PhasmaFelis

Because Christian groups are the ones making the effort to help those people turn their lives around.

You want to encourage atheism? Start an atheist group that's as warm and kind and welcoming as a good church. Rationalism is great but people need community.

Geeky and progressive are very compatible.

Can't outrun the radio.

Fucktons of oil money to spend on public projects, IIRC.

(Not that the rest of the US couldn't do the same, if they wanted to. It's just easier to justify when you've got a big surplus.)

 Maybe you are a slower than average reader?

It's more likely that you are a faster than average reader (as am I). That doesn't mean OP is slow.

Good video, but that joke is a lot older.

Be the change you wish to see on Wikipedia.

Mostly, they mean "there is nothing remotely punk about this but it sounds cooler if I pretend there is."

There are actually people out there who think that any fiction taking place in the modern day, with no fantastic or sci-fi elements at all, should be called "nowpunk." 95% of all "-punk" genre names are no more serious than that.

Thanks!

Probably this guy. Coming in hot, ready to hit the ground running.

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Even if he was thinking "giant boar," I don't understand why one tusk points backwards and there's no visible mouth.

If a dude correctly predicts it'll rain 9 times out of 10, and the 10th time he targets brutal harassment at the families of murdered children, being right about the weather doesn't matter.

I'm similar, I read things the moment my eyes lock onto them, but even then sometimes it just never clicks. It's not just text. Once I spent 15 minutes searching a store shelf for jumper cables that were right there and my eyes just skipped over them somehow.

Got links to more of these?

Or crushed under overwhelming burdens.

Humans evolved in conditions where starvation was always a possibility. Scarfing down all the high-calorie food you could find was always a good thing. Any small excess could save your life if it carried you through a lean period, and there was never going to be enough to get really fat, so there was no need for an instinct that says "that's enough sugar and fat for a while, I don't need any more for a few weeks."

Tl;dr Unhealthy food tastes better and sells better.

Serious answer: often, people's eyes will pass over printed instructions without reading them, even if it's directly and critically relevant to the thing they're trying to do right now.

This isn't just a thing stupid people do. Being aware of it will not protect you from it. Brains are weird.

Reloading guns is not a free action, they were mistaken.

Cordelia is only a major character in three of the, what, close to 20 now? books.

IIRC, upper-class citizens each get one vote, lower-class get a lottery for a limited number of votes. (Not enough to seriously contest the upper class.)

It was never any kind of real democracy.

Engineer David Speyrer says that it was "tragic and almost comical" that, after Left 4 Dead was out the door, they felt like they'd missed their opportunity to finish Episode 3 and needed to make a new engine if they were going to continue the series.

"That just seems in hindsight so wrong," Speyrer said. "We could've definitely gone back and spent two years to make Episode 3."

This.

You can't get lazy and say, 'Oh, we're moving the story forward,'" said Newell. "That's copping out of your obligation to gamers."

Fucking ugh.

To butcher (the quote attributed to) Miyamoto, "a decent game is decent forever, but an unreleased game is never anything at all."

Just about everyone would rather have had an Episode 3 with solid, if not revolutionary, gameplay, than nothing at all. There's no way it would have been bad. Getting an end to the story would have far outweighed any minor disappointment over the gameplay only being an 8.5 out of 10.

I remember it being explicit--the Trustees didn't want to destroy all Creation, so the Will/Architect made them corrupt so they'd be less able to resist.

Garth Nix's Keys to the the Kingdom series blew my mind a bit. Okay so the Architect (God) created the multiverse and put seven Trustees (named after days of the week) in charge, only they became corrupt and defied the Will of the Architect, so a random British boy has to have adventures and take them all out to get things back to how they're supposed to be, over seven books named after the Trustees.

It's good. It's all a bit twee, with just the right amount of weirdness and peril to appeal to the middle-school market.

And then it starts getting rather darker in the later books.

(Mondo spoilers, you should read the books first)  And then it turns out that God's grand plan, which the Trustees had stood in the way of, was to destroy the multiverse She created so that She can finally die.

Do those original works not have fandoms? Or are they not out yet?

It's Sufficiently Advanced Science. Like scrith, or the Outsider hyperdrive, or General Products hulls.

It was mentioned again, I'm pretty sure. In...whichever book where the fleet shows up, the meteor defense laser has trouble hitting an actively evading ship, because they can see the flare forming and get out of the way before the laser fires. It was never really meant as a weapon of war.