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There are certain drugs that are defiantly very dangerous and can destroy lives with it's insane addiction rate and the damage it can do to both the body and the mind. These drugs should be dangerous but what I'd personally like to see is a rating system for all drugs that takes many different aspects of the drugs such as addiction rates, physiological effects, psychological severity, psychological effects, psychological severity, and so on. Then with all these numbers you can create a "Recreational Danger Number" or something like that, then any drug that falls below a set point (for the sake of argument let's make it 15 RDNs) can be bought recreationally, any above it will be illegal to buy for recreational use. With this system it would no longer be about what specific drugs can/can't be legalized, but truly gets into how dangerous they are and make a decision based on that. Another thing that I think needs to happen is that when a person does use drugs, or does a crime while on a drug that they be treated as if they were sick rather than criminals. I think downright imprisoning people for having drugs is a really shitty idea. It helps really no one besides the people running the prisons and it doesn't help the person who's addicted at all. I think treating addiction rather than punishing addiction is a much better strategy.

One thing to consider here is also this: The developed world takes the most resources by far. So one thing that is a possibility is to either reduce population growth or like certain countries in Japan and Italy, have a negative growth rate. But before I'd want to get into taking away luxuries, I'd much rather stop the huge amount of waste this country has. Or at least find a way to convince people to stop using cars so much. Encourage good, resource efficient behavior rather than force it.

