Also, instead of downloading a Steam .deb, add the steam repository to your list of repositories, then steam can be found, installed and updated automatically just like any other software.

I use these official sources:
deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/s... precise steam
deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] http://repo.steampowered.com/s... precise steam

Chrome is there. Type "chromium" to the package manager search.

I do not know what is going on here. Why do you ever need to see a .deb file?

Some things I can agree with, and I really do not think Linux is as great as some of these dudes claim, but claiming that the package managers suck means that you really don't know what you are talking about, because they are the best thing since sliced bread, and the one thing where Windows is so far behind that it's not even funny.

On Linux, you write "aptitude" and can install everything just like that. Things just works with zero effort. There is absolutely nothing of the sort for windows, even though npackd and chocolatey try to achieve something similar. The package managers even keep everything up to date without you having to keep track of anything - in Windows, every software has its own version snoopers bloating shit up.

I have to ask, what are you even talking about?

I played through Human Revolution an didn't even know you could spend money to unlock skills - they were unlocked by Praxis Points which you got from items Praxis Pack or whatever) found within the game. Even if I just never found the money option, I still don't get this accusation - the game took some 20 hours to finish, and time to unlock skills is not even relevant in this sense, as it was an action role-playing game, so there was a limited, but sufficient amount of upgrades available, and it was impossible to unlock everything the same playthrough (as is typical in role-playing games).

If you asked whether Human Revolution wasn't a good game, then yes, I would agree that it was rather weak, but you're just making up things here.

I can't help noticing that if healthcare and basic social services were free for everyone, the cost structure would look really different and all these numbers would be much less inflated.

BTW $30000/year for a two-bedroom apartment sounds downright crazy, but I guess that is America for you.

This makes absolutely no sense at all.
Could you give some hard math about these benefits that add up to an equivalent of 60k/year, because otherwise I'm considering this straight-out bullshit.

No, it doesn't have critical mass, as the generation below us isn't even using it. It's embarrassing to be on FB if your mum and dad use it, and all.

Nah.

I'm pretty much a "guy in his 30s whose social life is limited to playing video games with other guys". Of course it's a bit more complex than that, and like any human being, I personally I feel that I have a vast array of interests, an eye for art, and complex inner world, but I'm simply not delusional enough to assume that a random woman would see me as anything else than a perfect representation of that stereotype.

That kind of rants prey on the insecurities of people here, as evidenced by the number of replies, and the process itself is actually quite funny. These flamewars belong to Slashdot and I'd rather see them than lament their absence.

Thank you for having the courage to say this in this forum.
You are spot on in your analysis, whether the nerds want to hear it or not.

I'm interested how you are proposing to reach an average travel speed of c/7. Isn't that absurdly high?

I really hope that is MechWarrior 3 and not Modern Warfare 3.

This is exactly the kind of pseudoscientific blabber that we could do without. Evolution has no goal and it has zero incentive to produce a "superior" species.

It doesn't matter what you think about the purpose of our existence on this planet and the "evolutionary path", because at least my aim is to survive. Giving up and killing myself through climate change certainly doesn't help with that. You also have to remember that it took about half a billion years for land-dwelling life to produce a sentient species, and that the Sun will, in around 600 million years, be too hot to support the carbonate-silicate cycle that fuels the C3 form of photosynthesis. It might or might not be possible to produce another sentient species in that time, if there is enough resources left after us for the planet to recover.

It is also important to realize that many of the factors that contributed to the rise of culture were caused by easy and abundant availability of resources (fossil fuels, unexhausted sources of rare earths) that will be permanently gone after we have drawn our last breath. Therefore, I would claim that it is not at all outlandish to claim that we are the absolutely only chance for this planet to successfully produce a species that could reach out to the stars. Based on presently available information, ours might also be the only world in this galaxy, which has even produced a candidate for that (considering that were it possible to construct a interplanetary culture and somebody would have reached the prerequisites, we'd likely see massive amounts of evidence for it).

All in all, the stakes are much higher than you claim. Of course you can just be an edgelord and claim that none of this matters, but it does matter, greatly, to anyone else who has the capacity to feel sympathy for their fellow humans and those who are yet unborn. In other words, grow up and start working on surviving instead of being such a nihilist little shit.

I suggest looking at Path of Exile. It is the closest spiritual successor to D2, which, by now, has been leading the pack for years.

Even if they remade D2 and were willing to throw away all its bad features, it's probably too late. PoE has such a large amount of content and such a deep and rewarding skill tree (and -system), that it is extremely difficult for Blizzard to catch up anymore.

There is a fix: Everybody should just use IRC.

I actually pipe FB messages to my IRC now to keep in touch with the technologically challenged. However, I don't actually have to use fecebook this way.

But they are. It's called a gravity wave because the force of gravity is supplying the force trying to restore equilibrium.