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No posts from me in this forum, anymore. I'm sick and tired of your jokes 

Or you could try posting something that might be in the interest of the general audience of this community, instead of only stuff about Cosmos Quest. How about a thread that is not related to Cosmos Quest in any perceivable way?

I love how you've masked this spam as some kind of general discussion on how google works

Sorry Dual, I'm just fooling around!
True, enough random nonsense, I'd better lock this one...

The poster doesn't really say much about your game. Why are George Lucas and Spielberg there? And why does it say E.T. on his cap? Is this some sort of parody game that will actually feature Lucas, Spielberg and E.T?
I guess you could keep Ford there, but definitely add some in-game graphics, or at least some kind of scenery from the game.

Yeah Dual, with that kind of behaviour you'll never be considered an oldie

Can you please stop making these threads about how you're here or not here or have returned or whatever. There's a special place to introduce yourself, if you must, otherwise just post and chill like the rest of us.

you are mis-informed.  The US was founded on the principle of personal liberty and freedom from oppressive government and that such freedoms are acquired by virtue of being a human being and not bestowed on anyone by a king or politburo as is the case in all or almost all other countries.

I'm....speechless.

Good luck Eric, it would be nice if you could make it

DGMACPEE OMG

Moving this to technical.
I think it would help if you wrote a bit more legibly, Icey games, right now it looks like you were typing this post on your mobile phone while running away from a fire.

er...do you guys live in some alternative reality where a western, capitalist nation hasn't already used nuclear weapons?
Whereas nations like Iran have done nothing of the sort?
...anyone?

ok, thanks!

A simple language question, one that I could probably look up elsewhere, but anyways; what's the english word or phrase for adding words to a text, in order to make it appear richer and longer, even though you don't really add more useful information? As in "this presentation is good, but you could [] the text a bit."

Edit:
ah, it sprang to mind now; to pad. Or are there better ways to say it?

I probably haven't paid close attention to the thread so far, but on the site it says "max capacity 28 people"...but on the rest of the site they never mention that number again...what's up with that?

I'll pay my part within a week, just have to work out some details and see if my significant other can make it as well.

Tuomas, you have to make a banner that announces that fact.

Well it is still interesting to see how many people are automatically linking the term "pedophile" (or as it is properly spelled, as you have shown, "paedophile") with "convicted sexual offender". Although paedophilia can lead to sexual assault, it's not an inevitability. If someone considered themselves a necrophiliac that wouldn't immediately make them a convicted murderer.

A necrophiliac would never need to be a convicted murderer, it's enough if they use a corpse to have sex with it. I don't know how common it is that necrophiliacs first murder their victims, but it's not necessary.

Also, as much as I endorse the sentiment that nobody should be blamed for their inner desires and sexual tendencies, I think we're splitting hairs here - we wouldn't call anyone a paedophile unless they have in some way taken advantage of a child (or attempted to). I guess a psychologist or a priest or a close friend could possibly know if someone nurtures paedophiliac fantasies, but he'd never be labelled paedophile until there is an act.

I think this might be one of my favourite clips that combine politics with comedy, and it also shows very clearly the greatness of Jon Stewart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

Dunno how important this is to people who are neither american or americophile as me, though

Basically what you're seeing is how Jon Stewart puts the last nail in Crossfire's coffin.

True. Let's discuss words that sound alike instead.

stare/stair

discuss!

Questionable; what you're saying is neither new, nor very isolated to English, nor very relevant to our current discourse...

All languages are mixtures of various other languages, due to borrowing, migration, politics, fashion trends etc. English words may be especially easy to trace back, and break up into German, French and Latin roots etc - but all languages have dictionaries that explain the etymology of its words, and these words can come from all over the world, it's the same with any modern language! Swedish to mention one has had three major influxes of loan words (german industrial/trade words from the Hansa days, French fashion/beauty/court words from the 1700 hundreds and English ever since the early 1900), and these groups of words make up a considerable portion of our modern dictionary.

And the fact that there shouldn't be "rules" to govern how we speak has little to do with the properties of English per see, and more with how modern linguists treat language change.
There used to be a much stronger prescriptive movement, that more or less denied that languages change over time. Now most linguists describe what they see instead, and accept that a language is something dynamic and vibrant.

This doesn't mean that everything is ok! No, we can't all be right! Not because it says so in old dusty tomes, but because there must be some sort of agreement in order for proper communication to take place.

All in all, the anglocentrism in your post is quite astonishing.