You are right, I didn't know about the cattle thing however I do know that a lot of factory farms will sometimes use other produce such as corn and just feed that to the cattle instead of letting them graze. It's that kind of stuff that i'd like to get rid of. It's preferable to me to stop wasting resources rather than reducing. The United States makes enough food to feed the world, but because a lot of it goes to waste and is never eaten (by people or animals) that's the stuff I'm much more concerned about. The reason we throw away so much is to keep the price of crops high enough so that farmers still have a living. It's a product of overeffeciency in a capitalistic society that values money over resources. While capitalism can do a pretty good job at using resources, other times it outright exploits or just wastes other resources. In regard to fish and pork, I did some more research after realizing that there were still some gaps of knowledge i had and you're right about pork. I actually read something from the magazine "Science" which is THE scientific magazine that said that the Chinese were using so much pork that not only were their rivers being polluted by it, but worse because the pigs were fed so much antibiotics that there were huge amounts of antibiotic resistant bacteria in a lot of Chinese lakes and rivers. As for fish you are once again right, and I did want to talk about this one fish farming system but i forgot to last night. Anyways it goes like this: You have a hatchery of a specific type of fish that also collects the waste that the fish produce in order to fertilize the actual plants that will be feeding the fish. You can theoretically have a very efficient fish hatchery by making the fish food on the spot. I'm skeptical about all of that, I can see that with solar power but there are more renewable energy sources than solar. So while you have a point about solar power, the thing about solar more than any other kind of renewable power is the fact that they can be added to things such as houses and cars. Integrating them and lessening the sheer amount of power that is wasted when you go from power plant to vehicle or whatever. Yes, once again this is something that I wanted to mention but forgot because it was getting late with my last post. I really like nuclear energy and a lot of arguments made against nuclear really don't outweigh the benefits that you get from it. I remember reading too that one of the biggest problems with radioactive energy sources is that with the coolant systems you'd have to process a large amount of low-level radioactive water. Which is difficult because spillage can occur and large amounts of anything are hard to process, but some places are experimenting with polymer beads that will absorb the radiation and now instead of lots of low lever radiation (which is still dangerous) now you have small amounts of high radioactive material (while still dangerous much easier to handle). I'd have to take a closer look at the temperature thing about lawns. Mostly because it could be that the information doesn't factor in other variables. Like places without lawns may be 20-30 degrees hotter because they're located in the desert, not because they don't have a lawn. The amount of oxygen that lawns produce really isn't that great. Ya it has some but not nearly as much as many other forms of plants that can process CO2 and produce oxygen far better. Same thing goes for pollutants. So yes I'd much rather remove lawns and replace the grass growing there with other plants but my biggest concern with lawns isn't what the grass does or does not do, it's more about the fact that people water, mow, maintain, and use a large amount of resources on something because "it looks nice". And while there are dirt golf course (which I'm 100% ok with as long as there aren't too many resources being put into it) the vast majority of golf courses are grass. Ok, this i did not know at all...my bad. This was pretty much sheer ignorance on my part and my idea came mostly from this toilet model that i saw that had the sink attached to the toilet to not only save space, but also has the water go to the toilet. Plus, after some more research i found that there are actually places that can process human waste into perfectly safe drinking water and aren't too wasteful in doing so. So that's definitely a better alternative. Yes, but butter is not exactly the healthiest thing in the world to just be eating. Plus I did say LESS meat, not to get rid of it. Meat is probably the best way to get protien into your body in a realistic manner, but here in the US we eat too much of it. We can eat meat in one of our 3 meals and be perfectly fine in terms of nutrients. This is true, but a lot of times I find that people don't eat local food, period. Or if they do they don't go out of their way to eat locally. It's more a situation where if you can do it, do it as much as you can, if you can't, keep doing what you're doing. But a lot of times grocery stores will throw away perfectly good food because it doesn't look good. A slightly bruised tomato won't be put out, it'll be thrown away because it doesn't look completely appealing. A better idea than this is actually community gardens. I forgot about these somehow when making this post and I missed out on a good point. Community gardens are actually a huge help in more ways than just food. Some places actually have reduced crime whenever one is started up and it can help a community a LOT whenever one is properly maintained. Therefore you eliminate the problem of inexperience or ignorance because a few people could run the garden full time but everyone in the community pitches in for things like weeding, or fertilizing, watering, ect. You'd even be able to have the justice system use community gardens as a way of punishment. Sentence someone 50 hours or so to a community garden instead of fines or short jail time for minor offenses. This is where I'm going to get some hate. I understand the convenience of things like personal vehicles, but in order for a sustainable future we'll have to give some things up. This is why i consider walking an extra three blocks a completely doable sacrifice instead of driving to be completely within reason. While there are downsides to public transportation, the benefits I think very much outweigh the negatives. A FPMV I think is an idealize version of the future and in all honesty would probably be more wasteful that cars. But without a doubt we need better urban planning to make public transportation doable instead of the absolute mess it can be. In Europe it's much better because the urban planning is a lot more refined and compact where the US has problems because of our tendency to spread out and use our own cars to get around. Basically a lot of what i want to do will take personal sacrifice for the average person, but #1 on the list is getting rid of wasteful behavior. Not just in terms of vacations being wasteful or luxury items in of themselves, but some of the completely ridiculous things we tend to waste resources on. It's a complex topic that would take a lot of time to fully get semi-doable. What I don't want happening is the whole world turing into china, who use their resources pretty wastefully too, only recently became industrialize, and who's environment has been decimated by Chinese exploitation.

