I think the only people going to hell for this are the EA marketers who thought this was going to somehow going to get people to buy the game, just like that "Sin to Win" contest.

*promote

this is actually viral for the slightly controversial up and coming game Dante's Inferno:

http://kotaku.com/5409583/yes-mass-we-pray-was-more-dantes-inferno-schtick

thanks for the kind words and for the quality as well!

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EDD! I don't know what lit the fire under your ass but you are just an unstoppable inferno of *quality sifts!

EDD! I don't know what lit the fire under your ass but you are just an unstoppable inferno of *quality sifts!

You kiddos are aware that this was faked...they were hired actors by the game developer, EA.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31125247/ns/technology_and_science-games/

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174773

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/05/ea-confirms-dantes-inferno-protest-was-staged/

Upvote for the 70's disco title!

Burn burn burn, Indy Inferno!!!

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>> ^lucky760:
Holy crap.
Heartwarming to see how quickly and violently the other teams attacked that fire and pulled the driver free.


On the other hand his team seemed content just putting out the fire remnants on the asphalt ... passive aggressiveness maybe?

No doubt though the pit stop workers are all incredibly well trained in working together and efficiency so rushing in like that would have been second nature to them.

>> ^lucky760:
Holy crap.
Heartwarming to see how quickly and violently the other teams attacked that fire and pulled the driver free.


Ditto. Good job for them!!

>> ^deputydog:
...have the past couple of weeks been particularly bad for motorsports?


Yup, it's been pretty bad.

While I agree with most of what is said in this video, the problem is not as gender-specific as they seem to portray it. The media pressures young men to look, act, and be a certain way, just as it does with young women. Moreover, men are pressured to be with women who also look, act, and are a certain way, so the media's perpetrations against women are clearly perpetrations against men as well.

Moreover, the statistics of domestic violence are difficult, at best, to pin down. One case of domestic violence is, to be sure, too many, but the problems--again--exist for men, perhaps in a worse way because, how many men do you know who would admit to being physically assaulted/abused by their wife or girlfriend?

The gender imbalances, the "war between the sexes," is a tricky issue, at best, especially given its convergences with questions of "beauty," "relationship," and "sexuality." The mass media's complicity within this battle only adds kerosene to the inferno, making the problems between the genders one of the gravest threats to face our species, comparable to even the climate crisis.

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>> ^EDD:
Unless they borrow heavily (gameplay-wise) from Shadow of the Colossus, which they should if they plan to have any meaningful references to Alighieri's poem, it will probably be a God of War clone more than anything.


Yeah, a God of War clone is exactly what came to my mind while watching this trailer. Meh.

1 - The Stand - Stephen King : In my opinion, one of the best fiction books ever penned.

2 - The Dark Tower (series) - Stephen King : The sheer richness of his created worlds just blow my mind. Dynamic characters absolutely litter the plot. His incorporation of various different stories from history and from his own works make for great fantasy.

3 - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - Stephen R. Donaldson : This serious is just mind-bogglingly good. I love a hero I can hate, pity, and admire at the same time.
3b - The Pearlsong Refounding - Michael D. Warden : This is an odd sort of clone of Thomas Covenant, with a Christian sort of background. I actually like this story even more than Donaldson's, but since it's not quite original, I only put it as a side note.

4 - The Christ Clone Trilogy - James BeauSigneur : Terrible title, great series. Take the Left Behind style end of the world story and give it to someone who can actually write well and this is what you get. It certainly starts out slow, but picks up to be a unique perspective on the Christian end of the world scenario. It's by no means a "best book" but I really enjoyed its perspective. There are two printings of this series. If you're interested, get the first one! They totally nerfed the second printing, cut out a lot of the violence and basically a lot of the reality.

5 - Return to Earth (series) - Orsen Scott Card : Card might be the best living fantasy/sci-fi writer we still have living. This is only number 5 on my list rather than higher due to the fact that it sort of pitters out at the end like most Card novels. It's essentially loosely based on Card's Mormon theology. If you liked Dune, you'll probably like this one too. It deals very much with social issues involved with maintaining power and control... plus any book that takes place 11 million years into the future has got to be fun.

Honorable mentions:
The Inferno - Dante (The other two in this series however, meh)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Colridge
This Present Darkness - Frank Peretti
Paradise Lost - Milton (Paradise Regained however, meh)
Dune - Frank Herbert

BTW, I did enjoy the Chronicles of Amber (@ whoever recommended it to me a while back). Thanks.

From your own link:

FACT: Jet fuel burns at 800° to 1500°F, not hot enough to melt steel (2750°F). However, experts agree that for the towers to collapse, their steel frames didn't need to melt, they just had to lose some of their structural strength — and that required exposure to much less heat. "I have never seen melted steel in a building fire," says retired New York deputy fire chief Vincent Dunn, author of The Collapse Of Burning Buildings: A Guide To Fireground Safety. "But I've seen a lot of twisted, warped, bent and sagging steel. What happens is that the steel tries to expand at both ends, but when it can no longer expand, it sags and the surrounding concrete cracks."

"Steel loses about 50 percent of its strength at 1100°F," notes senior engineer Farid Alfawak-hiri of the American Institute of Steel Construction. "And at 1800° it is probably at less than 10 percent." NIST also believes that a great deal of the spray-on fireproofing insulation was likely knocked off the steel beams that were in the path of the crashing jets, leaving the metal more vulnerable to the heat.

The Madrid fire burned for 24 hours at temperatures up to 800°C (1500°F) and did not collapse. In 2004, Venezuela's tallest building burned uncontrolled for 17 hours and did not collapse. WTC7 had two small fires which burned for 6 hours and it collapsed in what looks like a controlled demolition.


When the tapes from 9/11 firefighters in were released, there was no mention of communication problems as we were told, and firefighters only reported small pockets of fire, not a huge inferno that can melt steel.

Two hose lines are needed, Chief Orio Palmer says from an upper floor of the badly damaged south tower at the World Trade Center. Just two hose lines to attack two isolated pockets of fire. ''We should be able to knock it down with two lines,'' he tells the firefighters of Ladder Company 15 who were following him up the stairs of the doomed tower.

Lt. Joseph G. Leavey is heard responding: ''Orio, we're on 78, but we're in the B stairway. Trapped in here. We got to put some fire out to get to you.''

Ladder 15 had finally found the fire after an arduous climb to the 78th floor, according to the tape. They were in the B stairwell. On the other side of the fire were hundreds of people, blocked from fleeing by smoke and flame on the stairs. Chief Palmer was facing similar fires in the A stairwell, across the floor.

''We're gonna knock down some fire here in the B Stair,'' Lieutenant Leavey is heard telling one of his firefighters. ''We'll meet up with you. You get over to the A Stair and help out Chief Palmer.''

If those fires were burning at 1500-1800°F, the people on that floor would have been dead.

I'm no conspiracy theory nutcase, but I'm also not stupid, the "official" explanations of collapse just don't match reality.