Recent content by Ark of the Covetor

See that's interesting, because "stop writing women as special-snowflake-goddess-trophies and just write them as people with a personality and interests of their own, whatever those may be, and remember that female doesn't necessarily mean feminine(because sex and gender are distinct)" is a...

Congrats, you just killed all aftermarket graphics mods that use injectors/DLL replacers, and also every Bethesda game since pretty much all the significant mods for those rely on their various EXE-modifying Script Extenders. And of course, the real target of these restrictions(software...

Fuck guest spots, get her on as the new Companion, the current bint is beyond irritating.

You mean a near-total fiction usually peddled by people who were shite at school or had one teacher they didn't get along with and now feel the need to run down an entire profession - one vital to society mind - to sooth their own manchild-level self-esteem problems? I couldn't agree more...

On the contrary, I see this as them doing exactly what they should be doing for their backers: making the best game possible. This is supposed to be a PC game for PC gamers, no fucking compromises, and if people actually backed the project in the expectation they'd be able to play something...

Yeah maybe, but this kind of thing can also easily turn into "we may be out of work actors, but look at these stupid nerds eh? lulz, nerds". Honestly, even if it is decent for a meta-commentary; pass.

The argument as I understand it is not "there are thin people in media, that causes anorexia", it's about the way media presents overwhelmingly a single physical ideal("Hollywood thin") that isn't remotely reflective of reality, and that distorts people's perceptions; a girl who's not by any...

He did compile his own, or rather he worked with a panel of economists to compile it, but it did include the DoE&C figures as part of a composite with industry figures. The result was actually pretty much in the middle, a little higher than the median because the OBR's oil forecasts were an...

Quick aside because I think Alex gets far too much stick over the oil stuff; the projections being used by the SNP weren't pulled out of their arse you know, they largely came from the UK government's Department of Energy and Climate Change and the oil industry itself. As it turns out of course...

Physician, heal thyself: I can keep doing this all day; I've worked as a Green Party activist, I'm involved in the anti-fracking movement, christ my Mum spent three of the months she was pregnant with me at the Scottish CND camp outside the Faslane Trident base. I've been actively...

I appreciate the condescension chief, but I'll be fine ta. My view of environmentalism is formed from being an advocate for it and dealing with environmentalists from many different strands of thought over many years, all but a handful were totally unrealistic, and many were so strident you...

Emphasis added: These are all very good goals, but none of them require us to materially change the quality of life of your average middle-class person in the developed world, and the reason why is the thing you casually dismiss in the first sentence; technology. The reason we're having so...

We're talking about an emergent process resulting from a physical substrate, it is in no way an abstraction, nor is it "magical". The permanent cessation of all neural activity is, given all the presently available evidence, the best definition of "death" we have - maybe in some far off future...

While you're technically correct, the key difference is continuity. While your body is continually replacing cells, and although that happens to an extent within the brain(not all brain cells regenerate/replace themselves), at no point does your neural activity completely cease - even while...

And this is why Transporters as depicted in Star Trek are a nonsense; they don't transport you, they murder you and create an exact duplicate at the target location. To the world at large there may be no difference, but the you that steps in won't be the same you that steps out the other end...