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For great Gravity trivia see Neal deGrasse Tyson's Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/neiltyson I meant petty-ish criticism of its logic and realism. Or this: http://mashable.com/2013/10/07/neil-degrasse-tyson-gravity/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it

450W is like 11 lightbulbs. Think about it. Is it really worth it? Are you getting more entertainment than you would get from 11 lightbulbs? Think of all the things you could do with 11 lightbulbs.

Indies already make a whole lot of their games for linux as well. Bigger companies should not have too many problems doing it, especially with Nvidia and Valve working to make it easier.

But the monkeys are hard sci-fi.

I fucking love that artstyle. I recently attempted related dithery stuff in a photography project, but that was a crash and burn sort of thing. This works.

That's funny, because earlier in this thread you stated you did support the cause of feminism, but hesitated to call yourself one because some feminists (although you couldn't name them) have radical notions you don't support. But now the problem is that feminism is about helping women, which surely you could have figured out from the name. Do you have any other reason to be here other than to derail and disrupt conversations and reiterate anti-feminist propaganda about supposed angry and unreasonable feminists? And you're wrong, it's not around to help women, it's around to stop women being fucked over for being women as well as all the secondary patriarchal influence that comes from that such as all people being treated badly if they exhibit qualities which are deemed feminine.

Nah, he's okay.

After Walt, she's pretty much the most murder-happy person in the series. And she threatened Skyler and Walt was told about it.

Compensating for how susceptible the driver's face is to scalding heat.

I wonder how they are planning to get around the Horsebag patent. Probably just some small technical change that allows them to do basically the same thing.

Don't forget his party.

Have you considered that you are only against the strawman feminists that frequently appear as villains or freaks in movies and television, written as one-dimensional monsters by people who oppose feminism or don't understand it?

Universe was good fun.

I don't see the problem. A patriarchy is a society whose norms dictate that men are more capable than women and have the burden of making sure the poor things don't get themselves hurt. It becomes a problem when the word is instead used like it refers to specific easily identifiable people. But I mostly see this in mean-spirited depictions of feminists.

That's not quite what I meant. I meant you can't use logic to arrive at some rule as to when it's objectively okay to be offended by the word and when not. You can use logic to examine individual people's kinks. To a degree. And I really don't agree about the funeral thing! Your funerals or the people attending them must be different.

Tycho, awesome posts in this thread. Fantastic. I would never had had the energy to discuss the complexities of language in this thread, but now it's out there and well spoken. Words don't have objective meanings. The meanings they carry for us are shifting constantly and are only compatible to some degree with the meanings they carry for other people. Often we don't notice the difference, but it's always there. Sometimes there's an obvious clash. Sometimes we'll cause offense or hurt and never even know it because our words carry meanings for people we weren't aware of. There's no way to totally avoid it, but it's generally a good idea to be as aware of your surroundings as you can and act accordingly. There are tons of reasons to be offended by the use of the word 'fuck'. There are obvious ones: people who identify and broadcast themselves as people who don't say 'fuck' don't mix well as people who identify and broadcast themselves as people who say 'fuck' a lot. So there's a surface level "You're not like the kind of people I like!" offence, which is pretty petty. As mentioned before, for many it's an impolite word and they feel as strongly about it as you feel it's not. So when you use it, you are choosing (or seem to be, it's irrelevant) to be disrespectful. When they hear it, they face a multiple choice decision of how to interpret that: maybe you disrespect them personally, their values, what they represent, their beliefs, their mother or the situation you are in or all of the above. They may even know you probably didn't mean it, but it still feels the same. So when you stub your toe and yell "Fuck!" at a funeral, not everyone is going to interpret it as "He's in pain and used an expletive to release pressure", but as "He should have held his tongue in order to not disrespect the occasion". Or maybe you don't think it's okay to say 'fuck' at a funeral or some other occasion. Or is it okay at all times? There's no way to use logic to decide where it's actually okay and where it's not. However! Obviously it would be good to learn that other people communicate differently and do your best not to be offended by every 'fuck' that you come across. But maybe it's not as easy as you'd think.

There's plenty to implicate Skylar since she was laundering money for him. She won't avoid jail unless her lawyer can make a strong case that she was too scared to go to the cops.

Don't listen to Rodi, Twig! They'll never hire you if you assault people.

What the jesus, you need to spend 9000$ on something that has the sole purpose of making your home colder? I guess Phoenix is situated on Mercury.

If those people invented the shovel they wouldn't need their useless god.

Tony time woo. Let's all stand still and shudder a bit.

Huh, I'll definitely not see it then. Cheers.

Alfred J. Kwak starts with the death of the protagonist's family, followed by Alfred's wrongful imprisonment which nearly led to his execution. Eleven thumbs up.

You can make rape jokes. However, most of them are vile and have the victim as the butt of the joke. If you make a rape joke that exposes the perpetrator as a sad sack of shit you're unlikely to hear much criticism from feminist circles.

That's true and also it's not. I'm sure there are tons and tons of people at PAX who don't consider themselves Penny Arcade supporters or like the statements, yet everyone at PAX financially supports Penny Arcade. If you're not comfortable supporting PA, you should demand the organizations be properly split. I don't know if such a thing is even possible, though.