been that he is all around kinda dumb.
The whole flying with a cape thing always seemed kinda silly to me. (I've since learned that apparently flying came when the cartoon didn't want to animate him jumping anymore; a jumping superman sounds much cooler than a flying one).
The whole "he's invincible" thing just seems unexciting. I liked watching the X-Men cartoon where there were relative power levels for characters. Actually, as far as that goes, I liked watching DBZ where there were relative power levels for the characters. Superman just reminds me of those childhood arguments where someone says "is not times infinity plus one". I get the impression there's no scale to Superman, it seems like...set a bar, and he's higher than that bar.
Also: glasses? Really? Glasses fool everyone?
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Even Mitt Romney would not stoop so low to vote for Mitt Romney.
Although he'd say he did just to look better publicly.
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Mershaaay posted... For example, do you really think the nation on average is as liberal as Maine and California? Most definitely not-- and those two states passed popular referenda banning gay marriage (CA did it twice).
I don't know about Maine, but the California one was weirdly worded, and had a lot of misinformation spread about it by attack ads.
I had a roommate who was supporting Prop 8 because he somehow thought opposing it meant teaching homosexuality in schools. This guy lived in San Francisco, and had me for a roommate (and to the best of my knowledge had no problems with me). If prop 8 had been worded "ban gay marriage" I assume he wouldn't have been so easily fooled, and would have opposed it.
This is a different situation--Obama gets to choose his own wording here, there's no twisting of words to mislead people.
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CycloRaptor posted... uh i wasn't saying romney definitely did it because he was gay
i was saying that YOU were saying that romney clearly didn't know he was gay and just "didn't like his face", when it is entirely possible that romney did know he was gay because a lot of the time that is pretty obvious. there may be no reason to believe that, but there is no reason to discount it either, especially given that romney has bigoted stances on gay issues.
Romney's been back and forth on gay issues depending on what was politically convenient for him. As governor of Massachusetts, for instance, he made some pro-gay statements.
I believe Romney's current anti-gay stances only slightly more than I believed Obama's anti gay marriage stances in 2008.
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Robazoid posted... You're right, good politics would be to let one side dominate the dirty tactics with ridiculous accusations that don't make sense while ignoring valid opportunities to use similar tactics and expose them as hypocrites, because it's the right thing to do.
wait no that's awful politics
Depends on how intelligent your voterbase is. In Canada, if you run a campaign based on personal attacks, you will have a number of people voting against you because they feel like you're dodging the real issues and don't have substantiative things to say about policies.
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ScorpioVS posted... I don't think any true liberal doubted that he was a bully in middle school or high school
I'm quite far left (left wing by Canadian standards) and I'm actively surprised. Romney struck me as nerdy and a little out-of-touch (at least with people who make less than a million a year). I would've expected him to make a clueless statement like "Well if the homeless can't afford a house, why don't they buy a yacht? Or get a job?" I did not expect physical assault.
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Is it just me, or are pretty much all of their counterpoints also relevant to Power Stone? (Barring perhaps creator intent).
They also didn't have a bullet point on the 2-player vs 4-player, which seems relevant. To me, 1v1 smash is a very different experience from 4-way smash.
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Skylanders is made by TFB. That company is like...nothing but game designers, and the ones I worked with like 7 years ago impressed me more than most of the designers I've worked with since.
Also, they're the ones who released Star Control II to be open source.
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KanzarisKelshen posted... Speaking of which, here's an interesting addon to this dilemma: if you could prevent the destruction of the world by committing suicide, would you do it? Before anybody asks, yes, you CAN live out those twenty years, but the closer you get to the Big Day, the more likely it is you'll get things done too late and the world will still end up destroyed. What would you do?
Live out as much of the 20 years as I felt safe doing; probably like 15, and then suicide.
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Would that be considered "destroyed" and "evil"? If so, sign me up.
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I busted up laughing when I got to Rhyhorn/Rhydon.
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Weakupedia posted... SovietOmega posted... This could be an actual pokemon evolution based game.
Think about it. Imagine a world where every other pokemon but rhyhorn goes extinct and through SCIENCE! rhyhorn adapts to fill in every other pokemon's niche.
It could be educational AND awesome!
too bad that's not how evolution works >_>
Except it is?
There's plenty of cases where, say, lizards on neighbouring islands are pure carnivore on one, and pure herbivore on another.
And then there's Madagascar, where the trees are actually evolved from like...dasies because there were no trees there before.
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