My favourite CK2 story is similar to your own. I started out as a minor English count. Within the first hundred years I had become King of England due to large amounts of luck and an assassins blade. Then the crusades roll around and I manage to snatch the crown of Jerusalem for myself, install a load of family…

He's also awesomely tattooed. He taught a class on my course at university and it was damned amusing to watch all the ladies, and some of the men, swoon over him.

I suspect he's still alive. Bitchface just told him he'd die in front of the others so that they'd assume he was dead and not come searching for him. I reckon the next game will see Desmond locked up in an Abstergo facility being forced to relive memories to help her find more bits of lost technology so she can…

That would actually be rather awesome. Hell they could probably get away with just cutting the POVs down to two and it would still work. The only problem would be how to get people interested in a show where for the first season humanity will be shown almost exclusively getting the living shite kicked out of it, with…

Pah, Max Payne has killed more men than the plague and with less regret. He's taken so much pain medication and drunk so much booze that he's mutated and can convert that toxic mixture into something that allows him to heal wounds in seconds and slow down time to a fraction of it's usual passage so he can put down an…

If Connor's story is continued, as with Ezio, what are the chances that he'll find his way in France and embroiled in a certain well known revolution?

I would assume that the first few thousand people will be paid to go there and do all the hard work to actually get the colony self-sustaining. Given that there's every chance that the trip will be one way and end like most of humanities initial colonisation attempts over the millennia (everyone ends up dead) I…

Hmm... things I like:

The second ten minute episode is up as well which gives twenty minutes of footage, give or take.

Really? I find that most electronics tend to get a bit worn down after more than four years of reasonable usage. My Xbox is a decent example, it's never been my main gaming platform but even with only 5 years of intermittent use it's showing its age. The most obvious sign being the fact that using it is like sharing…

The only good bug, is a dead bug. >:(

They do kinda make sense in a certain light, not so much the fact that they're made of bone though (I've always assumed they're made of the same sort of stuff that most other claws are made of and are just referred to as Bone because they come from within his body. I may be wrong there). After all whilst the coating…

Women can be born without a uterus, it's a relatively rare birth defect but it is possible.

Eh, I tend to skip the first half of the final season if I'm rewatching. It's not as good as the others, largely because from what I understand it wasn't part of the originally plotted story arch that JMS had before he even started season 1. The reason being is that when season 4 rolled around all signs pointed to it…

Personally I'd have added Andreas Katsulas to the list. As the seasons pass on B5 you can almost physically feel the weight of events pressing down against G'Kar, and Katsulas is superlative in showing the pain, fury and helplessness that consumes him even as he refuses to bend or to break. And then after his…

Perhaps, but you're assuming various things that aren't constants. The first is whether or not large ships require some means of going FTL, the extra armour they require to make them survivable in combat. Then there's the main battery weapons for engaging other enemy combatants and the PD clusters to take out as much…

I suspect when you meet someone properly diagnosed with it you'll have an easier time believing. I was diagnosed when I was 12 by the Paediatric consultant here in the UK who specialises in the thing, and it isn't fun. When other people my age are working all day and going out drinking I can barely manage a full week…

Point Defence systems. Or genetically engineered and mind-controlled eagles.

This is true, the Dread Pirate Roberts would kick Bobas arse. =p

The Catholic Church, IIRC, believes that the Bible is divinely inspired, but was ultimately written by fallible humans who were limited by their own knowledge and thus had to interpret what they were writing through the lens of their own times. Hence why the Catholic Church accepts that evolution exists (though it…