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In my experience you're never going to get away from doing a bit of regular maintenance, though maintenance depends on the frequency with which you change things. Cable ties and channels really work, but if you change things you need to pull cables out and then put them back. They won't do...

Nobody would shed a tear if a guy filming a world war two massacre was hit by a stray bullet. Human treatment of oxen is almost universally appalling, with even levels of treatment considered "good" coming down to relatively kind imprisonment before slaughter at 10% of their life expectancy or...

Seems to be typical of constitution beaters; they put it aside to actually ban certain discussion when it suits their interests, but weep for their own loss of liberty when asked to do background checks on assault weapon purchases.

First playthroughs are typically not too difficult, I've found. With a bit of grinding (yeah it's the term people don't like it) they typically become quite manageable, with the exception of the occasional bullshit area (like the Tomb of Giants). Beyond that you know what you've done and...

I've been an Imperial fanboy since the very beginning. HOw does an Imperial Star Destroyer not permanently set to "random sporadic fire mode" taste, you rebel scum? Each ISD carries many squadrons of tie fighters, interceptors and bombers. A tie fighter lacks shields but is faster and more...

If you talk to many people "out in the world" it's pretty clear that most people don't understand how HIV works, how it's actually transmitted, when a person becomes infectious, how it's tested for and how treatments for it function. The net result tends to be that most people believe that - if...

Shit. Someone went and mentioned gun rights in a US forum.

Wish I could make a loss like those movies did.

Absolutely this. Ents of ancient wisdom, take forever to discuss anything, make bad decision after days of moot then get riled up and go to war in literally 5 seconds after Treebeard goes into hasty nerd rage so sudden it makes Iraq look well planned.

Agreed on Bombadil. Once you bring in the nigh-omnipotent you either make him less than the God he was or you have to spend a lot of time explaining why he didn't whup Sauron on his own. His inclusion in the book is consistent with Tolkien's world but it's incompatible with standalone movies...

Single player - sweet. Now where is the ragequit handling? Nothing screwed L4D like ragers.

This is anecdotal, but would point out that Australia continues to have record warm winters and blistering summers, year after year. It would seem that Australia is far less likely to be affected by Arctic sea ice extent, so our warmer winters may be more indicative of where temperatures are...

If you look closely at Australia it's concentrated into a few dark dots - Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Most of the nation's population (well over 50%) lives in those three dots. There's also a heck of a lot of yellow distributed over quite a big area. All of this for only 22 million...

Formidable moves. Accept the training in Sevastapol but "show those Russians a lesson by getting Ukrainian visas"? Really? This against the nation that suffered 25 million casualties against Germany, still crushed them and has seen more pain, conflict and death in the last century than the...

In Australia our federal government has stripped money from our premier scientific research organisation - the CSIRO (they developed Wi-Fi amongst their other breakthroughs) - and emphasised research on those projects with demonstrable economic benefits. It's another strain of the issue...

Shouldn't a state with a relatively large coastline relative to its size - and with most of its population on the coast - be looking at desalination? I don't know if it's already significantly employed there - maybe it is - but I can't seem to find a mention in this article. It can be powered...

I always get marked down for citing animal welfare, but there's yet another reason to avoid beef (and other livestock animals too). Cows, sheep, pigs, chickens and turkeys are all demonstrably sentient, and the methods by which they are intensively farmed arguably make the average concentration...

In the picture with the pile of board games is a less obvious "COSMOS" by Carl Sagan. That speaks volumes to me. Maybe I'll consider donating too.

I became a fan of aliens as a child, from the perspective of someone that - at the time - had no familiarity with the Vietnam war or its lingo, and thus took it completely at face value. Bug hunt suggested to me that they had had experience with dealing with offworld "animals" that couldn't be...

Right now we're hoping the scenario will end because the player set lethality at over 50% with only 5 countries infected. Good luck getting to Greenland!