Given that they launched with less than 300,000 players, the number of unbroken subscriptions from launch day to today is probably less than 50,000. Still, it's a very generous gesture to the truly hardcore.

I spent a year on foreign exchange at a college with a large Greek system in the South, where I kind of semi-pledged to a frat because they liked me and I wanted to see what it was like, and it was absolutely not uncommon for this to happen there and at sororities from the people I spoke to. Perhaps it was different…

Sure, but within most US Colleges, Greek Life is usually less than 30% of the population. Only the biggest Southern colleges and a few in the North have a majority of students involved in Greek organisations. If you go to Harvard you won't see many fraternities, and the final clubs aren't that popular. If you go…

Yeah, I mean the Bullingdon Club only has about 10 or 12 members at any one time, and they're not exactly widely seen even in Oxford, so they're more of a secret society. But Greek Clubs are more like the actual schools themselves, in that they all have old alumni organisations. Old Harrovians, Old Etonians, Old…

Private Schools aren't that big in America outside a couple of elite boarding schools on the East Coast. So the 'old boys/girls club' that starts in secondary school in the UK, is created with Fraternities and Sororities at University, which generally cater to upper-middle class students from wealthier, white…

I grew up in the UK, but I work in finance so most of our staff is foreign, and lots of Americans come here to work in the City (and vice-versa, lots of Brits go to Wall Street). It never fails to amuse me when people put that they were a member of Sigma Epsilon Alpha or whatever on their CV (Résumé). I was a member…

It's not uncommon for higher year sorority/frat members to literally get lower ranked people to do their busywork for them, including research, note-taking, references and so on, which is the bulk of essay writing.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say- yeah they were assholes who killed millions of people.

I was under the impression that she was mostly senile by that point and her family signed her up to social security.

Lovely to see people willing to debate rather than throw out arguments that are little more than "I'm right, and anyone who doesn't agree is STUPID".

Yes, right up there with Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot.

Beautiful. We went on a Princess cruise in Alaska as well (flew to Fairbanks, took the train to Anchorage, then sailed south to Vancouver which I'm guessing is the standard route), and it was wonderful.

Wasn't there that rumour (or maybe it's been confirmed) that a huge amount of people on Witness Protection live in a tiny island in Washington state that you can only access via Canada? or maybe I'm just making that up.

Alright- why else would Take Two delay the PC version of the game? MP3 released at the same time as console on PC. Take Two is a billion dollar corporation- there's no logistical issue that prevents a PC version. The only reason is piracy.

Look at any torrent site- rates for PC piracy are MASSIVELY higher than for console, because you need a rooted console and can never go online if you use pirated console games.

Well it's the logic of the senior executives at a billion dollar corporation that owns and publishes the most successful AAA franchise in gaming.

It's Rockstar's strategy to delay PC titles of its major franchises (ie. not Max Payne) by as long as possible, to reduce piracy. In Eastern Europe, Russia, South America, Asia etc.. people pirate all their games on PC. Even though console piracy exists, it is much lower than PC piracy, and as such, Rockstar tries…

The issue is not that the blade doesn't have uses, but rather that it's ridiculously easy to slice one's own hand off. I guess they could use Cortosis gloves/armbands, but the EU's gone now so I'm not even sure if that exists anymore.

Well that's the thing, right- you have games like Skyrim and Fable, which allow you to romance almost anyone, make friends, give gifts, take your partner places, buy a house together, and (in the latter game) even have babies, but the characters themselves don't have much personality because there's hundreds of them. …

Exactly. It amuses me when people talk about how 'progressive' Bioware is because Dorian is the most stereotypical, camp, moustachioed fashionista ever. He's a great dude, sure, but he's the definition of a stereotype. Like when Japanese movies always have the token black guy who happens to be 6'5 and a baseball…