as he passes by each player on the opposing team he is required to say ‘sorry’.

please please please....

free Kangaroo? Good deal!

it really isn’t ‘hard sci-fi’ - it’s a regular novel about receiving a message from space, and the consequences of that. Then it’s about building the ‘machine’ etc. and what happens after.

It would be great if the guy she falls for and “who can only complicate her likelihood of survival” is just a regular guy who works at a store somewhere. Or that the warehouse full of these books were to, you know, have an accident.

I haven’t read the book...but Emily Blunt - sold.

this is what keeps me from playing most games -I’m not a gamer, I have a very casual interest in games (but have a real professional interest), and most of the ones I’ve played are strictly single player campaign type things...because I’m just not very good and dont’ have the time or inclination to spend 50 hours…

A thorough review of their policies is kneaded.

Mandrills.

this is one of the very few uses of VR that will succeed...you can have sex with anyone you want, get them to say what you want, do what you want...so basically the most meaningful and psychologically healthiest form of sex.

“Fuck that Javelin.”

one of the developers also does stuff like this:

‘democratization’ has nothing to do with liberalization - that more people have access to the rest of the world and to each other just means that idiots can seek each other out more effectively.

you just tell people you did and hope they blink first.

when will people get it through their thick skulls that The Catholic Church is a private club - and if you want to be a member you have to obey their rules - or get the fuck out. and the rules are made by the men at the top...because your God said so.

having lived in Australia I can say that in many ways it very much is like a north american city of 50 years ago, with some weird 21st century city layered, awkwardly, on top of it...there are some very backward things going on there...and they don’t know what screen doors are for fuck sakes.

sounds like you had a better time than I did...

antidote...