This event is the one I am least fond of (none of my mantis dudes ever do 5 damage to the enemy). After getting this event 5 times in one play and it damaging me 4 of those times (last one killed me), I decided to check it out in the data.dat file. Spoiler: Defending him is 50/50 between joining you...

I unlocked it without having a mantis, just a teleporter and lv.2 medbay. Though I did have two rock dudes on their ship, but that's pretty much everything.

I noticed that too. I went back to that thread and on page 4 or 5 it was said that there is no blue option for the first page, and it comes later if you pick the sneaky option. That threads first post is a little misleading as it is.
Edit - confirmed not bugged

*taps microphone*

This one came out only a few days ago: Diaspora (windows/linux)
Dogfighting the Cylons while trying to protect the fleet, need I say more?

All major game releases are on Tuesdays, so I say the 4th. I don't have any scrap, but I do have 5 bars of Latinum... anyone know the exchange rate?

Star Ruler : a huge 4x RTS, which I swiped from an indie pack during the steam summer sale. It lets you build (and save) your own ships from scratch, so you can tune them to a specific task (e.g. my meter-long scout, my kilometer-long trade ship, or my 1000km-long flagship). There is also a mod (&q...

OK Maze, we might have got our wires crossed; just for my clarification, you are saying that (1) I am stereotyping humanity, (2) convincing the listeners of an argument is at least the secondary goal of the dispute, and (3) individuals may listen to the dispute and change/define their position. I ha...

Hey, just wondering if there will be a way to get a heads-up on when either open-beta or version 1.0 will come out? (RSS, email, etc.)

At the risk of prolonging this thread... No: it's an archetype, as it has been shown to follow a consistent pattern in such studies. The difference being that it is not based upon a personal impression, but rather actual documented evidence. Second, the papers I mentioned weren't talking about the q...