Recent content by blackcapedmanx

Electric Feel, cover by Katy Perry. America looks back to the '60s or something I guess?

I have a phobic revulsion to any insect that jumps (and can thus land on you,) stemming from crickets and grasshoppers and extending to cicadas and whatever else looks like them. Something about the tactile sensation of them landing on your skin, and then pushing off from it rather than just...

I'm going to go ahead an apologize right now if this post ends up being too long, rambling, or unnecessarily personal (in a TMI kind of way,) but hopefully somewhere in what I'm about launch into will be enough to glean some semblance of the answers you're looking for. Welp, here goes. First...

I'm going to actually take a stab at this 1-10 thing, because it looks like we're mostly pretty bad at assigning values on a bounded linear scale. Zero is consensual anything, the control value. The low end, a 1, we'll say as misreading signals and advancing a kiss on an unwilling recipient...

Dude, seriously, props on getting married at 21. I mean this with all admiration, especially these days where many people continue their education into late twenties and might not even begin to think about a family until their thirties, but that has got to be rough. And what you probably...

"God did it." - The Bible. Though I guess the "twist" here is that the whole thing is fiction, which, by the way, is a spoiler, if you haven't been paying attention since roughly when Galileo was alive. Also Dan Brown. It's not necessarily that the plot twist is bad (which it is) it's that...

So I guess I'm the devil's advocate here? I mean the first thing I'd point out is there's a lot of contextual bearing in this case that is either unknown or being totally unconsidered. Suppose a slightly different scenario from the OP: Bunch of kids are at a party, everybody's drunk, some...

I'm not saying we are not governed by arbitrary rules, I'm saying that to assume we can define with certainty what those rules are and make 100% accurate predictions of reality for all scenarios is naive and ignores the history of science. That's not even remotely how I defined a proof...

I apologize for taking three months to respond to this. Clearly I don't get around here often. Okay. From the perspective of actual science, that is the stupidest thing ever. There are no "fundamental rules" in science, there are only the best of current theories. Newtonian physics was...

It's not that gamers are getting dumber, but rather, as more of the general population overlaps with the gaming population, dumber people are playing video games. It seems like there're fewer "smart" games out there now, but really there's probably even more, they simply don't get the kind of...

The issue isn't merely that there are a bunch of screaming children playing console games, it's that the people in the game play like they're a bunch of screaming children. Imagine the player base for America's Army (probably the least forgiving online team shooter in history) back when it...

@Exterminas: agreed, it's a little ridiculous that people think just because NASA is blowing dough on shuttles that humanity's last desperate grasp at space exploration has been snuffed out. Other than the Mars rovers, NASA is almost a fantastic study in INefficiency, if there were ever a...

I rage victoried unlocking everything in SSBM. I find a good churned up scorching anger does the body good in channeling intent into output. In particular I remember Pichu's Break the Targets level ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN-9R-ntvoI ) and being infuriated at trying to get the perfect...

There is a particularly aggravating variation of the escort mission I call "defend your backup." Basically, there's this old PS2 era game called Battle Engine Aquila that makes a great deal of the worst offenses possible in terms of hated game mechanics. In a particularly egregious example...

Minecraft.