Recent content by discrider

It's winter in Australia. I don't get why Yahtzee's hiding in a fridge and calling it summer.

Haha! Yahtzee didn't finish the Witness! Otherwise he would've found the final puzzle room that does have music, after turning on all the lasers, including the one that turns on twice, and looking online for the location of the easily missable switch that opens up that area, after probably...

Ah. That would explain the 11 turns, but I couldn't see where you had picked the Long Wars option. And whilst the Core Rulebook states that the number of victory points needed to win is ten, the Shattered Empire rules say that when playing with the variant strategy cards, as the Bureaucracy...

Uhhh you have the wrong winner. With the strategy cards you were playing with comes the recommendation you play to 9. According to the photos, Janelle had the #4 strategy card whilst Justin had the #1 card. Status phase starts, Justin claims whatever the objective was, goes to 9 points...

Yahtzee, if you didn't vote then you lose the right to complain about the election results, because if you actually cared you would have done something when you had the chance.

So, no C-stick analogue then? In the previous games, you had a full analogue stick dedicated to controlling the Pikmin around you. This served triple purpose to: 1) Get your Pikmin horde out of the way of well-telegraphed attacks quick-smart 2) Swarm enemies, bridges, gates and objects that...

Actually, only omniscience precludes choice. If you can predict the future perfectly then other people cannot act to change it, because you've already predicted how they will react to any information you feed them (and have already predicted and cannot necessarily change what information you...

I don't think this is much of a problem. Omnipotence allows the being perfect self-control. So such a being can easily restrict themselves from interfering with their own projects. This is how the being can create a rock they can't lift; by simply choosing not to lift it. Omnibenevolence does...

This is not what I observe though. What I see is properly researched scientific papers popping up on both sides, and whilst I might not have the qualifications to determine the validity of each, those that do have a vested interest on both sides to only promote those articles that fit their...

Indeed. Honestly, the worst thing about this debate has to be the amount of propaganda from both sides. It just obfuscates the science. I mean, I was following Biscuit's links trying to analyse the science and form a more balanced opinion, but then they'd link to the creationist response...

I guess a smaller sun would be a problem :S I'll have to think this through some more. Well I have to wonder how many fossils we have found, because getting extraordinarily lucky seems like a non-argument to me. Halflife of DNA: http://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.11555...

2-3. Well, my definition of "devolution" is this, that the organism becomes less and less tolerant of changes to its environment. As such, it is more likely to have an extinction event when the environment does change, because it has constantly specialised itself to the current environment...

I'm with team Science, but Evolution can just jump off the bus. In other words, this poll is completely biased and the OP should be ashamed. Okay, so obviously I agree with "micro-evolution". I can see the small scale changes happening and species diverging and resistances appearing and the...

The train puns would've been funnier if Yahtzee hadn't just made the -exact- same pun three times and then blatantly signaled it (train puns lol) after each one. Yes, stories often railroad you, we get it. But there's so many other train puns that you could shunt into the same place.

By Earth-like, the scientists mean "made of rocks", or more specifically "made of rocks with a similar elemental composition to those found on Earth". Not Earth sized like the article says, because there's only pieces of them left, nor potential to host life, because you'd need to know what...