Recent content by Trilby

Some things that are popular are bad. Socrates dislikes things that are bad. Therefore Socrates dislikes popular things. LOGIC!!!!!!"11111teh_one!!!!eleven!!!!111!!

I think you're misunderstanding me. I was saying that things such as Engineering and Medicine CANNOT and SHOULD NOT be taught on-the-job, but rather in university. Re. the events management thing: I'm probably going to upset a lot of people here, but events management, at least at the level that...

I'd agree with you in that there are far too many courses, and that there are a lot of courses that could be easily replaced with on-the-job-training. Example: a friend recently graduated with a 1st in Music, and wanted to go into Events Management at a low level. Well within her capabilities...

The inclusion of RPG elements in other genres is likely not due to players loving RPGs and a "rebirth" of the genre, but rather developers trying to stuff their games with other Skinner Box elements to keep people playing for longer with less effort from the dev team. (This is what I mean by...

Really? This is the man who stated to microphone that "the only reason women have sex is because that's the price they're willing to pay for a relationship", and then has a tantrum at the paper who printed it...

Let's talk about the first Halo game, because this is where it all really starts, and we really need to look at this from the separate perspectives of PC and Console gaming. From a PC point of view, there was nothing really wrong with it. It was a perfectly competent FPS, with a few problems...

No, that would be the point where he said that the 5 year claim was an average that included sentencing for statutory rape and date rape (which, rightly or wrongly, are often given lower sentences), and so was rather lower than the figure that would have been appropriate for the case they were...

Yeah, listen to the whole thing, or read a transcript. I've even included a link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13444770 At the time he was talking specifically about the rape of adults (the interviewer had said "if I was raped", and she's definitely not a minor), and he tried to...

I got shown this blog [http://elementaryproblems.blogspot.com] by a friend the other day; it claims to be the records of someone trying to teach themselves Holmesian powers of deduction by means of analysing random people they see on the tube or train or whatnot. It seemed like an interesting...

I think whether or not you hated this film depends largely on what you were expecting. I'd heard that the plot was different from the book (in that a plot exists), and so I was simply expecting to see the character I know and love from the book used for whatever ends the director required, much...

In WoW I have a mage, and put it this way, if I had his abilities in a real combat situation; that is, being able to become invisible, teleport around the battlefield like a pingpong ball on steroids, call rains of ice from the sky and generally make everything explode and/or turn into a sheep...

I don't think there's anything wrong with reasonable chastisement, provided that it's not done in anger. It worked out alright for me. Shaw was a muppet.

Have a biscuit. Perfect answer. Everyone, listen to this wonderful example of a poster.

Well, because as a general rule it doesn't snow much, the majority of people don't have snow chains, and don't seem to know the garden twine trick. The trains shut down because we use electric trains; again, because it hardly ever snows it's not worth having diesel. The problem is when there's...

Umm http://www.parajetautomotive.com/ Has been on sale for a little while now. There was even a Channel 4 documentary made about it which was shown a few months ago. You need no license, about 100m of runway, maybe less depending on the wind. 100mph while flying, 140mph driving, 37mph...