Recent content by Sylvius the Mad

Since I'm confident the teacher would have been immediately fired for telling the children that there's no such person as Jesus, I would expect nothing less for this wholly analogous statement. Santa is a figure of questionable reality in whom some people believe. Jesus is a figure of...

I went to school in Canada, and they probably would have just hit me. My school had corporal punishment (the strap) until 1988, and might still (I moved away in 1988, so I don't know how long corporal punishment persisted). Corporal punishment did a great job of discouraging getting caught...

No. The concept of moral correctness is meaningless, therefore nothing can be morally correct (or incorrect). The very idea is nonsensical.

Okay, first question, why are you getting married? Your relationship doesn't need government approval. And that's all marriage really is: permission. Second, I have children, and my partner and I aren't married. We have different surnames. We decided to give the first child my name...

Easy. Voice-over. Voice-over is ruining RPGs by removing our ability to choose detailed full-text options.

EVE Online is one of my all-time favourite games. I vastly prefer it to WoW, partly because it's less repetitive, partly because there's less need to socialise with the other players, and partly because the other players are more likely to be people with whom I would like to socialise.

I liked Ultima IX. Yes, it had issues, and yes, it wasn't done when it was released, and yes, it only vaguely resembles earlier games in the series. But it's better than Ultima VIII.

For games wherein the player controls a single character from a first-person or over-the-shoulder third-person perspective, I can see why graphics matter. But that's because those games create immersion by putting you in the place of the character. You experience what the character...

The problem with these new media are that they don't offer the same features that PC gaming offers. Games designed for non-PC platforms are different sorts of games. Games running on non-PC platforms are much harder to modify to suit each particular gamer's preferences. And, as yet, I...