>> ^shinyblurry:




They ignored option #4 (I wonder why) which is far more likely and in accordance with the evidence, that the human brain is an imperfect evolved organ that is predisposed to see patterns in everything and is easily prone to false-positives & attributing significance to anything which confirms an existing bias, because second guessing whether that shape in the grass is a lion or not isn't worth the risk of death.

It's better from a survival/stimuli-response perspective to detect and act on any false pattern than suffer the possible consequences of a missed pattern. The mechanisms that help us survive aren't necessarily the best at helping us arrive at truth, as the post-hoc bunkum slingers in your video unwillingly and unknowingly demonstrate.

LOL I'm just gonna leave this here.

Yeah, the original Mario Kart is/has been one of the most crazy expensive SNES games for awhile now.

If you want value, I'd go with the GBA version, Super Circuit. It has all the tracks from the SNES version (Retro Cup) plus 16 new ones, plays and looks near identically (mode 7 goodness), and has one or two of the newer items introduced in the 64 version (the jump Feather has been removed though). Also, portable!

A pre-owned Gameboy Advance SP or Micro is dirt cheap. You could grab one and 15-20ish (couple bucks a pop, depending on the property) GBA games for the price of one copy of Mario Kart SNES.

I think Shinyblurry is a pretty cool guy, ehs good at copying and pasting and doesn't afraid of anything.

Yes, I know, slightly improper meme usage, but it feels so right!

I knew this game was susceptible to cheese tactics!

As it approaches the boat around :18 -:23, you can almost get a top-view of the streamlined, conical shape of the sharks nose. Definitely not a bullshark, video bro.

Don't get too cocky, kid. That was only the first test chamber.

Perspective's a helluva drug!

>> ^deathcow:

How have shooters not evolved? if they haven't... can they?? I don't feel like I am playing the same game at all. I am in a giant open terrain in vehicles armed to the tooth, or I dive out and go on foot sniping from the bushes, or I plant C4 bombs and hide in the bushes waiting... or I dive off a wall and stab someone below. Quake-1 was an utterly different experience. It is evolving into very real situations from the surreal cartoon world.


The multiplayer FPS has certainly evolved since Quake. No dispute there. My contention is that they STOPPED evolving and have hit what I call an "innovation plateau" circa 1999. No major strides have been made since then, just the refinement/streamlining (which much of the time amounts to down-sizing) of already existing mechanics/capabilities (which isn't necessarily a bad thing in of itself, as games like TF2 prove).

Starsiege: Tribes was doing futuristic class-based gameplay with 128-256 player matches in huge, wide-open expanses with a full suite of vehicles and commander/command station/team bases/sensor arrays and defense structures (which all rely on an energy source that must be defended to function) and a variety of player role customization options in 1999! Where are the successors who would take the core of this legacy and expand upon it? I don't doubt it'll happen eventually but damn, I'd have never guessed it'd have taken this long if asked at the turn of the century.

Had Tribes set the world on fire sales-wise I'm guessing the landscape of the MP FPS would look very different today. Instead it serves as another example to publishers that innovation on that scale, as incredible a game it may produce, simply isn't worth the risk.

Neil misappropriated Kraus on the the whole terra-forming/space travel issue.

I don't think Krauss meant that we'd go to Mars or somewhere else close by in case of an asteroid (or that it was an either/or proposition, of course we would still try to deflect a potentially catastrophic object, presence on Mars or not) or to avoid one, but in preparation for the inevitable death of our sun or to take it much further into the future, the isolation of our galaxy from the nearest galaxies due to the expansion of our universe.

Galaxies will still be producing life-giving stars for awhile even when they exist in total informational isolation from each other, so we best start spreading human goo everywhere, just to be safe.

Though it may be pure hubris to think humanity would still be around when that time comes, it still makes for interesting thinking. Great, thought provoking Sift.

I kinda have to agree with QM (in a twisted way) on this one. If you truly believe there's "no difference", then vote for a Rethuglican in the upcoming election.

Out of the provided options, I'll take the less worse option, thanks. Apart from what is wrong with the whole two-party system, I can't in good conscience equivocate them.

>> ^Crosswords:

Pandarans have been part of the lore since WarCraft III, and people have been wondering when they'd be implemented in World of Warcraft for years. So while it may seem like they're trying to do some cheap cash in on kung-fu panda, hell maybe they are, but its not like players who have any sense of the lore didn't expect they'd show up at some point.


Yeah. It sorta makes sense that they are available for both races (though it may smack of laziness to some people), since they were neutral heroes (lore-wise and in-game) to begin with in Frozen Throne.

I've been done with WoW since the release of Cata so I feel nothing but indifference towards it, but the original EQ is on expansion #17; so I suspect WoW will certainly continue for awhile if it's comparative success is anything to go by.

I'm glad they at least added a new class.

Never challenge a ruminant to a duel you don't intend to finish.

Man, that Admiral Ackbar sure is a dick.

>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^robbersdog49:
It's awesome racing but the commentary really makes it for me. These guys really, really care about the race and you can just see them jumping around the commentary box at each corner! Great stuff.

Wow, what a difference. I absolutely hated the commentators. They sound like fucking chain smoking country yokels yelling out of a pub window. TAKEN A TIIIIIGHT LIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!! Dodgy, punch-drunk, old pair of gobby carrot munchers.
/rant


Exactly!