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New pro-tip: Never leave your room. Try putting me in the wrong place at the wrong time now, universe!
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Quote from: Montague on February 20, 2012, 09:03:55 pm

Abstinence, by definition, is 100% effective. The problem with the statistics is people can still get pregnant if they wanted to or not and I don't mean immaculate conception either, but that's another topic altogether.

Quote from: Montague on February 20, 2012, 09:15:30 pm

Then, it's like saying condoms are ineffective because people end up not using them correctly, or birth control regimens don't work because people can forget to take them.

Actually, the "effective rate" (the first number I quoted) DOES count people who use them incorrectly or forget to take their pills. The pill manages an over 99% success rate COUNTING those situations.

The second number was the "perfect" rate - and abstinence still is not 100% effective, because abstinence is only about "choosing" not to have sex - choosing not to have sex is NOT a guarantee you won't be forced into having sex, a situation where the pill works and abstinence does not, and children do occur as the result of rape.

Someone who is practising abstinence can still be raped, and it happens. In fact, it happens a LOT. Rapes may be more likely to happen against men, but almost 20% of women are still raped at some point in their life. The Pill protects against pregnancy due to rape, abstinence does not.

If you REALLY want effective prevention, you would combine abstinence and some sort of hormonal therapy like the pill (which has the wonderful side effect of making periods far more tolerable as well).

Gah. I know it's insensitive of me, but I always forget the rapes. I feel terrible now. 

I assume that when GlyphGryph said that abstinence is only 70% effective, he (or is it she? I can never remember) was talking about abstinence plans like Virginity Pledges. As far as medical science is aware, people who never have sex will never have kids. In reality, people enjoy having sex and will probably have it, pledges be damned. When they do, thy are less likely to use birth control. Thus, abstinence pledges are only 70% effective.

Quote from: Sirus on February 20, 2012, 04:06:10 am

Blown up by Borg Sphere.
Blown up by Borg Sphere.
Blown up by Borg Cube.
Blown up by Borg Sphere.
Blown up by Borg Sphere.
Blown up by Borg 10km long superweapon x 20.

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Star Trek Online

o_O Odd, I've never been defeated in STO before, and I'm still relatively new. Or, at least, I've never upgraded the starter ship. Did you charge the Cube/Spheres and get targeted?

It's an emergency battle that pops up from time to time in the Regulus Sector block, iirc. Dozens of Borg Cubes backed up by spheres, each of them difficult to kill. Shoot at one, and all of them move towards you to engage, and they're faster and more manuverable. Your shields drop to nothing, and you're surrounded, and by then you're doomed. The super weapon has an AoE instant-death attack with a 360 degree firing arc and spawns Repair Spheres that will regen all nearby Borg ships. You frequently respawn within 5km of said superweapon. Trying to take that on with only three or four ships is futile.

Blown up by Borg Sphere.
Blown up by Borg Sphere.
Blown up by Borg Cube.
Blown up by Borg Sphere.
Blown up by Borg Sphere.
Blown up by Borg 10km long superweapon x 20.

That makes it easy. Anakha wants to keep the human kingdom stable to insure that trade routes don't collapse. Dwarves love commerce and trade, after all.

Joining.

Playable? Wha? it works perfectly well as-is