So this is something that has been racking my brain for all week. Learned this fact that if every person in the world lived like people from the United States we'd need about 10 earths in order to keep up with the resource demands. One thing that scares me the most about this is we waste a lot, and I mean a lot. I feel like if the United States utilized all the resources it has we'd halve the amount of resources we take up (hopeful thinking on my part I'm guessing) But that's obviously not enough, so I'm posting all my ideas about what a sustainable future would need in order for earth to survive. For the record, I don't want to get rid of luxury, but perhaps limit it or just make life a little less luxurious in order to keep earth stable Anyways here I go The first thing I'd like to address is the beef industry, because not many people know this, but the beef industry is probably one of the most wasteful, polluting, and downright nasty things the we do in the United States. I'm not talking about dairy BTW, I'm talking cattle herding for the express purpose of slaughtering them for meat. Cows actually produce more greenhouse gasses than our cars. They produce methane (i'll let you work out how) which actually traps heat better than C02. Plus, in terms of how much food, water, land, and just resources over all that you put into a cow verses how much you get from killing and eating is a really pathetic ratio. In terms of meat, which I wouldn't want to get rid of because it's the easiest for of protein for large populations to eat, I think pork and chicken are actually the the best in terms of what you can put in and what you get out. Plus with chickens you get eggs. Anyways, the first thing I'd want to do is to completely minimize the beef industry as much as possible. Make beef either cost so much that no one would want to eat it do to sheer cost or limit the amount of male cattle that can be kept purely for food reasons. Second is energy. We Americans use a lot of energy and in all honesty the ways that we get this energy isn't the best in terms of how much energy we get in ratio to the energy and resources it takes to actually produce that energy. The biggest thing here is renewable energy, we need more. If we hope to have a sustainable future, we can't use energy that will one day run out. Oil is the biggest of this. Oil is going to run out, when, how, why, and how quickly is still up for discussion but nevertheless it will run out one day. One we reach peak oil, the market is going to collapse in terms of supply. This is why renewable energy is very important AND why creating transport, housing, communications, and everything you can think of either run off renewable energy, or is supplemented by it. We also need to find less wasteful ways of using energy. For example New York city has a lot of energy coming from the hydroelectric plants in Niagara Falls. However, a lot of that energy is lost by the time it gets to New York. So in order for a better use of energy to exist we'd need to build power plants near New York city and let the hydroelectric be used by whomever is up there, minimizing energy loss. Third is housing, average american housing. First off I'd like to say that lawns really don't serve much point. They take resources to maintain, it's unnecessary water waste, and it's be a lot better if there were parks instead of a lawn if a child wants to play outside. With this topic in mind another thing that should 100% go is golf courses. Again, same thing as lawns, but imagine if you had to keep the equivalent of Rhode Island watered, trimmed, maintained, and completely proper for a better half of the year (if not the whole year). Anyways, with housing I definitely think we need better water management. One idea is to actually have all "waste water" (i.e. sink water, shower water, and perhaps even washing machines) dump into the toilet first. Meaning that the used sink water will be what you poo or pee in. I think this can make a lot of sense especially if you have a filter for solids. Think about it, toilets is literally taking clean, safe, drinkable water, and shitting into it. Take one of the worlds most valuable and precious resources, dirty it up, and flush it away. Third is heating and cooling. Look, simple solution is to not have the heat set too high during the winter (bundle up if cold kinda thing) and not too low during the summer (drink some water, draw the shades, something like that). If everyone did this, we'd save a lot of energy that is used completely for climate control. Food: This one is simple, doesn't need much explaining, just defending, so i'll do that once someone points out the flaws. Ok to put it really simple: more vegetables, more local food, less meat, and every house have their own vegetable garden (think victory gardens from WWII). This would keep people fed and less wastefully Transportation: As stated before i think we'd need a massive change in terms of how our transportation network is, especially in america. First off, more public transportation along with better planning. The worst thing we have here in the US is urban sprawl. There are so many areas in the US that are borderline impossible to get to without a car or other mode of personal transportation. This makes public transportation a nightmare, completely undoable in some areas, especially suburbia. The reason I say this is because obviously public transportation is better in terms of resources, and is overall cheaper than a personal vehicle. Especially for city to city transport. Trains use less energy to move the same amount of people than a car (plus in my personal opinion you can't sleep while driving a car so). I'm not saying get rid of cars, i'm saying lesson how much they are used and increase how much things like trains, buses, and such are used. Ok, this is all i can stand to write for now, i'll probably post later when i have the chance about more things when i can think of them. I'm sure all of you will let me know just how stupid some of my ideas are or that i'm trying to ruin capitalism and make an authoritarian government. I'll refute those point and defend mine if and when i need to. For now, let me know what you think in terms of what a sustainable future should contain.

