Recent content by Alasdair Macleod

German and Finnish girls often sound attractive to me. I'll also have to jump on the Russian bandwagon. Out of curiosity I ran Half-life 2 in Russian and suddenly the forced-romance with Alyx didn't seem quite so tiresome (her Russian VA is veeeeery nice.) Young English ladies using...

From what I've observed and directly experienced, Bioware couldn't create a desirable female character to save their lives (careers?) So I can't feel any sympathy for those bemoaning the poor quality of their masculine counterparts.

Planetes might well suit your needs. http://www.tokyopop.com/product/1120/Planetes/1.html And also somewhat topical, as the subject of dealing with the man-made debris circling the Earth has been in the news recently. The team behind it had really done their homework. The show takes a...

"Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany...

Pale skin is my favourite sin.

I listen to BBC Radio 3 regularly as well as Radio 4-extra and Classic FM. Podcasts are utterly irrelevant as far as I am concerned. They rarely contain anything that matters to me and when they do it could be delivered just as effectively through a coherent and concise written article.

"Holy shit" can be a little ambiguous, but I can think of two examples: Positive: The primary weapon of the Progenitor dreadnought in Homeworld 2. A really nice piece of FX work and that charging & firing sound is just too delicious. Negative: 'The End of the Plot' cut-scene from the PSP...