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You couldn't effectively snipe in Titanfall because the developers are smart and wise (in this respect) and made everyone too mobile to both snipe effectively and remain stationary. Eliminating sniper rifles is the greatest gift a developer can give. I think my anti-map pack stance has made me seem a detractor of Titanfall. I LOVE Titanfall. This game's fuckin' awesome. Especially because I can go kill all the snipers. I prestiged 5 times before it made me use the arc cannon on the titan. I also found there was a significant difference between the R-97 and the CAR. Specifically, the CAR SMG was actually good.

Yes, I did consider that the conversation would go in that direction. You can go ad nauseam should we not drive, not have fire, not wear clothes. There is social codification to specific suppression and marginalization (as opposed to the "natural" example of survival of the fittest) that isn't there with consumption of meat. It is natural in that our bodies evolved to both consume and process meats and vegetables. It's not natural in the same meaning as "gorge on sugary and fat filled foods" is "natural". You could argue that land cultivation is less a normal state of being for humans than hunter/gatherer. But that's not the question you're actually asking. Beyond bogging down in semantics, I still do not think it is wrong in an absolute or moral sense to consume things other than vegetables. I haven't hunted, but I have participated in every step from water to table from fishing. I don't feel any moral ambiguity in doing that. This is a completely different conversation to the one you actually want to be having and are fostering well in the thread. I have major questions and hang ups about how the world's food is produced. But directly answering the thread title, nope it's not wrong. The entire conversation is also completely muddied in the way so many modern questions are (arguing that global warming doesn't exist so you can dump stuff in rivers). It is such a dumb and easy stereotype to strawman people who are living a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle as being a yuppie hypocrite who only eats seitan burgers because meat is murder and it's destroying the planet, but only drinks bottled Fiji water while checking their iPhone, no contradiction there. "Every vegetarian is PETA." That's infuriating, isn't it? It is to me, from the other side. I think a lot of people who aren't interested in actually having your conversation and just want to exclude non-omnivores build that strawman because it's more convenient than actually thinking about the practicality of vegetarianism. It's hard to have a real discussion.

Omnivorous lifestyles are literally natural in the way that social marginalizations are not. That informs some of my absolute answer to the thread title being no. It is not WRONG to eat meat, although the way in which meat is delivered to the table might be. I have more to mull over, but I don't think my position will change on that front even if I didn't personally find meat pleasurable to consume.

Dishonored Serial Intro is excellent. Well done! With regard to whatever that feeling is from fast multiplayer games that maybe aren't all just murders - do you think that's a niche Splatoon could fill? Did Garden Warfare hit anyone in the same way? I realize everything about those games in a mechanics sense is the same, except for a murder. Danielle's amused, horrifed "NO" makes Jake's car stories even worse/better. It's like the best/worst version of Car Talk.

I gave it a try today. After I finished, I immediately downloaded the first episode to keep listening. It's not a "comedy" podcast, but weird facts are often funny and they seem to keep things pretty light. If you think you would enjoy listening to pleasant British people talking about random stuff they look up, I can back up the recommendation.

Selling additional maps in games where the entire game IS the map content fractures communities and kills games. Period. It doesn't actually matter whether I personally buy the DLC or not. I'm fine with not having hats or outfits or even weapons (not skins, different actual numbers). The second you split the community by more than game type, if you aren't Call of Duty you're dead. It's not a Titanfall-specific problem, it's an everybody besides CS:GO problem. I'm talking about it here specifically because I liked Titanfall so much, and they destroyed their own game. I don't begrudge any developer continuing to make money and creating a service out of their product. Far from it. But I won't support developers actively sabotaging their cool thing.

My point is I enjoyed Titanfall but it isn't worth $85-90 dollars. Even if I thought it was, I bought it at a time where I shouldn't have spent any money on it at all so that was doubly magnified.

I was recommended No Such Thing As A Fish today. It's billed as produced by "The QI Elves", the producers and researchers for QI, which I would describe as somewhat but not really like Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me but on TV and British. It's possibly humorous (?), and has things that they researched and maybe didn't make into the show. Is anyone familiar? Would you back up the recommendation?

Would flipping the script and being a part time student while working full time be a potential route to take?

Oh my god how did I get stuck in a time loop where every podcast I listen to has an extended conversation about how vaping is literal Deus Ex?! This is a compliment, not a criticism.

I love the idea of Dishonored Serial, but it would be way more boring because Corvo specifically got framed by the guy who imprisoned him and then the people who broke him out don't care if he did it or not. They just want to use him. I also love this weird fact, which was pointed out in a Dishonored speed run I watched - if you kill the Empress, the game ends. So even though the plot of the game doesn't care at all if you actually did it, the game mechanics do.

I ended up reading and writing a lot of papers rather than just testing. There were courses that I submitted like two papers for that beyond attendance were basically my entire grade. The downside of this is what they gave me on graduation was a degree in History. I don't recommend it. Has she talked with the professors directly? I realize that it is one of the most difficult things to do, to be direct about something that restricts you. If she is doing well prior to being tripped up, maybe she can take preventative measures instead of damage control? And conversationally, what are her academic interests? Someone that's not me might have course-specific advice I can't offer.

It took me 3 pages to read this because I thought it was an anime thing.

I was thinking only postal, rather than parcel - stuff that hits your mailbox. I work in shipping for my company, I understand what you mean! FedEx/UPS/whatever all have electronic labels. I'm sure they include zip code because of course they should use all the information, but even if they didn't those companies would have a system that would digitize your location.

I think Titanfall is amazing. I think it's the best pure multiplayer shooter experience I had in 2014. I think charging for maps in games smaller than Call of Duty is a great way to kill your game. The promise of new maps or modes probably would have kept me playing. The request for like $40-$50 additional dollars to stay current killed it for me.

Everyone knows that El Paso is not near anything.

I imagine it's a combo of what James said. The worse your handwriting or the crazier the address, the more a postal code is a necessity. They can at least get it to the right post office that way and then the resident handwriting wizard can decipher it. e: I finally found out where video games come from. According to this map, ATLANTA!

Wouldn't you think it's going the other direction? There's less mail now than there was 10-20 years ago so it would be more viable to do it by hand than previous. But in higher density areas, postal codes make tons of sense to me logistically. There are dozens of zip codes for major cities, because putting "New York, New York" on an address only narrows down the delivery to literally tens of millions of options.

The Sealion Parable. Sealion's Fable. The Allegory of the Sealion. Sealion: a dish best served cold.

This is an awesome idea. Also yay someone else in the Philly area!

My close friends have submitted a game to try to get into the Indie MegaBooth. If they get accepted, I might make an attempt to go to help them out if it's needed, and for general support.

Oh my god that's right, there's another Riddick movie.

There's literally still no one that knows for sure how to pronounce either Shia OR LeBeouf, so how can I possibly like Crystal Skull? I feel like this is the same conversation as suggesting The Chronicles of Riddick was anywhere near the film that Pitch Black was, but magnitudes more important for the history of filmmaking and nerdery.

One of the interesting things about these forums is that once you get past the podcast discussion section, it's not really a group of people who've come together "about" anything. People here just are who they are. I feel like I often come off as more likely to be disagreeable and less nuanced than many of you. I feel sharp and dismissive of pop culture opinions and things. But the layer below that, everyone here is just who they are as a person, and because of that and threads like these there's a sense of community that other places don't necessarily have. I definitely care (and frankly, worry sometimes) about all of you more than most any other place where I'm not meeting people face to face. If anyone needs something, please don't hesitate. Here, twitter, wherever.

It's clearly the sealion vignette.