Recent content by irateidiot

Gather a big box of cockroaches and start teaching them English; they'll need a leader once civilization is in the poop-pan, and it'll be _me_.

I live in Queensland, AU; everyone over 45 hates Aboriginies. Because they're black and you can see them.

My father lived in Corby for 3 years; place is full of families where the parents have never worked and the kids never will because they're unemployable goits.

For perspective on parental neglect; Australia has had a handful of infant deaths due to gambling addiction, and most countires have tens or hundreds of infant deaths per year due to alcohol addiction. S Korea has lots of student suicides due to pressure to perform in education; And this is...

So the story depth will be well up there with Avatar and Transformers.

It's a bit ... crap. Not good picture quality.

The Escapist should get a medal struck for this kind of thing. 'For dedication to the gaming experience' or some such. And on the cynical view it'd be good for The Escapist's media exposure.

Oh look; bad and lazy parenting tends to turn out children with behavioural problems. Who'd have thought?

Note "consumption of media violence"; 'media', not just games. That includes literature, TV, TV news, TV current affairs, films, music (rap - we're looking at you here). But having an 18+ category for films is somehow fine while games are 'worse' because they are 'immersive'. I think that the...

Don't worry; just wait 10 or 15 years and they'll all be too busy with senility to bother younger generations any more.

Not that I mind - either one sounds good. Maybe we should have both; the Church of Bacons, worshipping the duality of empirical philosophy and greasy snackfood.

The nutritious, delicious meaty foodstuff, or the scientist-philosopher?

Would be awkward when you both had to turn up to sit your final exams.

My word; aren't you the unpopular one. Afraid that your family will say "oh yes, he's only been on life support for a week, but we never liked him anyway, so go ahead - pull out his organs so some fat bastard we've never met can get his crappy heart replaced"? Stop worrying about what's...