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Mario Chat / Re: Luigi's Mansion 2
« on: July 30, 2012, 09:17:23 PM »
By the way, I really liked the product placement in Pikmin 2.
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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Anti-Gun Laws Having The Opposite Effect (Clearly)
« on: July 29, 2012, 11:10:38 PM »Quote
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.I will never understand why Madison thought this was a good way to use commas. At that point, it's not even really a sentence anymore.
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Video Game Chat / Re: Xenoblade Chronicles
« on: July 27, 2012, 10:39:01 PM »
I'm getting kind of burned out on a part quite a ways further than that, though I'm also about 50 hours in because I've barely scratched the surface of the sidequests. This part has a lot of stuff that feels fillery and tedious, and the enemies are less interesting to look at, and the hub world is less vibrant, and the story's getting a little hard to follow (though that's partly just because I'm playing less frequently instead of four hours a day every day, and also because I can be pretty lousy at following stories anyway). I'm pretty close to the end, though.
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Forum Games / Re: What's on your Paste?
« on: July 26, 2012, 09:49:31 PM »
The end of the world occurred much as we had predicted -- the world was plunged into an abyss of balefire and dark magic. The details are trivial and pointless. The reasons, as always, purely our own. The world was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing; a magical spark struck by pony hooves quickly raged out of control. Megaspells rained from the skies. Entire lands were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Ponykind was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the ambient radiation that blanketed the lands. A quiet darkness fell across the world...
…But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue for another bloody chapter in pony history. In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters known as Stables. But when they emerged, they had only the hell of the wastes to greet them. All except those in Stable Two. For on that fateful day when spellfire rained from the sky, the giant steel door of Stable Two swung closed, and never re-opened.
…But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue for another bloody chapter in pony history. In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters known as Stables. But when they emerged, they had only the hell of the wastes to greet them. All except those in Stable Two. For on that fateful day when spellfire rained from the sky, the giant steel door of Stable Two swung closed, and never re-opened.
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Forum Games / Re: The Pointless Topic!
« on: July 26, 2012, 10:12:37 AM »
Maybe it's Nin (short for Nintendo) + Jap (short for you're a racist) + a number.
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Forum Games / Re: The Pointless Topic!
« on: July 25, 2012, 08:05:56 PM »
I always read Ninjap00 as Ninja Poo.
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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Anti-Gun Laws Having The Opposite Effect (Clearly)
« on: July 24, 2012, 06:48:19 PM »
In a broad sense, I don't object to the logic of "If we outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns." The theater was a gun-free zone, which in the end only meant that none of the victims had guns.
HOWEVER, this theater being a gun-free zone had nothing to do with the government. The theater owners chose to enact a rule banning guns on their privately-owned property. Permit laws and whatnot may or may not affect public school shootings, but it could not have had an effect on this shooting, or any other shooting on private property, unless we were to enact laws making it illegal to not allow people to bring guns onto your private property -- which is not an avenue I think most sane Americans want to go down.
PERHAPS it's possible, though, that if we did ease up on gun laws and people got used to concealed weapons being legally carried at schools and other government buildings, private property owners (malls, churches, theaters) might feel more comfortable and ease up on their privately-enacted weapons policies in time, though this could take a generation or more.
BUT, all things being equal, if someone gets shot in my store, I'm less likely to be legally liable for it if I had a rule banning guns outright posted clearly at the door. Now, it's possible that if a good guy had had a gun in that situation, he might have shot the bad guy before the bad guy shot the innocent guy -- but even if that happened, that could potentially open as much or more legal trouble. If the good guy shot the bad guy too early, there's still a murder/manslaughter to clean up, and the victim(s)' family(s) can now try to make the argument that I fostered a dangerous environment by encouraging everyone to bring their guns to my CD store.
Target isn't going to be okay with people bringing guns into their stores. Whether or not it's safer in an individual store, it's much safer legally for the corporation to not be encouraging everyone nationwide to bring in all manner of weapons, and rather than get into drawing lines of saying exactly which types of knives and guns and crossbows are okay to bring into which stores, it's much easier to just issue a blanket weapon ban. Same with other chain stores. Now who wants to be the one store in the strip mall that doesn't ban weapons? If your customers do bring their guns to your store, now they can't finish the rest of their shopping.
HOWEVER, this theater being a gun-free zone had nothing to do with the government. The theater owners chose to enact a rule banning guns on their privately-owned property. Permit laws and whatnot may or may not affect public school shootings, but it could not have had an effect on this shooting, or any other shooting on private property, unless we were to enact laws making it illegal to not allow people to bring guns onto your private property -- which is not an avenue I think most sane Americans want to go down.
PERHAPS it's possible, though, that if we did ease up on gun laws and people got used to concealed weapons being legally carried at schools and other government buildings, private property owners (malls, churches, theaters) might feel more comfortable and ease up on their privately-enacted weapons policies in time, though this could take a generation or more.
BUT, all things being equal, if someone gets shot in my store, I'm less likely to be legally liable for it if I had a rule banning guns outright posted clearly at the door. Now, it's possible that if a good guy had had a gun in that situation, he might have shot the bad guy before the bad guy shot the innocent guy -- but even if that happened, that could potentially open as much or more legal trouble. If the good guy shot the bad guy too early, there's still a murder/manslaughter to clean up, and the victim(s)' family(s) can now try to make the argument that I fostered a dangerous environment by encouraging everyone to bring their guns to my CD store.
Target isn't going to be okay with people bringing guns into their stores. Whether or not it's safer in an individual store, it's much safer legally for the corporation to not be encouraging everyone nationwide to bring in all manner of weapons, and rather than get into drawing lines of saying exactly which types of knives and guns and crossbows are okay to bring into which stores, it's much easier to just issue a blanket weapon ban. Same with other chain stores. Now who wants to be the one store in the strip mall that doesn't ban weapons? If your customers do bring their guns to your store, now they can't finish the rest of their shopping.
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Mario Chat / Re: Real-life Nintendoland!
« on: July 20, 2012, 12:58:25 AM »Quote
Physically Augmented Reality...Wouldn't that just be reality?
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Forum Games / Re: You support, you lose
« on: July 15, 2012, 05:35:24 PM »This is stupid.I lost.
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Forum Games / Re: The Pointless Topic!
« on: July 12, 2012, 08:45:48 PM »
Fat Liver Lee.
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