Pretty sure the template is for ease of construction, not a how-to-make-sides-that-fit-together.

I find it odd that people who otherwise feel our judicial system is a failure turn around and promote the concept that getting out of jury duty is somehow a good thing.

And you're willing to trust the validity of an online poll indicating only 16% of people do not believe humans were created by a god? Sounds to me like a strong sampling bias, intentional or not.

While I don't disagree with most of your post, exactly what part of Bethesda and BioWare's recent works have ANYTHING to do with the Japanese RPGs of the '90s?

The only thing they have in common is nothing at all.

That would be the scientific approach to the issue, yes. But the RATIONAL approach is the one willing to confess that, yes, it IS possible that science cannot explain something.

How so? Where has science disproved the existence of a supernatural entity? Moreover, what if all of the physical laws of the universe by which sciences can exist in the first place are the creation of some entity beyond scientific understanding -- as necessitated by the fact that said entity was able to create it in the first place.

I'm not saying that God does or does not exist, and I could care less either way if people have faith in such a being or not, but those who think other people are irrational for believing a God exists, and spew forth arguments like the one you just wrote, are just as irrational as the craziest of religious fundamentalists.

The maps used in professional tournaments are designed with multiple spectator positions. Spectators can see anything that either player can see.

Often, a game will have 2 commentators for each language it is broadcast in, and each is able to spectate independently. That's not an absolute, of course.

While I am not disagreeing that a PC is a better option here, low end PCs do NOT exceed the graphics capabilities of a PS3 without buying a new GPU.

Any machine that can is virtually guaranteed to not be classified as 'low end'.

Shipping has long been used to refer to moving large quantities of goods over land via trains and trucks... It's used in America frequently enough, I'm not sure what you're getting at with this.

I didn't RTFA, but isn't there perhaps other explanations than 'young adults are less respectful'? That age group is also the most likely to have young children, and many are also in a transitional phase where they're moving on from high school and college lifestyles into the adult world -- part of doing that frequently includes shedding of old acquaintances (and even friends), and might necessitate termination of a social encounter.

Furthermore, what is "I need to take a call" replacing? It's very possible that taking a fake call is replacing some previous behavior people would use to avoid a social encounter.

It also seems to me that there are far more socially inept individuals in the young adult demographic. This may be because, as a member of that group, I am exposed to them more often, but I don't think so. The number of people who I met in college who could not take the hint that they were annoying or that people would prefer them to not be around was staggering, and many people probably feel that 'taking a fake call' is preferable to saying 'go away, nobody likes you'.

In short, I don't agree with the assessment that young adults are necessarily less respectful based on this study. It still may be true, but this study doesn't really consider enough factors to be useful at all in that regard.

It's quite likely the game will have no code for saving a client-side character, as the entire game is focused on an always-online connection. Hacking a client-side save system is non-trivial.

There is talk on the official forums (without links so the threads don't get deleted) about a Battle.Net emulator of sorts that has enabled LAN play for SC2 with a modified client released in the last week or so. I haven't verified the claim (it's not something I'm personally invested in), but you might consider looking into it, if that's your thing.

Blizzard isn't selling anything on the new auction house. It is an entirely player-driven AH. Please educate yourself before posting.

I think part of the problem is the myriad complaints from people who played Diablo II offline, in a single-player environment, and invested hundreds of hours into a character. If your circumstances change such that you suddenly want to play online, you don't have to throw those hundreds of hours away and start from scratch. This happened to many people in Diablo II and people often complained about it. To actually 'solve' this problem, Single Player (or in D3's case, characters played solo) need to be kept in the same secure environment as multi-player characters.

Incidentally, the always-online aspect of the game means characters are stored server-side. This is something that I haven't seen people bring up much on the issue -- effectively migrating your characters to any machine you can log in from.

If the device itself was running all of the processing, the latency shouldn't be an issue. USB gamepads do not have noticeable latency, so theoretically a program could be written to pass a ROM to the USB device, handle the sound and video output (SNES were rather low-resolution, bandwidth on USB shouldn't be an issue), handle battery-backed RAM (for saves and such), and send control input from the keyboard or gamepad(s).

The real question I would ask is if this is even emulation at this stage, so much as an actual SNES with a different I/O.