The Soviets beat the West to space because their early program accepted the immense risks involved with cosmonaut safety. While it's not official (duh) there's incontrovertible evidence that they sent men and women up who roasted coming down, and others who never came down and just kept going. This is before Gagarin…

Well... changing gears here then, but I disagree about internet dating. By now anyone doing it knows as well how to gin up an acceptable bio as we do a resume, its rote and a simple science. And it's just as full of bullshit as all the other ways we learn to present ourselves for popular consumption. I'll bet a huge…

Disturbing your neighbours is antisocial. It breaks the Golden Rule and preys on their stronger-than-yours sense of community; it's a classic dick move and a violent act, counting on other people being unable or unwilling to respond in kind. Most people won't be able to stay up to 5am to disturb your sleep the way you…

Just an anecdotal input;

Funny, I'm good friends with a guy who did the closet pee thing. He's got sisters. It was one of their closets he did it in though. He seems to have fixed it now, or else it just never gets spoken about.

No you're right. Cartooning follows bullshit fashion the same as everything else. These particular ones are handy for aspiring cartoonists because they're born of a complete inability to draw accurate bodies, thus widening the field for second rate artists. The defence to this would be "shut up it's stylised". The…

The whole thing was a ridiculously failed stunt, a waste of everyone who was ever exposed to it in any way's time, and a fine example of the riches corporations have and don't even give a fuck about misspending.

None - you'd be preoccupied with a permanent self-administered wedgie

Meteorites fall all the time. They belong to whoever finds them. Finding them is the hard part. I suspect this guy bought his.

I spent most of my earlier years - around up to your age in fact - vehemently believing and supporting the idea that prospective parent/s need to keep a lid on their plans until their ground is well and truly prepared. Frankly these days I don't. I've seen enough spoiled rich kids who wind up feckless wastes and…

Considering it doesn't really define much, like most sub-genre definitions, I wouldn't get too heated about it if I were him.

Uh... well I do, and lauren86 does, and The-Simpsons-Rule who promoted the comment does, so we have you 3 to 1 down. We aren't arguing the matter here. Just don't use loaded inaccurate terms.

You've obviously already got your opinion. My question is why have you come here to try and enforce it over others. Did a dog master planner steal your lunch?

I'm a big fan of meandering inexplicable plots because I can relate to them far easier than I can concise narrative and heroes saving the day, neither of which resemble any of my life experience or I daresay anyone elses. The harder I'm left massaging my temples reflectively at the end, the better.

They look like Forerunner architecture. I'm pretty sure I captured flags from this in Halo 2.

Unless GRRM doesn't write faster and the series catches up and requires a whole different storyline once it passes where we're at so far, then they have to do Pyke. Euron and Victarion are as a result on their way across the sea for undoubtedly major developments.

OK I'll take your editorial on face value and respond in kind: video games can not "grow up" in the way you want. They can never be the storytelling device you want. Because at some point in your story you have to pick up your control mechanism and play the damn game, and you can not make a creative tale, an artform,…

It did ruin games and it was a resource hog. Cut out your "claimed" retconning. It was a horrible slow POS for at least the first year. People who ran CS and TFC fine on their own were suddenly forced to run a whole new application on top when their hardware wasn't up to it and they used modems.

Because they'll turn out to be sociopaths half the time. Literally half the time. A lot of real people out there, not the nice civilised 0.0000000000001 percent posting on websites, really don't take kindly to people accosting them outside or knocking on their doors to lodge a complaint no matter how much you smile…

The comments section is chockablock with contradictions, me-too outrage, and frankly, overprivileged people who've obviously never lived in apartments with noisy neighbours. Because if you had you would know this IS the civilised non judgemental way of dealing with it, even if it is roughly done. A note on the door is…