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XII was also one of my favorites. Maybe I just like politics a lot. :B

DON'T BELIEVE ONDORE'S LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES!

Bravery + Haste + Berserk + Zodiac Spear = GET OUT OF MY FUCKING WAY!

NO, IT'S OBVIOUSLY GOING TOO FAR! GOSH!

No, it's cool, Ace. A swear every now and then isn't going to kill anybody. Just as long as it isn't excessive, we won't have a problem with it to be honest. Basically if you can replace all of the swear words in your song with bleeps and the bleeps overwhelm the song then it probably isn't the song for this MEP.

edIT - Crunk De Gaulle (feat. TTC, Busdriver and D-Styles)
The Toxic Avenger - Saloperie de Minimale
Halou - Honeythief
Gorillaz - 19-2000(Soulchild Remix)
Sadistik - Searching For Something Beautiful
65daysofstatic - Sawtooth Rising

ummm yeah

inb4whatsayshe'sunworthyofsuchpraising

Emulating a PS2 game is still pretty difficult and I don't think an emulator for the 3DS exists.

I also put that amount of hours into Abyss. That reminds me. Mak, the replay of these games is pretty high since you can replay the game on a higher difficulty, you can start a new game with things ported over from your last finished file along with being able to buy some bonuses and the SIDEQUESTS! There are so many sidequests to keep you distracted. Along with trying to beat those superbosses.

Looks like it. xD My favorite is a tie between Symphonia and Abyss. Symphonia was my first Tales game and will always have a special place in my heart but I liked the story and gameplay of Abyss more.

I never got to play Vesperia because I don't have an 360 and I really don't want to buy one just for Vesperia. I hear it's an amazing game though and if I ever get the chance to play, I will. B|

To add onto what Vivi said. Here's a video showing you what the gameplay is like.

[video=youtube;VmXBiUirgbM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmXBiUirgbM[/video]

Older games, like the PS1 games, have a more simplified battle system like only being limited to a 2D plane but they're still real time.

You're missing out on a great series, bro. I suggest at least giving it a try.

*****, fuck Call of Duty.

This tweet says otherwise. :'D

You see, I'm usually this person. And then I got drunk once and I was the person being laughed at. Nobody will ever let me forget that night. >_>;

And the Spiderman 2 game was just as amazing. :'D

My tolerance is average I guess. I just don't like getting drunk around people I don't know well. >_>; So I just drank less and talked with some friends.

Oh god, I know how that's like. My friend is still at the party. Hopefully he gets back here in one piece. >_>;

Motion City Soundtrack - Timelines

I KNOW THE REAL REASON FOR THIS THREAD!

This is an obvious attempt at gaining votes for Nicest Member. You may be able to steal everybody's hearts but you won't take mine!

We'll most likely have the thread up this weekend. We wanted to wait and see if anymore people were interested in participating. It seems that we've got a lot of participants this year. :'D Can't wait to work with you guys in this year's MEP.

YOU! YEAH, YOU! Why did you just leave me alone without saying anything, bro? ; ~ ;

One thing I noticed while reading through your post is that you seem to mistake healthcare with health insurance. They are not the same. This act affects health insurance much more than it affects healthcare. The point is to give all Americans a new set of consumer protection rules that prevented insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions and imposing lifetime caps on coverage and as a result of this, health insurance becomes more accessible and as a result of that, more people will be able to afford healthcare.

The way I understand it, it should work somewhat like this. For example, Dr. Smith is a surgeon and will have to report his average operative time for a cholecystectomy and his post-operative wound infection rate. If he falls below a certain percentile nationally, his reimbursement will be negatively affected. If he is in say, the top 10% nationally, he will receive a small bonus

Seems like a good idea on the surface but the problem I see with it is what if a patient doesn't listen to his doctor and makes their condition worse. Technically the doctor's pay will go down because of this since on paper, the patient is doing worse. Although I guess the doctor could tell their patient that if they don't stop smoking or something that affects their health badly then they'll just drop them since they obviously don't care about their health in the first place.

Things might be up for change though in the future though.

In the end, it all depends on context. In the situations given to me earlier, the desire to eat outweighs sexual desire simply because you can live without sex but you can't live without eating. As I also told you in that MSN convo, people can reach a compromise. One side doesn't have to win and the other has to lose. Both can reach a conclusion that increases the happiness, either short-term or long-term, of both parties.

Your proposition would lead to tragedy of the commons in my opinion since long-term interest isn't taken into account. In the end, this isn't about individual happiness though but instead the happiness of the many. If an action minimizes harms just as much as it maximizes the happiness, then I consider it to be ethical which I consider this act to be because it does just that.

