8 to start with, eventually they plan to offer additional character slots for a small fee. However, in-game each character can have multiple costumes that are completely different from your original (even down to changing body size and proportions) so it's not quite as inflexible as the 8-character limit initially seems.

AFAIK, the lifetime subscriptions were only offered up until the official release - so unless you participated in the Beta or the "early start" offered to certain pre-order customers, it wasn't really an option.

There's lots of bang-boom, the controls are fairly simple, an 8-year old that enjoys comics and has the computer skills required to operate the game could enjoy it. I would not let the child play unsupervised, though.

Quite large, but not disturbingly so. There really isn't any 'boob physics' to speak of, like you'd see in a fighting game. They just sort of poke out there like a pair of bulbous road cones.

I get much more amusement out of making characters that have disproportionate bodies - huge gangly arms with short legs, gigantic melon head, etc.

This is so many levels of incorrect I don't even know where to begin.

Let's start with the Clean Water Act. There are numerous failures in compliance, and the EPA acknowledges they are vastly underfunded to provide proper enforcement. Depending on the state, there have been noncompliance rates of as high as 80%, e.g., Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The violators claim that many of these are bureaucratic in nature and don't actually represent a threat to the water supply, but to say that legal measures have adequately protected the US water supply is woefully ignorant of the facts.

Second, "residual chlorine" does not "leach" out of the water. Chlorine does not just magically disappear out of aqueous solution; the atoms are still there--indeed they must be in order for chlorination to be effective!--unless you have found some way to evolve a gas that will bubble out of the water. Leaching refers to the release of a substance out of a solution over time. Once you put chlorine into water, it forms hypochlorite (the same ion found in household bleach), which is the disinfecting agent.

Third, the study already amply documents the growth of the aforementioned bacteria inside the shower head. There is a small amount of standing water that remains in the head; exposure to air then permits the bacteria to grow--even in the presence of any small concentration of chlorine in the water. It doesn't take much for a colony to overpower a little bit of chlorine.

Fourth, there are many species of bacteria that are well adapted to surviving in what we would consider highly toxic environments. It should not come as a surprise that there should exist bacteria that are simultaneously (a) able to flourish in a (poorly-maintained) shower head attached to a municipal water supply, and (b) pathogenic in nature.

Finally, all it takes is to get an all-metal shower head where you can easily detach the nozzle assembly. They sell them at the hardware store--I should know, I bought one recently (my old shower broke). Once a month, you unscrew the nozzle portion, and clean it out. If your water is really crazy hard like mine (seriously wtf, it's got more calcium than milk), you pretty much need to do this anyway because the nozzles get clogged if you don't. But don't buy cheapo plastic shower heads because (1) they break easily, and (2) they seem to clog faster because the nozzles tend to be finer.

Partially True. A station has a set amount of data it can transfer. If a station splits its signal over too many channels (like High-Def's sub-channels), you can get down to a quality that is indeed worse than FM.

Maybe they should make a campaign distributing pirates eye patches! Arrrrgh.!

False equivalency. You've just equated Nazis and the KKK with Teletubbies in terms of offensiveness. Bravo.

Godwin's law. You lose.