Recent content by swaswj

Tolkien is a master of world-building. I have yet to see any other author in any other genre able to create a world with as much detail and history and cohesion as Tolkien has -- that means the world itself, the races inhabiting it, the rules that govern their world, wars and kingdoms, etc. That...

I wouldn't consider it a conspiracy theory when there's precedent (it's been done before by Microsoft toward Sony, Nintendo, and Apple, and been done by the others in return, to a lesser extent). I'm also not saying it's the only possibility. It simply strikes me as likely, considering the...

I think people are forgetting that Microsoft held off for nearly an entire year before admitting that the RROD problem existed on a grand scale, and not until there was a rather sizable class-action lawsuit forming. Microsoft released several statements that the hardware failures were "well...