Enjoying the apparent fact that half the commenters here either haven't played the game or haven't read the comic/watched the TV and aren't aware the game follows a totally different set of people doing their own thing. A HL or Halo adventure game would have little or nothing to do with the main protagonists and…

So many steps backward from where our parents and their parents fought to reach in the workplace that few people even complain about, we won't ever regain it. Lucky for the opportunity indeed. You won't win it back by turning it into a feminist issue either, because you'll be drowned out (much like this article nearly…

There's a statute of limitations. Don't ask me where it is, but after a period of time, not only should you have caught up on whatever it was if you actually gave a shit, but nobody else is interested in talking about it anymore anyway. I'd say it's somewhere in the 2 year region. Certainly I find after that I don't…

Being China, expect horrific panda farms to spring up.

OK. It's possible that they failed at placing a satellite in steady orbit. They have proven they are beginners at this before. It's also possible however that it's been compromised by another space power deliberately. It's possible now. The hard part of launch is getting to orbit and the engineering involved, which…

That is genuinely amazing.

Not an ancestor. We may share ancestors somewhere down the line but this chap has evolved down a different path than us for a million years.

That's cool. I live in 350 sq ft with my partner. In a block of such flats, on a road of such blocks, in a normal UK town. And it's needlessly big. As in there is unneeded space.

Whoever it is it's psychopathic. They aren't even doing it to eat them or make folk medicine or anything. Just killing. I hate that anywhere I see it, whether it's someones shitty cat, sport hunters or something like this.

I'm a huge Discworld fan and have been since I was too young to be reading them, but I'm ready to admit that I haven't liked probably the last 6 or 7 years of books. They just aren't the same, at all, and the last one I read, whichever one it was (this is how unmemorable they have become) seemed like it was written by…

While on one hand I applaud your forward thinking, I also must point out that's some awfully expensive planning ahead to make in your early twenties considering the famous problem with plans is they never survive contact with the enemy.

America has the largest standards for homes, by a very long shot, in the world. We all know about Japanese city living, but in Europe - the UK in particular, thanks to the industrial revolution - an entire flat would fit inside what many Americans think is a lounge. Kitchens in particular are ridiculously enormous…

Please maintain that attitude; I spent 3 years stealing other peoples WEP secured wifi in a town apartment and only started paying for my own connection when ISP's started sending out routers preconfigured with WPA and I ran out of schmucks to steal it off. I recently moved house and what do you know, an idiot around…

I don't understand your issue here. A hallmark of language mastery is understanding and using synonyms - hence 1984's reductive, restrictive Newspeak; good, plusgood, doubleplusgood etc. Are you saying you've never heard the word errant before, in which case the fault is yours, or that you disapprove of the use of an…

Who knew a multinational corporation could represent in a real, literal sense the nature of the customers it attracts? Who knew such a well paid legal department could behave entirely unironically like a schoolboy? Who could foresee an entity that strains so hard to appear grown up to consumers could be so childish?…

I've had a similar experience making the same remark numerous times. I realised that I picked the expression up from my dad long ago and assumed it was still appropriate when in fact it's ancient. I've struggled to find a jocular reference to suicide ever since.

You can get a lot done in a totally inhumane dictatorship run by insane egomaniacs. Scientists love endless amounts of cash for their pet projects and no ethical or environmental oversight. They don't love what happens when they get no results but they aren't around to complain long.

The British government, ladies and gentlemen.

One of the big secrets of modern society is that few things truly "ruin your life" short of disfiguring accidents. From the second we're born, in fact before that, we are all products of the vagaries of the world. Life changes around them. That's what life is. Every experience and circumstance of your childhood, not…