This, a thousand times. A tabletop RPG gives a lot more freedom of choice and a much more visceral experience than anything technology has managed to produce or is likely to produce for the foreseeable future. And the barriers to entry are basically nonexistent, a few rules, some dice, pencils and paper.

I mean think about it - you read a book, right, and you interpret the words in the book in a way unique to yourself, you see the castle or the starship in your own minds eye in a way that nobody else can. This is a big part of the magic of reading. Tabletop RPGs are like that except it's a shared imaginative experience, others literally walk in your imagination and you walk in theirs. What could be more marvellous?

Books are to movies what tabletop RPGs are to computer games.

Why is Thor about to lay a smackdown on some wombles in that first picture.

Kind of reminds me of a vaguely remembered description of one of the Necromancer's chambers from I think it was the Hobbit, places of blackness so intense you would go mad staring at them for too long.

"We have no accepted definition of intelligence because reality is politically unacceptable"

Nope, we have no accepted definition of intelligence because any definition you can come up with can invariably be used to infer that cabbages are intelligent or something similar.

Oh okay, you've got a list of exceptionally intelligent people with a long list of increasingly intelligent ancestors handy, yes? We aren't chimpanzees and we have no clear idea what intelligence is in the first place is, so claiming it's a highly hereditary trait is... not terribly intelligent.

Yes, that's why Einstein's parents and grandparents were world reknowned scientists.

All the internets sir. You win them.

Oh get fucked asshole, this isn't about playing fair and providing jobs, its about corporate profits: http://pando.com/2014/03/22/re...

What, did you think Google was putting tens of millions into IT education for philanthropic purposes?

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Haaaaaaahahahaha! ...yeah they're planning to strip mine up and coming generations.

Yes it is, you people are completely insane.

"For example, "Free Market" is, for all intents and purposes, the god of capitalism, gets treated that way by everyone, has sacrifices performed to it, has temples and priests trying to predict its capricious whims, is the object of fundamentalist faith - I've had people define a human's very right to live in terms of body ownership - and doctrinal conflicts, etc. Someone who wasn't indoctrinated to the system from birth could hardly avoid classifying this all as a typical religion."

Sounds awfully like feminism or progressivism to me. Ideologies are generally counterproductive my friend, except Buddhism, and that only because its first and last instructions are to reject ideologies, including this one.

The problem with your viewpoint is that most people correctly identify communism with other mass murdering ideologies like nazism, so you are to right thinking folk no different to a nazi. It's not 1960 anymore and you won't be gulling idiots into yet another round of slaughter.

Nope, that was Stalinism and Maoism, which were more true to the communist manifesto and Marx than any smoked salmon socialist.

Just out of interest, which first year course disgorged you? I would like to know for Reasons.

I'm finding the expression of support for an ideological system that racked up the murders of nine figures worth of innocent people in the twentieth century both risible and worrying, but on the subject of broken people, Marx was a chronic lifelong alcoholic who fathered a child on the housemaid that he had kept since she was a child, refused to acknowledge paternity, squandered his own fortune and that of his wife, frequently defaulted on his many debts, was an adulterer, an anti semite and by all accounts a fairly nasty self centred piece of work, as his interactions with Engles reveal.

Perhaps that might cast a fresh light on the value of his ruminations.

He's right though, that thing will drop like a rock. ...aaand apparently it actually is an official release: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activit...