TheMightyEthan

Man, I am so out of touch with the Batman lore...

That would be my point. You can only argue against something being God's will if you already don't believe it was God's will. If you do believe it was God's will then no matter what happens you can just say it was because it was God's will. It reminds me of a time when there was a bad avalanche across I-70 in Colorado, but luckily earlier in the day a tractor-trailer had jack-knifed across the highway, blocking traffic so no cars were in the part that had the avalanche, when ordinarily there would have been dozens of cars there. My mom said it must have been God's will. When I asked what about all the other avalanches that aren't fortuitously saved by a jack-knifed semi she said that the lord works in mysterious ways.

Nuclear reactors in quake zones should be built on giant shock absorbers like the command center at NORAD is.

I'll stick to my ball-point pens, tyvm.

I'm going to preface this by informing you that I'm an atheist. But for the sake of argument, how can you be sure that it wasn't God's will that allowed the Jews to bring this plan to fruition? Just because it was directly accomplished by the hand of man does not mean it was not God's will that made it so.

Yeah, I mean obviously if the word can change meaning one way there's nothing stopping it from changing back, it just takes enough people switching to the other meaning.

From what I hear, arbitarty, the consensus is "wait for a price drop." What's there is pretty good, but there's not enough there to justify a full-price game. That's just what I've heard though, I haven't played it myself.

I began to seriously question it at "whimsy films mark and scribblers", became more sure with "cold on a cob", and then knew something was definitely up with "rooty-tooty point and shooty".

Gordon Freeman is a non-character...

So, I have a question about No Man's Land (just read the plot summary on Wikipedia): Why does an earthquake make the government decide to quarantine Gotham? That part isn't made very clear. It just says Seems like there's a gap in the reasoning there.

Ah yeah, I've heard California has bad roads.

Could you elaborate on this? I'm not sure I understand.

Fireworks go off here too.

From the BAFTA thread: An American would say "going on" there.

Well that would be annoying if I used Steam on more than one computer...

"going off" (UK) = "going on" (US)

It only works with Intel processors though, right?

I'm surprised Halo Reach wasn't at least nominated for best original music, especially considering that both Fable III and Mass Effect 2 are on there. Music never seemed like an especially strong point of either of those games to me.

Like dean, my favorite characters are all characters I've created. I don't think that counts, though, so I'll have to think about it some more.

What state do you live in Enervation? In Kansas we have great roads. Even the minor highways are kept in great shape. I don't think it has anything to do with work ethic (and I actually find that assertion vaguely racist), I think it has everything to do with how much money the government is willing to spend on it.

Yeah, US English and UK English are different dialects, not different languages. And I wasn't saying that "entree" means the main course in English as a whole, I was saying it means the main course in US English, and that's not "wrong". Just like it's not wrong that in the US "pants" means outerwear and in the UK it means underwear, it's just different.

Je parle un peu de Francais. J'ai eu trois ans de le en ecole. I'm not sure I got all the conjugation right, and I didn't care enough to use accents, but there you go.

Stuff will happen in 2012, perhaps even world-changing stuff, but it has nothing to do with the Mayan calendar, and it won't be the "end of the world."

Again, origins are irrelevant. Sure it was a French word, but it has been adopted and given a new meaning, and is now an English word. Jebus guys, learn how language works.

You're correct, that's why I said "100 years". The early twentieth century was approximately 100 years ago. Also the origins are irrelevant, what matters now is how it's used. You might want to check the American dictionary definition. As I said, if it's been used "wrong" for that long, it's not wrong anymore, that's just what it means.