That happened, and continues to happen. Tons of copycat films and written fiction followed Star Wars's success, just like Harry Potter spawned a rash of the same. Those are thematic works — much easier to prosecute, theoretically, since they involve a full concept. Even then, it's not an easy argument for, say, the…

Huh? Why?

I don't know why you imagine you'll be doing that either. Do you fuck up your living room today? If not, your living room is in no more danger from you in the future.

People said that about first-person shooters in the late 90s/early 2000s. Most of my friends couldn't play FPS games because they complained of headaches and vision problems after short bursts of play.

You ought to know that's not the case. The Rift will work particularly well with any first-person-view game, many third-person games, and even some side-scrollers. We're not even talking about potential or promise — this is actual performance, happening right now. Developers don't need to do a whole lot to include…

Your comment implies that being big is a bad thing, something to be commended on not being!

The site aims to make the story content clear in the headline and intro text. It's not uncommon to see people complaining about the lack of a trigger warning inside a Jezebel news story, but I don't remember any cases where I didn't think, "Fair enough, but why did you click this headline with the word "rape" in the…

Did you know that the Salmon family has occupied the hereditary peerage of Lord Sandwich, thus creating several generations of Lord Salmon of Sandwich (a.k.a. Baron Salmon of Sandwich, and I honestly can't decide which I prefer)? Seriously, Google it:)

You'll never know if what you're seeing is a frame rate drop or just poor compression, at least until YouTube upgrades its service (and I believe Kotaku/Kinja adds a skin to YouTube, unless I am mistaken). I've seen videos on there with analysis software running live, so you know the frame rate was upwards of 100fps…

There you go, though: until you mentioned it, I had completely forgotten Dishonored had any shop-specific bonuses. I didn't feel like my standard edition wasn't the whole game, and I never have. Equally, when I've bought special editions because the pre-order saving made it equal price or less versus the standard…

I've never liked that style either, but don't worry. DA:O and DA2 were not turn-based, and I'd be amazed if DA:I changes that. I haven't played the second one, but the first had an excellent party system.

It won't use very much power at all when you're watching TV. The more TV you watch instead of gaming, the better (on this matter, at least). If you look at GPU reviews for PC, they'll usually publish Idle and Load consumption rates, with Load being the 3d gaming rate, and gaming really hurts your bills like nothing…

They had to do something to mark it out in contrast to the Spherizza. You'll have to pry that perfect cheese and tomato globe from my cold, dead paws.

Thank fuck for that. I was this close to setting fire to my face in the nearest Sainsbury's car park.

Well, they ought to be tall enough to have a good crispy section. Any chef making a Sunday roast is going to be hoping the Yorkshires come out tall. The lowest part is likely to be a bit chewy no matter what, and that's nice too.

Oops, sorry, I see that now! I'd started reading Pinkham's article, thinking, "Right, remember to be unreasonably nationalistic about puddings later. Now, is there anything else I can be angry about here?". By the time I'd got to the end, I'd forgotten the exact wording of the original, so I didn't recognise it in…

Asshole here... well... "arsehole", actually. It's not bread because it's not a bread dough — it's a sponge cake batter, and that's why it's a pudding.

Not as far as I know! I think somebody, observing that jungle MCs and auctioneers have much vocal style in common, just mixed the first footage they could find on You Tube with a bit of Aphrodite.

That's nonsense. People in the UK don't watch Denis Lawson thinking of Wedge. It's a thing that's a persistent mental jolt to us when we're reminded of it, because it's so easily forgotten. Casting directors weren't falling over themselves to give him work because of Star Wars, and there were plenty of other actors…

No there won't. This seems to be an alien concept in the comments today, but actors don't necessarily become actors to be as famous as possible. If he committed to appear in these films, he could buy several new houses but he might miss out on more fulfilling work: something else along the lines of Parade's End, for…