TheMightyEthan

Another equally valid contender for the "original definition" of marriage (to the extent that such a thing exists or is meaningful) is 1 high-social-status man and several women.

That's pre-op Femshep.

At 1:06 that video has the clip of Anderson telling Shep she's reinstated that I was trying to find earlier. Though the one I'd seen before was Broshep.

It didn't for me either.

I actually found the dialog choice shown to be extremely interesting. Assuming that's representative (I know, big assumption) it makes it seem like what you say will have a larger effect, and you won't just be using paragon or renegade options to get to the same ultimate outcome. That's very exciting indeed. I'm with FDS regarding characters. I love seeing explanations of mechanics, but I want nothing to ruin any part of the story (I was actually a little sad when I accidentally read that Ashley is a Spectre now, that's more spoiler than I want). *Edit* - That customized arsenal video is very exciting too. I wish I had the willpower to go on a media blackout for this game, I really do, but I'm just too damned excited about it.

You just made my day! Seriously, if they were like "You can have this game right now if you add another 50% to the price" I would totally do that.

Yeah, that's actually how it came up, dean was telling me how to get to a certain option and I asked him if it really said "Under the Bonnet" in the UK version.

Yeah, I was just trying to explain the "standard" to the extent there is one.

Ah, nm then.

Going back to the legal side of things, my view is that it's not the law's job to prohibit people from committing sins, it's just the law's job to prohibit people from hurting other people.

"Under the Hood"

There are plenty of things the bible classifies as sins that most Christians don't consider sins anymore (like wearing clothes made out of two different types of fabric, to name the most commonly used example), so just because some Christians consider it a sin doesn't mean that all do. At its core being Christian just means that you believe Jesus Christ is the son of the One True God and that the path to salvation is through Him, everything else differs from denomination to denomination and person to person. Also, and I'm not trying to be argumentative here, honest curiosity: does the Bible mention homosexuality being a sin outside of Leviticus? *Edit* - I don't know of anyone (except maybe Westboro Baptist Church) who considers being gay a sin, what they consider a sin is the homosexual sex, and a lot of them only consider it a sin because it's not within a marriage.

Didn't that just release 2 days ago?

It's "the Systems Alliance" not "the Human Alliance", jeese, get it right! *Edit* - I think my favorite part is "Anyway this store is great, it is my favorite store."

I'm pretty sure they did it at our wedding.

I thought it was a new trailer, you got my hopes up. It was awesome nonetheless, though.

PC also has the advantage of ubiquitous piracy as a kind of "backup" option if your purchased content becomes unplayable at some point in the future.

Played them, didn't especially interest me. They weren't bad, they just weren't all that great either.

The term "license" isn't really what it implies. The only time you'd be denied it is if you're blood or adoptive relatives of first cousin or closer degree (or anyone in your direct line of descent/ancestry). *Edit* - Actually, depending on the state, it's only siblings or direct descent/ancestry that can't get married. I know Colorado allows first cousins.

I enjoyed putting neon blue lights under my imaginary car a little too much, I think.

The only Need For Speeds I've ever liked were Underground and Underground 2.

Yes and no. If you just do a religious ceremony that doesn't mean anything legally speaking. The typical procedure is you go to the county courthouse and get a marriage license which is good after a 3-day waiting period, then you take that marriage license to the church and after the ceremony the married couple, the "officiant", and two witnesses sign the marriage license, at which point you are legally married. Then you have to file the marriage license back at the court house. You can also have a judge perform the marriage, but the procedure is the same except you do it in a courthouse (typically, though you could do it wherever you wanted) instead of a church and there's usually less ceremony associated with it.

I'm one of those who's pussied out. I used to have an eyebrow stud but took it out when was trying to get an internship sophomore year of college so I could look "respectable", and I have a tattoo but I specifically got it on my right shoulder blade so it would be covered unless I wasn't wearing a shirt. *Edit* - That's your body telling you it's a bad idea to ram bits of metal through it.

I don't know about elsewhere but in the US marriage is a civil institution in addition to a religious one, and legalizing gay marriage wouldn't require churches to perform them, it would have no effect on the religious practice.

I can understand opposing abortion because if you believe babies are being murdered then yeah, you should probably try to stop that. I don't share that belief but given that you have it your opposition seems justified. With gay marriage though I am firmly of the opinion that if you don't like it then don't get one and shut the fuck up. Trying to prohibit gay marriage is nothing other than trying to enforce your beliefs on others and that goes against everything this country is supposed to stand for. Also, apparently this ruling is narrower than it first appeared. What the court actually said was that since California has civil unions, which have all the same legal rights as marriage, barring them from actually being "married" was served no purpose other than to discriminate against them, and the court said you can't do that. It didn't address the question of whether the state would be required to give gay couples all the same rights as straight couples, it just said given that the state is doing that it can't deny them the term "marriage."