TheMightyEthan

I think Noire is fine. The only reason the style is called "noir" is because "film" is a masculine noun in French, so you use the masculine form of the adjective. "L.A." is a city, so is feminine, so you use the feminine form. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

I accept that there is true randomness in the universe (the decay of radioactive isotopes, etc) because the maths say its random. If someone were to discover new maths that explain the randomness as actually being deterministic, however, then I would no longer accept it as random. As for the Higgs boson, the reason they say it has to exist is because the Standard Model theory of quantum mechanics predicts that it would exist, and that theory is the most wildly successful scientific theory of all time. It has yet to make a prediction that was disproved. Granted the Higgs boson could be the first thing that the Standard Model got wrong, and then the theory would have to be refined, but a theory with as much evidentiary support as the SM is not going to be abandoned lightly.

This. Even that wouldn't convince me, I would more readily accept that I had had a psychotic break and was hallucinating or that it was aliens with "sufficiently advanced technology" or something else entirely, but in any event that it had a natural explanation. This is not to say, however, that I am 100% sure that there is no god, it's just that the existence of a god is not supported by anything I've ever experienced and in the absence of evidence I'm not going to assume there is a god. There's no leap of faith involved, however. As for the above situation, while it may appear that I am firmly convinced that there is no god based on my reaction, it's just that I can adequately explain the event without requiring the assumption that it is in fact a god.

Wikipedia doesn't seem to know either. *Edit* - Apparently it was last done in 1708 though, so it's not exactly a huge issue...

What happens if the Queen refuses to ratify a law? *Edit* - To keep this post from being entirely off-topic: While was far as spirituality goes I'm atheist (technically agnostic, but atheist in practice), philosophically I'm a secular humanist.

Question: if a straight couple wants to get "married" but they don't want any church to have anything to do with it, then is it a marriage there or is it a civil partnership?

Too Human was terrible. Please never speak of it again.

I take issue with this viewpoint: it's not a choice. If it were a choice then I would choose to believe in God and seek forgiveness from Him for my sins and whatnot, because as people so often point out that is the "safer" option. However, regardless of how appealing a belief is, or how much I might truly want to believe it, I cannot will myself to belief something that just doesn't make any sense to me. Disclaimer: if my tone comes across as hostile I assure you that I do not mean it to be. Wait, it's the *safer* option? You're not falling for the fallacy of Pascal's Wager, are you? Because just choosing to believe in God A isn't safe if it's really God B who's running the show. Pascal's Wager assumes that Christianity is the only viable alternative to atheism, and that there aren;t a myriad of different Christianities whose doctrines are all at odds and would send the adherents of other doctrines to an afterlife of torment. People can believe whatever nonsense they want; I'm firmly of the opinion that the majority of foundational beliefs of any person are essentially arational (though atheism itself is rational). Pascal's Wager's blatant fallaciousness really gets my goat, though. Actually my specific statement is based on the assumption that even if there is a "god" (or "gods") all religions are wrong, but that a common thread in many of them is that you need to worship him (or them). So worshiping "god" (or "the gods") in general is the safer option, not any specific religion. *Edit* - I will admit that I am predisposed toward Abrahamic religions since they have been in my face my whole life, but if I were to "choose" to become spiritual/religious I actually find animistic beliefs much more appealing.

I take issue with this viewpoint: it's not a choice. If it were a choice then I would choose to believe in God and seek forgiveness from Him for my sins and whatnot, because as people so often point out that is the "safer" option. However, regardless of how appealing a belief is, or how much I might truly want to believe it, I cannot will myself to belief something that just doesn't make any sense to me. Disclaimer: if my tone comes across as hostile I assure you that I do not mean it to be.

No, I just bolded it to make clear that that was the part that amused me so much. I know what he was saying.

Okay, thanks. I'll stay away from it then, as I'm sure it would just end up being another entry in the backlog.

lmao @ "There's nobody left who isn't American who goes 'No, no, Genesis is historical FACT!'"

I'm debating Mafia 2, it's on Steam for $7.50 (75% off), but I would like to hear if it's worth it.

They threw her DS away? Like in the trash? WTF?

Mafia 2 is $7.50 on Steam... worth it?

Nitpicky, I know, but even if you let the Council die you can still be reinstated as a Spectre as long as you picked Anderson to be the human Councilor.

This. Violence in games has never bothered me at all. This past summer I was driving home from a meeting in a nearby town with my grandfather (I was interning at his law office) and this couple on a motorcycle passed us, neither wearing helmets (which I actually commented on as they passed us). About 5 miles up the road we come across a wreck where apparently somebody in a car had pulled out across the road in front of the motorcycle. We were the first people on the scene. The people in the car were fine but both of the people on the motorcycle were semi-conscious and laying on their backs on the ground, moaning and trying feebly to get up, broken glass and blood everywhere. Nothing in a game has ever bothered me, but that was really disturbing; I felt weird (can't think of a better way to articulate it) for a couple of days after that.

lol, is that Matt from Heroes? He would most def be overpowered.

lol, I'm at the university right now on the free wireless, and clicking on that informs me that this IP was banned from 4chan last year for posting child porn. Way to go, college students!

But "dawdle" means to be unnecessarily slow/lingering, which is different from how Hottie used "doddle".

That is so cool.

We have "piece of cake" and "easy peasy" (or the longer "easy peasy lemon squeezy"), but I've never heard "doddle" before. We also say "easy as pie", which just the other day I was commenting to my fiancee about how it doesn't make any goddamned sense.

Another contender: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gdc-11-dead-island/710652 You can watch it in chronological order here: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/cinematic-trailer-dead-island/710674

I've played through ME2 like 4 times, and I still can't decide what the morally "right" option is in Legion's loyalty mission.