bigspender wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 20:32:
Thought you guys might get a kick out of this gem I found on reddit: DAIKATANA 3 lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9md2vn/daikatana_3_john_romeros_about_to_scratch_that/

bigspender wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 20:32:
Thought you guys might get a kick out of this gem I found on reddit: DAIKATANA 3 lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9md2vn/daikatana_3_john_romeros_about_to_scratch_that/

jdreyer wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 16:03:
Been a while since we've had a good old-fashioned Star Citizen thread to argue about.

jdreyer wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 16:03:
Been a while since we've had a good old-fashioned Star Citizen thread to argue about.

jdreyer wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 16:03:
Been a while since we've had a good old-fashioned Star Citizen thread to argue about.

Creston wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 12:23:
Chatbear is the software these forums run on, if I'm not mistaken. And yes, it's highly possible that Blues is the only website left in the world that uses it.

Frans' skill set might be more rare than COBOL programmers.

VaranDragon wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 10:33:
If you haven't seen this, prepare for awesomeness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fID1sE2xfwU&t=1s

To me this is more exciting than pretty much any other news I've seen all year.

Creston wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 10:16:
Wipe 'em out! Bye mosquitos! (note: just the species that bite and carry diseases. The other thousands are fine, they can continue to be bird feed.)

Creston wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 13:04:

VaranDragon wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 12:51:
Hate to break it to you buddy, but mosquitoes are not the deadliest animals on this planet. I'll give you a hint to as to its identity. It walks on two legs and wipes out a few thousand species of other plants and animals from the face of the earth EACH YEAR.

While I agree with the sentiment, in pure numbers, mosquitos actually kill more than humans do. I do realize I wrote 'animal', when I believe the study I saw on it actually classified it as 'predator'.

In any case, hey, sterilize all of mankind while we're at it. I don't care.

According to the World Health Organization, about 725,000 people are killed every year by mosquito-borne diseases. Malaria alone affects 200 million, of which an estimated 600,000 die. Mosquitoes also carry dengue fever, yellow fever and encephalitis.

The sheer number of mosquitoes adds to the risk they pose to humans. Unlike many other dangerous creatures, they can be found in nearly every part of the world at various times of year, and at peak breeding season they outnumber every other animal except ants and termites.

VaranDragon wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 12:51:
Hate to break it to you buddy, but mosquitoes are not the deadliest animals on this planet. I'll give you a hint to as to its identity. It walks on two legs and wipes out a few thousand species of other plants and animals from the face of the earth EACH YEAR.

Creston wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 12:22:

Cutter wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 11:15:

Creston wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 10:16:
Wipe 'em out! Bye mosquitos! (note: just the species that bite and carry diseases. The other thousands are fine, they can continue to be bird feed.)

I agree with the sentiment but it seems whenever we do something like this the long term ramifications are just something we can't see and will eventually come back to bite us in the ass. Mankind isn't very good at planning for the future...as evidenced by that climate report.

Mosquitos (or rather, the diseases they carry), literally kill millions of people a year. It's because of this that they are considered the deadliest animal on earth. In this case, I think we need to just take the risk. Yes, there's a chance something 'unforeseen' happens, though even that's kind of a loaded statement as the most immediate risk would be to other species of mosquito, which... eh :-shrug-: . It's really hard to see how something could happen that would be worse than MILLIONS of people dying each year because of these little fuckers.

And again, we're talking about like 5 species out of thousands that even carry diseases. There's only like a dozen or so that even bite.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 11:53:
I am very tired so excuse this seemingly random question. However, what the Hell is chatbear? The link on the bottom of the page is dead and the website for the company is gone. Moreover, the chatbear Twitter account hasn't posted anything in six and a half years. My DDG searches have brought up mostly links to sites catering to older, hairy, gay men so I'm pretty confident that's not it...

Did BN used to have an old school style chat feature?

Cutter wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 11:15:

Creston wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 10:16:
Wipe 'em out! Bye mosquitos! (note: just the species that bite and carry diseases. The other thousands are fine, they can continue to be bird feed.)

I agree with the sentiment but it seems whenever we do something like this the long term ramifications are just something we can't see and will eventually come back to bite us in the ass. Mankind isn't very good at planning for the future...as evidenced by that climate report.

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 8, 2018, 11:16:
You really know Columbus Day has been downgraded when it doesn't even rate a Google doodle.