Recent content by barkingbug

Residents of Penistone, Crotch Crescent, Crapstone, Hooker, Titty-Ho, and all the other unfortunately named towns listed here, consider yourself banned by default. This may be a case of stupidity on the part of one customer service employee, but if my experiences with Microsoft customer service...

This was fantastic, and the voice actor playing Han was superb. As other commenters have mentioned, this really captured the feel of the original trilogy. Totally worth the little headache I got from watching it without 3D glasses.

Agreed, and add to that: The Earthsea books, Snow Crash, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, A Confederacy of Dunces, Lullaby, the Phantom Tollbooth, Good Omens, and everything by Terry Pratchett

Very few of my friends swing one way or the other 100% of the time. At the college I attended, being LGB or T is practically an admission requirement, and so many of the people I went to school with were complete wankers about it, announcing their sexual orientation with every other sentence...

In that case, you've just found yourself a triad, which can be pretty damn awesome under the right circumstances. The chances against life existing are so small as to practically be impossible, and yet here we all are. People exist in this world who go out of their way to make others'...

A universe wherein this thread was devoted not to an offshoot of parallel universe theory, but to the infinite monkeys theory, and the discussion revolved entirely around which dirty limericks we'd most like to see said simians produce.

After seeing a significant other's sister go through the song and dance of planning a wedding and seeing how expensive it was/how miserable it made everyone involved, I was rather put off the whole concept of having a lavish, expensive wedding. The part of me that's flooded with estrogen would...

Seeing as how Avatar was nothing more than a piece of heavy-handed colonialist allegory that hit the audience over the head with the "LOOK I HAZ A POINT AND IT'S IMPORTANT" stick so many times I walked out with a headache, and owes its entire success to the shiny, pretty packaging, James Cameron...

Also, this is for the women in the room: I hear a lot of talk about every pair of breasts being beautiful. This is absolutely not true.

- That whole "nice-guys-finish-last-boo-hoo-nobody-ever-gives-me-a-chance" act just makes you look like a whiny, insecure, self-effacing douchebag. - A lot of times, being yourself means adopting and accepting mainstream views and opinions. - There are billions of people alive in the...

When my middle school best friend and I were your son's age, we played videogames constantly, and when I was in high school, I spent a lot of time glued to a computer screen. Your son is at a terribly difficult age when escaping to a world where he feels as though he has control and some...

Agreed.

Absolutely. I spent a few years when I was younger experimenting with a lot of different types of relationships and sexual lifestyles to find out which one felt right for me. I had a lot of fun, and a lot of fantastic experiences, but I'm definitely a person who is happiest with the...

After spending some time traipsing down middle-school memory lane with StarFox, Super Smash, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong, and Mario 64 earlier this summer, I set my sights on Goldeneye. A few of the games I loved in my adolescent years have aged well - most notably Unreal Tournament, which is...