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I'm guessing the answer to that may break the "no politics, no religion" rule. I hope I'm not breaking it here (trying not to be inflamatory), but it seems to me that some people get offended by science because they feel that science is trying to destroy religion. This is not the case. There...

Did they have to include a clip of the episode right before this? :p

That's the most likely one I've heard. Though I can't help but think the fact that it sounds a lot like "I envy you" might not be a coincidence. It reminds me of "ICQ", which didn't stand for anything but was supposed to sound like, "I seek you."

I just realized that I listened to a few good Nova podcasts a few weeks ago that do a good job defining what science is. Give these a listen, and maybe have your friend listen to them, too. They're each less than 4 minutes long. Defining Science: Only a Theory? Defining Science: Science vs...

The difference is that the scientific community has standards that they enforce. When a scientist publishes a paper and other scientists read it, they don't just go, "That sounds good, I like it! I'll go with it." They try to repeat the experiment or they research their own data and see if it...

One important aspect of science is that it needs to be peer-reviewed. If I come up with an experiment that says ivory soap floats it's not good science unless other scientists can take my experiment and repeat it. It's been a while since I was in school, but I remember reading about a couple...

I don't think it's supposed to stand for anything. I think it's supposed to sound like "I envy you".

I suspect that people who are in multiple groups playing multiple games probably feel less upset when a game is canceled because they play so frequently. The less frequently you play the bigger a deal it is when a game is canceled. So the "it's just a game" comments coming from published RPG...

I see it this way: If your game has a regular schedule (like my group plays every Monday from 8-11 Eastern) then you should make some effort to be available during that time. If you have the option of doing something any day of the week and you pick game day then that's not cool. Like...

I had a no-name wireless keyboard and mouse combo in college and it worked fine. I'd use the keyboard to do homework from my bed. I don't have any experience with modern wireless keyboards, but things to keep in mind include whether the keyboard needs line-of-sight to the transmitter, and...

Land mines? Really? From a war that Richard doesn't have any reason to know about because he grew up on the other side of the veil? I laughed when that sister exploded because the whole thing was so absurd.

I use MapTool as well. My fiance and I have a hard time finding local folks to play with, so we use two PCs each running MapTool and play with three or four other players online across the globe. One guy we've been playing with for a while lives across the world from us in Japan (hi Hussar!)...

Talk to your players. Seriously. Don't "teach them a lesson" or threaten to walk out. What we have here is a failure of communication. The players don't seem to want what you're giving them. Find out why. Take a moment before the next session or get everybody together outside of the...

I don't think the action was unreasonable, or unexpected, or out of character, or even evil. I just don't think it was funny.

Yeah, I understand why this was supposed to be funny, but I couldn't make myself laugh at it. I prefer my humanoid races to be redeemable, even if they tend towards evil, so the idea of executing a captive humanoid who was offering help (even if the offer wasn't genuine) just doesn't come...

Are you a roleplayer? What games do you like?

Fun fact about the first puzzle: That puzzle is the origin of the phrase "think outside the box."

Do you check the "remember me" box when you log in? After this message happens, does it appear that you have been logged out? My best guess is that you're not asking the site to remember you so the login cookie will time out after a while. If you take a long time to compose your post it could...

How long ago did the charge show up? I noticed when mine rolled over I showed as "inactive" for about a day and then became active again without having to do anything.

That's an entirely valid idea, but it seems to assume that the races in question must have "grown up" (or evolved, if you will) in very close quarters and leaned heavily on each other. Most fantasy settings with multiple races I'm familiar with assume that the races started in separate areas...