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I want to join futile reclaiming! (my plan is to invest all embark points into war dogs or dogs).

Interesting one: http://www.ted.com/talks/ralph_langner_cracking_stuxnet_a_21st_century_cyberweapon.html

Quote from: Kogut on December 07, 2011, 02:39:52 am

The Golden Compass, google search resulted in http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp

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Claim:   The 2007 film The Golden Compass is based on a series of books with anti-religious themes.

Status:   True.

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A Los Angeles Times article on the Golden Compass controversy noted that:
[Pullman]'s never hidden his skepticism about God or his rejection of organized religion. A quick Internet search turns up a 2004 essay he wrote deploring "theocracies" for a newspaper in his native Britain, and his own Web site states that he thinks it "perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it." "His Dark Materials" features a sympathetic character, an ex-nun, who describes Christianity as "a very powerful and convincing mistake," while "The Amber Spyglass" concludes with the two child heroes participating in the dissolution of "the Authority," a senile, pretender God who has falsely passed himself off as the creator of the universe.

Since I highly doubt that the term Christianity was ever used in those books, I call shenanigans. The series seems to be anti-religious in general, not anti-Christian.

"Magisterium" is obviously parody/satire of Catholic Church ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magisterium especially as it is quite similar to inquisition). But this book is rather "religion is bad" than "CC is bad".

The Golden Compass, google search resulted in http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp

Claim:   The 2007 film The Golden Compass is based on a series of books with anti-religious themes.

Status:   True.

Quote

A Los Angeles Times article on the Golden Compass controversy noted that:
[Pullman]'s never hidden his skepticism about God or his rejection of organized religion. A quick Internet search turns up a 2004 essay he wrote deploring "theocracies" for a newspaper in his native Britain, and his own Web site states that he thinks it "perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it." "His Dark Materials" features a sympathetic character, an ex-nun, who describes Christianity as "a very powerful and convincing mistake," while "The Amber Spyglass" concludes with the two child heroes participating in the dissolution of "the Authority," a senile, pretender God who has falsely passed himself off as the creator of the universe.

-rant-

tl;dr

Default answer: yes, there are many bugs - in effect disabling/breaking about half of features, game is slooooooooooow - but nobody forces you to use it. And even with its flaws DF is one of the best games ever.

Positive WTFs:

http://vimeo.com/28040685 (Tempest Milky Way)
http://vimeo.com/32001208 (Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over)

Even if you teach a child that babies come from sex and thunder is superheated air from an electrical arc, they are likely to prefer to believe in the stork and the bowling angels anyway, because those are more accessible, more wonderful concepts to a child.

Teaching 5 year old about sex is not going to end well and is a bit of WTF, but pregnancy is way more interesting, wonderful etc.

My parents introduced Santa Claus (and Zajączek - Easter version) in smart way - without lying "there is a Santa Claus lives at the North Pole" but rather telling story about and leaving gifts. This way discovery of truth was an interesting investigation, without damaging my parents credibility.

Both - running around kindergarten and screaming "Santa Claus is not real!" and outright lying to keep this game is lame.