@Hami83: w00t to both of you! :D
Can you now play pool whenever you want, in your Home pod, without waiting forever? If not, then Home still suxxx....
@CeramicQuote: Kiss Me Deadly is perhaps one of the best of those listed above. Killer film.
Toothache or neuralgia are far more plausible explanations: cf. Occam's Razor.
Actually, no, the first thing I did was enter "Friendly" mode, go to Blackwater, posse up, and shoot a posse member's horse. Left posse, ditto the same.
It would be good to see the negative aspects of this covered, like Rockstar's endless need to split the player base, along with the good. Why you all couldn't have made private rooms will be beyond me....
It would be good to see the negative aspects of this covered, like Rockstar's endless need to split the player base, along with the good. Why you all couldn't have made private rooms will be beyond me....
@3in1Doctor: Not at all, we'll ride to the stars on a tide of celestial woo, producing garbage and rocket exhaust all the way to Gliese 581c or whatever new home we'll have found to ruin by then. Excelsior!
@RonnyRarko: They need to drop the "Portentous ImportantName" school of character development....
What's with the "Blame Washington" graffito on the cart? Zombies as Teabaggers? More easy anti-government paranoia? What gives?
@FortWaba: It's on maps and everything! :P
@FortWaba: Of course!
Afghanistan is not in the Middle East, nor has the American presence there been effective in any way (unless you consider increasing the Taliban's stranglehold over the region to have been effective). Fixed that for you.
@BoxOfScraps: You don't really know much about the Bible, do you?
@bob.averill: I haven't done those things because there are laws that forbid me to do those things. But the laws between states aren't so simple, or so often adhered to.
It's not cynicism to point out that the Earth faces a number of difficult, critical, likely game-changing and paradigm-shifting crises, anthropogenic climate change, resource depletion and energy shortages, and growing political instability in critical regions among them. It's not cynicism to point out that these are present-day crises, that they are not being met, and that they are undoubtedly more important than dreams of colonizing space. Not to mention other issues, of social justice, economic equality, etc. I mean, I understand it's futile to want these things solved before we venture into space: it's more that I'm really shocked that this rather far-off and ridiculous dream of transcending our origins and limitations takes greater precedence over real-life sci-fi disasters like those we face. I'm just not a kool-aid drinker on that one.
Oh, and what Hawking said about aliens destroying us and all.
It's not cynicism to point out that the Earth faces a number of difficult, critical, likely game-changing and paradigm-shifting crises, anthropogenic climate change, resource depletion and energy shortages, and growing political instability in critical regions among them. It's not cynicism to point out that these are present-day crises, that they are not being met, and that they are undoubtedly more important than dreams of colonizing space. Not to mention other issues, of social justice, economic equality, etc. I mean, I understand it's futile to want these things solved before we venture into space: it's more that I'm really shocked that this rather far-off and ridiculous dream of transcending our origins and limitations takes greater precedence over real-life sci-fi disasters like those we face. I'm just not a kool-aid drinker on that one.
Oh, and what Hawking said about aliens destroying us and all.
@Akitsu: Well, maybe, but reasonable population control measures would save those rainforests, as would rainforest-preservation policies with teeth, as would increased political and social pressure. Legislation or executive fiat could end strip mining far faster and cheaper than a space program. New technologies to filter air and waste don't need to be developed on Mars, and could be fast-tracked if we had the political will.
In short, a lot of the hoped-for outcomes that you claim continued space travel would bring could be done really quickly here on Earth, where we live and have our home, not up there in the vacuum. False transcendence. (And what of the further environmental damages that would be incurred by the further resource depletion and political, military, and economic consequences of further space exploration?) I'd say our greatest hope to repair damages we've made to the Earth is to simply stop hoping for a better tomorrow up there in the sky and to start doing something here and now. Space travel is great, but has to be weighed along with its costs, its feasibility, etc.: it's not some end-all panacea, especially not when we have a lot of pressing problems here right now.
In short, a lot of the hoped-for outcomes that you claim continued space travel would bring could be done really quickly here on Earth, where we live and have our home, not up there in the vacuum. False transcendence. (And what of the further environmental damages that would be incurred by the further resource depletion and political, military, and economic consequences of further space exploration?) I'd say our greatest hope to repair damages we've made to the Earth is to simply stop hoping for a better tomorrow up there in the sky and to start doing something here and now. Space travel is great, but has to be weighed along with its costs, its feasibility, etc.: it's not some end-all panacea, especially not when we have a lot of pressing problems here right now.
@bioball: O we'll continue to send our ships and other garbage out there, and perhaps be able to gain a toehold on another world. We'll certainly militarize space further, with who knows what consequences. If we're lucky, we'll find other worlds on which to re-enact our human dramas of competition, exploitation, warfare, and extermination.
What we won't do is somehow cheat death, or find utopia, or become members of a bloodless Federation dedicated to truth and justice. Space exploration for scientific reasons might perhaps justify the enormous cost, but it won't do much to alleviate some very intractable human problems.
What we won't do is somehow cheat death, or find utopia, or become members of a bloodless Federation dedicated to truth and justice. Space exploration for scientific reasons might perhaps justify the enormous cost, but it won't do much to alleviate some very intractable human problems.
Perhaps we'll finally learn to take care of what we have, and stop yearning for a false, impossible transcendence. Earth is our home, gravity our friend.
@Zonky: Is that like rifling on a bullet?
Note to everyone: the dreams were a handy excuse to have a lovely, hour-plus-long nested heist-fighting-snow sequence, one of the best-edited, -paced, -shot ever in the history of the medium--a landmark of action cinema. Nolan's said as much. All of this criticism about the dreams being unreal, or too rule-bound, etc., is missing the point: dreams were the excuse, not the focus, of the film. Cf. Hitchcock, where similar motifs--the wrong man, mistaken identity, the chase--are used as vehicles for stellar shots and film editing.
I'm getting really, really tired of people missing-ignoring this blatant, simple fact: Inception was a dream about movies, not a movie about dreams.
I'm getting really, really tired of people missing-ignoring this blatant, simple fact: Inception was a dream about movies, not a movie about dreams.
@rhmoon: And what better way to meet hate with festivity and cheer, fundamentalist statements like "YHWH hates X, Y, and Z" with SF-fantasy nonsense: imagine the Phelpsians' heads exploding. Great job, nerds!
Keep pushing the meme that the Bible is the first SF novel, and we've got this thing.
Keep pushing the meme that the Bible is the first SF novel, and we've got this thing.
@Tdawwgg: Or as Captain Ahab–Ricardo Montalban's Khan (both champion griefers) put it: "To the last, I grapple with thee; from Hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee." :D :D :D
