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The disturbing question that brought you here is this: I'll give you a moment to overcome the face-value disturbance there. We good? Good. There are very good arguments in defense of either position. Here is a sketch of an exchange that might possibly take place. I'd be interested...

Basically, you get a group together, set up a conversation, and all race through the game at the same time to some fixed point. The Megaman X races are available here: http://video.xenoveritas.org/play/lets_race/mega_man_x/group_1

Let's put this figure in perspective. 36% of the voting public voted Conservative. Wikipedia gives this figure at about 10 million people. 11.3 million people watched X Factor on the 17th of October 2011. Yes, it is entirely possible for that many people to have opinions that can be...

I'm not that familiar with fuzzy set theory as such - fuzzy logic is traditionally more of a Computer Science concept, and I'd say has been more or less superceded in practice by using probabilistic reasoning rather than continuum-valued logics - but I'd assume that in revising the notion of...

You could try organising an LP Race. I've been watching the Megaman X races and they look pretty awesome. Maybe a Mario and/or Sonic race?

Okay, stop right there. First: Induction again. I did warn you about this in the logic thread. Generalisation from "no logical or objective justification has been presented" to "the phenomenon is illogical and subjective" is exactly the sort of thing that Hume pointed out you can't do with...

Totally speculative hypothesis: Motherhood plays a major role in the cultural glorification of women. It is probably more the norm than not that young children get breastfed for their early years. This very intimate contact we have with our mums lingers into our formative years and adulthood...

It is, but my instinct here is to say your friends are complete pricks, not that you should be able to be like them.

I still maintain the Buu saga from start (Gohan goes to high school) to finish is thematically fairly simple, but fantastically executed. Throughout DBZ the various (male) characters all represent aspects of masculinity in the modern world, but the Buu saga gives its most detailed breakdown of...

Isn't the answer to this obvious? Pokemon can be digitally recorded. Overpopulation isn't a problem when you just need to upload them to a server rack. Mind you, this raises another set of interesting questions - namely, who runs the PC cloud that you access, what is their business model...

The advantage of the PS3 is it's a blu-ray player. If you don't already have one of those, then no, it wasn't a waste. Otherwise, yeah, maybe.

Hmm. I'd never really looked into Trip-hop as a genre; just kind of thought of its various artists under the chillout umbrella. Seems like there's some homework for me to do here.

I'm going to say something that might seem controversial, and perhaps rather self-demeaning here, but here goes: I generally think of the role of lyrics in music as being at most a useful vehicle for the instrument of the human voice, and generally eliminable. When I listen to music, I don't...

Ooh, this old chestnut. Hold on a second, let me just answer your questions. I suppose the first obstacle here is to the question of whether my gender is definitively one or the other. I quite like queer theory, and subscribe pretty strongly to the view that regardless of whether we view sex...

It should be. Getting stuck in a positive feedback loop, like often happens with depression (and did, with mine), should be one of the most terrifying things you ever encounter. But often, pride, shame and fear make you want to just ride it out, and if you're already stuck in the loop, it can...