Recent content by MakerofMysteries

Viggo Mortensen. No, not the character he played in that small, rather unknown trilogy of movies called Lord of the Rings. The real Viggo Mortensen. Send your klingons and your conquerors, your moody manga and anime Mary Sues, your knights of honour and deceit, wizards wielding swords and...

Who bloody cares about Valentine's? You don't even get a day off. At least I can stay at home during Easter, Midsummer, Christmas and New Year's (although the family will kidnap me for a minimum of two of those events). Valentine's Day? Just another commercial feeding trough for good little...

The only way gender should matter is the biological way; i.e. only your biological gender should determine if you're male, female or hermaphrodite. Social gender - i.e. gender roles - are completely bloody useless. Say that you're quite buff, you drink beer and you talk in a loud, deep voice...

A pilgrim or a bard, if I can chose. I have little love (or capability) for violence, and I'd make an even worse wizard than Rincewind. Alternatively, I wouldn't mind informing the common folk of Tamriel of democracy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA

Ehm, read my original post; never mentions 2004 BSG to begin with. Never watched the series, no opinion.

This, so much this. Most people who watch Death Note (in my circle of acquaintances, at least) usually side with Light Yagami; they argue that he's a force of good in the world. All right, fine; he's stopped people killing, raping and robbing each other, halted most wars. He doesn't do...

NO. NO. We were over this; we had moved past it. Don't you tear that wound open again - IT HAD ALMOST HEALED, GODS DAMN IT! (That said, I agree with virtually everything in OP's post. A few disagreements, perhaps - the game itself wasn't abysmal, although the ending was - but generally; yes...

Vere are zeh blonde übermensch? Vhy are zere no older gentlemen? Vhy does only one have what I most hesitantly call a beard? Vhy are zey all Americans?!

It's good that there's a debate, but it's a shame that people are bringing such strong emotions into what should purely be an argument from a logical point of view with the basic human rights as guidelines. I tell you, this would never have happened on Androidia; our programming simply does not...

I don't really like drinking at social occasions. Maybe a beer or two to lighten up the mood, but I hate getting hammered. I just act like an obnoxious idiot for a while, then throw up, pass out and wake up with a vague memory gap (or at least I wish I had one). I prefer to settle down with a...

I may have got you beat there. Our Sex Ed teacher literally said to the girls in my class; "Your homework, specifically, ladies, will be to masturbate. I will be severely disappointed with anyone who fails at this task." (Before you ask; our teacher was female.) As a bloke, I could barely...

Childhood misconceptions? Oh boy, here we go... I guess the most prominent one (that kinda almost persisted until I was thirteen or fourteen) was, well, the reiteration of some of my mother's certain points of view. She's of the sort that would say "I'm not a racist, BUT Irishmen are...

(Although I may not exactly be completely eligible to join this topic) As someone whose fear of intimacy accrues to the extent that I'm barely comfortable with hugging other people; games, please. A GOOD book, a GOOD tv-series, a GOOD movie or a GOOD game; these things provide me more...

Well, thank you, my ego is swelling nicely from your compliments. I also speak from personal experience in this case. Up until the age of 13/14, I was a fat, short, four-eyed cry-baby who either went into a fit of rage or bawling-mode when bullied, as I quite naturally was. Then in about 3-6...

Since I have neither the time nor the patience to read every post in a thread that's currently 8 pages long, I may just be reiterating the arguments of those who came before. If so, apologies. Glancing at some points, it's clear that there's been a fundamental misunderstanding. When OP said...