Walsingham

Yeah. You like them too young to have personalities, old boy. Not so much passive aggressive, as weirdly passive.

Yet you seem keen as shot on using one specific word to describe your attitude.

My spine is causing me real trouble. BUt I've necked abunch of assorted painkillers and am recording some songs with a friend. Still going out tonight to get calhooned.

Yeah. A real phobia is no joke, mate. Hilarious. But no joke.

If you are from the future, TELL ME WHAT HAPPENS TO MY PANTS!

Maybe, like other greats Philip K. ****, and George Alec Effinger, he takes heroic doses of ...er... nutritional supplements. Or he might just be American.

The Return of the Jedi - the Lucas-raped version.

Red wine, porter, ale. My mate's down. We go old skool.

You made meat pampushkii?

'funt' 'feth' 'gak' These are your new best friends.

Agree with Nonek. Although I'd point out that being stuck in the past is supposed to be one of the themes of FO:New Vegas.

"The Awakening" on the BBC iplayer Rather odd little horror movie leavened by some very fine actors and a dash of social-historical commentary on the First World War. And a bit of classy bathing boob. A good movie for sitting and MST3K-ing. While still being fun in its own right.

Milk. You weirdos. <I actually drink my tea with neither milk nor lemon, because I once considered how weird it is to squeeze stuff out of a cow>

To make someone better you just have to give them something to love. To make them turn worse you have to give them both something to love, and something to hate. To paraphrase John le Carre.

"Like two rulers propping up a bean bag"

The Taliban is a tea party? Then why the hell are we drone-bombing them? They sound like perfectly decent chaps to me. Now that's clearly not true. For starters the Chinese drink tea. the important issue is not the tea, it's the combination of milk and dry biscuits with the tea. The combination being as important as fuel oil and fertiliser.

I think you should up your research skills by learning about Google image search. Not that I know about that.

Have you considered sleeping in a giant calzone? Then you could snack in your sleep.

A good friend organised a walk in the countryside today. He did the same thing last year. I told him in no uncertain terms to **** off. Although the weather isn't really that bad, and I have adequate wet weather gear, there is no good reason why anyone would enjoy going out on a day like this. It's perverse.

I managed to get to the end of that. Japan is really ****ed up. I think the point is that all they've done is package all those bits. Then sell them. I can honestly say that nothing they showed there is any different than what 'normal' westerners have told me they do for free. I'm equally pleased to say I haven't done the bathtub thing. But I totted up the cost of taking an ex out for coffee and a hug and it came to about $80.

Methinks that's when you stopped reading the damn books! Aragorn and Arwen not fantasy nonsense romance? An entire species - gobblins and orcs - who exist only to hurt stuff? An entire species - elves - who are only good and never evil?

LOL in honour of this I resolve to actually play all of the games I now own on Steam. Quick, everyone buy and gift totally random games to Wals! Motherf... *sound of deluging games*

With the exception of the relationship between gollum and Frodo I don't think there's one jot of maturity in the damn stories. At least not the way you're talking about them. They're fantasy. Although for the sake of the argument I will concede that maybe you've uncovered an interesting notion - that fantasy is in tension with maturity. EDIT: Since aluminiumtrioxode liked the post it made me think a bit more about it. Take reality as a baseline. It's hard to really engage with players/viewers if something is genuinely unreal. So, swords, romances, death. These thinsg are real. A fantasy sword looks like this: A mature sword looks like this. INTERESTINGLY, I wanted a sword with actual blood on it. Something from a crime scene. But googling "sword real blood" brought up ONLY fantasy swords.

You are both wrong. You do not boil steak. And if a man enjoys boiled steak then he's a freak. And an idiot. And no sensible restaurant will pander to his idiotic freakish desires. Likewise no sensible dev will pander to whatever it was I was arguing against.