Recent content by Beelze

Marvin Heemeyer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer] the creator of Killdozer. "Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things."

In the heat death of the universe, when decades can pass between each of my great, slow thoughts, ask me then if mortality is a curse or a blessed release from eternity. Until that time, I have no problem telling death to go screw.

Know, gentle reader, and I speak here as an experienced and accomplished chronicler in my own right (as the gentle reader has already had occasion to judge, from his perusal of these preceding pages of our tale), that of all the sins and foibles which afflict the writer?be that writer a scribe...

Now, before anyone suggest any hasty course of action let me remind you all: if you make whips criminal, only criminals will whip it. Pistols don't whip people, people whip people.

Don't blame me ? I voted for Kodos.

Of course not. First off, who ever said revelation (or rather, inspiration) is unique to faith? When Archimedes leaped from his bath yelling "Eureka," he didn't run off to try to convince other people based on the strength of his breakthrough alone, but to test out his hypothesis as soon as...

The worst thing about Rand's books is that they claim to be arguments for her philosophies, but do nothing but knock down straw men. Her central conflict is always based on integrity vs immorality, not the particular creed each side supports. Take Atlas Shrugged and switch the ideologies...

Or you can switch to something harder. In the case of humor, this means increased subtlety. Might I suggest McSweeney's? [http://www.mcsweeneys.net/] First one's free, bro. As for ZP losing its edge, he spent the entire episode insulting South Africans. Just 'cause he's not making fun...

You can do that as an atheist, too. Unlike religion, atheism has no organization, leaders or common set of beliefs. The idiots who are pushing for this represent no one but themselves. Other atheists need not feel obligated to support them, as if the action comes down ex cathedra from...

Pork brain. The most noticeable characteristic of brain as a food item is its texture: there isn't any. If you've had uni (sea urchin roe), then brain has about the same consistency. If you haven't, the closest analogy I can think of is a wad of mucus. The flavor of brain is a mild porky...

I can find gushingly great reviews for a game anywhere. Yahtzee is one of the few who are unabashedly critical, but more importantly it's honest criticism. He's not hating on games just because he's a dick, though that does help. He points out what I generally agree are real flaws, even if...

Death has always been morbid. Earlier cultures were just livelier about it.

Don't go for the Zunes. They say they like sharing and they're open to new experiences, but you'll find they get extremely jealous all the friggin' time. And they only feel at home in one operating system. You may have to ditch her if you ever want to move.

If people want to refuse medical treatment because a beard in the sky told them it's evil, that's fine. Religion doesn't even need to enter into it - if they won't take pills because they hate the look of pill bottles, s'alright. But when they deny treatment to their kids for the same...

If your dad disapproves of you playing games, why not make your own game instead? Teach yourself how to program in Python (it's easy, srsly) with Pygame, it'll impress the hell out of him. If your da's the techie type he may even want to join in and help.