NDAs are just something that happen to other people aren't they..?
I'm in the closed Beta. Without giving too much away, it's pretty good (they've COMPLETELY captured the feeling being the pilot of 80-foot robot as opposed to 'being' the robot itself) but being used to World Of Tanks, I find the lack of cover annoying in a lot of maps, especially the fact that even hard cover does diddly-squat against guided missiles - all it takes is a couple of mechs kitted-out as missile-boats and some good scouts to utterly dominate a match. Until you get used to it, the control system is pretty unintuitive too.
All-in-all I'd give it 8 out of 10 though and the fact that it's a free-to-play is even better.
By a LONG way the post by FlyMike I've agreed with more than anything else he's ever written. People need to Give Less Of A Sh*t about things that aren't really that important in the grand scheme of things.
I have to admit, after having a son, it SERIOUSLY makes you think about your stance on abortion. I am generally for it if it's done early enough and there's a *very good* reason for doing it, but after seeing an actual person emerge from someone and spend the next three years developing into a little human with desires, dreams, emotions and the rest, well... it makes you consider whether people have the right to deny someone that and who the f*ck do you think you are to be able to make that decision.
Yeah, I find this whole 'ethics through threats' aspect of religion (although yes, I know a good proportion would display the same ethics regardless of their faith) fairly uncomfortable. I once had a religious discussion with someone at uni who was a devout christian, who asked me "If you don't read the bible, how do you know what you should and shouldn't do?"
I didn't really have an answer as it caused my head to become full of f*ck.
One of the more subtle (in that the impossibility is never alluded to) jokes in Spongebob is that there's a beach when they all live underwater anyway. It looks like someone actually found one.
When you test it, try pulling up to a junction but instead of changing down just leave it in 5th and hold down the clutch until you stop.
Mine (plus a few others I've asked people about) seems to go mad with the revs when you put the clutch in sometimes (with my foot completely off the accelerator I mean), often revving up to 3000 rpm and then suddenly back down again when I'm waiting at a junction. It's more embarrassing than anything else, the only way to stop it is to let off the clutch a little so the engine bites and brings the rpm down.
It doesn't happen all the time, often it's fine. From what I've read it seems to be an issue with early Focuses.
I think it must be a bit different in the USA - I've never had to 'come to terms with the fact that I'm an atheist' any more than I've had to do something like come to terms with the fact that I have arms. It's just a thing that is.