Addison Clark Vulcan is a terrible name for a boy. Its a girl's name! It has no sense of respectability or authority about it and hes just bound to become a target for bullies.
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You win, this is hilarious.OlasDAlmighty said:
OT: Murder is a horrible crime that should be opposed and punished.
An argument thread and nobody has posted the argument sketch? Escapist, I am disappoint.
On topic: Nerd culture has become diluted in recent years, as evidenced by the fact that the thread got to two pages before somebody made the obvious Monty Python reference. Your move.
While your other counter arguements have seemed pretty well done, I must say this counter arguement hardly seems countering, only saying others could have also been as influential as him to do the same job. Hardly a refute, more of a qualify.Saladfork said:
Aww... And here I was ready to jump in with "You started a thread on the Escapist forums in which you argue with people."Saladfork said:
Fair enough, except that the small playerbase of any region other than Japan, which has about the same prices as EU but is naturally locked by language anyway, practically breaks the multiplayer. Armoured Core V has a persistent online territory system that works well in Japan, but basically gives way to boosting and grinding everywhere else due to a predictable lack of players. Furthermore, you can import the game and play on that region's server, and Australia (part of EU) is not region locked within itself, allowing me to import a copy for even my own region at about half the price.Saladfork said:
Why, no, of corse not. Today was a training day at work, so I got to sleep in later than usual and I ended up doing far less work.Busfull said:
Most private settings expect at least some degree of 'decency' from the employees and customers that go there. If, for example, you were to go to a restaurant and proceed to bellow out your conversations at ten times normal volume, you would likely be thrown out for the impoliteness you are showing everyone else there. There are several different expressions of disrespect that won't be tolerated in the interests of keeping a pleasant place.mjcabooseblu said:
Now, profanity is, by its' very nature, rude. I think most would agree that randomly throwing it into your statements will throw people off at the very least. It usually implies either disrespect or familiarity with the person you're talking to, and when talking to people you only know in a professional setting, or people you don't know at all, the only way they'll think to take it is as disrespect, and like most such signs, will not be tolerated.
That arguement implies that being a politician is largely a genetic factor. Since there have been no attempts to find a 'politician gene' (a _______ gene is kind of a misnomer but I'll go with it anyway) so I will have to go with the null hypothesis on that.Madbomber said:
The second part was a question, not a statement, but to the first, Schrodinger actually cae up with the cat analogy as a way to describe how ridiculous he found the concept to be (he wasn't a fan of it).
You, sir, are a cruel man.Akytalusia said:
I have a pop-up blocker which primarily serves the purpose of blocking unwanted ad pop-ups, so it could be said to be an ad-blocker.
The legality of downloading copyrighted aterial differs fro region toregion. Some actions I may have taken could be considered illegal if I had done them in other areas of the world.
Lastly, while I quite like most everyone connected to it, the website itself isn't particularily well-designed or anything. It serves its' purpose, I suppose, but it certainly isn't the model of efficency that I would consider 'great'.
I mentioned before that I believe that anything that can be done could technically be considered art. It would hardly be reasonable to decry Inception, or Planescape: Torment, or Nightwish's Last of the Wilds as pretentious garbage.trty00 said:
I have heard some arguments that all modern art is derivative, but that argument fails to acknowledge that all old art is derivative as well. Everyone is inspired by somebody else, at least to some extent.
Another argument I hear is that, while we do get the occasional gem, there sure is a lot more crap nowadays. What this argument fails to acknowledge is that there was a lot of crap in pretty much every period in history. The difference is that the crap gets forgotten over time, while the great stuff lives on; we're essentially cherry-picking from the entirity of history.
The Los Angeles Kings are the favorites to win the Stanley Cup once the NHL resumes, given that they turned in the most dominant playoff performance in recent memory and their entire cup-winning roster is back this season.
Also...
Daniel Craig is the best Bond.
Also...
Daniel Craig is the best Bond.
Greatness is, as is so many other things, subjective. If you wanted to be really technical about it, it could be expressed as a function, f(x)= x - z, where x is the number of cool things about you and z is the number of uncool things about you. Now, many of those traditionally considered 'great' (Napoleon, Bismark, Caesar, etc.) have had their lives studied rigorously by historians, which means that while x was indeed very large, we also find a lot of other things that didn't come up in public very much, like perhaps how somebody kicked puppies or was extremely racist or was a sadist or something, which increases z quite a bit as well.ThePS1Fan said:
Applying modern morality to these figures would likely result in a net loss of coolness, meaning that somebody who was completely neutral (f(x)=0) would be cooler by virtue of not being negative.
Now then, what do we know about you:
-You frequent the Escapist - That's alright
-You watch Zero Punctuation - that's pretty cool
-You like the PS1 - Retro gamer, that's alright
-You're Canadian - As one myself, I have to respect that
-You have no warnings on your account - That's good, you can be civil
-You're participating in a debate thread - Gotta respect that.
So that's all those positive things we know about you, and no negatives that I can find, which puts you as a pretty great person to us.
At least until we found out that you perform biopsies on stray cats or something.
Well, I would first say that the correlation so far seems based off of anecdotal evidence. I've never met them, of course, but I've never heard any reports of Leonardo di Vinci, Michealangelo, Shakespeare or Hitchcock being tormented in any great capacity. That's not to say that you don't get people like that at all, like for example Poe or Van Gogh, but to say that they were all in intense emotional pain seems like a bit of a hyperbole.glchicks said:
I'm sitting here doing a job that can easily be done while arguing with people on the internets at the same time, while trying to find an exercise schedule that I won't just stop doing two days in so I can lose the Freshman 15 I put on... two years ago.WanderingFool said:
Besides, there's no possible way anyone could be as cool as Daystar Clarion.
