Twilight Dirac

I don't understand what is so wrong with the word. If I find the value of some media to be less than what has been indicated by popular conception, than I would consider that media to be overrated. This is a situation which occurs quite frequently. And while many have requested different words be used in place of overrated, I have yet to see a single post suggest a suitable replacement.

I stopped using it when I accidentally set the program to use the modern UI instead of the classic version, which generated these awful cartoon chat bubbles around each IM that wasted all the text space in the user interface. I couldn't figure out how to undo the changes, and in typical windows fashion it remember the choice I wanted to undo upon uninstalling and re installing the program. I just got fed up with it, and at that point I had access to the likes of Skype with voice capability so I just deleted the program and never looked back.

League of Legends by a mile. Vastly superior user interface to Dota 2 and Smite's perspective is simply not the optimal one for this kind of game.

I have been playing Warhammer 40k for almost 5 years. I originally started with the Tau, which I absolutely loved when the first came out, great theme, great models, and excellent rules for play on the tabletop. Unfortunately the last codex release turned them into a rather one dimensional army, and they just aren't as enjoyable to run as they used to be. I have since started an Eldar army. These guys are awesome, and completely ridiculous if your using the new maelstrom of war rules. Much more interesting to play and far more varied than the Tau. I absolutely love their aircraft even if they are fragile as sin (the Tau aircraft are just plain awful). They can ally with the Tau without problems so I can use both armies together when I want to, so I can use the interesting aspects of Tau while leaving most of the boring stuff behind.

That doesn't mean we can't condemn it. The world is filled with all sorts of horrible behavior that cannot be eliminated entirely, but that won't stop me from calling the likes of murder and rape evil. And if I cannot call bullying outright evil I can at least consider it downright wrong. Wait, somebody nearly took your eye out because you had a funny accent!? Exactly how is this even remotely acceptable? This seems like a rather unlikely outcome. I am with Emerald Starlight on this, as far as I am concerned this bullying is more likely to cause harm than good, not to mention the intent is to cause harm. I had the misfortune of having to deal with this crap pretty much non-stop from 2nd grade literally up to the moment a graduated high school, and it is a horrible fate I would not wish on anybody. It certainly had an effect on me, but I definitely would not consider it positive. Unless of course you consider becoming severely withdrawn, not wanting to participate in any kind of school social activity, becoming highly suspicious of your peers and all their actions, assuming your peers are innately predisposed towards evil and at times secretly wishing you had justification for severely hurting your tormentors positive changes. Bullying is a horrible act that does horrible things, bullies don't get a pass because they accidentally improved the life of somebody they were trying to hurt. The bullies are the problem, they don't need help, they need be shown their actions are not acceptable. As for this victims, they often lack the ability to fight back. Bullies do not pick fair fights. They almost always torment their victims when they either have superior numbers (more likely), superior size and strength, or even better yet, both. Get in a fight under those conditions and you are going to lose, and probably badly. And don't expect the school system to protect you, the zero-tolerance fighting policies public schools use to abdicate any and all use of judgement are just as likely to crush you as it is the bullies. And as an added bonus, the strength in numbers used by bullies in the fight carry over to school disciplinary procedure. It is absolutely amazing how far their side of the story goes with the idiotic arguments of "well its two against one" or "its three against one" as if people are some how unlikely or unable to collectively lie.

We got a group session going something around 3 weeks ago. Since then nobody has organized a gaming session. I have dropped by our mumble channel but I never catch STO players. We really need to set something up in advance.

Slow traffic in the left lane. If you're not passing, keep out of the left lane!

You are condemned to be burned at the stake for heresy!

There just aren't enough topics on physics on this forum dedicated to magical cartoon ponies. Feel free to ask me any of those questions on physics you have had a burning desire to ask but have never gotten around to, for SCIENCE!

