Recent content by DrWilhelm

I'd say that death can be plenty funny, as long as it's handled right. Though I'm by no means an expect on the nature of humour, my unresearched guess would be that Black Humour and Gallows Humour derive their laughs partly through the subversion of expectations. As in, you expect death to be a...

Like I said before their really isn't evidence that Valyrian steel is in any way magical. The made with spells part is unverified, and To me saying that an object is magical because it has had magic done to it feels off. Like saying that a tree you'd set on fire with magic is a magical...

Well then stop doodling all over your danglies. ... Hello...is this thing on? *cough* Seriously though, I'm a writer and I have kinda similar problems. If I stop writing for any significant length of time (weeks usually) I gets to be a chore when I'm starting up again. If you're...

Kim Kardashian. A woman who, despite displaying not a single noteworthy talent and possessing the apearence of diminutive, anorexic harpy, has somehow managed to accrue ridonkulous amounts of cash. Now there's something we can all be jealous of. Alternatively any other circular celebrity, i.e a...

Valyrian steel seems to simply posess the qualities of Damascus steel from our world. Though there are a few mentions of the steel being spell forged, that seems to be based on reputation rather than truth. Their superiority can likely be put down to better craftsmanship and higher quality steel.

Oh man, A Song of Ice and Fire. Where to even start? Well first of all if you've any preconceptions of them being fantasy of the same vein as The Lord of the Rings or Tolkiens many (and far less competant on the whole) imitators, stop right there. ASoIaF is a character drama at it's heart, more...

All the damn time when I wake up in the morning. "Screw it," I tell myself, "I'll just quick save and reload when I've had a couple more hours." I put it down to my brain still booting up. Captcha: hit the hay Somebody unplug the internet. It's turned sentient.

It seems the board can't go a day without half a dozen threads about Mass Effect 3 springing up like toadstools, most of which are about the much hated ending. Personally, while I'm of the opinion that the ending sucks, I kind of feel that criticisms of the ending are overshadowing the flaws in...

I think I remember reading somewhere that the writing team and the cinematics team weren't communicating with each other while the ending cinematics were being put together, so it doesn't quite represent what the writers had in mind. For example, supposedly Sovereign wasn't meant to be as...

I don't know. Maybe I'm just being cynical but reading between the lines, I get the impression that someone at Bioware, even if it's just Hudson, still thinks the ending is fine. The phrase "even more context and clarity" stongly implies that the ending is already clear and makes sense in context.

I think someone around here did the math and concluded it would take somewhere under three decades for the Normandy (fastest ship in the galaxy as I recall) to travel from Sol to the furthest edge of the galaxy, and that's assuming they had the resources to travel in a straight line without...

I'm now the proud owner of an N7 Crusader. I'm kind of shocked at how well it goes with my Krogan Sentinel. Previous set-up was a Claymore I and a Geth Assault Rifle III. Now I'm using the Crusader, with a Paladin I for when the Crusader goes dry, and it's proved reasonably effective thus far...

That people are still coming to this conclusion after so many reasoned discussions is just plain insulting.

Oh man, that's just heartless. I love it.

There's a definite perception going around that happy endings and the like are cliche, so everything needs to be dark and edgy. Rubbish of course, because all that means is that dark and edgy will become the new cliche, assuming happy endings ever were cliche in the first place. Personally I...