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Conservapedia in General
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Well, understanding why Earth is heating up is quite important indeed if we want to know how to fix it. :P

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Canister Poisoning in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Really, it would be much easier (but still somewhat dangerous) to create a virus that directly kills or weakens drayks, drakons, and gazers without affecting other living things.

Dikiyoba.

If you give the Shapers the Unbound specifications and then release the Unbound at the end, the Shapers actually do something very much like this to fight the Unbound. It works pretty well, unfortunately for you.

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Canister Poisoning in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Germ warfare isn't a terribly attractive option for the Shapers. The rebels live in lands that the Shapers see as rightfully theirs; they'd really rather there still be people living there when they take them back.

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Why is Battle shaping unpopular? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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You're willing to play through the whole game with nothing but battle creations and yet you think a Shock Trooper is practically unplayable. I don't get you, man. :P

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Why is Battle shaping unpopular? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Melee attacks always, always do less damage than ranged attacks. Also, battle creations don't really hit much harder in melee than other creation types do, and they don't have much more HP either.

In other words, they're not much better than any other creation at a kind of combat that's inferior in the first place, and they can't do anything else. War Tralls get a ranged attack, but it's not that great considering how expensive they are.

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100% cpu in Geneforge 1 in Tech Support
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SW games do tend to intentionally hog the CPU. Usually they work okay as long as you close all unnecessary background processes before you play them.

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New Cold War US-Russia? in General
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Originally written by Kelandon:

In other words, there's no real way to argue that waterwheels or windmills heat up the Earth to any significant degree.
That ain't necessarily so. Wind and hydro power convert kinetic energy directly to electrical energy, true enough, but when it gets to the end user, that electricity is going to be converted to heat, or to other forms of energy that eventually end up as heat.

Of course, you could argue that in the long run the energy of the wind and falling water would have naturally been converted to heat anyway, and you might be right.

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Conservapedia in General
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Originally written by Airborne Raver:

Demopedia doesn't need to exist because Wikipedia obviously has them covered. Well, maybe. Democrats aren't all godless ultra-liberal pinko hippy treehuggers like Wikipedians.
With all due respect, you don't seem to know Wikipedians very well. There's a reason Ayn Rand's article is one of the longest on the site.

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Originally written by Tyran:

I'm curious to see what their basis for crediting Christianity with the Renaissance is.
Actually, there's a case to be made for this. The popular image of the church as attempting to suppress all science isn't really accurate; it's done so for some viewpoints some of the time, but throughout the mediaeval era it was basically the only institution with any interest in accumulating knowledge about the natural world, even if it didn't place a high priority on it and did it primarily to have another source of rhetorical ammunition.

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You can do anything if you set your mind to it. in General
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Originally written by Airborne Raver:

—Alorael, who himself does not understand economics well enough to understand how credit card companies benefit from saddling the poor with unpayable debts. Heavy debts, fine, but it's in the interests of those companies to get repayed.
What's in the interests of credit card companies is for the debtor to max out the card, barely meet the interest payments every month and therefore continually send money their way while never paying off the actual loan.

EDIT: Damn you, Alec. :P

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New Cold War US-Russia? in General
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Originally written by Acidic Helixbolt:

The one planet where there was only so much natural resources to support life, and where, frankly, everything was fine until 1700’s and the introduction of artifical energy.
Well, fine if you don't mind living among your own waste and having an infant mortality rate above 50%, anyway.

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The best creations? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Originally written by Chilung:

War Tralls are very useful if merely for the fact they possess the only non essence draining missile attack (and its purely physical damage which allows you to take on those pesky spikey, oozing, creatures with high resistences, and basically no one has noted this fact)
... except that drayks and drakons also have a non-energy-draining missile attack that does (oddly enough) physical damage. (I hear that it was changed to fire in the Windows version, though.)

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My Gripe about Artifacts in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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I once made the Sunstone Belt as a singleton servile, since the bonuses to creation skills/stats of the Girdle of Succor and Shapemaster Boots weren't really of any use to me.

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Conservapedia in General
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The only good thing about Conservapedia is the absurdly huge amount of trolling that goes on there. Sometimes it's hard to tell which articles are serious and which ones aren't.

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Canister Poisoning in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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There was a deadly canister in Geneforge 1, too.

I'd imagine the amount of essence and raw materials required to make a canister means that using them as tools of destruction generally isn't cost-effective. Better to use the same amount of essence to make a creation and go wreak some havoc with it.

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Zimbabwe. in General
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Originally written by Protocols of the Elders of Zion:

The stuff I'm going over on colonialism is college-level stuff. And unlike the sciences, which are awesome but completely rot their students' ability to think in a nuanced fashion (and with a contempt for nuance that hides behind 'critical thinking' but in reality generally stems from their humiliating learned tendency to call a rake a spade), what is true at basic-level history is not only not applicable in higher-level history, it's often out-and-out untrue.
For what it's worth, I haven't found this to be the case in general. In fact, I'd say your statement itself shows something of a lack of nuanced thinking. :P

(Oh, and things that are true in basic science tend to become untrue in advanced science too. Teachers simplifying to the point of out-and-out lying to their students seems pretty universal.)

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Creation appearances? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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... what does their colour have to do with whether they can fly? They don't have sickle cell anaemia, you know.

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Confused... in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Originally written by BLACK HAZE:

Well,i have made a perfected cloak...what can i make it into?
I also have the shaped boots and gloves,and breastplate,any ingredients that make them into something special?

The cloak can be made into either the Impervious Cape (which isn't that great) or the Cloak of the Shadows (which is).

The boots can (and should) be made into Shapemaster Boots. The gloves can (and should) be made into Gloves of Savagery.

The breastplate can't be made into anything, and neither can a shaped shield.

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help to get new creations (g4) in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Originally written by wary wanderer:

You're only allowed to have three different types of creation created at any one time, even if you know how to shape others.
That used to be true, but it isn't in G4. You can now fill all 7 of your creation slots with different creations if you like.

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New Cold War US-Russia? in General
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We already have the technology to use thorium for nuclear energy, and thorium supplies will last practically forever (thousands of years, at least, which is plenty of time to pave the Sahara with solar panels). The main problem is a political one: breeder reactors happen to have the right characteristics to be very good for secretly making weapons-grade nuclear material, if that's what you want to do.

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SYNERGY LIST: GF4?How To Forge Stuff And What It Does in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Eh? It's already linked from the page that's linked in the forum header.

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Really anticipated ideas for A5?? in Avernum 4
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The part about it selling better than A3 is certainly false; Jeff has said that the Geneforge series doesn't sell nearly as well as the Avernum series.

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Titan's Halls location...? [SPOILER] in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Actually, it was a bestseller, but for all the wrong reasons.

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New Cold War US-Russia? in General
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A pandemic could certainly be disastrous, but it's extremely unlikely to wipe out the entire human species. The human immune system is a remarkably adaptive thing; pandemics have wiped out over 90% of human populations in the past, but there are always survivors.

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Eliza's power supply in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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In case you hadn't already noticed, you can tell which spirals are about to discharge by the little white "Ssss." text appearing above them.

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Not Using the Geneforge? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Even though you've used the Geneforge, canisters will still have further effects on your mind, so you can still refrain from using them if you so choose. In fact, it's a very good idea not to use too many if you intend to work for the Shapers and you care about what ending you get.

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