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Bryozoans. They're fresh water colonial organisms that form gelatinous masses on submerged objects. They do have a skeleton made of calcium carbonate, but not to the degree of coral. But if you're world building, a nudge to the point where they do is possible.

Ooooh, a designer baby argument! I'm not for the concept of designer babies for a couple reasons. First, it's going to limit genetic diversity among humans. All your kids are going to be packing the same genes so what happens when something comes along that no one really has an effective defense aga...

In this situation the only sensible thing to do is turn the deal down, as nothing is worth eternal damnation. I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. Since it wasn't stipulated in the OP that your wife and kids are not people you do not feel deep, true love for, I'd eat the damnation. P...

It's been a while since I've read the Black Company novels, but I believe the ten were a couple hundred years minimum at the start of novels. The problem is that I don't think I remember most of their magic abilities being quantified other than 'Almost as good as The Lady's and far less than her hus...

Now there will be other buns. -as in taking a fighting stance. (Originally changing from sweet buns to hard buns due to preparations for war). For some reason I really, really like that one. It's quiet, understated, and...I dunno, it just has something. It's something you can imagine being used in ...

There are certain missions you have to do before moving on or they are lost to you forever and you're fucked out of at least one, possibly two areas: Find the girl from your home village who is lost in the fog woods, find the book with the bandits and eventually find out what happened to the duchess...

The first thing that popped into my head when reading this is this being done as if the players are characters from The Culture but know no better, so dress themselves up as knights and run around with high tech equipment disguised as traditional fantasy items. I don't if that's a good thing or a ba...

I agree completely. Although, I saw it brought up that Rahmaan was referencing the 9/11 attacks/current political environment of the world with the ending of the Afghan level, I think people might be reading to far into it. The impression I get, and it's only because they fuck up and dump Zhao with ...

I'm still early on in the SP, but I like it. Not because it's high writing, but because I find it fun. I'm a little worried that it will start to blur together since it's all about big things happening in Mason/Wood's history while the son focuses more on snooping and eavesdropping. The whole "...

Dragon's Dogma does some nice things, like letting you climb monsters to hit weak spots and the class system is fun and gives you goals if you have OCD. The Mystic Archer class is probably my favorite fantasy character type ever, as well. But the combat gets repetitive, as stated, and you don't see ...

It'd be more interesting if the players took on the roles of separate super AIs and all the other things in the setting are their pawns. Some means of differentiating the AI gods and probably a more narrativist setting and you'd be golden.

That's kind of sad. Someone should take a shot at it, but I have feeling it would probably turn out horribly. I could see it be a tale of various individuals trying to fight against the congealing intelligence and failing step by step, but still pressing on. It'd be a great way to show that even tho...

An idea hit me as I was pondering this a while ago. It'd be interesting if one of the writers actually inserted a secret history. Given that there is a race to different cognitive hurdles and surmounting them, have one of the first intelligences to breech the first hurdle start running a huge mathem...

Aren't wormholes mass producible at some point? Why not put one in an enclosed space of the shit and dump all the heat into it so it is vented at a secure point somewhere else? That'd be an interesting way of doing it if you can get a small enough wormhole.

What the flying fuck? Really? Future mankind is really going to create such a stunning array of competition for resources from things it has seen as animals? Alright, I mean I'm cool with sapient giant centipedes because that's fucking terrifying and I like that, but why everything else? I have this...

Hot damn, that's terrifying. You learn something new everyday.

At relativistic speeds, a projectile stops acting like a cloud of loosely connected atoms, and acts like a cloud of loosely connected subatomic particles, which happen to be held in a fixed spatial relation as long as they don't hit anything. Intermolecular, interatomic, and inter-particle forces a...

Isn't the problem when you accelerate small things to intense velocities that the small things penetrate completely through an object before dumping enough energy into to do damage?

Alright, I have one question about this movie, and it is of absolute import:

Did they turn the shakey cam down?

I can't help but see the act of making rats human level intelligence as a terribly bad idea. Naturally, rats see the world as 'Flee, Feed, Fight, Fuck: pick on one the above' with most things falling directly into the 'Flee' column. I would imagine even intelligent rats would have this problem and t...

I find it sad that there are so many derivatives and references such as God-Emperor in there. They missed some gold on making the Bitenic Squids a major component or direct author of a galaxy wide collapse. Alien mindset but able to anticipate and manipulate sapients with a basic mental architecture...

For what it's worth, info on the shooter. Ex-Army, but it seems he was discharged pre-2001. Michigan Chronicle OAK CREEK, Wis. — Officials on Monday identified the gunman they say killed six people inside a Sikh temple in Wisconsin as a 40-year-old Army veteran. RELATED:Sikh Community On Edge After ...

Poster: Tasoth

The Protomen. Nerdy as all shit since they have written not one, but two rock operas about megaman. Here is a sample from their website.

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You can also find most of their songs on random AMVs or lyric videos on youtube.

http://i.imgur.com/58ky9.jpg These are the bog standard powersuits from the Tabletop/RPG. Some jump jets, climbing lines, etc. There is a special variant called a Pathfinder that is effectively powersuited LRRPs. http://i.imgur.com/qWlze.jpg The Grizzly/Kodiak, which is a step between powersuits an...

I thought Rico was from Buenos Aires, which would make him Argentinian.