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We also know Magic seems to have a sense of humor and occasionally trolls. That argues for some kind of consciousness.

Don't dis the only good version of Windows ever made.

Also, this appears to be an instance of the USA (possibly even just the FBI without permission from Washington) acting unilaterally without even consulting other nations. What about the other nations who make up 95% of the human population? How will THEY react to the USA causing everybody's magic to evaporate? Some nations might even consider it an act of war . . . I can see calls for Leifeld's head to roll in that case.

If we DID get that third storyline, I honestly wouldn't complain.

By teaching them about the consequences, and giving them a sense of self-worth so that they'll believe they have a future worth protecting. Anyone else flashing back to Blue Lagoon?

While very, VERY unlikely, it would be funny if Ashley's internet girlfriend were Elliot.

Dunno, the shake shack looks a bit too indoors-y. Sure this is not a resto?

While I am not one to jump on the 'computer games corrupt our children and turn them evil' bandwagon I did once read an interesting argument for why certain computer games might result in dulling the "don't kill" reflex most people have built into them somewhere. It is a very complex matter described by Colonel Dave Grossman in his book 'On Killing' and deals with methods used to train soldiers in how to be more efficient killers, the psychological consequences of putting that training to use and the eerie overlap between this training and certain modern computer games. Unlike certain hysterics, I do not believe that Legend of Zelda or Bejeweled will turn children into psychopathic mass murderers. The issue is a bit more complicated than that. But I am no longer convinced that there is no relationship between modern entertainment media and increases in killing at all.

Monastic record keeping was pretty good during that period, actually. And while a lot has been lost, much has survived by copying, and I assume secret magical organizations would be pretty good at that.

I don't think anyone had to do that with me, for as long as I can remember, the more real the violence looked in a game, the less I wanted to play it, during the late 80's and 90's this wasn't so bad because it was pretty much all cartoonish, but nowadays if there's an option to turn off blood and gore, I'd very likely turn it off. The fact that you can't turn blood and gore off in real life is a pretty darned good deterrent for me. I'll be honest though, there was that one scene in Duke Nukem 3D that grossed the hell out of me when I first played through. lol

What makes an artist express himself by telling the story of gender bending high school kids? All art is madness. Celebrate Insanity.

I think it's time to face facts--910CMX is now the official EGS forum. Really, the only reason this site is still going is because of Shive; check the post counts on each board here and see for yourselves. If members weren't constantly coming back to chatter and speculate on EGS, this place would've closed years ago (heck, this place was already a ghost town before the reboot). I think it's time to move on.