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Ah... nice. Just noticed the game's music is plain ol' .ogg files. Into the music player with them!

Also, there's apparently more music than there is zones implemented. Even knowing there's more coming, it's pretty interesting.

I've recently been looking at Firefly fanfiction.  There are a disappointing amount of Mass Effect crossovers with Firefly. And for some reason there are a lot of HarryPotter/Firefly fanfics.

Heh. You might, at least partially, blame nonjon for that. A good one popping up, especially fairly "early on", so to speak, can bolster the amount of stuff that ends up in the same area of fanfiction. Though there's only a couple or dozen or so on FF.N. Compared to some Xover pairs, that's... not terribly many.

Wait, Frumple, you live in the States, right? Which one?

I've seen a fellow walking around with a walking stick a few times, if memory serves me, but it might just be coincidence or someone else with an affection for wooden walking aids.

Down in Florida. It was somewhat sporadic usage, but yeah.

There's a simpler way to go about this.

"Ok.  So global warming isn't man-made or isn't a real problem.  I'll just let that one go.  We don't need it.  What are your thoughts on rising ocean acidity levels?  Plastic particles in the water cycle?  Habitat destruction?  Endangerment of lynch pin species around the world, like amphibians or honeybees?  These problems are just as severe, and there's no way in hell you can argue mankind isn't the primary cause of them."

Hell man, you don't even need that. The flat fact is that the stuff causing environmental damage is wasteful as a rule. Pollution and containments getting into the environment is a sign of inefficiency, both in the process producing it, in using the pollutants themselves, and in maintaining the environment in a state most capable of exploitation. You could give jack-all of a shit about the long term consequences and be in complete denial about the larger scale impact of humans on the environment and still be necessarily led to tenants of conservation and environmental protectionism that are flatly identical to measures based on a long-term view. That ideal isn't just a moral thing, it's also an engineering thing.

To a large extent, climate denial and a lot of the industrial-side shit related to it has nothing to do genuine belief, s'far as I can tell. What it really is, is some fuckers trying to make an excuse for being crap at their job and obfuscate the blatant goddamn stupidity and inefficiency of what they're doing. These are poor businessmen and industrialists trying to excuse their failings on one hand, and individuals doing frankly immoral things (being excessively wasteful) trying to hide or downplay their immorality/incapability (of figuring out a more efficient process/something to do with the waste materials) on the other.

It honestly gets kinda' frustrating. Climate change being false doesn't change the fact that many of the measures being suggested to fight it are the best choice anyway. Efficiency is one of the primary virtues. Waste, pollutants, environmental damage... those are all signs of inefficiency, of damaging that which you extract resources from to an excessive degree. Regardless as to the long term or wide scale effects, these are things you freaking fix, because it means you can improve your methodology and extend the degree of resource exploitation you're capable of. S'just... damnit, people. Damn it, and damn you. Stop being so terrible at actual exploitation, you weaksauce bastards! You're giving the word a bad name!

Apologies. It's just kind of maddening when your teacher completely glosses over known quirks and differences in human societies and paints this bizarre neo-Hegelian portrait in which humankind eats the apple of Patriarchy, gets kicked out of the pre-agricultural garden of Eden and has thereafter been working towards salvation by Empowering Identities.

Heh. That actually does sound like some of the worser stuff I saw coming out of the anthropology department. Love those guys to bits and they're trying hard, but they just popped out of the womb and even the philosophy critters are laughing at them for bullshitting too much... and us folks over the philosophy department basically have afternoon rhetoricbullshit tournaments in between the actual academic work.

Some of their good stuff is pretty good, too, but a lot of the stuff I've ran into so far has some hella' just-so problems. Definitely need to poke at the field again at some point to shake some of that bias off, but until then I'll indulge in a laugh or two

WHY THE FUCK I CAN'T GET A DAMN LINUX DISTRO TO WORK OUT OF THE BOX ON THIS FUCKING COMPUTER

BECAUSE LINUX WANTS YOU TO WORK FOR IT NEW MEAT

Rage: Sociology is not real.

... what?

I mean, don't get me wrong, sociology's still pretty young. But if it's not real, neither is psychology, and going down that path is starting a long damn trip going through the "hard" sciences that ends up back at philosophy and philosophy promptly shrugging its shoulders and going, "Nah, sorry dude, we're all unreal here, too."

Sociology's done some pretty good academic and practical work, so far. Still got some "figuring out what the hell we're doing" jitters, but it's no anthropology (I jest, partially, though anthropo's even younger and more confused as to wtf it's doing) and it's got some solid things going for it.

No can do, cap'n! The graviometric vector coupling can't take anymore stress!

Ha ha ha. The joke in this one is that there's more verbs in the second sentence than seems immediately obvious.

Remember, though, before all the turrets were destroyed, they destroyed the command. Even if we built the spire stuff, the destruction of the command would disable everything.

No, no... or shouldn't, anyway, not if you had supply in an adjacent system. Most things still function as long as you've got supply (building up in a cleared but unclaimed system is a fairly common tactic, from what I understand. Some folks apparently just wreck the warpgate and leave the AI command center, and then just build a little fortress in the system.), but especially turrets. A real trick would be to get a joining fellow to park their core in the system, I think, and then just run it around the outer edge of the system fleeing from everything or something. Might be worth a try, anyway~

More forcefields around the command center probably wouldn't hurt, though. Go ahead and stack five or six on there, and then park your shipcap of riot starships on top, too. Fun times! There's a lot you can do when you're piling the entirety of your resources into a single system. (And as for expansion, that's what friends are for! They clear it out, you build the colony ship.)

Fortifying the supply giving backup system a bit (especially against stuff that would slip through the main fortress system) isn't a bad idea, though.