I love video games but I want to die inside every time something like this happens. It's like when some drunk/crazy asshole at a bar starts trying to be friends with you because he thinks you're an asshole too when all you want to do is have a drink and not be an asshole to women/blacks/Muslims/"the gays".

I happened to read the whole thing shortly after it was posted about this time last night and I couldn't believe that either: A) A grown ass adult had written it and B) A professional editor allowed it to run. What it amounted to was grandiose hissy fit, a typically horrible internet ejaculation normally limited to a…

The cheetah is super cool an' all, but lookit the teeny-tiny-bebeh-mcwotsit!

The Dakar is one of those things that needs to be at the bottom of my bucket list, mostly because I doubt I'd actually survive the thing anyway.

I'm almost certain I saw this episode of Daria already.

Was I the only person for whom Dishonored seemed to come out of almost nowhere?

I'm thinking Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn as the escaping marmies?

Russian roads are much like Australia - it's a place where everything is trying to kill you, without exception.

I do like the Economist. I don't agree with all their views but I do like them. They're consistent and unabashed.

Is it true that this group have frequently sued anyone who they managed to provoke into doing something silly?

This, so much. This story is still the first 12 minutes if every news bulletin over here in the UK, even it has absolutely no impact on anything outside of the USA. It's tragic but it's not news much longer after the initial event, and right now it really is just rubber necking mixed with morbid voyeurism.

One of my favourite cute vids - a mama lioness and her BFF.

*Whoops, image url muck-up*

From fluffy-kittens.tumblr.com , which I followed on the strength of the name alone and have not regretted it.

Because kaiju.

It's why the medium of motion picture was invented.

I'm genuinely curious as to what that thing's designed purpose actually is.

You don't subscribe to the idea that the monkey might be happier with other monkeys in an environment constructed specifically for monkeys by people professionally trained to care for monkeys?

I don't remember Z4s being that ugly in general, wheels aside. Is there some bodywork option on that thing or is that just an unusually drab shade of grey it's been coated in?