TruthTellah

@CatsAkimbo said:

@TruthTellah said:

Significant global climate change is occurring. The extent to which that is guided by mankind's actions is questionable, but it's certainly a factor. And regardless of its true level of influence on what is occurring, we should be making more efforts to limit our negative impact on the environment.

Yeah, this is a silly question because global warming is actually happening. The controversy is whether humans have caused it or not. I had a chemistry prof. who wasn't convinced that humans were causing it because there wasn't much evidence at the time, but now ~7 years later, a lot more evidence has come out, and I'm willing to bet he's more on the side of humans causing it.

We also can't discount how other factors can take even minimal influence and make it into something worse, or a certain level of influence can push a bad situation to be even worse. So, even when discussing whether human beings are significantly or even minimally impacting global climate change, both possibilities could have a major impact. We see that it is happening, we know something is at least some kind of a factor, and that's enough to inspire us to try to change that. It's like seeing that someone is sick and detecting that they have a bad infection. Maybe that infection is or isn't the biggest cause of their symptoms, but you know it's a problem that must be addressed either way.

@BSw said:

@9cupsoftea said:

Fucking hell. Global warming is not something to 'believe'. It's something that's happening, it's a fact. This is like asking 'do you believe in oxygen?'.

There you go, discussion's over. How the hell you can even look at the subject as something to 'believe' in is beyond me. It's happening, it's man-made (by far most of what we've been experiencing during the last decades is, at least), and we need to be very thankful for the people that are researching, innovating, and investing heavily in the subject despite the vast army of idiots (fronted by some very rich Americans) actively yelling at the media that it's 'a hoax'. And the media just cover whatever topic is interesting without any responsibility, so that this looks like a 50-50 game to the uninformed public, which it isn't. As someone else in this topic already mentioned: if all of us would be like those idiots, we would indeed be a doomed race.

Perhaps it should have been asked as "solely man-made global warming". Most people believe that global climate change is occurring, but there is a lot of skepticism over the extent to which human beings are impacting that. So, whether they're the main driving force or just a contributing factor. And regardless of how they feel, most people do support more environmentally-friendly policies.

@l4wd0g: Better.

Significant global climate change is occurring. The extent to which that is guided by mankind's actions is questionable, but it's certainly a factor. And regardless of its true level of influence on what is occurring, we should be making more efforts to limit our negative impact on the environment.

@familyphotoshoot: It was a hoax. Nothing came of it.

There was a hostage situation in Pittsburgh though, and that resolved peacefully with the suspect giving himself up. But that was unrelated to anything in NYC.

@Shotgunblast97: The Advance Wars series. Every one of the games. They just have fantastic personality and super tight gameplay.

Honorable mention would also go to Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes.

@busted1der: Sorry to say, but it hasn't been released yet. If you want to get your hands on it, you'll need to contact the developer.

I look forward to buying this in a week when it's available on Android. :)

@MariachiMacabre said:

@bushpusherr

@MariachiMacabre said:

Seriously the hate train for every major release is getting crazy. Positivity is becoming a rarer site with each passing day.

I don't really see any "hate trains" going around. A lot of people in this thread have stated (and I will join them) in saying that BL2 is an awesome game. The game isn't perfect though, and people shouldn't be discouraged from speaking out about that. Sure there are always exceptions, but I think for the most part, a lot of legitimate criticisms of games gets blown off as "unjustified hate and negativity."

It's not just BL2. It's been several of the major releases this year. The best example is the Mass Effect 3 bullshit that climaxed in death threats towards BioWare staffers. The video game community has a lot of growing up to do. It seems like the only things people ever pay attention to in games are the negatives. No matter how minuscule it's blown completely out of portion and reiterated with more threads than it ever warrants.

There's been a lot of hate. And a lot of love. <3

Considering how few good games are coming out for those platforms, I do think GiantBomb could highlight a handful of good ones every month. One news post wouldn't exactly be a big deal. Maybe even a rudimentary Quick Look of sorts. I know I'd certainly appreciate the guys bringing their special sauce to mobile gaming.