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Exploding chopper at 6:07 or so was amazing!

@sofakinghuge He's playing on hardcore, where you have fewer hitpoints (60, instead of 100). Notice there are also fewer HUD elements?

I discovered Thomas Aquinas when I was in Grade 10. I was pleased that I could *prove* my faith. By my first year of university I realized none of the arguments were valid. They all begged the question, or worse. I still believed, feeling sure religious experiences were evidence. Meeting gro...

@Pancake833 Why Iron sights over the Kobra? That seems like intentionally making the kit worse than it could be.

@armedbandit I do it all the time on the 360. It very likely works on PS3 too.

You missed a lot of the shots while complaining about how many shots it took to kill him. You hit him about 5 or 6 times. I actually *like* this about regular: each weapon has its ideal range, and it underperforms when used outside of it. It's why I stopped playing hardcore, eventually. There...

TUGS deploys faster--which is nice if you think someone might be coming--and can be hidden. It can also be deployed in smaller places, where the MAV can sometimes be annoying to deploy. The TUGS is nice for when you're mobile--playing an aggressive recon style. It can be annoying to make your...

Go prone as you land and you you won't take as much damage from a fall; you can often take zero damage from a fall that would really hurt.

@philosofrenzy Just to be clear, though... I don't think these rounds have any place in the multiplayer of this game--but the real explosive rounds are *more* powerful than these. They're also crazy expensive. Maybe people who use them should only get 10 rounds! :P

@xmaneater But the video still describes the preference. Holos and RDS both have 1.5x zoom, whereas Kobra is 1.0x, giving a wider field of view, and faster movement while the sights are up. It's better up close, and can still be effective at range. I agree, btw. My favourite (in terms of appe...

@SashyNL Physics demand that any two objects accelerate toward the ground at precisely the same rate--9.81 m/s/s. In BF3, this is simplified: they drop at a fixed rate.

Not all sniper rounds in the game travel faster. The SVD round travels 530m/s. The M98B travels 650m/s. The M16a4 rounds ...

@m4tag1 You're mistaken. The L85 returns to standard aiming position much faster than the FAMAS. The FAMAS recovers 15 'recoil units' per second. The L85A2 recovers 22.

@imawindow Switch to your pistol, then back again.

@lynksis009 Your air-to-ground missles can lock onto and destroy the SOFLAM. Seems easier to use one missle than to use your jet as a missle ;)

"Fuck you, palm tree!"

@tbowen8615 It's much, much more difficult to do this with an analog stick than with a mouse. It's the one thing I really miss while playing on consoles.

@mexwonderful Nonsense. It's a public debate. Go ahead and search Youtube for other ones. Both sides are almost always posted. The only exception would be if someone explicitly required his side of the debate not be published. It's plain bad form to only publish your side of an argument othe...

@ByronGiant 5 years ago, I'd have laughed at you had you told me IPAs would become one of my favourite beers. I found bitters totally disgusting. So you never know!

In the meantime, as you guys like dark beers, stouts and porters, I recommend you try Nelson Brewery's "Blackheart Oatmeal Stout"...

If you get the chance, try their IPA. It's much better than the Pale Ale (though you have to like the hoppy bitterness of northwest IPAs. :)

That sweatshirt is awesome.

@mimosveta And Dara O Briain, while we're naming some. :)

@ColonialM41a

How could a Day 1 patch (which, by the way, represents weeks of work prior to launch) fix a matchmaking issue that only becomes apparent *after launch*? Patches require more than a few days. They take time and effort on the part of the programmers, followed by a long and tedious ...

@jbourg333 It's different because the scientists are required to provide evidence for the hypothesis in question. No scientist, when asked to defend his belief that hypothesis X is true, would use as evidence that 'the majority of scientists believe X." Instead, they need to point to the experi...

@Christianjr4 Yes and no. To call Matthew "independent" of Mark is ridiculous, given how much of the content of Matthew is pulled word for word from Mark. For it to be independent, the second source can't use the first as a source--especially if Dr. Craig wants to use their sharing 'core elemen...

WLC uses Bayes Theorem to make the argument from ignorance sound good. Entertaining.

Sure, Dr. Craig: *if* you were able to consider *every* naturalistic alternative (we can't) and *if* you were able to determine their relative probabilities (we can't) then MAYBE you could push "he came back fr...

Steve Blum does the same over-the-top, crappy voice for every character he's offered. :\