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Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Donald Hebb is TM, who is banned except for limited posting abilities in the BoX forums, so no, he doesn't post much. Dikiyoba. "Is" banned? I thought he was banned, but has since been unbanned and just doesn't post at all.

Originally Posted By: Kelifornia Girls If you want your kids to be soulless automatons, or alcoholic womanisers, then you could do a lot worse than Ernie's suggestions! I don't know about you, but if my kids ever lock a midget manservant in a suitcase while fleeing his bosses' murder in a stolen master assassin's private yacht, I'll count myself a fairly successful father.

Originally Posted By: uǝʍoɹ Mass Effect™ Yes, but what color is it?

Originally Posted By: Darth Ernie i just assume everyone i meet is american You must be American, then.

Minor changes to the layout of the site? EVERYTHING IS RUINED FOREVER!!!!!

[someone had to take a stand for the one OS to rule them all, and it might as well be me!] 1. Windows 7 at home, and Win 7 at work. The last work distribution was XP, and I... chose poorly in having Vista on my previous personal computer. 2. Autodesk, Inc. Though, to be fair, I am both using their products less, and I've heard that they're releasing/have released Mac versions. So I guess mainly inertia at this point. 3. The vast body of every type of program imaginable for the OS. Also, the games. 4. "ADMINISTRATOR PERMISSION REQUIRED FOR THIS ACTION" dialog boxes that black out the screen and pop up ever five [censored] minutes. 5. A slide rule, drafting kit, typewriter, and a copy of Abramowitz and Stegun.

Originally Posted By: Slart of Glass Originally Posted By: Randomizer Welcome back Salmon, fishing season over? Salmon has posted once or twice (once recently!) in his absence. Until he's making a few posts a week, I'll hold off the welcoming committee. (Which is sad. We love you Salmon!) Edit: Of course I post this before seeing Salmon's other posts. Bah! On a totally unrelated note, Nikki, I love your new avatar. It's just brilliant.

Originally Posted By: Lt. Sullust I was initially planning on asking which pronoun Dikiyoba preferred; but then I noticed Wikipedia had an entire article devoted to the subject [link]. I'm using the "shklee" one from now on. Awesome.

Originally Posted By: Actaeon Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Alorael is not a sniper and he is not addicted to skribbane, for example. Some of us weren't ready to hear that, Slarty. Do you tell kids about Santa, too? Originally Posted By: Sherlock People don't really go to heaven when they die. They're taken to a special room and burned. NEXT!

Originally Posted By: Actaeon 6,000 is the care threshold now? That leaves, what, nine active members worth listening to? Well, that makes things easier to keep track of, at least. Well, when you add the "worth listening to" criteria, it drops to like four .

I am not so sorry this must be done, Nikki.

So long and thanks for all the Finnish!

Originally Posted By: Iconoplasia —Alorael, who can't tell you what's in a mole. He can only tell you that there's a lot of it. Alternately, the usual mammalian viscera, probably including what it recently ate. SIX POINT OH TWO TWO TIMES TEN TO THE TWENTY THIRD!

Originally Posted By: Aʀᴀɴ How is that ass bad, though? I think his face is pretty bad, which is the point. It's a terrible ass face.

Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Is it a bad thing if I read that post and was thinking about experimental design rather than objectification of women? Well, I read it and the first thought in my mind after finishing was "R^2=0.28? That's a pretty bold conclusion for such weak support!", so at least you're not alone.

Originally Posted By: Swords into linear accelerators Originally Posted By: garo IIt hurts me to think that the average gamer dislikes politics despite it is present in almost every game plot. Does the average gamer dislike politics more than the average non-gamer? —Alorael, who has seen plenty of political discussions here, although Spiderweb really isn't representative. But he'd expect at least a decent level of awareness, if not caring. I would say that gamers tend to be younger that the population as a whole, and younger people tend to have a lower percentage of political activity in the general population. So I don't think it's so much "being a gamer mean that you become less politically active" as it is "gamers are primarily drawn from a group with lower initial political participation".

This. This is absolutely the idea I see reflected in my female colleagues. They went into my field for the same reason that my male colleagues and I went into it: to get a job in something they found interesting in order to make money, not because they felt the gender imbalance in it was a point of concern. Frankly, I'm of the opinion that affirmative action in hiring for jobs or admissions to engineering schools is too little, too late, and may actually be harmful to the women already in the field: It's not that women aren't going into the field because they are discouraged by the lack of other women in it, it's because by the time they enter first grade, they've already been convinced, by their parents, peers, or by society, that they don't want to be engineers, and frankly, if you don't want to be an engineer, you aren't going to be able to succeed as one. The real problem lies squarely with parents and early educations for instilling into women that science and math are things that people with X chromosomes Do Not Do, not with college admissions and jobs.

I haven't heard a peep from US media, and the only contact I've had with news came from an article in the Economist a few weeks ago, so I'm hardly able to draw very many conclusions about the movement. This certainly does seem like something that should be discussed or at least touched on more in the US news, though.

Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith I'd honestly like to hear what the scientific community has to say about human nature. I've got my own theories, but they're pretty much pulled straight from my own experiences and motivations. Biology has much less to say about "human nature" per se than psychology does, and the conclusions that psychology draws are pretty famously negative- think the Stanford Prison study or Milgram's Experiment. Of course, psychology also tends to be less, ah, rigorous than most of the "hard sciences", so it's hardly like the debate's settled. Like Lilith said, you're pretty much on your own when it comes to drawing conclusions from the available material.

Originally Posted By: Necris Omega Hm. Should we count Shale? ... Not really, since IIRC you don't figure out that Shale is female until her personal quest in Orzammar.

Poisoned with massive quantities of cyanide, shot, beaten, tied up, dropped in a river in the middle of a Russian winter, and he still manages to break out of his bonds before drowning.

Originally Posted By: Excalibur It turns out Gingrich won't stay in the race. Originally Posted By: Reuters The collapse of his campaign threatened to turn the proud intellectual into a punch line. *snort*

Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith It's kind of funny how a translation with improper grammar and inappropriate pop-culture quotes can evoke more emotion than a bunch of foo-foo flower speak. What you say !!

Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S My list, which I think I've posted before and whose obvious biases for genre, era, and platform can't have changed much: You know, I'm shocked that I of all people am the one saying this, but you do know that there were games released after the '90's, right?

1. Jade Empire 2. System Shock 2 3. Knights of the Old Republic 4. Starcraft 5. Rogue 6. TES IV: Oblivion 7. Geneforge I 8. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Honorable Mentions: Skyrim, BoA, Battlefront II, FFI, Neverwinter Nights, Daggerfall.