TheMightyEthan

What is the name of that mod I want it

Have you ever known anyone to get pissed off when someone says "Merry Christmas"? The only anger I've ever seen wrt the greeting is when Christians flip the fuck out because someone says "Happy Holidays".

Masochists? I didn't think it was terrible. Way too goddamned short, but not terrible.

I agree it's silly, I was perfectly content to celebrate a secular Christmas in which we remember the birth of Santa, but whatever, it doesn't actually matter to me. But with her I don't think it's for attention because I don't think she plans to broadcast it, I think it's more just for the sake of intellectual honesty. Tangentially: I thought "happy Christmas" was the British saying, and "merry Christmas" was the American one. Was I wrong?

Yes and no. I talk about Desmond's situation at the start of this game, which necessarily implies something about the ending of the previous game, but I don't directly explain any plot points from earlier games.

Going back to the war on religion in this country, my wife informs me that we are no longer celebrating Christmas, we're celebrating the winter solstice. We now have a solstice tree and solstice lights and are giving each other solstice presents. I'm okay with this, except unlike Christmas I have to work on the solstice.

From what I understand about the nature of the bug it stems from the PS3's divided memory pool and the only way to "fix" it is just to not release it on PS3.

This is the position I would take.

lol, i'm sure it's a very nice phone

*Googles currency conversion* You spent $450 on a phone?! Jesus fucking christ on a bicycle...

I don't know what numbers you're looking at, but education costs are handled mostly by the states, so most of the money wouldn't show up on federal spending. *Edit* - I do agree that we don't spend enough on education though. I've seen studies (no I don't have links) that say that for every $1 you spend on education you save $6-7 in corrections (courts, prison, etc).

He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink, he drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink...

I don't like the Salvation Army specifically, but I do take your point, and I do give to charity. You can't honestly believe this can you? I mean, I can understand the argument that using government to cure social ills is less efficient and effective than private charity (I disagree but I understand it), but you can't honestly believe that government has never done any good at all, can you? It's not that I specifically desire to pay higher taxes, it's that I would be willing to do so in order to support better social programs. But the state of federal spending is such that I disagree with its priorities, and so I'm not just going to give them more money that they'll spend on something other than what I want them to. (To be clear: I pay my taxes, I'm not one of those crazy people who refuses to because they don't like what the government spends it on, I'm just not going to voluntarily give more.) Basically the crux of it is that I wish the government would do more to help people, and I would be willing to pay more in taxes in order to accomplish that. I don't have some desire to just give money to the government for the sake of giving money to the government. This I agree with 100%. ^5

@Battra: I don't want to get into an argument, but I do want to say that as someone who also goes to work daily to support his family I disagree with you. And no, I don't feel like America owes me anything. I look at this from the perspective of someone who makes more than the national median income and say that we, those who are well enough off, should do more to help those who aren't. That means that yes, I will vote for a candidate who promises to raise my taxes to support social programs. Don't assume that everyone who thinks that way does so because it would be a personal financial benefit to them, or that they feel they are owed something.

Yeah, the right acts like anything short of a Christian theocracy is persecution.

When I make another character I'm going to follow that guide that was posted earlier and make a cat brawler and go punch some motherfucking dragons in their motherfucking faces.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I bought it through Origin, which it appears doesn't auto-update games, so how do I get the patch? *Edit* - Also, sadly I think the only one of those skins I might want to use would be the Batman Beyond one. The TAS one is awesome but doesn't go with the aesthetic of the world at all.

I think he meant Netflix is ugly, and Netflix isn't Metro. I agree it's ugly, but it's still more usable than the PS3 version. At least you can see more than 3 movies on the screen at a time.

Yep, we'd call those crackers too.

Huh, when I read scone I always imagined something like a hard crescent roll (what the hell, the Wikipedia "crescent roll" article redirects to croissant, and I am definitely not talking about a croissant...), didn't realize it was just a regular old biscuit. *Edit* - This is what a crescent roll should look like:

By asking. "What kind" Acceptable responses include: chocolate chip oatmeal Oreos snicker doodles sugar cookies ginger bread peanut butter etc etc *Edit* - lol, looks like I was third in line.

A chocolate chip cookie? Unless you're talking about the things on the left, in which case they have a name but I can't think of it off the top of my head, but it's still considered a type of cookie. We'd call the things in the middle ginger bread men too, but all a ginger bread man is is a ginger bread cookie that's shaped like a man.

Yeah, they're definitely more of a cracker texture than a cookie (which I believe is what you're referring to when you say biscuit). And you haven't lived until you've had s'mores.

I see you got the child-killer mod.