One thing that could be done is access to screenshots or clips of things that didn't make it into the final cut, like while in game he could take screenshots of interesting things, little secrets, ect. Sorta like how he said he couldn't add the stadium level into the final cut due to processing time. But he could've added screenshots to the patreon

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Honestly, we have a ton of great T-Shirt ideas here, i think we should make a new forum saying "Vote for favorite T-Shirt designs" and post ALL the ideas, then each user gets 5 votes and can allocate them to whatever is their favorite t-shirts but can't have more than 2 votes per t-shirt idea.

My two favorites are as follows:"Why do you have a ladder in an elevator shaft?!? To fix the elevator? How do you get to the ladder? You take the elevator that doesn't work!?! WHO THOUGHT THIS ONE UP!?!? JESUS CHRIST!!!" And the quote i say all the time out loud: "Bomb shelter parties are the best parties because bomb shelter parties don't stop."

I don't think it's just English that has that limitation, but ya, I agree with what you're saying here.

Just beware about good intentions, even the best intentions can lead to some of the most horrible evils a person can imagine. Trying to achieve something "good" by extreme means is the fastest way to "fight a war for peace" as it were. So your intentions don't mean you're free from evil, it just means you think you are which is far more dangerous than actually knowing that your actions are wrong. This is why evil is very very tricky, because the way that I see it there is only one way to be good: doing a good/neutral act with human/good (i really need to find a good synonym for good) means. Otherwise if you do a good act via evil means, well usually it's considered bad, like killing a living human being who deals drugs in order to slow down drug dealing. Or perhaps you're doing an evil act via good means, like feeding an entire town in order to raise a local militia (i'm thinking countries that are unstable here).

Ok, now i know what i'm about to suggest is not an obscure game, it is a fairly popular, modern game but i'm going to suggest the game and then give my reason, so if you want to flay me alive for my suggestion, please do it AFTER you read my reason. Anyways to my suggestion. The Binding of Issac: Rebirth Ok, now let's clear some things up: yes, this game breaks pattern for game dungeon, yes this game is quite successful, yes this game is fairly well known, yes this game is newer, and lastly, no i'm not suggesting Ross do a let's play for The Binding of Issac my reasons are actually just based on what i can gather from ross's own statments and what I think he may like in a game. I definitely think The Binding of Issac: Rebirth is a game Ross would enjoy. For starters, while it is a newer game, the graphics are designed to look older. Second, it's a dark game, I'm not going to spoil some of the plot points but there are hints that Issac's life was pretty awful for the duration of the game. The music in my opinion is fantastic. The game is also open ended, leaving some mystery. The amount of secrets, hidden endings, the strangeness, the items, the fact that your character starts out fairly normal and by the end is a hideous misshapen shadow of it's former self that is forced into awful conditions just to survive. The level design AND how the whole thing plays out. It's a hard but fair game that honestly I have sunken innumerable hours into and I think Ross could do a really competent video on it. I remember Ross saying that he wouldn't mind doing modern games and to be honest i think The Binding of Issac is the perfect modern game for Ross to review, plus because the map is randomly generated he wouldn't have to obsessively make maps. If i'm leaving out points that are either positives or negatives, let me know, just please do it civilly, i don't want to be called a complete ape just for suggesting a video idea on a forum.

Also, one other thing i have to touch on is that I was shocked that this is how ross normally sounds, I in all honesty thought that he spoke like that only for his videos, but I guess the reality is that it's just his voice, and i like it. I'm sorry but i think ross has one of the best voices I have ever heard

