Doubly so since you couldn't damage the things unless they had stood up.

I don't remember how long ago it was, but the state of South Australia actually banned plastic bags from being provided at checkouts in supermarkets and such, which I'm pretty sure led to the rest of Australia adopting the same policy.

Like Jim Sterling says, publishers these days aren't happy with just making lots of money, or even most of it. No, they now want all the money and won't stop ruining the games that the companies they publish create until they get all the money. And they won't stop then because it'll be proof that their scheme "worked."

When you feel a greater need to spend money on microtransactions in a full-price game than in a free-to-play one, something's gone horribly wrong.

What about the Eragon movie?

Or be the optimist's pessimist: expect the worst, that way either you're right or it's a pleasant surprise.

And then there's the possibility of a mutated form of Cordyceps fungus having a similar effect on humans, a la The Last of Us.

As someone with an Autism Spectrum Disorder myself, I take no offense to what @rosalinas said. I am a fairly high-functioning Autistic person and even then my parents still sometimes struggle to understand why I do what I do.
I know that my opinion is not shared by everyone, or even many people, but the way I see it she was simply stating facts. Nobody asks for an Autistic child or sibling, and that child or sibling will find many things more difficult than it is to the neurotypical. These are just simple facts, as is the fact that caring for an Autistic child is more difficult than a neurotypical one, as is the case with any disorder.

The fact that someone struggles with living with an Autistic person does not mark them as a terrible person, it just shows that they are indeed a person, with their own feelings and responses towards the bullshit that the universe has saddled them and the Autistic person with.

...that's exactly what he was mocking, except he was doing so wittily.

Hence the use of immigrant. They emigrated from Australia to the USA.

I thought they were capsicums.

I think it's about the healing factor...

Yes, our current models of physics don't work for the Big Bang, but we aren't even able to properly consolidate quantum mechanics and the version used in everyday life, or general and special relativity. All the sets of rules we have work perfectly well at their scale, but we cannot yet figure out how to change between those scaleswithout breaking the maths and having things stop working, like how in quantum physics mass and gravity come from particles while in standard mechanics they... aren't. With the incredibly unusual circumstances of the Big Bang, and no real way to replicate it (though the Large Hadron Collider has helped, and taught us about that mass particle, the Higgs-Boson) it's no surprise that we don't yet know what happened.
But that's why we research it. Not because we know, not because it is easy to know. Because it intrigues us for being so hard to know, and gives us such strange, weirdly useful information.

Just from looking at the comment chain here, @sublimegamer, you seem to have asked about what happened before and during the Big Bang. While there isn't a scientific consensus that I am aware of and can recall, potentially due to being sick for the entirety of the astrophysics portion of my Physics class, I do know of evidence that the Big Bang did in fact happen. It's called Cosmic Background Microwave Radiation, and is a constant microwave radiation throughout the universe that corresponds (if memory serves) to something like 7.3 kelvin. This, and the much greater amount of Helium in the universe than could have been produced by stars in the entire lifetime of the universe, are just some of the evidence that physicists have for the Big Bang occurring. This is just the simple stuff that a high school student who could only read the PowerPoints for the unit at his school could remember, even if it was IB Physics HL.

And, for a given value of existence, there's fossils and oil.

It's honestly a shame that the closest thing we've had to a space agency for so long is a museum in Woomera to when we worked with the Japanese space agency out there.