Recent content by TheApatheticDespot

Sure, that's why Star Trek was cancelled after 2 seasons and why Sherlock Holmes died at the end of The Final Problem. Anything else would be ludicrous.

It was an unprofessional insult hurled at your readers because you're irritated by some emails you've been getting. I'm not sure you have the moral high ground to be calling people petulant.

Oh it certainly was memorable. Herostratus would be proud.

I don't have time right now to go through this carefully, but it looks to me like you've subtly redefined divisibility. I don't recall ever having seen a notion of divisibility in rings which didn't stipulate a nonzero divisor, and the only abstract algebra text I have on hand (Contemporary...

As someone who was impelled to play Deus Ex for the first time a while back because of The New Black Gold, I have to say that it evokes the spirit of Deus Ex better than Deus Ex does. I wouldn't have enjoyed the game half as much without that song.

To your first point, depending on how philosophically bloodyminded I'm feeling my response would be either "so what?" or "how so?". I'm not a big fan of this sort of philosophical circumlocution, but it turns out to be very difficult to assert that conceptual entities don't exist while...

This is false, actually. There are many things which can be proven to not exist. It's quite easy to prove that a largest prime number doesn't exist, or that no bijection between the naturals and the reals exists, or that no computer program exists which solves the halting problem and so on and...

I played Deus Ex for the first time just a few weeks ago, and I'd only recommend it if you're prepared to give it a *LOT* of chances to impress you. If you're patient enough to let it get going the gameplay and story become fairly compelling, but quite frankly it doesn't even come close to...