Recent content by Christopher Parker

I'd just like to point out that in many cases it isn't the publishers but Google to blame for this. Take Angry Joe's situation, for instance. Both his good and bad reviews were taken down because of the Youtube system for auto flagging copyrighted materials. Hell, some of his videos went down...

Animorphs was a pretty awesome series. The TV show sucked, as did the games (the PC game did, at least; I've never played the others), but the books were awesome.

Seconding the Belgariad, and I'd also like to add the Elenium and the Redemption of Althalus by the same author. Very much adventure type fantasy rather than intrigue type fantasy, and while they don't really do anything new, they make up for it by being very entertaining.

To quote some other guy in this thread: nothing of value was lost. It's assholes like him who cause 90% of teenage suicides. Would those of you demanding murder charges have preferred that outcome? Or hell, would you have preferred the kid to need rushing to hospital as he gets kicked...

My computer uses a quad core, 4GB of DDR2 (though DDR3 is probably easier to come by these days) and about 150GB HDD. And an AMD HD4870 (512MB, I believe). This runs 75% of recent PC games at maximum graphics settings (since most of them are console ports anyway and thus require less than a PC...

While I voted Snape for reasons already discussed, Voldemort would probably come second. For all his power and knowledge, for all his desperation to avoid death; even he was mortal, and when he died, he was no different from any other corpse. The movie fucked it up by making his death...

If he were two years older, he'd be legal here in the UK, but that makes little difference; she got him drunk. If a 20 year old man got a 14 year old girl drunk then shagged her, he'd go to jail, even if she was quite happy to in her intoxicated state. The crime doesn't become lesser based on...

For the first riot, I blame stupid people. For the subsequent ones, I blame people who saw the first riot and thought "We can actually get away with this shit". Still, the judges have been told to make an example of anyone convicted, so there'll probably be a lot of maximum sentences handed out.

Sounded like he was more impressed than offended by The Darkest Hour... Incidentally, I liked Battle Los Angeles (though I'd have preferred it if the battle had been lost, simply because that would have made more sense).

Adult Alma. She just wants to be loved :(.

Shenmue 2 :(

Played it for a little while; despite it all being one server, and you being vulnerable to player pirates in low sec, time was that most pirates would simply take your ship into structure, ask for money to leave you be and only kill you if you don't cough it up. The reason - there's not much...

Read the post from five mins above you (and the edited OP). Or, look up BODMAS on wikipedia. Or, if you're too lazy, you perform the multiplication first (1*0, which is 0), then add that to the rest. If everything before the *0 was in parentheses, then yes, it'd be 0, but because it isn't...

Funnily enough, I enjoyed playing as a Soldier; the adrenaline ability was rather nice, and I always preferred mid-range assault rifle usage to short range shotguns/smgs, while a Soldier is also pretty decent with a sniper rifle for long range stuff. My favourite team was Shepard as a Soldier...

Depends on whether he applies the same rules to straight people. We don't know whether or not that's the case, as people have been pointing out. The couple who owned that hotel were legally in the wrong, because they didn't want gay people having sex in their establishment but had no problem...