Recent content by yrogerg

Somewhat more thorough fact-check above, but this one stood out: http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_bill_clinton_pass_up_a_chance_1.html Err, not so much.

So, umm, has anyone yet pointed out the irony of using Duchamp's The Fountain as the prototypical example of What's Wrong With Modern Art, when the *whole point* of Duchamp's surrealist sculptures, of which The Fountain was the flagship, was basically to shit on the idea of art itself, by saying...

TRUE FACT And here before, I just thought it was only [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Rising] okay to hit go to malls and hit people with baseball bats, book cases, soccer balls, push brooms, a mannequin... Oh yeah, and also to shoot them sometimes, too. While taking their pictures...

Honestly, I'd be pretty receptive to the criticism that the interactivity of video games makes them somewhat different from movies, novels, and the like, though even there, one would have to argue that this is somehow different and worse than everything that's come before, such as GTA, Fallout...

Honestly, I'm pretty sure that's mostly because we try really, really hard to trace the lineage of medieval Europe back to Rome, rather than to the Franks, Goths, Vandals, et al, who were hovelling it up for quite some time even before Rome's decline and fall. I'll concede that from the...

Hugh Laurie does a pretty impressive job, as every single person has already mentioned. But, I can't be the only one who gets a kick out of playing "spot the break in the accent" with that show. He almost invariably does while singing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn9TIotXjjY], for example...

Nothing beats a LAN Halo deathmatch between zombies, Jesus, a pirate, and Nietchze. And, yes, my friends and I have done that before.

It might just be me, but I've generally found that tattoos on women are either a) hot or b) kinda freaky and weird, but also still pretty hot actually. Depending on the tattoo. And the woman.

It's the internet. There's only one direction a thread involving pot could ever go, and that's into a legalization argument.

Except that hemp's a substantially different beast from Marijuana- different subspecies of the same species, yes, but hemp has minimal THC content, and the two plants don't even look alike. Cannabis sativa sativa is and was used for clothing, sails, paper, etc. Cannabis sativa indica, on...

How about an answer of "Very few games ever deserve an AO rating, as the amount of sexual content/nudity (and it's ALWAYS sexual content and/or nudity) in games that the ESRB rates AO very often manages to fall short of what would push a movie into an R rating, much less NC-17. And that itself...

There's a strong argument for having it be an opt-out thing rather than an opt-in thing, purely in terms of number of organ donors. Organ donations tend to be remarkably scarce, partly because it depends on someone dying in a very particular way, and having a substantial number of compatible...

Until very recently, tobacco was one of the most unregulated products out there. Well, along with guns, perhaps. Up until this year, tobacco and alcohol were the ONLY two things you could put in your body that were a) legal and b) utterly unregulated by the FDA. Alcohol still is, once again...

Powerful financial interests, and also legacy reasons? <.<

This, pretty much. In my case, I'm not more than 1/8th any particular nationality. I identify with particular bits of my parents' culture that was communicated to them by their parents, who filtered their own cultures, etc. etc, going back through 3 generations of multi-ethnic parents. I do...