Were it an honest celebration of life, tempered with an understanding of what was truly lost? No. However, your celebration is cheapened with nationalism, and a refusal to consider victims other than those associated with your country. Do you even understand that the wars themselves were...

Because celebration without thought and understanding leads to insular, ignorant attitudes. And that leads to further conflict.

The public perceives soldiers as unadulterated heroes, and removes from them responsibility. They don't choose who they're fighting. They're giving their lives for our freedoms. They're beyond reproach. At least that's how they're perceived until a particular war falls from public favour. The...

I've got this.

Oh, I don't know . . . he gets an E for imagination, anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31M_MdSVxV8

Van's always had potential, and it's good to see him realizing it. There's a ways to go yet, but with the mouse changes he'll be better prepared to progress. I should've noticed the mouse issue earlier, especially with his MechWarrior LL abilities approaching mine; surpassing them, even - at...

Floks is promiscuous. That being said, I disallowed his playing for Jenkins (because I don't like BugsPray). So, he's slightly less "socially active" than is evident from your list. It's common for inactive/retired teams to lend their members to friendly clans. Our only restrictions are that...

And so snickered the entirety of Omniscient. Historically, and for several reasons, Van's been the weakest Omni by a substantial margin. Net issues, ISP switches, an uxorious relationship with his wife - they all took their toll. He certainly held his own against non-Omni vets, but he didn't...

Hostilities aside, it's interesting to note why Desk's HoF'ing was peerless. His positioning, planning, spatial awareness and reflexes made double/triple blocks not uncommon, sure, but they weren't the real reason. Desk was the only HoF dueling at Omni-acceptable levels. Desk could defend...

What was it you had said originally? That's important. “would you rather go through eternal suffering in hell, regretting ever saying those words” Or “would you rather enjoy an eternity with the creator . . . who unconditionally loves everyone of us” “eternal suffering in hell . . ...

I'd rather be left behind to burn than suck the teat of a morally weak, pathetic god. God-fearing men be damned; get off your knees and grow a pair.

That's what she said.

Outlawl passes the time by exercising. LoL, no, that's what I do. Outlawl's scrawny. Everyone go exercise now. Fatasses.

Well, there's absolutely some cheating already: lights and mediums have been running around with heavy-specific miniguns. At first, I figured the 2-shotting problem might be explained through lag; after playing numerous maps on multiple servers, though, that seems a less likely explanation.

So I picked up Brink on the off chance it'd be competition worthy. It's not, but I was having fun until I noticed I was getting regularly two-shot by SMG's and AR's. Several other people have noticed this problem independently; seems to be recurring with particular players. Has anyone with...

Honestly, any thread where people are putting thought into their discussions is worthwhile. If you don't like the topic, THEN DON'T READ THE THREAD.

Sometimes, learning involves reading for 5 minutes instead of 30 seconds; and sometimes, good discussions arise from tangentially-related topics. Anyway, I need to drive 10 hours to a funeral, so I've not the time to deal with your complaints. When I get back, though, I'll start a new thread...

Aki, we call this type of assertion "poisoning the well". From the Wikipedia page: "Poisoning the well (or attempting to poison the well) is a logical fallacy where adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing...

Scoring with deaths doesn't work in pubs, as it's too easy to grief. Most games handle suicides by subtracting their number from the team's total - something that I'd like to see implemented for competition, but that (again) wouldn't work in pubs.

Mario, you've committed what we call the "Genetic Fallacy". From the Fallacy Files page: "The Genetic Fallacy is the most general fallacy of irrelevancy involving the origins or history of an idea. It is fallacious to either endorse or condemn an idea based on its past - rather than on its...