>> ^Peroxide:
>> ^Fjnbk:
Awesome, the first PS3-exclusive game review, and one that I own. Uncharted is pretty fun, and it is definitely like an action movie. But his criticisms are accurate.

Does the game actually have a racist slant?


The perceived racism almost definitely isn't intentional, and near the end of the game, it definitely seems that I was killing Caucasians.

>> ^Fjnbk:
Awesome, the first PS3-exclusive game review, and one that I own. Uncharted is pretty fun, and it is definitely like an action movie. But his criticisms are accurate.


Does the game actually have a racist slant?

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For Gods sake!

ache, ake, bake, blake, brake, break, dake, drake, flake, haik, hake, jacque, jake, lake, naik, paik, pake, plake, quake, rake, sake, schake, schlake, schnake, schwake, shaik, shaikh, shake, shrake, snake, spake, stake, take,wake,awake

That should do it.

The fatal flaw of Drake's equation is that if any of the numbers is zero, the whole thing is zero+1. "Guns, Germs and Steel" shows how any number of factors not accounted for by Drake's Equation could very easily be zero.

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I don't think the Drake equation is silly. As science advances- we are able to fill in more bits of the equation. We're now able to see planets around stars using the wobble method- eventually we'll have a better idea how many stars have planets- and with a powerful enough telescope we may even be able someday to determine those planets suitable for life.

And yes - I guess I'm talking about the singularity. Something like that is definitely coming down the pipe.

The point about radio-wave power decreasing as technology advances ignores the idea that advanced civilizations may deliberately create powerful radio beacons to signal with - as described in Sagan's Contact.

It's been years since I've read Childhood's End - but I'm sure it fed into my belief system. I also like Vernor Vinge's take on the Singularity. Didn't he invent the term?

If you like this stuff, and good far-future, thinking peron's space opera- Check out Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep.

Lol, it goes off the rails right at the fsub p...the second number. The number of planets in the galaxy. Where did he get 1/4 from? Just kind of pulled it out of his ass? A wild-assed guess? But ok, let's let that one go.

Next is the number of worlds suitable for life. Again, pulled number out of his ass. Actually, most of these numbers are pulled out of his ass. What they don't seem to go into is what if it's all zero? One zero in the equation will screw everything else up. I mean, there IS a chance that we are the only ones in the galaxy (I doubt it), but it kind of shows how silly the Drake Equation is. It's all speculation. The equation means nothing. Easier to just say "yes, there are probably other intelligent civilizations out there in the galaxy". We don't know how many since we haven't had any evidence of a single one other than our own.

This equation doesn't help or enlighten us but I guess it does kind of wow the uninitiated.

The best critique of Drake is that f-sub-L implies that unless a civilization is destroyed it will use radio wave tech at high enough levels to outperform background noise. But as RF tech becomes more developed the tendency is to use less and less transmit power, or to target it at the earth or small orbiting targets (to/from satellites).

It is reasonably likely that if we manage to maintain technological advancement for 20 more years that we will not be using any high-gain RF at all, and then we become just as invisible as if we had destroyed ourselves by Drakes equation.

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Hah! Cab Calloway wrote this tune....My Fav is, and I can't find it on vidddy-'A Blue Serge Suit With A Belt In The Back-
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He isn't hep to jive, he's only half alive, hep-cats call him square;
You won't believe this Jack but all his clothes date back to 29' I swear!

He wears a Blue Serge suit with a belt in the back, no drake, no shake, just a belt in the back;
He's strictly corn, man, and he's off the cob, wears a pocket watch with a pearly fob;
He'd look just as sharp in a sack, than in that blue serge suit with a belt in the back!

He isn't old or grey, yet he's so passe, swing bands make him frown; he doesn't get his kicks, from boogie-woogie licks, he's dead but he won't lay down-chorus

no-flair no where, just a belt in the back;
He thinks a cat is a household pet, and his favorite dance is the minuet;
Must've come from some curio rack, and bought a Blue Serge suit, with a belt in the baaaaaaak!

Ahhh, here we go. Thanks hon, I haven't had a good rant all day.

I disagree w/ him. I understand the concern, but you can't legislate parenting.
Oddly enough some think it's weird that I'll let my kids play SC 2, StarWars Battlefront, or Halo,but I will not let them watch preteen Disney and Nick shows. I personally hate Disney's material shallow message that it offers kids.
They (speaking of my kids) are not socially impressed or desensitized to real life violence in any way from videogames, because to them they're not real. They never resort to violence to settle disputes.
Instead my kids are easily influenced by the lying and scheming ways of say "Drake and Josh" and other shows of the like and they aren't allow to watch popular "pre-teen" shows.

It's only when you understand your child's temperment, where they are strong and where they can be influenced is where and when you censure. A responsible parent does this.

It's the irresponsible parents out there that stay so busy that they have no time with their children... No time to really know and influence them morally. When their children have a problem or gets into trouble, entertainment media is "to blame". Bullshit.

No, folks like Jack Thompson although well-meaning, just can't think he can have a law passed to change that. [Ok, off soapbox.]

Oh, and Farhad.... I would love to watch my son slay you at Halo

"Aliens Cause Global Warming"

In 2003 he gave a controversial lecture at Caltech entitled "Aliens Cause Global Warming" [4] in which he expressed his views of the danger of "consensus science" — especially with regard to what he regards as popular but disputed theories such as nuclear winter, the dangers of second-hand smoke, and the global warming controversy. Crichton has been critical of widespread belief of ETs and UFOs, citing the fact that there is no conclusive proof of their existence. Crichton stated that "The Drake equation cannot be tested and therefore SETI is not science. SETI is unquestionably a religion." Crichton has commented that belief in purported scientific theories without a factual basis is more akin to faith than science.
oh, and, fuck apolar bear

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