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It's already gone.

Also, you're seriously gonna follow 'I saw a dead child' with 'A kind of annoying troll came back'?

I like his argument that "some of the testimony was ridiculously convincing". You can get people to testify that rock salt cures AIDS if you really want to. Especially if you work for a company that sells AIDS-curing rock salt.

Not to mention that if you have to rely on testimonials it means you don't have anything more solid to present.

In regards to the actual topic:

I really feel for you. A couple of months ago I had to take my cat to get put down - she was old, had lost a lot of weight and was very weak. Even then, it was still a difficult decision to make, and a sad one.

My only piece of advice would be if the cat does have feline HIV and you genuinely can't afford the treatment, it would be kinder to have the cat put down than to have it suffer.

Photographs really don't do it justice.  The video footage going around is mindblowing.  It's on a such a scale, that every shot takes a few seconds to really register what you're looking at.  As in, "Holy shit, those white and blue things bobbing in that river are cars, and that river is a farm field."

It's hard to imagine that the real death toll is going to be anywhere near 32 by the time the water is cleared away.  I'm honestly afraid for how the entire country is supposed to recover from devastation like that, when so much of the country's existence is effectively at coast-level.

Not to mention that the fishing industry will likely be completely ruined, along with the agriculture industry - there's a lot of footage of farms being swamped with a wave of debris (and in one case, a burning building on the tsunami wave). Couple that with the likely damage to export industries, and I can't see how Japan is going to feed itself, or pay for imported food.

Also yeah, I think 32 is a long way short of the tragic toll we're going to see here.

The Wii is still going fairly strong, but I have heard rumors of a new console. The 3DS, which is supposed to be coming out soon, is supposed to have the processing power of the Wii, but in console form.

That's probably not that difficult, given how woefully underpowered the Wii is. I honestly think that's the one big misstep Nintendo make with the Wii - sure, it let them get it out way cheaper than everyone else but it's dating far faster than the 360 or the PS3.

As for the next generation of consoles, I think we're still a faiiir way off on that. Microsoft and Sony had to eat some pretty big losses on selling their consoles early on due to high cost of making them, so I think they'll stretch as much life out of them as they possibly can.

Couple that with the fact that there isn't really a pressing need in the form of the consoles lagging behind in processing power and graphics, and I think it will be quite a while before we see the Playstation 4 or the Xbox 1080. May see the Wii 2, though.

Edit: Oh, in reply to the actual post at the start of this thread:

In a nutshell, I think you're completely wrong. Fallout:New Vegas is one of my favourite games of all time now, and it's one I have got a lot of playtime out of. Does it equal my playtime on Baldurs Gate 2 yet? I don't think so, but that's because when that came out I had way more free time to play video games. I think the mainstream industry may have become a little bit more 'safe' to protect the massive investments involved, but the sheer expansion in artistic quality of games now(with full voice acting, excellent stories and fantastic graphics) kind of makes up for it.

Not to mention that indie games are really pushing the boundaries of games, now that they have vectors to easily get out to people with digital distribution. All in all I think it's an exciting time for gaming.

Beat me to it.

Ancient Neanderthals brains are thought to be bigger than Homo-Erectus. AKA cavemen had bigger brains than us.

Size isn't really that important, what is far more important is surface area. That's why the brain looks like it does, to allow as much surface area as possible.

Right. And all this has nothing to do with you lot deliberately trying to provoke me for your own amusement.

Actually, that's exactly what it has to do with. Don't flip out and threaten to shoot people = people won't bait you for their own amusement. This is not rocket science.

Quote from: G-Flex on February 26, 2011, 03:05:14 am

Quote from: GamerKnight on February 26, 2011, 03:03:27 am

I have the right to demand that Retro stay away from a thread I created if him posting on it ends with this.

I don't want to get angry. I don't want an arguement. This is why I'm asking Retro to leave. We've all been through this before. We know where it will end up. Do we need to do this again?

Dude, it ends with this because you let it get to you and flip out disproportionately. It's also not fair to try to force someone else out of a thread, even one you created. We don't need people literally getting shunned here.

You know what, fuck it. I'm leaving. I'll be back in around five hours. Plus, if Retro makes a thread, then I won't post on it. I want nothing to do with him. Him ignoring my threads would make that a lot easier.

You know, maybe if you tried handling your problems in an adult manner rather than immediately flipping out, raging on everyone and then running away with your hands over your ears you would manage to get somewhere.

Just a thought.