Doing nice things like encouraging AIDS in Africa by running campaigns against safe sex? Or maybe the way their senior members have shielded child abusers within their ranks from the police?

You need to connect the Wii's video out to a capture device. Elgato makes one that adds almost no latency.

Exactly. If you have an pet, you really need to set aside around $5000 per year for their medical costs. You might spend only a fraction of it in the first years, but as they get older, you will be glad you put it aside.

This diet would be really hard to follow during Ramadan.

I'm going to move to a new house soon, and the first thing I'm doing after I move is putting together... a lot of IKEA furniture.

Beating region locking is a big win.

When I used to work as a TA (during my PhD days), I didn't explain mistakes or cite errors when I graded papers anyway. I'd just put red X's everywhere there was something off, then put a number at the end based on intuition about the quality of the content and number of mistakes.

My ideal game has three things: fun game mechanics, a good risk/reward balance, and an appealing setting.

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Yep. And why drive a vintage car, when you can just drive a new one with a fibreglass body replica?

Was it clearly marked as a returned item? Because they really shouldn't be able to just put it back on the shelf without marking it as such.

That dual-screen thing caused confusion at first on the DS too.

I agree with the point about not wanting to prolong a story that has gone off the rails. If the only reason you're playing a game is to see the conclusion of the story, and you aren't enjoying the mechanics of the gameplay itself, then you will always end up disappointed. The stories in even the best games usually…

My mother-in-law recently bought a non-stick frypan from a Chinese Infomercial.

It's sensible advice.

Quite possibly. Maybe I'm your Australian doppelganger.

The converse is also true. I'm sure anyone who has had hotel security bust into their room during lovemaking can attest to that.

I've always wanted to work for one of those armoured car companies that transport money between banks. Driving around in a van full of money is my dream.

This is all part of his current mantra: "Hong Kong is unruly, it is ruled by thugs, and it requires discipline that only Beijing can provide". He keeps making statements to that effect.

It won't go down well with China.