Recent content by kjrubberducky

I remember this thread. Good to see it's still up and stickied. It's a good read.

Top Shot is a TV series on the History Channel, so maybe the trademark/copyright issues came from there.

Exactly. You have so many people claiming that you can't have both evolution and religion, you can't have both science and God, you have to pick just one. So they pick the one that means more to them personally, or maybe they're just pushed away by the person telling them what to believe. And...

Sorry to be picking nits here, but CDs are digital. To get analogue sound, you have to go back to the old record players; cassette tapes on forward are all digital media. As music is digitized, it suffers a loss in quality, as some of the more nuanced notes are converted to discrete values...

Lots of good suggestions in here, and a few that are new to me, too. I would recommend Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry trilogy. IMO, Kay's characters are excellently rendered, and the world he creates is full of life and beautifully realized.

"It's scientific fact." Usually used when someone thinks that, because IT'S SCIENCE!!!!, it suddenly becomes a universal, unquestionable truth. "It's just a theory." Used by people who don't understand that SCIENTIFIC theories have overwhelming evidence in their favor; they aren't just...

It's the brutally part that gets people upset, not the honesty. There is such a thing as being tactfully honest. Also, fat as in curvy, chubby, chunky, medically overweight, or medically obese? Keep in mind that the person asking might have different qualifiers than you do. For instance, if...

With the amount of people who are mislead / willfully ignorant about current events and the state of the world they live in, educating them on things that might have happened hundreds of millions of years ago shouldn't be a priority. IMO, all it provides is intellectual masturbation for no real...

The Venn diagram is incorrect; the third circle for people who like painful block puzzles is a subset of people who like block puzzles, and therefore should be completely inside the second circle but still overlapping the first, not merely overlapping both circles at the edges. Just thought...

I came across a very interesting article a little while ago; here's the link for anyone who's curious: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/04/21/496931/-Why-Liberals-Should-Love-The-Second-Amendment?detail=hide I personally think that, barring weapons of mass destruction, and maybe exploding...

Got a few other EVE:Online screens I slideshow through, but this is my favorite:

I liked God of War, but hated that they put nudity in it. It breaks my immersion and makes it feel like porn.

I think that circumcision is fine the way it is handled now. Additionally, getting it done when young is less risky and heals more quickly than when the person is older. This is not necessarily true because, even though you call both procedures "circumcision", they are completely different...

I am a blonde, who tells blonde jokes, to blonde friends and coworkers. We all laugh. Who can you laugh at, if you can't laugh at yourself?

When I was at public school, like 2nd or 3rd grade, there were a group of black kids that always were beating up white kids, because there parents told them that white people all hated them. I never got beat up, but that was why my parents took me out of the public school and put me into a...