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In principle I'm not against spiders that big. Any excuse for setting up an old bofors gun in the lounge.

Very helpful. If i may say so in turn, I fear your enthusiasm may be blinding you to the dangers of introducing a novel voting system when you already accept that political culture can have profound embuggering influences on the product of any system.

I still think preferential voting just encourages muddled thinking, and a muddled offerring. Politicians are bad enough as it is, without offerring them the delightful possibility that they will pick up second place votes just because people don't know enough about them to dislike them.

I ate a very hot stir fry late last night and consequently (I hope) had the most vivid post-zombie-apocalypse dream of my life. I had to go back to sleep when I woke up just to get some rest. All the same, it was pretty cool. Being chased down a graveyard slope through mist and watching zombies get tripped up and break their snappy bits was probably the highlight. That and the air vents section. Air vents full of sodding gaming fanboy zombies.

I did say that might be the case. It's far too easy to look everything up and give a spurious gloss of knowledgeability. Better if for the purposes of the discussion I expose my ignorance early on, I reckon. So thanks for setting me straight. So why is it that Britain virtually never has coalition governments? Voter behaviour?

It's true though. The US Prison and Jail population totals 2,284,913 (US DOJ), while internal Soviet documents show that there were only 1-2M people inside the GULAG at any given time (see here). It would probably help if you responded to 'her' posts using 'her' account. Little tip on the old disguise business there.

The SA80-A2, surely? Who said anything about the boring old A2?

It's pinging a big fat 'meh' off me. I'm afraid. Global warming? Seriously?

I think I know the one you mean. I accidentally swung my baseball bat at precisely the second when a charger fell off a roof in front of me. Bloke got really huffy about it, and accused me of cheating.

I have to agree with LoF. And I really mean HAVE to. Gut wounds being the incredibly painful slow death that they are, you just don't get armour which leaves you exposing your nice bare pregnantable midriff. If anyone knows of any armour from ANY period or culture which does leave the stomach exposed, and protects your shoulders, do let me know. Bare midriff armour is solely for the purposes of horning up male gamers. Of course I'm hoping this is intended to nurture some counter-cultural movement to enhance positive and realistic women in games. By which I mean women who actually look as if they could pick up a rifle - Starbuck style. Rather than an excuse to found a government bureau which will try to stop unreasonable female sexiness by shooting devs in the face.

Wasn't poor inventory the main criticism from pre-patched Witcher 1? Stands to reason that they'd want it as slick as possible.

I can follow your reasoning, but surely you'd admit that the alternative is to treat the progress of one's avatar like a stroll down a foreign tourist beach. A little bit boring, pleasant for that reason, and occasionally interrupted by an old man trying to sell you a carpet. I mean a besuited monster punching your bits off. I'm going to argue that dramatic tension and release is only delivered if it occurs within a relatively compact time. Having endless bad guys and a toxic cloud keeps up the pressure to move and progress, to explore the narrative, not just amble about.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/07/actuv_command_game/ Why NOT have the same people who play Minecraft designing the operational algorithms of our future defenders?

Has there been anything more on that fellah who just had stems injected into his weak heart and they just incorprated and regrew it?

I got to try the HK416 the other day. I still prefer the SA80.

Obyknevn is not Lord of Flies. Oh no.

Numbers, the KGB didn't pack up its bags as soon as Uncle Joe turned up his toes. You know that. I'm confused by your insistence that violence wasn't meted out to the 'unbelievers' in communism. If Soviet Russia doesn't float your boat, how about violence to Vietnamese christians by their communist party, or across the border you have the fabulous bone-flecked expanse of Cambodia. If this is all too communist centric for you how about the mfekanein Southern Africa, where the Zulus biffed just about everyone pretty much solely because Shaka had a small undercarriage.

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister sometimes just puts on music and cries. This puts me in mind of the rather cruel observation that Americans only voted for a President who was dumber than they were. But it now seems that Clegg is gambling on Britons voting for a Prime Minister who is wussier than they are.

Scientists grow retina from stem cells. I have to say that ever since I understood what stem cell research was I have loved it more than cricket on the radio. And that's saying something.

And to you I would point out that McDs is at least at the top end of the fast food system. You aren't working in KFC after all.

I am fully aware that I am dreadfully biased, but these shenanigans see to me merely illustrative of the kind of bull which happens in a coalition system. First past the post may deliver governments which push through unpopular measures on inflated majorities, but it also has a tendency to deliver great bloodletting when parties get out of hand, stripping them of all semblance of power for at least one term. I should also point out that I don't know how Canadians are elected, but I figure I may as well be honest in my ignorant hateful opinions.

My further advice is to come in each day brandishing something like a cycle helmet or birch branch and when asked about it, observe that in your normal schedule you have time for LOTS of extra activities. That always drives the wee buggers nuts.

your original observation were as follows: "I still can't believe they haven't used Andy Hamilton as the dwarf (Tyrion?)" really? sometimes you argue just to argue. tyrion is the youngest lannister sibling... so maybe get judy dench to play cersei? and it would look damn silly for hamilton/tyrion to bemoan his dwarfism as he stared down at some o' the stark children. *snort* HA! Good Fun! I merely made an observation that I saw a very wry, devious, short man as Tyrion. Having him older wouldn't pose the least obstacle to a film adaptation. On the other hand YOU immediately launched into yet another of your poorly punctuated and bafflingly aggrandised half-orc broadsides. You can't be arsed to type capital letters, but you can be arsed to repeat your tired catchphrase repeatedly? Get off your damn high horse.

Surely Tyrion is no spring chicken, tho. And I'll grant you maybe he is taller than I thought, but he certainly moves like a dwarf, and has a strange nasal voice. Look him up on Youtube or something.