Recent content by strobe

This is weird. I don't remember setting anything when I joined up and my nationality isn't in my profile. Maybe The Escapist gives you a spell checker by IP? I wouldn't've thought so though, so maybe it is a setting you pick when you join up. Way to go on your most excellent avatar.

Yes, yes it is. I reckon "maths" should be a plural because it's an abbreviation of "mathematics" which is an abbreviation of "mathematical sciences". Took this from my experience but I probably have more than most. Oh, here's an irrefutable source too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics...

Pretty sure you guys are missing something here but I'm not going to go into what. I guess you might've already been quoted by someone else but I want to make sure. OT: Logically fallacious arguments are pretty lame but they're the things that mostly get used so there's that as well... (In...

Heh, funny. OT: Not got anything to add to the discussion but I'll throw my support to the idea that she gets a lot of her interest from the Quarian side of her character.

You'd better prepare yourself to start being surprised, at a time less than too long a time away, and arrange to stay that way for a very long time. Basically, I disagree with your last sentence... But then, odds are, you and certainly I do not have much experience of the genetic algorithm field...

This kinda seems less like a problem with people getting freaked out by people who play games and more about something more general. I'm sure if you went to a church and started talking about how much you hate god then you wouldn't make too many friends either. Not the best analogy but I'm...

Awesome. The most useful combination on page one right here. OT: Right: Some paper and 3 biros. I'd be happy with one or two kills with these. Left: A toothpick. I'm sorted. These suck but there's a baseball bat right there. Right by my head when I sleep because this house isn't a big...

This is a really sensible and helpful reply. Thanks. But I disagree with them. I too went straight to WolframAlpha but I was disappointed. The way I read the question I see 2(9+3) as one term giving me an answer of two. I guess I should concede to Google and Wolfram though. This is...

This is wrong. As a British person (and therefore vastly experienced in drink) I feel the need to correct you. 1 shot of a normal spirit is 1 unit. 1 beer, a pint of lager, is normally about 2.2 units or so. You might be talking about an "American beer" here -is that a bottle?- but a beer is...

I have to disagree with the person who said the trailer makes the film look badass. The music makes it sound badass but it actually looks like Tintin... I'm indifferent to Tintin myself and therefore also indifferent to this. I just want to know why exactly they made him ginger. Probably to...

Nah, I'm not from Yorkshire. I'm indifferent to half of their accents, like. I'm from just a bit south of Durham. Ignorant people have taken me for a geordie (even from pretty close by) but I don't sound like that really. When I'm not trying or drunk I speak in the Bishop Mumble.

Mmm. I thought about this fact after typing my OP but Jim sterling is just such unsavoury man that he soured my view of the world enough for me to hate on accents in general. Fair enough I guess but i don't agree. There's nout wrong with all that "oot"ing and "eh"ing is my bread and butter so I...

This has probably been done to death in the past but I'm some people will have had their rage renewed and there might even be some new users with fresh rage of their own. This is the internet after all. So, what in your respectable opinions is the very worst accent to grace my mother tongue...

Just gotta post that this isn't really a good attempt at providing a parallel at all. In fact it's really inaccurate. After all "The only way is Essex" does exist. For some reason. I'm gutted that I got super ninja'd (even on the local knowledge...) on this question so I'l leave you with the...

I first met Jim on Destructoid (which I don't rate that highly on the whole, either); I don't really like him. I agree with BlindChance before me and dislike Jim's delivery and style. Jim's accent is lame. Is it southern? I'd kinda like to know so I can avoid that place just like how I try to...