Walsingham

Change of subject Had anyone else noticed the Valve own brand games updating about five times a day, recently? I think it may actually be something to do with save games on the Cloud. But it's frakking my non valve games up the wazoo. They kep crashing and every time they do there's avalve game mid-update with this guilty look on its face and its pants around its ankles.

I believe I have aleady mentioned that my housemate was tidying the Mojave wasteland long before Old World Blues came out. But now he actually has an excuse for collecting literally every tiny thing he sees. Now, I thought this was a joke he did when I was around, so I didn't kibbitz him. But I checked. He's working his way around Big MT collecting everything down to the shot glasses. EVERYTHING. Then waddling around at a snail's pace, pot-shotting nightstalkers with whatever POS gun he's found lying about, AND THEN DYING. I saw him do this for over two hours last night. This surely must be the most annoying and pointless video gaming experience ever. It's also stopping him doing the washing up. And he LOVES doing washing up. Can someone explain what is going on? And d oso before I am obliged to lock him out of my PC for his own good.

I'm saying you approach your love of the area - arguably - from the wrong end. Like "I love prostitutes. I will become one!"

There's no consistency in what you're coding at the time? Any other apps running?

Bolt thrower!

How long for, sparky?

Sounds like non-trivial bad news... Perhaps he's just realised he's not British? ~~ Agree with GD. Although I think hate gets a bad rep sometimes. It's better than an insipid emotional vacuum. ~~ Mad dreams last night. Terrorist bombs, and frogs doing handstands... You ever seen a frog doing a handstand? Don't. It's bloody awful.

Sorry, GD. Not having a go. Didn't catch your 'tone' so to speak.

The offer is appreciated. Just not as much as TELLING ME WHICH ONES YOU HAVE AND ARE GOOD.

*blinks* ~~ EDIT: Man goes to fishing port and officially complains that his children were traumatised by seeing dead fish.

Wrong. (as usual) Funny how the rebels merely "suspect" those blacks of being pro-Q mercenaries -though apparently mere suspicion is enough to get you a bullet to the back of the skull in brave new Libya- yet you can give us assurances that they were. How's the weather inside your colon? edit: as for the "no racism" idiocy: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...3328336026.html Interesting thought. I wonder if much of the atrocity tendency in unregulated troops comes as much from the unchecked spread of stories about atrocities from the opposite side? Not suggesting for a second that it's not mostly do with a lack of regular discipline and punishment. I say again that I'd be extremely cautious before saying that what we're seeing isn't down to the fact that these are volunteer militias rather than Libyan volunteer militias.

In defence of the old boy, rape was pretty common and still is common in many countries. Maybe he does it to convey a sense of violence which we tend to miss when he's talking about cutting heads off etc.

Fair play, GD. It does clearly say that there's no evidence of abusing captives. I just checked. It's interesting, because I used to know an old ex mercenary from the sixties and he'd say that getting a merc gig was fraught with this kind of thing. If these had been eastern european mercs getting locked up would people be that bothered?

My sincere apologies. I assumed it was a persistent attempt to annoy and obscure. As for funny... if you don't find conspiracy theorists funny then I can only feel sorry for you. I find them both abundant and hilarious.

that were 'posed to be a funny? well, we agree that there were a "sense of humour failure." poking fun o' junai takes so little effort, but you make it look difficult. in any event, is doubtful that the folks from 30 rock ask for walsh to join the writing team anytime soon. HA! Good Fun! This put down would be a good deal more cutting if you ever updated your own act.

I just started a new game, which I expect to last me until Lonesome Road.

I just finished re-reading When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger. The book only gets better as I get older. George R.R. Martin described this trilogy (of which this is the first) as 'wry and black and savage'. Yet no bastard has ever heard of it!

Jesus, Grom. Sense of humour failure.

That's the best news I've heard in days.

Yes, I saw that the UN personnel had been rekjected. I have to wonder if the entire exercise wasn't a staged opportunity for the rebels to reject international support. Prove they can handle themselves. I agree that swapping a nutbag for a bunch of fundamentalists would be a bad deal. I certainly regard the threat from Islamofascism as a good deal more serious than from Ghaddafi Inc. But shouldn't we at least wait and see whether that is what happens? I agree that the notion of sharia law is undemocratic. But the reason it is popular is that normal law is seen as so corrupt in many parts of the world. Yes, I'd rather they went straight to a British model on day 1. But in a transitional period alone having a single code which everyone knows could be essential to stability. Provided the frfamework surrounding shariah is truly democratic then in time that can experience reform.

Bongo'd my back picking up some post from the floor. Bloody thing. Bit depressed, but remembered tarna so obviously manned up a smidgen.

The joke was in that being said in a J.C. Denton voice, but it sucked too much for me to explain. Sorry. The humour was fine. My brain wasn't. Stupid unaugmented brain...

Federal judges are not subject to democratic controls except by impeachment. That is why they have to restrain themselves from making law instead of honestly interpreting it. In modern history they haven't restrained themselves, which is why we have tyranny of the judiciary in this country. Edit: A tyrant is defined as an illegitimate ruler, look it up. You've elected - no pun intended - for the 'crack on' option. Crack on, my boy. Have fun.

Am in some kind of smartass perihelion. Looked up the definition of 'definition'.