Unless I get to spend the last years of my life hooked up to a life-support pod that lets me spend every waking hour as Thorgar the Barbarian I will be sorely disappointed.

...not if you're HARDCORE!!!

Norway, where the prisons are literally like what hard-liners call "prison spas" in Britain and the US (but really, really aren't) has the lowest rate of recidivism in the world, including among rapists and murderers. The US (and the UK to some extent) also take into account the right of the victim (or relatives) to…

Dude, please - 'Oenophiles'...

I agree with the general point of this article, about women on the Walking Dead, but aren't you also guilty of basically willfully interpreting Kirkman's comments in the exact way he says they are NOT to be interpreted? If you actually parse what he said, he's NOT saying women are worse hunters (and seeing as in the…

I find this whole post a little bit precious, straddling a very tall. obnoxious equine; yes, plagiarizing is a bad thing, but the snarky tone re: Goodall's excuse is beyond ridiculous. As a writer, the poster should be well aware that someone like Jane Goodall (and her collaborator) probably has several researchers…

Oh, totally agree, they effed up. I was just responding to the cries of "EZ ptch juz mk offline lol"

I'm not defending EA's design decision here, but everyone who screams "EASY FIX!!!" aren't listening to what they're saying; basically, Sim City is doing way more than any old DRM - the 'no piracy'-aspect of it is simply a (desirable) side-effect. What the game is doing is sending info on the game-state to EA's…

I have a modded PS3, and an unmodded one. I once installed a pirated game on the modded one just to see if I could, but other than that I use it exclusively to play retro titles. I guess it's a factor of being an adult with income, but pirating games isn't worth it for me anymore, morally or financially. My time is…

Horse-meat is really quite good - especially the smoked stuff called "hamburger meat" we Swedes put on our sandwiches. It's not as gamey as venison or moose, but different from beef in an obvious but non-revolting way, a bit like pork is (though nothing like pork). Still, I CAN see how people could culturally find it…

Seems like a whole lot of american journalists have been selling Sony stock short.

But Luke - Eurogamer's report also mentioned one of their "off the record" sources claiming that the infamous patent having nothing to do with the PS4 - something this piece completely omits.

Yep, Audible (or similar) is the answer to not just exercise, but also house-work; I've divvied up chores with my wife so that I take most of the boring, auto-piloty ones (doing the dishes, laundry, etc), and just plug in an audio-book. Sure, the chore might take 10% longer, but it's 100% more likely to get done. I've…

At this point, even if the PS4 had slightly WORSE specs than the neXtBOX, as long as it had Playstation Plus, I'd still be a Sony man.

I've installed a second router with Tomato instead of the out-the-box firmware, and then use Tomato's VPN settings to connect through a VPN service. That means I have two wireless networks in my house, one that is "normal" and pretty damn quick, and one that is always hooked up to VPN (both connected to the same…

Been doing this for ages - I even wrote about it on the Lifehacker forums. I demand credit!

I'm confused - after I played the game I thought it was ALREADY perfectly obvious that Vaas and Jason were, in fact, the same person. The only thing that confused me was who came first, and thus, what was hallucination and what wasn't. Did Jason make Vaas up after having a psychotic break after leading his friends to…

I was unaware the story needed this, as it already has it; I thought it was perfectly obvious already. All the Alice in Wonderland-references, the frequent hallucinations, the fact that YOU were friends with, and introduced, the DJ who suggested you all go the island, the fact that you woke up back in the temple with…

Heh, I know.

I must have dreamt the 10+ times it's happened to me, then. Obviously it depends on place and setting; if you're on a heavily trafficked business-route, my point won't apply; everyone's wearing business attire and filled with business-travellers with miles to spare; but on international holiday flights, I've been…