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Yeah, I agree it is extremely unclear. I guess we'll find out more in the near future...

From my vague understanding of the physics behind this and the phrasing of the article, it appears that the light was not reflected inside the crystal but was instead suspended inside the crystal. The effect mentioned induces transparency, this being the ability for light to pass through an object. ...

Also, FYI, there's no Playstation exclusivity on the part of Sony, it's on the part of the developers, Thatgamecompany. They're most comfortable working with Sony's SDKs as far as I'm aware. Nowadays making games for one platform is pretty much the same as any other. They were tied into a three gam...

Animavore wrote:Going to be playing this later.

trying to stay away from it as long as possible so I can be truly wowed by it all over again whenever I do give in to the urge to replay it

Given how much time I haven't devoted to any forums such as this in the past year or so, I can totally sympathise with PZ simply not wanting to deal with that kind of stuff anymore. Honestly I'm surprised he stuck it out that long. That being said simply dropping everything and not caring is not a g...

You have to tell them the good news right away. Then the three of you go in the bedroom and fornicate. Nobody goes to hell. Well it was two women... I wonder would it be immoral to... ahem... NEVER. MIND. Oddly enough, I was thinking about this earlier today in a slightly different context. How can...

My major gripe with PZ is that he's still insisting on tarring an entire community with a one-size-fits-all brush. I know I'm only back here a few days but there's no way this entire community can be described as "rapey and jokey". Jokey, certainly, but far from rapey. And there was no back-slapping...

Something slow-acting so they could depart and not be anywhere near me to deal with would be far more preferable to be honest

Any tips that *don't* involve the police coming around...?

Animavore wrote:Ho come they never call to me

Well I missed a bunch of them a few weeks ago, so I guess it's just a matter of time. Plus they called at like 11.30am on a Monday morning, they're clearly aiming for the old & retired crowd, not the uppity young misfits who challenge their ideas.

They tried to give me first a leaflet about "What is the purpose of life. How can we find it?" and after they asked me what I thought, and I told them I didn't believe in God or the Bible, they looked at me and went "aww" rather patronisingly, which I asked them to stop and they laughed it off as mu...

Wumbologist wrote:I also hear that men and women are capable of having conversations sometimes that don't even have anything to do with sex.

To be fair though at least one of them is probably wracking their brains trying to work in some kind of double-entendre into the conversation

cogwheel wrote:Yeah yeah, you just don't want to get sucked into the swirling vortex

Movember kinda took off in the UK if I recall correctly

Absolutely LOVE Red Dead Redemption. To bits. Awesome game. And Undead Nightmare. Actually played that before the original game.