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adam_grif wrote:I think hacking in general is handled very poorly in films, although granted the real stuff isn't all that thrilling.

Unless it's lead pipe hacking, which is hardly boring, but makes the heroes look decidedly unheroic.

Holmes doesn't need Watson to solve crimes; he needs Watson to give a shit about people and for companionship. Watson is useful for solving various crimes, just not because of his deductive skills. There are multiple instances where having a trusted accomplice proved useful for Holmes in pulling sh...

How I Could Just Kill a Man Rage Against the Machine took a mediocre rap song by Cypress Hill and turned it into pure unadulterated awesome. The original version sounds to me like some gangasta wannabe, a poser with a big mouth. The cover sounds like an actual psychopath, with just the right amount...

Favourite non-alcoholic drink? It's a dead heat between tigernut orxata and rice chicha . Coca-Cola, usually one made with real sugar....which can take some digging to find Mexican authorities rightly consider corn syrup to be unfit for human consumption, so any Coca-Cola made in Mexico is guarantee...

If someone told you that they were going to make a drink out of fucking BARLEY , you would not think "Oooh, that will be delicious!" People only drink it because they've learned to acquire the taste IMO, and because it has such a long European tradition behind it. Barley is delicious. I w...

I was at a wedding based on old folk traditions, which included a circle dance. Those circle dances look pretty silly on TV, but I have to say it was a lot of fun. It was much more fun than a traditional church wedding where everyone sits down quietly and waits for the preacher to drone on and on. ...

This fellow has the same sympathies as Benedict Arnold, but he was so pathetic that he couldn't even succeed in actually committing treason, so he had to settle for wandering around with a gun one day. "Loser" comes to mind as a good and appropriate description for someone who even fails ...

I was very interested in watching 2012 solely because the premise of whole surface of the Earth coming apart at the seams seemed to make for some magnificent scenery. I like watching things be destroyed in an impressive fashion. However, if the interesting parts full of destruction and mayhem are co...

phongn wrote:Mini-moderator.

Ah, so I was being inatentive.

So the vomit green colour indicates "former moderator"?

[removed because I'm stupid]

I think much of the reason for the popularity of sniping weapons is many gamers are just cowards - this seems absurd considering they are playing a bloody game, but the number of times I see people hanging back hoping their team mates will go into a dangerous situation first makes me think there mu...

In the military it's a lot easier to just shave your hair off than try to maintain it and if you're in the field for any length of time (just days will do), you get a kind of scruffiness on top of it. For this reason it doesn't bother me at all, whereas the ones where the character is supposedly mi...

Anguirus wrote:And a cute homage to "fencer Sulu."

Schlock Mercenary did the fencing thing better.

I love cats, but it's a fact that not just my cats (who seem almost retarded in terms of intelligence) but every cat I've ever heard of will interpret a pointed finger to mean "hey, look! a finger!" I lived for a couple of years with a pair of cats who could read human signals. I could se...

One thing that I think people should keep in mind in this discussion is that the function of static defenses isn't necessarily to defeat the attacker. Land fortifications have historically existed primarily to delay and occupy invading armies while the defending side mounted a counter-offensive. It ...

Isn't the new Battle Star Galactica exactly what he claims to want from science fiction? The name of the show kept popping into my head repeatedly as I read through this article. The guy wants situations that we can imagine and have profound effects on the society depicted; with technology that is a...

ArmorPierce reminds me of relatively well known excerpt from Malcolm X's autobiography, which talks about hair in black culture by way of personal experience. Shorty soon decided that my hair was finally long enough to be conked. He had promised to school me in how to beat the barber shops’ three- a...

Bluewolf wrote:MTW2 did try and add the prisoner mechanic which I liked. It was a step in the right direction.

The prisoner mechanic existed in the first Medieval: Total War, which is why it was in the second. I found it completely useless and always executed prisoners as a matter of course.

Sea Skimmer wrote:I wouldn’t put it past them to start bombing Dublin too.

Between the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force clamoring for the chance to pound some faces in, I don't think the poor Dubliners stand a chance.

Actually, Nurgle worship, based on "Oh god, I don't ever want to die" might be understandable amongst the upper crust. I doubt it. Firstly because both Tzeentch and Slaanesh can promise immortality, and secondly because the upper crust tends to be rather self-assured of their righteousnes...

It depends. I'm pretty sure there is mention of longer life expectancy and the standard of living is higher. There just happen to be some places that are really bad . Ah, and those are the places where the cult of Nurgle sees relatively little success... A God of Despair and disease will not thrive...

While I've never read the Gen Kill book (so please correct me if I am wrong), I was under the impression that the show really dialed up the more "controversial" aspects of the source material. I heard that it was particularlly bad in regard to the show's portrayal of "Capitain Americ...

Note that birth by cesarean is not a death sentence if there happened to be a surgeon at hand. It wou ld highly increase the chances of the mother dying but you could still be around. The procedure has been performed successfully since time immemorial. It has been speculated, for example, the the Ca...

Let's see competent ancient races. The Xeelee and Photino Birds have been brought up, and those are the first that come to mind. Particularly the Xeelee given the sheer magnitude of their opponent, and their ultimate solution to avoid defeat and extermination. In the Schlockverse both the Dark Matte...

We watched Point Break last night. Swayze was good. Jenn actually commented that he was beyond good and that you actually forget he is Patrick Swayze and he becomes Brodie much like how Tom Hanks becomes his characters as opposed to someone like Tom Cruise, who is always Tom Cruise playing a charac...