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In the demo, at least, I found fighters to be kinda' useful even once tech was maxed out... because you could build craploads of them and they were so flimsy the enemy apparently preferred to target them, especially if they were up close. Given that they can only blow up one fighter per weapon, if they hit... it worked pretty well as kinda' ablative shielding, so to speak, for everything actually important. More useful on defense than offense, though, as you need a supply source to keep the "shield strength" (i.e. mass of fighter bodies) up.

... seriously, marshmallow cream is delicious. You don't eat large amounts at once if you don't want to get sick, but a little bit goes a long damn way (I've snacked from a single jar for... months. Three, four, maybe more.). The stuff is incredibly sticky, and actually takes a lot of effort to eat if you're not just consuming it off something like bread. Leave it on the spoon or whatev', impromptu lollipop.

They sound like they'd make delicious sandwiches. Other than that, no clue.

The current topic is dangerously philosophical, but it's not something I hear discussed often so I think we're treading non-circular ground for once.

Ethics of belief is only tangentially related to religion, yeah. As for Max W's thing, I think the major reason we've currently mostly subscribed to a kind of "anything-goes" in the realm of belief is because that's been the system that's so-far been least capable (though, of course, note that least is not un-) of being abused, or at very least is the least troublesome to roll with. If you hold that there's reasons to disallow certain sorts of belief systems, things get hellaciously complicated.

There's a number of folks that have chimed in on the ethics of forming and holding belief, though, most of them outside of theology so far as I know.

Quote from: Micro102 on November 16, 2012, 09:32:31 pm

It's fine to think whatever you want. It's when you start pushing your beliefs on others that the problems start. Also, who said your beleif isn't going to be criticized? If you have the freedom to voice your beleif, other people have the right to voice your beleif that their beleif is wrong.

See, there's a problem with this thought: Numerous times in judeo-christian-Mosaic-based scripture, (all the Bibles, the Torah, and the Qu'ran), it states clearly that people are to go and spread their beliefs. If you don't, you're disobeying your religion, and risking eternal punishment.

The method of spreading your belief can vary, though. It's not all shoving bibles down your throat and hellfire and brimstone and swords. I've ran into a few Christian believers who hold that proselytizing is done strictly through action (or to be more precise, it's a necessary consequence of proper worship; "walk with god and others will come and walk with you", kind of thing), and who only spread the word, so to speak, when it's directly requested and even then not as a "this is the truth" but a "this is the truth that has worked for me" thing. I'm fairly sure there's a bit stronger thread of that in some of the more predominately eastern religions, as well.

That'd definitely bring about an annoying optimization thing where you pop your ult up every time you're back to shop or whatever though, wouldn't it? Even (especially?) without the homeguard thing. At least if you have the tear and your ult.

Though it'd overall bit a bit... silly. Because sitting in your base farming up the tear would be... not being else where, farming up the tear and getting XP. It'd take... nine minutes and some change (187-ish procs with a 3 second CD = 562-ish seconds, or nine and a third or so minutes), I think, to fill the tear if you proc the mana increase every three seconds on the dot. I... I guess if you had to go AFK for a bit you could leave it up?

Is, uh. Is the tear getting filled up a thing that actually happens regularly? Looking at it, that's a lot of casts, really.

Amumu with a lil' mana regen's probably going to like it, though.

Feels, RK. All I can really think to say is that I hope the process goes smoothly and y'all manage to work out whatever works best for the kids. Don't need an already difficult situation made worse, yeah.

Political censorship, sure. Censoring violent games? No. Have some perspective, please. It's not at all the same thing.

It's an inroad, though, which does make it pretty close to as dangerous. That said, it's not as an immediate threat as a lot of other BFDs in the great web of american cockups, so if that was her worst screwup on the BFD side... that'd be pretty damned impressive. I haven't actually paid enough attention to that clinton to say if it is, but while censorship's definitely high up on m'personal list of political concerns, there's other ones that are even higher, especially in relation to less direct things like video game censorship (ACTA-esq shit would be a different kettle of fish, though.).

Don't mistake it, though. That "have some perspective" bit on censorship is exactly what some of the fuckwads trying to push shit through are after. Little inroads, here and there and there and there, until they've got what they're after.

And apparently the kind ninja MZ has noted some of Sen. Clinton's other BFDs that are considerably more immediate issues. So, yeah.

Even in the demo there's tech (hydroponic farms or something is the start of the line, iirc, though there may be more) that can turn colonies, at least, into net positives in terms of production, though outposts, yeah, are necessarily upkeep drains. Beyond that, you've got extending the distance your fleet can go (resupply) and mineral extraction, and sometimes outposts are necessary to get colonies around the sun shadow or whatever, I guess. Plus the whole denying the planets/moons to the enemy part. Much easier to keep them off when you can build defenses, yeah.