HODDMIMIR'S PROFILE

I think that although there have been a few jokes in this topic, the bulk of this topic has been pretty good and now has two very good resources for people to use to help with this tragedy. Geodude was kind enough to post the friend finder for Hostilefun and anyone else who needs it, and now Jericho has the Redcross Text message service which is really fantastic and I hope a lot of people take advantage of that. $10 dollars isn't really that much money, (A little over an hour of work for those of us at minimum wage) but combined with enough other $10 could really make a big difference. I would encourage everyone who can to donate.

Got it. Hopefully they did not get hit to hard. It's a shame I think when a disaster manages to effect so many different places. As sad as it is for one place to get decimated, I would rather it be one place than having a bunch of minor damage all over the world. At least the big disaster areas attract attention and people send aid. The lesser damaged regions just get completely ignored. It's especially sucky for Japan though because they have spent a lot of money working on earthquake resistant buildings and technologies, but then they get hit with an Earthquake big enough that they really didn't stand a chance anyway, and then on top of that there really isn't a viable protection option from tsunami. It makes you wonder why you should even bother trying to protect yourself when stuff like this happens. (It's just like fighting an unwinable battle in videogames in some ways.)

author=geodude
hostilefun http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en i really hope they're okay.

I think that is really great of Google to do. I suppose it's possible they just want to look good but even if that is the case, hopefully some good and peace of mind will come to the people devastated by this terrible disaster.

So... hopefully general discussion is the right place for this, but I was wondering what people thought about this Earthquake?

In case you don't know about it already, there was an 8.9 Earthquake yesterday just off the coast of Japan. It did a lot of damage on it's own but the Tsunami it caused had a much greater impact killing many, and pretty much crippling the communication, transportation, and electrical capabilities of the entire country. The Tsunami reached Hawaii and the West Coast but with fairly negligible impact there. An 8.9 is the strongest Earthquake Japan has ever had and the 5th largest on record in the world.

So... I give permission for this to turn into a discussion on the apocolopyse, or whether we should give foreign aid, or conspiracies on how this was caused by the bush campaign, or whatever else. I just want to know what people think.

I was not sure it was a common game as opposed to something you all know because you have played it on here before. I find it is often better to ask and be 100% sure you know what the person is talking about than to look it up and end up wrong.