Recent content by Mercurio128

'Purveyor of circular bread-based consumables' 'Enabler of Doughy Goodness and Lord-General of Hunger Prevention' 'Master of the Kingdom of Cheese and Tomato related foostuffs. Also Pepsi.' :)

My actual title when I was an intern at a large software company was 'Finance Intern Extraordinaire' :D

I second this wholeheartedly. I read these in my early teens and loved them, especially THAT ending. The ending that made me glad they never went on and made films after the first one, because as we all know, Americans don't do so well with anything that vaguely challenges religious ideas, so...

There's a good point here, that bullies tend to have been raised in an environment with violence or with physical forms of punishment. I have a little anecdotal evidence for this one: We had an English teacher (actually a media studies grad, but our English dept was down 2 proper teachers)...

Many of us here on the escapist will remember the times in our youth, when we were whipped into an excited frenzy by the prospects of 'project ego' a revolutionary RPG that would aim to simulate a whole world right before our eyes and to allow us the freedom to do whatever we wanted. - Now we...

Molyneux says a lot of things. I apply a 90% expectation filter to every word the man says. I think we've all been hurt by his broken promises in the past. *sob*

I used the same method as you actually. I dislocated my kneecap at work last week and spent the next 20 minutes in a huge amount of pain waiting for the ambulance to arrive, which I survived by making stupid wise-ass comments to all the questions I was being asked. e.g. -Are you OK? -Why...

Can't believe I haven't seen on here yet Rendezvous with Rama yet. It's one of my favourite Arthur C. Clarke novels. Just ignore the sequels, they don't live up to the original and only end up tarring the whole experience a little. (like Dune, only obviously not as bad in this case.) Less...

Umm, that'll be me then. Belfast accent all the way! And yes I actually agree with you, there are degrees of the Northern Irish accent, some people get off quite lightly (Liam Neeson), some people are incomprehensible. It's a bit different but I still pass as a mysterious Irish-type when...

The worst bit is that you're right about the girls. It's as if they're being rewarded for praising some alternative nob-head deity. But darn it if I don't prefer my women a little bit more brainy. Who could listen to a Chavette talk for more than 5 minutes without trying to throw themselves...

I once had a statistics lecturer who would routinely mix up words. Not helpful when trying to grasp stats concepts for the first time. I'm just glad that the textbook was actually a good one. And why didn't the university pick up on the fact that he had only a basic knowledge of English? Fair...

And in other news, fable fans watch in awe as paint continues to dry up and down the nation. Certainly more fun than watching a beloved franchise have its magic and appeal hacked away with every new iteration.

Wot wot are you disrespektin me bruv, are you disrespeckting me?! I'll stab u up blud, my bruvva has a well fast car an he'll run you down bruv innit, u get me?!? No, good sir, I do not. I do not get you at all. But I applaud your decision to apply a £600 exhaust and £1000 wheels to your...

I render my 100% authentic human vote for GlaDOS. As an normal organic human my squishy feelings tell me that only an self-aware AI can be trusted to adequately rule a whole country. Everyone should just relax and perhaps play a nice distracting game. I hear standing still and awaiting a...

As above Vampire - the masquerade: bloodlines 2 a million times this. That game was brilliant, and unlike other games these days it wasn't afraid to let you miss whole awesome sections of the game if you didn't explore properly. I played this game through loads of times and almost every time I...