Technically if you're paying for health insurance, then you're not being forced to pay for someone's else procedure since you knew what you were getting into before you signed the contract and began paying for it and the point of health insurance is to pool as much money as possible so when people do get sick or injured, they'll be covered and not have to pay an outrageous price. And you aren't being forced to get health insurance and thus pay for other people's “disputes with natureâ€. The only consequence of not getting a health insurance is a tax and I'll talk more about that below.

As for another program becoming superfluous just because another program of a similar field is getting paid through taxes, that is wrong. Let's use your example of the public security and private security. The purpose of public security(police officers) is to protect the public while the purpose of private security is to usually protect a private establishment or private contractor. While there is some overlap in their duties, they do fulfill different objectives and according to Wikipedia, the private security industry(security officers, bodyguards, airport security, etc.) is rapidly growing and is actually a $100 billion dollar a year industry. Not too bad in my opinion. It shouldn't matter that everybody has to pay for the public sector since the public sector is suppose to help the public while the private sector would be there to offer whatever the public sector doesn't provide or doesn't provide enough of. Both are capable of working together without making the other superfluous and I believe that a balance between the two is key.

Actually, no, you won't. I'll explain below. And I never said that you should suffer. Please don't put words in my mouth. You decided that on your own. There was the option of having medical insurance or paying for the procedure out of your own pocket and being treated but you refused so the only reason you're suffering is because of yourself.

First of all from what I've observed the only way healthcare can be made more affordable is if there are more doctors and if the tools of trades that they use become cheaper to use which would require mass production of those tools so that if they broke, they could easily be replaced. If people just stopped paying doctors and waited for them to lower their prices then you're stuck between a rock and a hard place. You either don't lower your prices and get less profit. Or you do lower your prices but be unable to pay the bills that comes with all those big expensive machines and thus go into debt which will make you have to hike up your prices or go into bankruptcy. Both lead to the same end. Pick your poison.

This is why medical insurance becomes the middle man. From what I've read of your post, you do not know how medical insurance works, do you? It's okay to admit it, Mak. Feigning intelligence doesn't really support your argument.

As I told you yesterday, insurance is all about risk management. Unless you have a genetic condition or purposely damage your body with drugs such tobacco or alcohol, you don't know when you'll get sick, how sick you'll get, and in the case of most of the 90%, you won't know how much you'll end up paying the hospital to get better. This is where insurance comes in. An insurance company basically says “Pay this relatively small amount of money every month and if you get sick, I've got your back or if you just want to visit the doctor for a check-up, I'll cover most of the bill while you only pay a small part.†Now the money that you give your insurance company monthly, 20% of that becomes their. In the end, they need to make a profit. This is a business after all. But the other 80%, that goes into a pool. This is a pool of all the money the insurance gets from its customers and if it has a lot of customers, there will be a lot of money. That money is used to cover everybody that has contributed to it. And the pool just keeps on getting bigger and bigger because people are putting more money into it.

Now let's say you have a medical bill of $5000. The insurance company can cover you because $5000 is really small in comparison to $5,000,000 that it has in that pool. Let it be known though that insurance companies make a loooooot more that. And it's statistically improbable for the pool to be used up all at once since it's balanced out by the people who don't get sick and aren't always using the money in it. So they aren't artificially lowering prices, just covering a huge part of the cost for you so you can pay a smaller price.

Let it be known that this is a gross explanation at best and that there are more complicated things that happen. I'm just trying to get across the simple theory of it all.

From what I was able to gather, it's because you're putting yourself in risk by not having health insurance. If you had health insurance then the insurer can cover you if you got sick or injured. But what if you didn't get health insurance and were taken to the ER of a public hospital after suffering a major injury? And let's say you didn't have money to pay the medical bill. Well who pays for you? The taxpayers. Which is why the government collects the tax. To promote the general welfare.

Now what would happen if you didn't want to pay the tax anyway? Nothing. The bill states that failure to pay the tax would not result in either criminal penalties or tax liens. Nobody would come after you if you didn't pay the tax. Congress simply plans to rely primarily on the fact that most Americans understand and accept that they have to pay their taxes. Don't assume that I'm assuming this either. That's the actual plan. The only consequence for failing to pay the tax is that your income tax refund would be reduced by a bit. And if you didn't have a tax refund that year, there are no consequences at all!

I seriously considered responding to this with just “PUBLIC HOSPITAL BLAH BLAH BLAH PUBLIC HOSPITALS BLAH BLAH BLAH!â€

But yeah, with all the public hospitals in the US, being refused healthcare just because you can't pay doesn't happen. Even then this bill is suppose help a good amount of people afford healthcare so the situation you proposed doesn't happen since it'll make private health insurance more accessible and thus put less strain on the government which would help get America out of its recession, no?