Be warned - the widespread obesity problems are not limited to visibly fat people. Metabolic syndrome can manifest in people who appear outwardly slender.

If you’re having trouble controlling your diet, I sincerely hope you know about the dangers of sugar - sugar is responsible for the obesity problem. And it’s in…

And by “over-eating” do you mean “poisoned by the excessive and ever-increasing sugar content now present in pretty much all food”? Because that’s what you should mean, if you’re talking about the widespread obesity problem. It’s been known for a while that it isn’t the *quantity* that’s doing so much damage. It’s not…

For an alternative to Destiny, consider taking a look at Warframe (a game which shares a number of Destiny’s ideas, but *cough* predates Destiny... take from that what you will):

To be fair, that one about him leaving fans and analysts isn’t some minor grammar issue - I literally have no idea wtf that’s supposed to mean.

I’ve found that as I’ve grown older, playing shooters online... my reflexes have dulled a little, but I’m much better at *predicting* things.

Like, someone takes me by surprise? I’ll hit everything *but* them. Yet the probability of me actually being taken by surprise has dropped significantly, and I’m actually far…

You know what really gets to me about that?

How the entire world allowed “Human Resources” to become a thing.

Used to be “personnel”. We allowed employers to start officially classifying us all as “resources”.

I’ve been reading through the entire series again after a number of years (I first started reading them back when I was a kid - when Harry Potter first came out, I was perplexed by its popularity in the face of something as great as the comparitively obscure Discworld series).

And yes, it is interesting to see it all…

Read Feet of Clay - it’s the precursor story to the Golem stuff in Going Postal (and read Making Money while you’re at it, which is the immediate followup to Going Postal).

Also read Night Watch, which is just fantastic. And Thud!, which is interestingly risky (given that it’s basically about fundamentalist religious…

To return to Pratchett in this regard, the curse - “May you live in interesting times.”

Be warned though - I’ve found the DS4 to be insanely picky when it comes to USB cables. The damn thing just wouldn’t detect on windows unless I used a specific cable, and there didn’t seem to be any logic to it - the same cables worked with other devices.

I think people forget that titles such as System Shock 2, Thief, Deus Ex (technically 2000, but c’mon, it was built using the same technology as Unreal 1) etc were 90s games. Late 90s, sure, but 90s.

I suspect younger generations of gamers and game developers have a slightly confused view of a past they can barely…

You... hated 90s shooters.

As opposed to... what exactly? Keeping in mind that the original Doom wasn’t released until, what... 93? I wasn’t aware that FPS games were particularly numerous prior to this, though there were a number of first person dungeon crawlers and the like.

But then with a lot of these “90s style”…

...no love for Nomad Soul? The game that not only featured David Bowie’s music, but featured David Bowie as TWO characters?

“...an era where everyone from actors, musicians, and even the President of the United States all communicate with enormous audiences instantaneously...”

And as such, nobody hears anything, nobody retains any information, because everyone has a voice... even people who have nothing much to say.

PROGRESS™

Yeah I’m with you on that. But then, I’m generally not a fan of “BIG SCARY MONSTER RARRGH!”

Subtle is scary. Overt is just... briefly startling.

It’s why Jeepers Creepers was great, until they showed the monster. It’s why everyone lost their shit over the Blair Witch ending. It’s why Silent Hill was always so creepy -…

“maintaining our identity”

That’s the problem though, isn’t it? If your “identity” is essentially that of another tribe, not just s a subset and product of the main tribe, then your identity must be sacrificed if you want unity. That’s just how it is. That’s how any major nation first formed - that’s a basic…

“Angel-plagiarized series”

Erm, I think World of Darkness wants a word. Arguably, Angel was more about “general supernatural demon stuff in LA”. Moonlight was more a straight-up World of Darkness copy - about organised vampire societies.

I think a lot of people (specifically, Americans) didn’t quite get that series. It was never supposed to be anything other than a deranged dark comedy. I mean good grief, it had an episode with zombie sex. It was always supposed to be Canadian/German Red Dwarf.

Hell, this was a series in which a giant woman eats Japan,…

A swarm of incest. Sounds terrifying.

Speaking of bad science, that’s something that bugged me so much after I played Kerbal Space Program (and really wrapped my head around actual orbital physics) - the way they just... “jump” right next to planets, and somehow arrive in orbit. Like, as if you somehow magically achieve orbit just by virtue of being…