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Commented on Bombing Syria Considered Stupid
Heteromeles @ 111 -- I think your math is a little off. A desal plant creating 50,000,000 gal/day is making 18.25 billion gal/yr. To replace 625 billion gal/yr from the Sierras requires about 35 plants, not 13,000. And, even if...
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Greg. Tingey commented on
Bombing Syria Considered Stupid
If you don't think that Greg's psych profile has already been run and the recommendation is based on his MRI scans, then... shrug What I said elsewhere. Your open & hideous enjoyment of other people's suffering & deaths. Your obscurantism, hiding, as ilya187 has noted, a consistently WRONG understanding & interpretation of science & maths. You are a nihilist, despite your protestations. P.S. WHAT MRI scan - I've never had one done. I think you need treating a as "Black holy fool", since your utterances seem, usually, worthless - the bit about Quantum Computing was a welcome exception....
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paws4thot commented on
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I'm confused; how is saying "Neither I nor anyone besides yourself that I socialise with has heard of this game" and "Your link is to an awards 'puff page', and not anything that will actually tell me about the game" either an error or hubris on my part? Actual gameplay impresses me; awards (and particularly nominations for awards I've never heard of) don't....
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CatinaDiamond commented on
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Your open & hideous enjoyment of other people's suffering & deaths. Again, you're mistaking something for something. The first part, I hope you never discover; the second I hope you do (and, no, it's not religious). Actual gameplay impresses me; awards (and particularly nominations for awards I've never heard of) don't. Yes, I understand you. However, I have enough confidence in both games mentioned (The Swapper / Waking Mars) and their low-entry requirements (I suspect that Greg isn't playing Platinum DOTA2 or SC2 leagues or running a "gaming rig") and suitability (Greg is an avid gardener: I'm sure that Waking...
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Scott Sanford commented on
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I know people with non-trivial game collections (really) and you're overlooking something. Several factors really, but the critical one is that this requires a previous investment in specialized electronics that Greg might not have made. I haven't acquired a custom gaming rig and I'm sure I'm not alone. The website is built such that it won't tell me what platforms it runs on now (hidden behind a tab that doesn't open) so I'm not terribly trustful of its Playstation promises either....
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Greg. Tingey commented on
Bombing Syria Considered Stupid
I play NO electronic games AT ALL I'm not even remotely interested. ( I do, very occasionally, do "logic puzzles" ) Remember that they are entirely artifically-constructed fake scenarios, with no reference to what we laughably call "real life" at all....
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