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Mcdonalds is no more disgusting than what most people insist is home cooked food. It's also not unhealthy if you actually get off the computer now and again and do something beyond a leisurely walk, or some other pretend physical activity (old people excluded of course).

Wasn't there a cow in one of the Avernum/Exile games that starts up a conversation with your party? I swear I remember talking to some cow, somewhere in Avernum.

All computer criminals will be sent to Australia.

Why would eagles be sent to Avernum? I doubt they could survive.

What do you think of this.

It makes sense to me and the quote by one of people comenting on the article really sums it up: "experience is the worst teacher, it gives the test first then the lesson".

Except I think that's precisely why the whole "get it wrong first" thing appears to work. How frequently do animals go into a novel situation with a prior knowledge of what will work and what will not? Normally, (aside from humans and other species with some form of meme propagation) animals would first come up against a problem then learn how to solve it.

One problem I see with their research is, people have to care about trying to solve the problem the first time around, rather than just ignoring it and waiting for the answer. How could an education system motivate students to care about putting some effort in for the first try.

Well species aren't what survives long term, genes do.

Well I guess allowing people to die with no healthcare coverage maybe is like murder, and probably allowing people to live homeless is pretty bad too. Current world leaders may not have had people tortured or assassinated under their administration but past leaders definitely have, and I would bet it's quite a regular occurrence in most countries.

Twilight Imperium is a horribly painful waste of time. 9 hours later nothing has happened. Why they even have victory points is beyond me. The game would work a lot better as a war game in space.

Yes it's just you.

If I'm do die of anything but old age related things, it will be in a traffic accident. I consider myself an excellent driver when I actually pay attention. But I tend to take too many risks such as looking out the passenger side window for more than a brief glance, and then realising when I look back to the road that there's a vehicle where there wasn't one before, and that I'm nearly over the centre line.

I find driving extremely boring unless there's snow on the road, then it becomes more interesting in a challenging sort of way. I would definitely hire a driver if I had the money.

I guess we could view the Obama win as a kind of grant for future work. People get scholarships before they have actually done anything they propose to do.

It's a big "please don't give up, you're our only hope" kinda thing from the world to the US president.

I still think we need some description of what a 1, 2, 3 or D, C, C+ is. Teachers don't mark without a list of letter grade descriptions, or one is available at the very least. I realise that everyone has a different idea of what outstanding or first class combat or plot is. Yet I still feel we need at least a sketch of what each letter or number actually means. We should be trying to standardise the reviewing process. Every reviewer should look at the list of number descriptions and then decide what number that scenario deserves. Otherwise it is like pulling a number out of the air. "I like 5s today, maybe a 5 will be a 7 tomorrow".

Do you think it would be possible to institute a letter grade scheme for ranking scenarios? We could have descriptions of each letter grade e.g. an A+ is an outstanding scenario that shows exceptional plot, combat etc., a B is . . .

Damn . . . you can capitalise with the shift key? I learned something today. And yea the cap lock not working in Spidweb games has always annoyed me, but now that I know about the secret of the shift key I'm gonna capitalise everything in sight.

I though it was the surface too.

I'd like to see the return of the make quick-fire spell. It was always entertaining to set whole towns on fire, or get trapped in a room behind the somehow fire-proof doors. All in all it was a fun spell.

So the lower cave's inhabitants are gonna finally kick out the squatters hmm.

Yea now we all know who losses at the most friends competition that facebook is. lol.

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