WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

I actually believe they're trying to destroy the planet and kill us all, and then go into their hidden bunkers with their non-perishable food supplies and swim in the money that can no longer buy anything.

Edit: Fucking pagebreak! This was in response to Pizza's post.

I believe I said "people" were stupid.

But yes, it is Shell's fault that this particular thing exists because they built it.

I mean my first concept of a giant seaborn power plant would probably operate on either wind or tidal forces, things which can no doubt be found in abundance in the ocean.

And exactly, how is society's dependency on fossil fuels society's fault? I mean seriously. One group of rich, greedy people build an industry that never existed and society never knew or cared about, used their money to push it and force it into society's infrastructure. Society isn't informed about the potential pitfalls and it's really unreasonable to expect society to make that kind of informed decision about a product, especially since the industry pushing that product exclusively controlled the information about that product until very recently.

That's not society's fault. That's a bunch of rich, greedy people taking advantage of a bunch of people that don't have the resources that the rich, greedy people do. I have an idea: give up your water purification, medicine, and computer...forever. All of these thing's very existence are hopelessly dependent on oil. You can't make pills without oil. You can't purify water without oil. Your Brita water pitcher? How do you think that plastic came into existence? Oil. The filter is coal. That's another story. Give up your tap water too: water purification plants need oil.

Finally, yeah, there are alternatives to all of those things, but I don't know if you've been following environmental news but we're not allowed to not need oil. Electric cars are banned in many places throughout the U. S. There's a car that gets 300 miles per gallon. The U. S. has outlawed its sale in this country. Landowners victimized by oil companies are being convicted of crimes for talking about the effects and the health problems caused by oil drilling.

Society is fighting hard to make alternatives available and it's been a losing battle. We pushed to ban the Keystone XL pipeline, so what do lawmakers do? They slip another dozen tar-sand pipelines into laws that are completely unrelated so that we won't know they're building them. Not only did we manage to defeat Keystone XL, but lawmakers are now managing to push it past the people, so in spite of all our work and the clear resounding boom that says we don't want these pipelines, what we want doesn't matter. Don't you dare blame the patient for the disease. It's nobody's fault society has cancer, but it is the fault of the people who take advantage of it.

author=suzy_cheesedreams
I reduced all the graphical settings to the lowest they would go. Creating sims and building was houses was fine with the full graphics, but actually playing with the families made the game freeze. Hasn't frozen again after reducing the graphic quality.

That's not my problem. My computer can handle all of the graphical settings at maximum. The problem is that the game runs at 1,500 frames per second. Any other game runs at 30-60 FPS, and The Sims 3 is cranking along at 1,500-1,700 FPS at times (mostly during load screens and build/buy). During actual gameplay, it fluctuates between 80-150 FPS, overheats my computer and crashes.

I've downloaded a FPS Limiter that allegedly caps the FPS at 30, but I haven't been able to get it to work. :x

@AlphaOmega247 ha, never mind me, then! Your problem sounds more annoying than the one I had with the Sims 3. I must have a crappier computer than you, too XD

Got my gf a lot... Wii U, Hyrule Warriors, Legend of Zelda 2: Link's Adventure for NES, Wind Waker HD, FEAR, FEAR 3, Final Fantasy 13-3, and the amiibo for Link, Zelda and Pikachu. She should be okay with this.

author=Dudesoft
Got my gf a lot... Wii U, Hyrule Warriors, Legend of Zelda 2: Link's Adventure for NES, Wind Waker HD, FEAR, FEAR 3, Final Fantasy 13-3, and the amiibo for Link, Zelda and Pikachu. She should be okay with this.

You're not smothering her, are you? I mean, she did tell you that she wanted all these things, right? And that it wouldn't at all be creepy if you dropped a mountain of gifts on her because she's your "sweetie-pie"?

Doublepost

I spent €0 on my girlfriend this Christmas.

Y'know, 'cause I don't have one.

...

-opens a beer-

author=Jeroen_Sol
I spent €0 on my girlfriend this Christmas.

Y'know, 'cause I don't have one.

...

-opens a beer-

I know those feels... Of course, I can spend more money on MYSELF, which is a major plus. I guess. Maybe?