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To be fair, it's not like we just gut it out. You need a big infrastructure to deal with snow (tires with studs, tons of people operating vehicles with snowplows to keep the roads clear etc.). You need to have all that stuff prepared and it probably wouldn't make much sense in Britain.

Sounds like something that'll seem slow and old by the time it launches.

Cyberpunk is about hacking computer systems, virtual reality, looking cool, wearing 80s-but-futuristic-clothing, speaking in techy slang, neon everywhere, etc. It's a specific aesthetic, not just any piece of fiction that takes place in the near future.

Hmm, that's not really what I was going for, though I realize my post probably wasn't very clear on this. I tried to deal with several subjects and wanted to put out the argument that attacks from the outside are a minor factor when it comes to security in schools. I think everyone would be better off if we were able to offer help to people who need it when they need it: before they are desperate. We also have many institutional and cultural processes going on that can hurt people. I would be surprised if gunmen shared any specific traumas that made them that way. I cannot really put my arguments very eloquently. Practically every facet of our society needs to change -- we need more values than the invisible hand of the market. A cold society churns out cold people. I see the gunmen as outlier cases of a larger problem. Dealing with the larger problem will indirectly reduce the number of gunmen as well, but not in a way that would ever be verifiable.

Impossible. The left analog stick is still in the wrong place, where you have to stretch your thumb to reach it.

I thought this was pretty amazing. http://feministing.com/2013/01/18/we-are-totally-cool-with-beyonce-posing-in-her-underwear/

Please. Shopping day.

I agree, it's not really what this thread is about. I will say that childhood problems can have their most extreme manifestations much later if they are not dealt with. Making it to 21 without killing yourself doesn't mean your OK.

I wouldn't call that cyberpunk. They're basically just film noir set in the near future. Still awesome, but not cyberpunk.

Right, so I wasn't really making a grand point, merely highlighting that restricting the number and type of weapons available to people has a huge impact on the deadliness of attacks when they happen. While I'm a big advocate of gun control, I don't actually believe that's the core issue or solution here, so we probably agree on many points. I think you touched on something interesting by using "security in schools" in this post and not "attacks in schools". There are big problems with security in schools, but attacks such as this are rare. The problem is that we have many children in our schools who never get to feel safe. They are either habitually bullied or have to live each day knowing they could be bullied at any time. A lot of kids experience the threat of verbal and physical abuse every day in what should be a safe environment for growth as a human being. Even people who never get bullied see it every day, and see the lack of repercussions for the bullies. Then there's everything outside schools, of course. Kids who are fine in school can have terrifying problems at home. And even if they don't, we've talked a lot about societal pressures and such that can wreak havoc on people's mental well-being. I don't have the exact numbers, but something like 200-300 people have died in school shootings in the States since 1927, while the number of school-aged children who kill themselves every year is at least a couple of thousand. So if we want to talk about kids having secure, happy lives, gun safety in schools is a diversion. The most obvious solution is massive investments in mental healthcare and counseling services, but there's a lot we should be fixing. Teachers need to be highly educated and well trained in actually dealing with kids and the problems they can have. I actually think the role of a teacher has to be rethought -- right now the idea is you fill students' head with trivia and send them packing. Then we need more support staff in schools. I won't go deeper into school reform and talk about how problematic grading is... Bullying is a massive problem and needs to be dealt with. Such behaviour has to be intervened with immediately and both bullies and the bullied need to see that actions have consequences. I don't mean sending kids into institutions, but if a kid makes it impossible for other children to study at a school due to his abusive behaviour, it's the bully who needs to be moved into another school where he can start again. These days it's often the bullied who have to escape. And then we can come back to the original topic. We have a lot of people who are fucked up to various degrees. This has massive costs seen in crime, suicides and depression. School The economical costs have to be astronomical, but of course difficult to prove. We need to do more to help them now and more to give people the chance to grow up in secure environments. That's how we stop school shootings, but it requires massive institutional and cultural changes that would take years and years even if people agreed to put in the effort, which they won't. Because of austerity bullshit that's going to have some pretty spectacular costs down the road.

Probably screenshots from different people emulating the game with different settings.

I don't think androids are even part of that world. They're people with bits changed.

Help! I don't have The Ship and I don't know what to do.

It's got violence and nudity, it's great.

Ooo, definitely play Snatcher, it's cool. It's got Terminator Replicants.

You don't know that, man. NASA is faking the Mars missions by sending rovers to the Moon and taking the photos with an Instagram filter.

This was fun: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-16-2013/there-goes-the-boom?xrs=share_copy http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-16-2013/there-goes-the-boom---atf?xrs=share_copy I'll actually post some views in the evening, super busy now.

Why did you photoshop out the Santa hat?

Blade Runner by Westwood. It's old.

Who's extrapolating what now

Yup. A school in China got attacked in December and 23 children and an elderly woman were knifed. The difference is no one died.

So have you been stating your actual opinion in this thread or an exaggerated one to push people's buttons?

Could use more severed torso.

Luftmensch, first you say your beef comes in when people 'use "The Patriarchy" to refer to a huge amorphous evil that's responsible for all the problems in the world', but then you interpret the use of "the patriarchy" in your third example to just mean men. So your point becomes muddled. As MrHoatzin said, most people who use it refer to historically developed power structures and cultural norms that prop up those structures, not just "dudes". The third quote is right on the money IMO, but yeah it does sound odd if you decide to interpret "the patriarchy" to mean some actual men drawing up these norms.

Just don't wear a hoodie. Argo, I don't think that's the point he makes. I mean he says we can't tell who are going to be dangerous in the future.