Recent content by awmperry

Why complicate things? All you need with really good chips is a sprinkling of vinegar (malt is good, apple cider is better) and salt. It emphasises the flavour of the potato.

Of course! Any game that's set even nearby I tend to snatch up. "My town" is actually two areas; Stockholm, Sweden and Galloway, a rural area of Scotland. I bought Outpost (the film) just because it was filmed nearby (along with a fair number of other films), and Kirkcudbright would be a great...

I bought my first car - my current car, in fact - in 2004. A 1987 ex-Royal Air Force Land Rover 90, started life as an airfield taxi at RAF Fairford. Still has the original RAF roundels. :-) Then I got my driving licence a year later. Hey, it pays to be prepared. EDIT: Then I moved down...

The OP's original post in its entirety: The only mention of a deliberate conspiracy is in the title; the OP's analysis itself never mentions intent, just analyses the problem. Now, answer me this: why are you so keen to find something to pull me up on? You clearly aren't interested in...

You don't think it's possible to state agreement and still specify points of disagreement? You don't think it's possible to agree partially? The phenomenon clearly exists. But I don't think there's a darkened room somewhere filled with Hefners and Dukes Nukem saying "Now, how can we keep...

OP: I think you're right. I don't think it's deliberate, but particularly with those examples you mentioned there is a definite bias. Perhaps some of it could be explained by laziness - having to write, code and voice-act things for both male and female characters does increase workload, at a...

All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to stand by and do nothing. Staying out of it is not an option. Call CPS, take your sister to task over it, whatever - but doing nothing is simply not an option.

I suspect there's not a parent alive who hasn't been tempted. The difference is that most of us aren't bloody stupid enough to actually do it... Anyway, twenty years ago my area rarely had any crime worse than a drunk "borrowing" a bike on the way home from the pub. Nowadays it's become...

Seriously? Only two properly curious nerds on this whole forum? :-(

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Stemming from a chat on the "Companies snooping in your Facebook" thread, Spy_Guy and I got it into our heads to get more people encrypting. So here's the deal. I've got hooked on an ENIGMA simulator that accurately simulates the WW2-vintage ENIGMA encryption machine. I've written up a manual...

Earnest, those disappointed by ME3 aren't a few isolated crackpots - they're the dedicated gamers that have stuck with the series since the beginning. In fact, they're the dedicated gamers that make up a big chunk of The Escapist's key demographic. You dismiss and mock your target market...

Not a great way to start a screed on "The people who've invested time and money of it have no right to be upset", but okay. Who paid for the game? Look at it this way: in a very real sense, the people playing the games - the people buying the games, in fact - are investors. They are the...

I know what I'll do, then. I'll play through until the lead-up to the ending, then I'll quit and write myself an ending where Shepard enters a room to find the boss Reaper - an ancient Prothean who has, over the aeons, replaced parts of himself so he's now really just a husk absorbed into a...

Yeah, I revised the punctuation substitutions to better fit my purposes. (It occurs to me, actually, that I should add one for @. Oh well.) XX = . YY = , QQ = ? Send me a PM, I'll send you the code sheet. :-) Nerd power, as you say, FTW.