Hank

Thesis: The internet has nothing whatsoever to do with anonymity

I have both notoriety and respect. Why would I change my name?

MVP declared from the big game

What? Oh, your cute little football thing? Sorry, not interested.

EDIT: Oh hey, it's actually a variant with puppies. That's... I like that.

Transformers: Age of Extinction Super Bowl Trailer

Blitzkrieg said
Pacific Rim > Bay Transformers movies.

I agree with that. It's not going to stop me from watching the Bay movies, however.

Transformers: Age of Extinction Super Bowl Trailer

As much as I like intellectually well thought-out movies with superb acting, mindbogglingly amazing writing that leaves me speechless and an appropriate amount of humor... I'm still going to watch it. Everyone once in a while, watching a bunch of big robots beat the everloving shit out of each other in slow motion is cool.

You Wake Up in Bed with the Member Above You

Ew. Cradle robbery. How did this happen?

EDIT: damn you, Card. Something something gingers.

Guys now that it's Guild - The Sequel... all the banned people can come back.

Uskglass said
Heheheh. Dex. Good times. Remind me what was the username of the bitch he sent the dick pics to? All I remember was one of our big spam video chat sessions when her three year old walked up holding her dildo.

Ah, yes, Vivian. I was there for that.

All of the characters that were in every tv show or movie or video game ever fight who would win.

If we're also counting novels, the nameless deity-entity from Peace and War would easily win, having total and utter control over the fabric of the universe and the laws of physics.

Fried Chicken

The Nexerus said
Unsurprisingly, I don't literally mean that fried chicken is highpoint of human existence.

What's your favourite dish, Hank?

I don't think I've got an exact answer for you. It's probably something Italian.

Ready to cringe and/or punch your computer?

Uskglass said The other path is lashing out, deciding that intelligence, specifically your intelligence, is the most important trait and everyone who doesn't agree with you on everything is a fool and vastly inferior to you. Case in point, the fine gentlemen you see in this thread.

I treat that as a sign that their intellect is not as impressive as they perceive it to be. Like I said, self-awareness is an essential quantifier for intelligence. How do we measure sapience in other species? The mirror test. Self-awareness allows one to recognize their individuality and creates the ability to perceive other creatures as separate entities and accurately compare them to oneself, or assume their viewpoint. It is the force that drives empathy, the greatest achievement in human psychological evolutionary development. It is also necessary to accurately judge yourself, like the magpie who recognizes that the bird in the mirror is a reflection of itself, and looks down at its own chest to see the dot that has been painted on it, observed in the mirror.

Being able to create a mirror for your own personality and judging yourself, your capabilities, and your intelligence accurately, and having enough awareness and empathy to open yourself to input from other individuals (and being able to judge that accurately), is the most resonating characteristic of a highly intelligent human. People like these militant atheists from the fedora brigade, who incessantly bash conservative Christians and insult their intelligence, have not tried to understand the Christian viewpoint. Making claims like "because I am enlightened by my own intelligence" shows a lack of self-awareness, since it is not their own intelligence that has allowed them to rationalize the non-existence of God or whatever, but the intelligence of prominent scientists and atheists before them. Humility and pride are both virtues but someone like that possesses neither and is guilty of hubris. By bashing the Christians and subjecting them to bigotry, they show that they also lack the empathy and awareness in others to engage in dialogue, making them just as guilty of being dogmatic and close-minded, which is exactly what they accuse the religious of.

They could very well be smart, academically gifted, capable of powerful abstract reasoning or any other number of savant skills, but the essential characteristic of human intelligence, that which has made us a pioneering species, is weak in them.

So... let's get serious again. - Drug Laws?

The United States of America is not ready for the legalization of all drugs. I could see it happening in the Netherlands, however. That sums up my opinion.