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The Daily Mail, monstrous as it is, has a circulation of 2.1m. Its only real competitor is The Sun - which has a UK circulation of around 3m (and a truly horrifying worldwide circulation of 7.7m). The Sun is owned by News International aka Rupert 'Fox News' Murdoch. So is The Times (500,000...

I did cut them some slack for KoTOR 2; but then they asked me to cut them some more slack. And when I thought about it, I realised that I'd probably cut them way too much slack already, and resented them even more. The bugs I'm running into now - after the patches - aren't game-stopping...

You're right about Dwarfs; Tolkien nicked ('adapted') those from Norse mythology (although I don't know if they were necessarily short before Tolkien). You're right about Elves, too - they were Saxon (German); Tolkien nicked those as well (they were more pixy-ish originally, though). He...

Most of the time they are, yeah (and parts of Lord of the Rings were derived from Norse and Saxon myth). In GW's case, they definitely are (when they aren't nicking things from Michael Moorcock (or Heinlein)). 40k just took those races and put them IN SPACE (Orks are Orcs IN SPACE, Eldar...

It's not our press, it's our tabloids. Half of which are owned by Rupert 'Fox News' Murdoch anyway. This is how the Daily Mail responded to Brass Eye: (yes, they - as usual - managed to successfully parody themselves...) That's the Telegraph (Torygraph) you're thinking of...

NWN2 you've covered. KoTOR 2 didn't have a finished ending - not for the main character, not for the story and not for (most of) your companions; they clearly cobbled something together when they ran out of time. In my ideal game, my reaction to playing a game to its conclusion wouldn't be...

Yeah... - only one of the game-breaking errors in New Vegas was that it corrupts (or corrupted; I think they fixed it, but then they might have broken it again - I lose track) your saves and autosaves. And I shouldn't have to double-backup my game saves, it isn't 1990. But either you're...

That's the problem - two or three major bugs in 40 hours isn't considered bad programming? Are your standards (or expectations) really that low? My problem with Obsidian / Black Isle isn't that every game they've ever released has been choppy (at best) and unfinished (or rushed), but that...

I wasn't really contesting whether it's legal or not (I think it pretty much is in (most of?) the US), just whether it's necessary. I'd posit that a big part of the reason cities can be more dangerous than rural areas is all the people carrying guns. If the people aren't all carrying guns...

It is worth bearing in mind that much of the US Constitution is lifted from the Bill of Rights 1689, including the right to bear arms. Most of the Act is an attempt to redress the actions of the previous (Catholic) monarch, James II who "by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges...

Also Greater Manchester Police have a liveried HMMWV. You know, just in case... - We don't need to arm our police, because police shouldn't (and don't) need to resolve most crime by shooting (at) the criminals. On the rare occasions something serious enough to warrant an armed response...

I'd give my right arm to be a cyborg [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/110181-Man-Chooses-to-Swap-Disabled-Hand-for-Bionic-Replacement] (and by 'right' I of course mean 'definitely not my right one')

I think I rather unfairly responded to you when I was really replying (in my mind) to the dozens of men I've encountered (online and in real-life) who seem to think that the way to a girl's heart is "Love her from afar, pretend to be her friend for 3 years while building a shrine to her in your...

I couldn't disagree more with this - if you approach a stranger (or someone you've admired from a distance) and decide to start 'building a relationship', that's just a little bit creepy and weird (for the other person, I mean). If you're talking to someone because you're attracted to them then...

He's on Question Time in Wormwood Scrubs. That's the best timing of any TV schedule ever.