Recent content by marcus75

Theoretically, the two are opposing social views. In practice, there tends to be more similarity than difference, mostly because socialist/communist systems are wide-open to the kind of abuse of power that fascism openly encourages. The biggest real-world difference between the two is pretense...

Totally depends on the book, although I tend to purposely take longer to read novels than I "have" to. 371wpm @ 100% comprehension. I can't make myself actually "speed-read" although I know how; I just don't like skimming.

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Younger and younger kids have access to larger and larger amounts of disposable income. Kids are dumb, so the more influence they have in any area the dumber it's going to be. As their childhood tastes are increasingly catered to, the push to develop more sophisticated tastes as they grow older...

Agree completely, for one example one of the most emotional moments in a videogame for me is in Shadow of the Colossus when the horse falls. To what degree X-Com is "attaching" probably depends a lot on the player (for example, if you - like me - always renamed your squads after your friends...

Most of that funding goes to R & D, it's not a reflection of importance so much as it is a reflection of how much more expensive it is to develop, build, and maintain a large number of top-of-the-line aircraft than say, ships or tanks or rifles.

Needs an all of the above option, not only because all branches do a little of everything, but there's so much interdependency between branches now. I don't agree that the Marines are 'more important' (even though my brother is a Marine), they are probably the most balanced branch of the...

Even if you can't "win", fighting back still deters most bullies because they only want to pick on easy targets. Sure, you'll probably take one thrashing, maybe a couple, but would you rather carry some bumps and bruises for a couple of weeks or keep reliving the current situation until...

X-COM: UFO Defense (PC) all else pales

Right, and Hugh Hefner is a business genius because he figured out "Guys like to look at tits"