Recent content by Viking67

That sounds sensible. With the passage of Obamacare, they're starting to standardize what is and isn't covered through health insurance plans, and I'm not completely up-to-date in that respect. I get my insurance through my part-time job in the reserve armed forces, so it's very cheap (just...

I do, and my insurance is way cheaper than $250 a month or whatever it was in the game. Can't speak for other jobs though.

This. Maybe it's just that I hang around with people that aren't complete morons, but for all its supposed popularity I haven't met a single person that watches Jersey Shore for any other reason than to go "Haha! Look at these idiots!"

I love the smile you gave him.

This is only marginally related to the topic, but whenever I play my friend's PS3 and a little "press X to whatever" indicator appears, I always get mixed up because the PS3's blue X button is in a different spot than the 360's blue X button.

She turned the son of god into a monkey? Are we sure she was trying to restore the painting and not making an artistic statement about evolution?

I didn't know enough about logic to know that that was a logical fallacy, but in psychology we call that the fundamental attribution bias (or actor-observer bias), and it's something we humans do all the time without realizing it (some people more than others, of course). If you're interested in...

"Nothing to be done." "I'm beginning to come round to that opinion."

And it only took about three pages of text!

That's lame, bro :P Go again, I won't tell anyone. I got acidic blood. The suicide bomber of superpowers.

WARNING: WALL OF TEXT INCOMING OK, I'm going to try to defy internet tradition and actually just give you my counter-viewpoint and attempt to not come across as a condescending dick. I still might, but if I do, it's not intentional, and I'm not trying to belittle you. For most of this I'm...

You know to pass basic training, recruits have to be able to qualify with their rifle (iron sights, no zoom) on a range that includes targets at 250m and 300m away? EDIT: OK, to be fair, getting headshots at that range without a scope is more luck than anything else, but at that range without...

Or how about, Peter Parker just happens gets bit by a radioactive spider that just happens to give him superpowers somehow :P (seriously, the odds of that very particular genetic mutation occurring are way more slim than two people happening to work at the same place). I was planning on...

Ever read any Peter Farb, or Daniel Quinn? "Intensification of production to feed an increased population leads to a still greater increase in population."

I think this is relevant (don't draw too many conclusions from the title).