Recent content by Mighty the Moose

Less bugs, better performance, and a game that doesn't require the aid of player mods to be truly excellent.

It seems that you are incorrectly treating animal welfare and human-centric social welfare as a zero-sum game. It's not one or the other. Yes, it is absurd how poorly our attempts to alleviate human suffering have failed. That does not mean, however, there is no room to conduct ourselves...

How completely juvenile and trite your points are. I recently heard a 14-year old spout an analogously inane set of "arguments" a few days ago. I smiled and gave him a pat on the head as he was coming into his intellectual own and was the son of a friend. And of course you didn't answer...

And this point is supposed to justify her behavior? It is one thing stating that human lives are intrinsically more valuable than non-human ones, its something else entirely to state that cruelty to animals is acceptable. I hope that is not what you are implying... Also, with which...

Ahhh moral relativism. And in a thread about the Nazis and the Taliban to boot! So completely asinine, yet somehow endearingly quaint. Bravo! *clap* *clap*

As a proud American, I find the numbers in the Newsweek article both depressing and completely unsurprising. Here is some more grist for the mill: around 20% of Americans cannot name the country against which we found the War of Independence. . . . USA! USA!

Going out back and jerking off a pig seems like a lot of work because the customer complained about the rat shit in his coffee.

Black Star by Mos Def and Talib Kweli Vinyl Record [Original '98 Pressing] Considering that I bought the near mint album used for $30 at a garage sale and it sells on Amazon for up to $400, I would say definitely worth the money. Another album to add to my collection of outrageously...

Doesn't Mountain Dew contain trace amounts of pig semen?

I was a sophomore in college when 9/11 occurred. Looking at the replies makes me feel old, slightly indignant and perhaps even little jealous. God bless the oblivious stupidity of children I suppose.

Civilization 2. The original XCOM: UFO Defense and its sequel, Terror from the Deep. Spent 100's of hours playing those three games. I can't think of any recent games that I've bothered to play through more than once.

I believe you are conceptually conflating 'Quality of Life' (often defined within the context of Developmental Theory) with 'Standard of Living' (which is indeed derived from average income, or more accurately, GNI per capita). Price indexes are incorporated if there is a need to distinguish...

In all my years surfing the interwebs, I believe you are the third person I've met who has not liked Planescape: Torment. In honor of this mythical sighting: I know it sucks, was a 3 min job. OT: Mass Effect 2 is the most recent game that has deeply disappointed me.

Those are worldwide numbers (very interesting though), I was centristically referring to the US market only. http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly.php?reg=America&date=40398&console=& 34.4 Million Wii's shipped as of 08/07/2010 24.3 Million Xbox360's shipped 14.7 Million PS3's Shipped

What do you guys think? That apparently I'm a relatively shallow gamer, as my sense of immersion increases proportionally with the beauty of romantic leads. Frankly, vanilla Morrigan and Leliana were deadly boring in their unremarkable, plain-faced mediocrity. Should BioWare patch her...