Not sure what you were referring to here. I was referring to the Canadians I know, not mass media or anything. But even in mass media I think you'd see more Canadians poking fun at the U.S. than vice versa.

The truth is, most Americans don't think twice about Canada. Thanks to our public education system, there's a large portion of us that probably thinks Canada's just another U.S. state, like Puerto Rico or Guam. That's why they're always bemused by the Canadians' jokes.

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>> ^SDGundamX:
>> ^iaui:
There are very few Canadians that I know that hold the States in any sort of high esteem.

Having Canadian friends, I know that's true. And yet you guys take every opportunity to take shots at us that you can get, which just comes across to most of us as barely disguised jealously and insecurity.


...and yet YOU guys take every opportunity to take shots at US that you can get, which just comes across as barely disguised douchebaggery and jealousy over the fact we have real beer.

And all is well with the Sift again. Welcome back.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Thanks, SDG. Your wishes mean the world to me.

In reply to this comment by SDGundamX:
Don't know what happened, but I hope to see you back on the Sift soon. Enjoy your time on the outside.

Best wishes,

SDGundamX

Don't know what happened, but I hope to see you back on the Sift soon. Enjoy your time on the outside.

Best wishes,

SDGundamX

Welcome to the Sift. I was reading your comments on the spelling vid's thread. Impressively intelligent and articulate. Also nice counter-Sift vid that you posted. Good to have you on board.

Yeah, it's dead. MLBA apparently had all the YouTube vids yanked. Thanks for finding.

In reply to this comment by DavidRaine:
Looks dead, unfortunately -- I don't have the star power to mark it though.

No problem. I've done it before myself and wished there was a "take back" button on the comment down-voting. I just thought it was weird that lately I've been attracting comment downvotes over completely uncontroversial postings.

In reply to this comment by DavidRaine:

Under ordinary circumstances, I'm certainly going to downvote a comment that promotes voting without watching the video for whatever reasons. While this should not include sarcastic reasons, sarcasm doesn't always translate over text, and I just flat out missed it this time. I'm going to blame an annoyed state of mind brought on by watching too many political videos, but in reality, I just dropped the ball on this one. My apologies for misunderstanding.

For someone who apparently loves sarcasm, you don't seem to understand it very well. Why the downvote on the comment, chief?

(Referring to this comment)

If that comment offended you in some way (I can't imagine how), I apologize.

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I agree that there are a good number of creative and successful games, but the massive number of successful cookie-cutter games kinda rules out creativity as a 'requirement'.

Regardless of if its a sequel or not, games development still requires a great deal of creativity. It's not like they re-use the same art assets or anything. A group of people need to sit down and decide on the art direction, new gameplay mechanics, new levels, etc. and all of that needs to be worked into the existing storyline/character framework. Programmers, meanwhile, usually have to update the graphics and physics engines, fix any outstanding bugs from the original, and add any new features (for instance online multiplayer in Halo 2). Judging by how dismissive you are of the whole process I'm guessing you haven't worked in the games industry before, or if you have, certainly not at any level above QA.

Like the new X-Files movie says, "I Want to Believe."

I'm just frustrated that every time I talk with the conspiracy theory people, they can't back up their claims with anything substantial. Once I was willing to listen, but now I think some people are just promoting this stuff because they realize they have an eager audience and they love that feeling of power. In other words they've stopped looking for the truth and sold out.

I do remember the Maine. I also remember that it was not used by McKinley as one of the reasons for declaring war on Spain. He did, in fact, try to oppose the war but in the face of overwhelming public and political pressure eventually acquiesced into declaring war for the purposes of freeing Cuba. Now, were there individuals in the government who saw the war as an excuse to grab Spain's other colonies? Absolutely. But that isn't proof that they set up an explosion on the Maine to start the war. You would need eyewitnesses or physical evidence to be able to make a plausible accusation.

That's all I'm asking for schmawy. Proof. Evidence. Something more than conjecture or coincidence. Say, for example, explosive residue found at the WTC site. Or verifiable videos of WTC 7's interior completely undamaged until moments before its collapse. Or corroborative testimony from several reliable witnesses that matches up. Like in the vid we're talking about, what does this guy's buddy have to say about the whole incident? What about the cops and firemen that were supposedly there? Where's their testimony? Surely they all heard these explosions too?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Remember the Maine, my friend.