I voted for Nuclear Apocalypse. The damage would like be limited to major centers of population which, much of which would actually be caused by the subsequent fires rather than the atomic blast. Most of the really nasty radioactive materials would decade over the course of about a decade. Your basically looking at having all your cities burned in this scenario, but that is about it. Aliens - Anyone capable of interstellar travel can likely generate energy vastly in excess of any conventional nuclear reaction. They probably also possess and large number of means to outright sterilize the planet. I rate this as an extinction level event. If the aliens want everyone dead, every last person will be dead. Zombies and Pandemic - This would leave civilian infrastructure intact but would continue to persist after the apocalypse, which is a major problem. Natural Disaster - This could be mild, but could easily be an extinction level event, such as an asteroid impact.

Why wouldn't you want to cosplay as Nicolas Cage? I say go for it.

This only matters to Hasbro's accountants, not us. We are going to like and dislike the show based on its own merits.

I recommend the Dresden Files, a noir urban fantasy series with a lovable main character as well as an excellent cast. You can never go wrong with the Dresden Files. The first book in the series is Storm Front.

Same here. Avatar was supposed to be revolutionizing 3D cinematography, not CGI. It still uses CGI, but what movie doesn't now a days? I am pretty sure there were bad movies, including those of the style over substance variety, before CGI became widespread. Sometimes filmmakers will make films correctly through proper writing, dialogue, acting, directing and effects, and sometimes they are just going to use effects and cinematic tricks to create a fireworks show in the guise of a movie. It is a consequence of human nature and not the technology and I imagine we will be dealing with this as long as movies are made.

Oh boy. I have seen these attempts made with two other series I enjoy, Stargate:SG-1 and Firefly, and the results were less than stellar. They also didn't bring back the associated series (not that I see anyway that they could have). Not a good sign. I never understood what darker and grittier was supposed to do for a series as it is not an end in and of itself. Deep Space 9 was considered darker than the other Trek series but that was for a reason, the series centered around an evolving war plot, and war is by its very nature dark and gritty. It wasn't done just to be cool. That series also had strong continuity, so if something bad happened in one episode, it got carried over to the next, unlike Voyager where the whole ship could get trashed in one episode and be absolutely fine the next, despite being thousands of lightyears away from the Federation and needing to barter for supplies. Such continuity gave the appearance of a darker and grittier setting, but was in fact just writers who actually remembered what they wrote the previous episode. Then there is Stargate Universe, a darker and grittier "just because" Stargate series that promptly flopped. Another major mistake. I wish Star Trek writers would stop trying to use Khan to boost their plot's appeal. Wrath of Khan was done perfectly, it doesn't need any re-imagining and neither does the character of Khan. Star Trek writers need to stop attempting to ride this movies coattails. I felt Nemesis was trying to be another Wrath of Khan and it utterly failed because of this and other mistakes. Into Darkness actually went one step further and used Khan himself as the villain instead of some crappy Picard clone, and while the movie was better than Nemesis Khan could have been swapped with virtually any other generic villain and it would not have mattered in the slightest.

It is a tie between Spoony (www.spoonyexperiment.com), Chuck (www.sfdebris.com) and Yahtzee (www.escapistmagazine.com). They are all really entertaining.

StarDrive II: The original StarDrive was a decent 4X game with excellent combat and ship design. The sequel is going to switch to a turn based game with real time tactical combat, and I do love proper turn based 4X strategy games.

We have a Star Trek Online Fleet going if you want to join that.

I saw this movie today. It is a fun action adventure comedy, nothing to deep that is going to really make you think or anything, but it entertains well enough.

I can't speak for everybody else but I don't think I have played a proper "death-match" style FPS for about 10 years, the last one being the multiplayer mode for the original Half-Life. Everything since then has been a sort of team based game mechanic: Team Fortress 2, Battlefield 2, etc. Also, everybody and their brother cries bloody murder on the developer's forums now a days when this sort of thing shows up, so it is likely far rarer than it used to be.

This could actually work quite well, provided you avoid the cardinal sin of being boring in these videos. Remember that most people watch these things first and foremost to be entertained and also because they find it interesting. You will require writing that can grab and maintain the attention of the audience. If you can make well written, well executed and entertaining pieces, you will do fine no matter what perspective you choose to use.