3PV has minimal impact in the game. No one uses it, it has some moderate drawbacks, and frankly it is just not that great.

Was it a waste of development time. Yes. Is it a real problem. No.

Cool Shot (a one time use heat disipation module) is NOT pay to win.

There is an in game module you can get that has the EXACT same effect.

As someone above stated, there have been issues some peopl e have had (3PV) but PTW is not one of them.

Frankly I think the 'uproar' is a tempest in a teapot. The 3PV is annoying, but certainly not game changing. They wasted development time on it, but that is really y only problem with it at this time.

Honestly, this post seems like one guy whining about something he doesn't like in a game.

The idea that grocery delivery is the same as other types of goods is a red herring.

Consumable good, (food, liquor, cigarettes, maybe light bulbs or smaller household needs, etc) are good candidates for delivery because they are usually time sensitive/perishable, and because EVERYONE needs them.

electronics, books, tools, etc are a different story. The population & population density required and the equipment required to make delivering a flat screen TV same day and making it cost effective are prohibitive except in the very largest cities. NYC, Boston, SF, Chicago,, and maybe LA/Dallas/Atlanta. Heck I would not be surprised if it was not even feasible in NY.

You would need a large warehouse, the ability to package large equipment and small, light and heavy, and especially frozen/cold storage. And be able to retrieve it, get it on the truck, and deliver it all in the same day (or even overnight). That is going to be expensive unless you have the traffic to support it. And once you go past overnight, then you have to compare the cost of maintaining the local warehouse vs just having the item delivered via fed-ex or UPS and giving free shipping.

Or they have lots of deliveries and can optimize. It is not that complex.

Sure there will be times where you are the only person and they lose money on gas and driver time. And there will be times where they have 2 dozen deliveries and the gas for your piece costs $0.15

The trick is to make the delivery coverage area the right size to account for the volume of orders.

All of these fall into two categories
1) Environment- You have contorl over this. If you fail to control your rnvironment, it is your own fault.
2) self employment- True even if you worked at a clients office

None of these are elated to 'working from home' except maybe the 'being at home for days on end and no place to walk to. Both can be fixed by getting off your ass and exercising.

Sounds like VGA planets to me. Man I miss that game. Play by Email, 11 races, excellent special abilities and functions, fairly easy to run and automate. Very slick for its time.

It was the one example I can give where an entire game franchise was destroyed by a virus (primary programmer was infected and it killed his 90% complete new version). Sure he had no backup, but it was 1994 or '95, and it was a one man operation. He eventually recreated a VGAP 4.0, but it never caught on like the 3.5 version did.

Sounds like you get off on being a dick. Which is cool if that floats your boat, but it is exactly why I never played Eve.

I dont think this would be difficult or time consuming. Assuming they could fast forward through the content they would simply need to timestamp the start/stop times for all commercials. Then they would have something in the Hopper coding to look for the timestamps and skip those minutes.

Or if they invested just a little more time they could edit out the content, perhaps even automatically, again using timestamps.

A proficient tech could probably do the entire network for a day in 15 minutes.

You remember the prodcuts, so they were successful. Advertisers don't care if your memories are associated with negative opinions. It has been shown not to matter what a consumers feels are regarding the advertisement, as long as they remember.

The US role on the eastern frotn in WW II is actually quite significant.

1) The US supplied logistical equipment (mainly in the form of trucks) to the USSR which was critical in their efforts.
2) The US involvement in the pacific gave the USSR a great deal of breathing room and prevented Japan from putting pressure on their eastern front.
3) The daytime bombing efforts kind of speak for themselves.

That having been said, it took both the Americans AND Russians to take down Germany. Both were critical.

That doesn't really change the argument of the GP though. The record of the US on civil/human rights has been better than most. It has kind of gone downhill in the last 15 years though. 9/11 did change our country, and not for the better.

I think you misread the idea of 'believing in science'. They are not talking about believing in it any specific science, but in the scientific method and the idea of a science as a model for determining the nature of the physical universe. Having faith in science as a process (pun intended).

I do agree though that the correlation technique is confusing.

As for the red flag, looking at the numbers they were dealing with (in the high 90's for the primed group in study 3) makes me think that the majority of both men and women put that number so high that it eliminated any gender based differences. That of course makes me wonder if the story was too morally black and white and if a more ambiguous story would have been better. On the other hand a really morally 'obvious' story might make a better basis for correlation. I would have to think about that more.

One other point, it has been noted in some other articles I have read on rape that slut shaming and rape denial is often MORE severe when done by women, although it is more common in men (sorry, no citation, can't find the damn article, so take this with a grain of salt). so perhaps the wording of the story caused both men and women who downgrades the wrongness to do so at similar rates? Just a thought. Without the text of the article it is hard to say.

It also would be helpful to repeat the study with other types of immoral behavior. (stealing, non sexual violence, etc) where our society does not suffer from problems of an ingrained culture of denial around certain types of crime. I would be concerned that rape culture

They do express some of my other concerns in their design limitations at the end.

Overall it is an interesting opening study. Not bad science, but it could definitely use some more structured follow up examinations.

Wish I had some Karma.

I would totally be for ending marriage benifits and returning it to a religious institution. But it will never happen.

Also, you have to consider the problem of shared resources. You cant get rid of civil unions totally because it would create massive issues from child custody and finances all the way down to spousal immunity. So you could in theory call all marriages civil unions and save the word marriage for non civil ceremonies.

But it won't change anything.

As for raising children, there is no scientific evidence of children raised by gay couple being better or worse off. I suppose it is possible that some situation could arise, but I am willing to bet a very large amount of money that anything that arose would fall into the normal deviation of child rearing. I am certainly not going to go on your gut instinct.

no, it won't. The church policies will be the same. The church will not change one bit under this pope, aside form maybe some window dressing. Anyone who thinks the pope really matters needs to examine how the church has worked in the last 200 years.