You might want to check out a new software called "Facerig". It doesn't do body motion capture but it's cheap and it does some pretty good facial tracking. It's mostly used to animate avatars but i'm guessing there's a way to just use the motion capture software without the avatar. Also, I'd really like to see more game dungeon with all the content it has. It's the main reason why I love the series, it explores topics outside the game, it can break the game down and give some perspective, AND I've actually gotten hooked on a few of the games you've put out (Tyrian and Nyet 3, you were right about Nyet BTW, i thought you were exaggerating), although one thing I'd really like to see, would maybe be older games that were popular at one point, but maybe fell out of favor, or perhaps are no longer well know. Games like "Postal 2" or perhaps "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." (i apologize if these two are actually really popular, i just haven't me one person who has played those two) or perhaps even go into topics about gaming, like how a soundtrack can enhance the gaming experience or something like that. I also think that showing off some of your favorite games could be interesting. Although one thing that I would like to see changed is WHERE you got some of the games, like with carnevil for example and maybe just a short explanation about how you got around to actually be able to play the game. Lastly, I'm pretty sure if you asked around most of us would love to see you at a convention, and while i understand you live in Poland, there must be something on that side of the pond that you could make an appearance at. It'll give you publicity for your channel and movie, plus it gives us fans a chance to meet you or at least see you as a human and not a character or a voice. That's all i can think about, I can't wait to see what other stuff you're going to blow us away with!

Ross, thank you, thank you so much for every video you've put out, while freeman was my favorite, i'm glad it went out on such a strong note. It feels like i've completed a chapter of my life now. I've grown up since my first viewing, truly amazing how fast time goes.

Only if purely energy-based thrusters, that can match the thrust-to-weight ratio of current orbital propulsion systems, ever successfully makes it past the "wouldn't it be nice if" stage. Once you're in space, then it's great for getting around in a place where you don't have to push against planetary gravity and atmosphere, but that isn't what a reentry vehicle does. Well that is speaking in terms of space only, but also if we could figure this out on Earth, we wouldn't have to worry about energy any longer, because we'd have all the energy we need for factories, cities, ect. and we could stop using things like coal or natural gas. Fission has much more practical uses stationary anyways

While that may be true keep in mind that fission would probably allow for cheaper entry and re-entry into space. Making helium that much more desirable

So, using what information I know I will present the topic: Right now we are in an energy war, everyone searching for the best way to power our ever growing technology. There is still one energy source that we can't safely or practicaly use yet: fission. The same process that takes place in the sun could power us forever. But there is one element that we are using up and are running out of that creates fission: helium. Our biggest source of helium is Texas, and the avaliblity of helium is running low to its biggest enemy: birthday parties. So if humans figure out fusion where will we get more? Simple: the moon. Currently the moon has more helium than the entirety of earth. So when fusion is figured out helium mining on the moon will become a lucrative buisness. But this does bring up some questions, what country or company would mine the moon? What kinds of people would mine it. How would it get back to earth and what impacts would it have on the moon? Please discuss or add more questions, I am exceptionally curious

We still haven't discussed fully what evil is. This energy talk has been fascinating but it is for a different board, make a new thread or find an older one to debate this but this thread is for the topic of evil. And I can think of no better company to talk about when talking about evil: Wal-Mart

I'm glad that he's going to do more Game Dungeon, I must have watched the carnevil episode at least 5 times

Lets see The games I recognized after Half-life 1 and 2 were Doom 3 Bioshock Minecraft System Shock 2 Serious Sam, not sure which one, probably 3. Deus Ex 1 Far Cry 1 Dear Esther Crysis 1 Amnesia Left 4 Dead 2 Portal 1 I don't know what to the two driving games were, and I didn't recognize the game at 1:13 or the final one in the video. It wasn't Ammesia, that one was called penumbra

I like this idea, a countdown to when the video becomes public access or something like that. We could set up a chat room for the excitement, rewatch all the old episodes, hell, maybe even FM fanart and fan videos. The only thing is Ross will need to tell us what day it will be at least 2-1 weeks in advance. And considering there may be problems during production, it may get pushed back a few times

Maybe it's time to find out, don't you think? What I mean is I find so many things sexually attractive that I've stopped trying to put a label on it

With this money can we get the t-shirt shop up and running again?

________! Who knows what they're doing in there White card Rocky the rocket ranger Godzilla fingering Asphalt tumor Hardcore karate chimpanzee

Honestly, I don't know what I am (sexualality wise anyways) so in all honest I don't care