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For most developers these days the answer seems to be: "Anything that demands that all of the female characters wear very tight revealing clothes."

It's called Great Britain to distinguish it from Brittany, which is the northwesternmost peninsula of France. It's a bit more obvious in french; brittany is Bretagne, britain is Grande Bretagne.

Maybe a little bit for my red hair... otherwise being a tall english white-as-tippex male in my twenties tends to leave me unaffected. Though I know my sister who's a lot smaller than me (but only slightly younger) attracted the very occasional cry of "ginger" (pronounced to rhyme with "ringer")...

Yes but he wouldn't hate what his work has become; he knew exactly what he was doing with leaded petrol but just didn't care, even when the workers were dropping like flies from lead poisoning he was leading the "lead is harmless" campaign.

I just finished the main quest for the first time in this game, though I've had it for ages. Didn't like: Same 4? maybe 5? voice actors doing lines for all the npcs weird conversation mechanics clunky interface if you want to do more than the simplest actions the way the whole world has the...

Sir- Not now Kif! But sir it's an emergency! Come back when it's a catastrophe. Zap is a brilliant character. Also that thing about the kill bots several people have done already.

Think of schadenfreude, which means pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. The word was borrowed from german not that long ago, but does that mean that until then no-one in the english speaking world ever felt a certain delight in seeing s*** happening to someone else and only ze evil...

The last speculation on time travel I saw in new scientist seemed to suggest that if it was possible, you wouldn't be able to go any further back in time than the point where the time machine was made (and you wouldn't be able to go forwards at all). But yeah, I'd probably just use it to...

that's awesome A good friend of mine once asked me where Oxbridge was while we were at school and considering which universities to apply to. Another school friend, when asked how a simple LCD display (e.g. in a digital watch) works replied that he reckoned a current was passed through the...

I used to work over the christmas period for a company that makes gift hampers - wicker basket packed with wine biscuits cake and other luxury foods etc all sealed up in a cardboard box. Anyway, most of the year's business was done over the xmas/new year with people/companies ordering these...

"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast", and then I fly off heroically in my dangerous experimental test craft, leaving behind a crowd of awed admirers muttering "what a guy..."

Yeah! Enough of the imps hiding behind wall panels in dark corridors, I want to be like the guy on the doom 2 box, fighting off an entire horde of demons under an open sky, I want to see the demon blood boiling off the overheated barrels of my chaingun as the spent cases cover my ankles...

"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance" - Robert Quillen "In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present" - Tony Petito Courtesy of that great repository of wisdom, QI. For further observations on the nature of argument...