As always - the Warmies love to muddle terminilogy in order to misdirect.

There is a vast world of difference between what a typical Warmie is talking about when they say, "climate change" and what a scientist is talking about. However, in the news media and popular culture, the Warmies routinely equate both of them together in order to lend themselves false credibility.

"Climate change" as a generic term simply means the climate is changing. This is scientifically provable - however it is so patently obvious (and has been for millenium) that it does not require the rigor of the scientific method to verify. No one is arguing against the reality that Earth's climate has cycles, changes, alters, or otherwise permutates over long periods of time (or even short periods locally).

However, when Warmies talk about "Climate change" they do not mean this. They pack so many other things into two words that it becomes almost impossible to pin it down. But generally speaking when a Warmie says climate change they mean something along these lines...

"Human C02 emissions are the primary agent of all climate changes in the past 200 years, and all scientists in all fields are in 100% agreement that only human C02 is responsible and these scientists are also in 100% agreement that the only solution is to enact massive government taxation schemes in order to reduce C02 emissions to 1820 levels, or the Earth will experience such catastrophic world-wide destruction that all humanity will be wiped out."

That's quite a difference in meaning. It is perfectly reasonable to say that scientists, economists, and regular folks everywhere can rationally debate the veracity and truth of the latter definition, while accepting the former.

And yet the Warmies cannot allow a rational line of discussion and debate, and so they instead turn to their time-practiced tactic of poisoning the well, insults, ad hominems, and other obfuscations of the truth in order to desperately lend their terminally unsupportable position enough credence to allow the desperate and brain-washed to continue to cling to it in the face of real evidence.

Day after day we hear repeated news of the facts behind the so-called 'proof' that the Warmies have falsified for years. East anglia, the polar bear liar, the hockey stick chart, the IPCC panels - they have all been discredited and proven to have buried evidence, censored opposing research, cooked their data, falsified evidence, and otherwise destroyed the entire credibility of the whole Warmie position. Their 'science' (all oriented around C02 being the primary agent of climate change) is bunk.

I've got an entire folder in my Hotmail with article after article after article proving that the claim that "human C02 = climate change" is politically motivated bologna. Here are some from just this WEEK...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100102296/sun-causes-climate-change-shock/

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/mental-illness-rise-linked-to-climate-20110828-1jger.html

http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4462

It is 100% hogwash. The climate change INDUSTRY (and it is an over 200 billion dollar industry) is panicing because people no longer buy the "Human C02 = poison" bullcrap. They are losing the debate. Governments are abandoning the green movement. And the Warmies are panicking. So they are putting out articles so insane, so ridiculous that even a child can tell they are stupid morons. Aliens are going to blow up earth over C02 emissions? Climate change is causing mental illness? What utter stupidity.

The evidence - the REAL evidence - is that human C02 is such a minor factor that it does not warrent serious attention. Do we all want to clean up messes? Sure - but the real mess-makers are not in the US or Europe. They're in South America, China, and Africa. That's where the focus should be. But the Warmie movement is nakedly political, so their primary goals have nothing to do with actual pollution. Instead they obsess over making C02 something they can 'regulate', and therefore tax and earn revenues from. It's pathetic, and yet so many people accept it because of faulty, flawed, sloppy so-called 'research', and the fact that they really WANT to believe it for some reason. Morons.

It isn't just Han Solo that's being ripped off. The whole time I was watching it seemed like they were putting old ideas in new clothes and changing the order around.

Smuggler guy who cares about money, helps the Jedi, and happens to have the fastest ship - Han Solo
The Sith ship that landed in the docking back looked an awful lot like the Millenium Falcon
Man the guns while I get the hyper-drive ready - escaping the Death Star in Episode IV
Tiny bit of Empire while they dodged some asteroids
The Jedi apprentice's master is killed and now she must carry on the fight against the Sith(I, IV, VI)
Flying through the Sith ship looked an awful lot like going into the Death Star in Episode VI

I understand the necessity of continuity in this universe they've created. A lot of its not only necessary, but fun. Still, they need more new ideas. The trooper being a character that gets developed may be the only new one. Also, the Jedi chick left her lightsaber with her master so that's probably a starting point for the game - you get to play as a Jedi, but you don't get a lightsaber for a while.

Still, this video did look freakin' awesome!
>> ^rychan:

What the hell... this was better than 90% of the prequel content. All four protagonists (two jedi's, captain, and stormtrooper) are already more likeable than Anakin and Padme. We got to see a storm trooper actually doing cool stuff. The smuggler was clearly a Han Solo rip off, but still. It's such a great universe, why do you have to run it in to the ground George Lucas.
Unfortunately, the actual gameplay footage I've seen looks pretty pedestrian.

The Millenium Falcon is actually in Attack of the Clones in a little cameo.. yeah, I noticed.

>> ^schlub:

The doctor's a little too full of himself these days.


I imagine a century millenium of kicking ass has a way of going to your head.

>> ^gorillaman:

40k movie? Exciting, but OMG, the Astartes are not mankind's only defence in the 41st millenium. There are probably more ships in the Imperial Navy and a thousand times as many tanks in the Guard than individual space marines. Also, the Imperium are not the good guys.


There are definitely no good guys in 40k. And you are going to have to forgive them some movie tropes, thats how these things work.

>> ^gorillaman:

40k movie? Exciting, but OMG, the Astartes are not mankind's only defence in the 41st millenium. There are probably more ships in the Imperial Navy and a thousand times as many tanks in the Guard than individual space marines. Also, the Imperium are not the good guys.


Of course they are not the good guys... They don't believe in Raptor Jesus!

40k movie? Exciting, but OMG, the Astartes are not mankind's only defence in the 41st millenium. There are probably more ships in the Imperial Navy and a thousand times as many tanks in the Guard than individual space marines. Also, the Imperium are not the good guys.

Family, religion, friendship ... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed at VideoSift.

In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
Thanks for the note, I am from Vancouver (or close enough to it) and I did enjoy that video. I've ridden that line a few times.

Sorry for the late reply, I took my son to Drumheller to check out the great Dinosaur museum they had there and just got back the other day.

Cheers

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
You're from Vancouver, yes? Then you might like this video, posted by a probie. I think it's pretty cool.

Thanks for the note, I am from Vancouver (or close enough to it) and I did enjoy that video. I've ridden that line a few times.

Sorry for the late reply, I took my son to Drumheller to check out the great Dinosaur museum they had there and just got back the other day.

Cheers

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
You're from Vancouver, yes? Then you might like this video, posted by a probie. I think it's pretty cool.

Hey Mr. Canada, you might like this. High praise, coming from an American.

Being a Canadian resident, you might like this video, posted by a probie. I think it's pretty cool. It looks like something you might post.

You're from Vancouver, yes? Then you might like this video, posted by a probie. I think it's pretty cool.

You're from Vancouver, yes? Then you might like this video, posted by a probie. I think it's pretty cool.

You're from Vancouver, yes? Then you might like this video, posted by a probie. I think it's pretty cool.

>> ^Sigh:

look another MMO to fail against WoW!


Well there's some positive thinking... =)

One would hope they are just trying to make a fun game as opposed to competing with wow (think DDOU which doesn't really borrow from wow much at all and has become relatively successful).