Recent content by Mikaze

So, this morning as I ate my breakfast I was thinking (as you do) and something occurred to me, the business model of every video store ever is based on something that could be defined to be piracy. Think about it, with pirating, one person originally buys the product (game, movie, cd...

Underwear - generally get washed after 1 wear, maybe 2 if I forget to wash things and run out Shirts - 1-2 wears, depends what I was doing the first time Shorts - 3-4 wears, once again depending on activities Jeans - at least a week, have old ratty ones for working in so those get washed a...

Much as most people seem to be saying, EA is well within their legal rights to pull this, I would say locking him out of the online content of all his other purchases is a bit over the top but then, this is one of the reasons I avoid official forums for games.

I could not get through Dracula, the titular character is right there in the first 2 chapters and then completely dissappears for the next 18, I assume he comes back at some point but I never got that far. Also 'Paradisio', the third part of the Divine Comedy, Inferno was good, Purgatorio was...

I -may- have tried to take a rubber tomahawk onto a plane when I was in America, got a full security search and a thorough talking to. Apparently they thought a 4 year old armed with something roughly as sharp and rigid as an eraser was going to hijack a plane. This was in 1998.

Anything by Jane Austen, oh how I loath Jane Austen. Also any Shakespeare that's not Hamlet, Hamlet was good, oh and Dracula, it droned on and on and on and the titular character wasn't even in 15 of the 18 chapters I read before giving up.

I doubt this double standard will ever really dissappear. For what it's worth, it's their body and their call what they do with it and who they do it with, just so long as they don't complain if they get themselves in trouble. That said, there is a (I think) quite amusing metaphor I've heard...

"Curses!" as a general catch-all for swear words. "Inferal *noun*" when something specific is annoying. And general flowery overstatements in ridiculous language about absolutely anything for my own amusement.

Space Marine is bringing back health meters in a good way (I've been playing the 2 demo missions repeatedly) with a regenerating armour bar and a health bar that can be regenerated by getting Execution kills, personally I think it's a great system.

It's 6pm here. Yay time zones! Although usually when I'm up to ungodly hours it's because I just haven't realised what the time is because I've been playing some game or other.

I understand the reasoning behind it, but it just rubs me the wrong way trying to compartmentalise a large number of people into a neat little box for bueracratic ease.

They're completely arbitrary, legally important no doubt, but still arbitrary. This applies to many things besides consentual sex however, my mother is part of our local Rotary Club and had an exchange student (aged 18, legally allowed to drink in Australia) sent home in disgrace from America...

I don't know where the OP is from, but the age of consent here in Australia is 16, so theoretically a 16 or 17 year old having 'consentual' sex with their still-underage partner is legally a form of rape and, if pursued, will be treated as such. Now excuse me while I go off on a bit of a mental...

Stupid and kind of hilarious to watch. Friend of mine is looking for someone that is >7 foot 3 inches to plank one of the bridges at uni side to side. OT: It's just a cheap way of amusing both yourself and the large internet audience who also think it's funny.

If we can count Steam gift copies, I have 3 copies of portal, one from the Orange Box and then another 2 from the Portal 2 twin pack. Also 2 copies of Audiosurf, one I bought because I wanted it and then get it again in the Potato Sack.