Recent content by Stakhanov

As an atheist I'm pretty sure that Jesus of Nazareth (or JoM, if you prefer), if he existed, was a semi-literate Palestinian peasant with some form of schizophrenia and a very liberal social agenda. So America has certainly done worse in the past but I think I'd choose to vote for the Hunter...

Great article, couldn't agree more. Very heartening to read this comment thread and see lots of other people taking a more mature attitude to games and sexuality than we commonly see. Just for the record, I'd buy a game with a gay protagonist, if it was good. Does anyone really use that as a...

I'd watch the worldwide party that celebrated my achievements in curing all human diseases, solving world poverty and eliminating global warming. I'd sit in my recliner, aboard my FoldShip crewed by the Brazilian ladies beach volleyball team, next to my inexhaustible beer-fountain, and marvel at...

Galactic Civilizations 2. I've played hundreds of hours already and I'm still not done with it yet. Fantastic AI, it's great stuff. My all-time leader? CounterStrike, Rome: Total War or Football Manager. C.S 1.6 ate about a year of my life. I was a QA Tester for a couple years and would come...

Bit heavy on the testosterone in this thread... Statistically the most likely victim of a 'self-defence' weapon is the owner. 'I never leave the house without an M249 SAW, two katanas and a pocket Batman. Pull the string and he inflates to full size and beats up villains.' Seriously...

Scottish stereotypes: rain, nothing under the kilt, haggis, Robert Burns, Francis Begbie, William Wallace, the Sean Connery voice. People always miss Irn-Bru, the quintessential Scottish drink apart from whisky. As for stereotypes of the English: rain, parliament, John Steed, David Niven...

Favourite books- American Gods, Bel Canto, Fight Club, Snow Crash, Neuromancer, The Beach, American Psycho. Favourite series: The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson are all fantastic. The Aubrey/ Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brien, all 20-odd of them, are wonderful. Discworld, Lord Of the...

Wow, your grasp on the percentage of the population who're gay or bisexual is way off. Approximately 8-10% are gay and, for the record, sexual perversion (by which we mean sadism/ maschism/ fetishism etc.) has no direct relationship with sexual orientation, unless you're claiming that all...

Seconded. I read and reread that book continuously for months after I got it. Fantastic stuff. Second place goes to 'American Psycho.' read it cover to cover the night before an exam; just couldn't stop. Failed the exam, barely noticed. Honourable mentions to: Milan Kundera's 'Immortality,'...

Pans Labyrinth was a work of real genius. Del Toro has a singular and esciting vision. I thought the wargs in LOTR were one of the weakest parts of the whole experience; on the Directors Commentary Jackson basically admits that they were made up too quickly and didn't work. Del Toro's right...

It might not; I'm no chemist. I'm certain that there's no correlation between soy consumption and homosexuality. Maybe, MAYBE, gay men drink more soy lattes than straight men but that's the limit of the relationship.

The soy thing is completely false. Total fabrication. Ever encountered the gay clusters in places with high soy diets? China, Kansas, Indiana, Mexico? Unresolved oedipal issues might correlate with homosexuality to some degree (how can you want to sexually posess a person of a gender you're...

Too many to count, when I was a bored student I'd get a game and just play and play and play. I think my longest ever session was 72 straight hours on Civilisation II, interrupted only by juice and toilet breaks. Regular 18 hour sessions of EVE, CS, BF2, Homeworld, Rome: Total War, Galactic...

Faust 'the Occult Researcher/ inevitable turncoat' Jack Shaftoe 'the Vagabond' Batman 'the Worlds Greatest Detective' Shadow [American Gods] 'the Fighter' The God of Gamblers 'the Rogue' (Chow Yun Fat FTW) John Constantine 'the Magician' D'Artagnan 'the Swashbuckler'

I was being facetious. Mostly. I like the complexity, I find the assumption that words must be simplified to be insultingly reductive. On the ass/ arse debate: In Scotland an ass is a goat, an arse is the wellspring of fecal matter. Asshole is an Americanism. I think 'arse' is as much an...