Recent content by midknight129

There's a notable exception to the "paler = better vitamin D production". Cultures that had diets that provided plenty of Vitamin D (particularly via fish oil) had no evolutionary advantage to having pale skin and no disadvantage to having dark skin. This is why Inuits, despite living WAY far...

Video games do have to be fun but with one caveat: they don't have to be fun for "everyone", just for "someone". Take the Bullet Hell genre, for example. Some people find it fun, for them, to play them. Many more, however, find them obnoxiously difficult and do not have fun playing. Some...

Would I play one? My wife and I are in the process of designing one. Sure, given that it has to work on a computer platform, the "numbers" will be there, but the actual in-game interface won't be "quantitative" at all. Most of the values will be completely hidden, and those that, by...

There's a game I play called "Dungeon Crawl". In this game, weights are in units of AUM which stands for Arbitrary Unit of Mass. Item weight in games like this are balanced from a gameplay aspect, not a realistic aspect. And this is as it should be.

I bet Notch has something to do with this... always ripping off Blizzard's work ^-^ How long till this becomes an Onion News Update?

There was an old SNES game called Inindo that did this. It took place in the Sengoku Jidai (Japanese Warring States Era) and as you played the game, different clans would fight and take over territory in the background. You could join these large-scale fights if you're in the right place at...

Keep in mind that while there are certain tendencies between the genders, each person is an individual. A particular woman may be physically stronger than a particular man (say a body-builder female vs a computer nerd male). That having been said: Men tend to be more aggressive and more...

You could equally make the case that Anime/Manga fandom is a big fetish; a very good portion of anime/manga is heavy on the fan-service. Anime/Manga is even more mainstream than the furry genre. But those fans don't have nearly the stigma that furry fans do. The shear fact of the matter is...

I'm either the shadow-king (Kyoya from Ouran Host Club) or I'm the Omniscient Narrator.

Of course there is. There's significant social pressure for one to eat if others around them are also eating. It's part of the social evolution that kept us alive for millions of years and is now slowly backfiring and killing us. Only the people capable of adapting to a new set of criteria...

This [http://www.atomic-robo.com/2010/12/22/internet-piracy-of-the-19th-century/]

Stereotypes originate when a certain subset of a population with certain negative qualities in common do as much as they can to draw attention to those flaws. Women with blonde hair who decide to forego practical education and instead rely on their looks gives the stereotype that blondes are...

Before you go asking this question, you need to comprehend what perfection is. Point 1: I strive to be perfect. Point 2: I know that no matter how good I get, I'll never reach perfection. Point 3: By always stretching closer and closer to a perfection that can't ever be reached, I attain...

Respecting animals is one thing; what PETA does is something else entirely. Even if they actually did what they claimed they stand for, their basic principal is fundamentally flawed. Animals aren't equal to humans; they are equitable to humans. Mere existence in today's society wouldn't be...

I know how to make hand-made chain armor. I loop metal wire around a bar using a handheld drill as a crank and a Dremel to cut the resulting spring into the little metal fruit loops, but after that it's just me and a pair of needle-nose pliers doing metal crochet.