Recent content by umbr44

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    The Moral Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars - Save the Driver Or Others

    Some of the responses in this thread scare me. Sure I can see the apprehension to buying a self driving car that wont always prioritise your life (I'll never get one because I wont trust it to make the decision I would in accidents)but quite honestly, if a group of 10 schoolchildren don't...
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    The Ethics of "Project Harpoon"

    As a healthy-ish sized person who was larger before, and also slimmer, since reaching my final height of 6 foot. (High of 13 stone, low of 9.5 stone, currently about 11 stone 4 pounds.) I think it's easy to forget, or not even realise that even for one person, losing weight is not a straight...
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    Smaller Devs Abused By Steam's "No Questions Asked" Refund Policy

    Those abusing it = scum... As for the rest, if Indie devs with very short games find their refund rates going through the roof...then that shows that people aren't willing to pay for such short games. Or at least for the quality many of these games may or may not be. That is not being...
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    How do you feel about autistic people?

    I think one of the big issues for the higher functioning people is misunderstanding when they were children. My partner sees many people who are completely unable to cope with real life and will not manage once they leave school, purely because of the way they have been treated through the...
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    How do you feel about autistic people?

    Maybe it's different in America but here in the UK they try and keep kids (with Aspergers at least) in the same class as everyone else wherever possible; albeit with more support. I know someone with Aspergers and from a personal level I feel mixed. I think it largely comes from...
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    Your thoughts on 'Driverless cars"

    There are too many "what if's" for me to ever trust a computer driven car. If I turn on 1000 computers in a row I would place money that one of them has some sort of error, lets translate that to cars and see what happens. How often do brand new Consoles/OS/Games release with bugs despite all...
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    The Walking Dead Season 2: No Going Back Review

    Well... Oh yeah