Recent content by Matthew24601

The Adamantine Palace, by Stephen Deas. Shot into the action, plots within plots, kings, queens, dragons... You name it.

Likewise! Both the story and the concept sounds like they could pave the way for some great roleplaying!

Giving in to my OCD and arranging my house-mate's toothpaste tubes (all 5 (!) of them) in neat, orderly rows whenever I am in the bathroom and see he has messed them up... again.

Not so much an issue when I moved from high-school to university, but I used to feel rather elitist when it came to studying and learning Coming from a culture where 'responsibility for own learning' is a concept written in 5-feet high burning gold letters in every teacher's guidebook, many...

An obscure choice, maybe, but Michael Shapiro gets a spot near the top of my list. To this day the opening lines of G-Man in Half Life 2 are embedded in my mind, 6 years after, like no other voice acting I have ever heard... *shudder* ... and then there is the contrast he provides with his...

As has been said by others here already, I think it comes down to conclusions about causality being drawn from statistics that do not really lend itself to such conclusions. I have no trouble believing that reading is declining and computer-activity is on the increase, but I would be hard...

But... basements can be interesting places *maniacal grin* I know what you mean! My use of asterisks started with my girlfriend (I'm studying abroad - makes for lots of writing when Skyping is not possible), and there really emerges a whole new dialect of written body-language between us. I...

*hearty laugh* I could think of no better way; nice and personal!

Greetings, Escapists! Hoping to make my first ventures into the forum-world a memorable one, I came to think that a question-topic might make a decent starting point *clears throat* One of the things that has always bugged me the most with written forms of communication, be it IM, forums...