Recent content by Ragnar_Lodbrok

This has a variety of problems. Under controlled conditions, "psychic predictions" have a rate of accuracy about identical to chance, indicating that it's less a "gift" than a guess. Outside of controlled conditions, psychics, mediums, oracles, and the like use a variety of techniques to look...

No problem. Internet and context don't always go together, and I agree that certain claims must be engaged if there seems to be a chance that they're being made seriously.

Of course it isn't. I'm a biology major, not some nutty antivax twerp. As HS mentioned, I'm referring to a guy from the old WotC forums who was particularly into conspiracy-theorist lunacy. Everything from FEMA concentration camps to YEC to antivax.

Huh. Didn't know there was a possible attempt to ban trans-fats. Good thing I developed a taste for cold peanut butter.

I don't think Mars could support silicon based life. That would require much higher average temperatures than are found on Terra, and Mars, being a frozen, almost airless desert, is far too cold. It can't even make up for it with vulcanism. What a nutbag. And I, too, miss Loki a bit. He always...

I try to avoid fast food. Most of it is terrible. Unless the average Mongolian grill place counts as fast food. That sort of restaurant is almost always worthwhile. The only thing that makes me likely to get it is long road trips. If I don't have enough money or time to get a decent meal, I...

I refuse to drink the cheap swill my so-called peers favor, and I can't easily get a hold of good stuff until I can legally purchase it. It's only a little more than a year, I can wait. Besides, both sides of my family have been known to produce alcoholics, so I think it's best if I wait until...

I don't drink. However, I don't mind being around drunk people; at the very least, they're entertaining, and possibly useful in other ways.

No, I'm saying I liked it, and feel it aged okay. T2 is undeniably better. I just don't have a good enough grasp of film technicalities to judge them to any real level. Music's similar. The best explanation for that which comes to mind is that I have no interest in or ability to make films (or...

Obviously.

To your opinion. I found the plot enjoyable, the acting and dialogue okay, the action good, and the FX as good as it was getting at the time. Aliens was, from my viewing of it, even better in all of those categories. So, my opinion is at odds with yours. Firmly, at that.

I have a simple rule regarding gambling: don't play unless you're rigging the game. That said, the current jackpot for a big one is more than $600 million right now. I wouldn't expect to win, but it's still tempting to throw enough for a ticket at it.

Eh. I like T1 and Aliens a lot, though I too dislike Titanic and find Avatar interesting only because it's a pretty film. I don't know film well enough on a technical level to criticize it effectively beyond that. I found the story in both T1 and Aliens to be better than simply acceptable...

V's magic has always been that color. Don't think it really means anything more than "this goes with the character's color scheme".

Taking wind chill into account, it's been around -20 Fahrenheit here today. This weather is great.