It might be relevant here to point out not only have I never bought a lottery ticket of any kind but I view lotteries as a tax on the stupid. Personally I'd view a writing career you can live off as success. 99.9 percent of writers never find any.

But it's not. The man is a writer. Of books. His plan isn't to create content for Hollywood and fodder for suits.

I'm coming at this from the idea that his books already are successful. Enough to live by. Do any authors go into writing with greater goals than that? If so, he already is successful (if not, banking on a film being made of your unsuccessful books to make enough money to live on is a really flawed career plan).

Imagine I was a chef. I like cooking and making stuff taste good. I like finding ingredients. I like wearing a big hat that looks like a cloud. Chef things. This is my career and what I do and I do it well. Then during my residency at a 3 star establishment in London I design a dish that people like. At some point a…

Honestly, I don't get this article. Or I get it but I don't get the emotional content. I get that you'd be disappointed after having your book optioned that it falls through. I definitely do not get the "soul crushing" bit. Or the drinking or the elaborate dreams dashed. It sounds like the guy is 12 and still dreams…

That is adorable. Little weird also. Then again, at that point I was typing word choices into BBC Micro games that made characters say things like "When I eat 'poop' I go ah-choo" for sophisticated laughs.

If the apocalypse happens, whatever group of cannibal mutants, crazed technopriests or resistance fighters maintain control of the hardware and satellites required for receiving weather satellite data will have a sound advantage over the competition.

" In the interest of human connection, "

I was going to post about relating to this but the more I read the more I realised I couldn't, because my experience as a fucked-around-by-authority teen featured nothing like, seriously nothing like, the level of control, domination and obsessive unhealthy prurience posing as concern that you seem to have in the US.…

Blepharoplasty in Japan. Look it up and get back to me. Also most of those pictures on that weird site are photoshopped or involve more than eyeliner. Most of them are wearing iris enlarging contacts - also a big thing, look those up while you're at it. Bang, bang; two examples in your own post of shit you had no idea…

You largely get out of eve what you put into it. That's probably a line they've used in their own marketing somewhere. If your friend chose only to fly around mining then of course it was boring. Would you enjoy a game about manual labour? It would be like going on holiday and undertaking to repaint the rental cottage…

Fuck technical masterpieces. 20 minutes for ten seconds. The only difference between that and the old days is being there to see it crush you utterly instead of dropping out to attempt relogin for 20 minutes. They still can't handle this load, but they're going to promote this event as a prime example of gameplay? Not…

Protip: with the makeup, hair and clothing (and what looks like at least eyelid surgery), she could have looked just as good before. Without the makeup, hair and clothes (and surgery), she would look just as bad after. Fucking men in this society need to get a clue about what women can do with their appearance, it's…

Those words do not mean unfair. Those words mean that people like you are stupid and dull. I think you're proving this right now. You can come and try stomping us as much as you like, but please just don't post.

In hindsight now I've had time to recover, yes. Clashing fleets is what we play for and this is how it went down that night, so be it. I would rather have been there than not, even at the time, I could have just logged out, though I would have been stuck there alone when I returned the next day. The idiots who…

Have I mentioned unfair? I'll have no such posting here in my thread amongst civilised people, you festering publord, take it elsewhere

Here's the thing. Battles in eve are, nearly all the rest of the time, fluid, changeable and fast. Our fleet commanders make or break the fight and there are real objectives to win or lose, even if sometimes it's just bragging rights. But this fight was slow, inevitable of outcome, barely required any fleet commanding…

No don't lie to him. we both know you can't do eve without solid free time.

I was there. I was there and it was horrible. The game's developers have taken this unholy, all consuming black nightmare and turned it into a PR triumph, but let me tell you my perspective on Asakai.

I find it disappointing and perplexing that you found it disappointing and perplexing. It's a far more realistic trait than 95% of shows with strong female characters, where most of their characterisation involves sexiness, sex and the getting of it or of circumstances leading to it. It's very sad to me personally…