Recent content by bkrockwell

My brother and a few of his friends called me "Stiny" for a while. That came from the Strong Bad email of the same name. We actually called each other Stiny, come to think of it, but I was outnumbered and got stuck with the nickname for a while.

I'm concerned that your teacher even let your class work with a completely incorrect idea of what "petite" means; the meaning of the word should never have been up for debate, let alone a vote. As plenty of people have spelled out, it means "small" (and the term is generally used once a girl has...

I liked that they reference it in the sequel, by having you walk in on Liara saying it to someone in ME 2, and she gets a bit embarrassed that she's been caught being so threatening.

Awesome, but no way would I want that thing in my house. Those things creeped me right out when I was a kid playing playing the first Half-Life.

Blonde? I thought the red-headed female Shepard is going to be on the box.

I think you'll find there were plenty of anonymous revolutionaries throughout history who spent plenty of time in hiding (maybe even in their parents' basements). Staying anonymous has been a major part of various revolutionary uprisings, so it's hardly the 'difference between a revolutionary...

Since I agree with the sentiment of what you're saying, I won't pick apart your analogy. Basically, I don't really care whether people pirate this game or not - the problem I have is if they pretend (or worse, believe) that Origin gives them logically sound justification for doing so. I agree...

If you disagree with their terms, that means you have the right to not purchase the product, it doesn't generate some magic moral justification for piracy. If I say "I'll sell you my car but only if you agree I can sneak into your house and look around occasionally", that doesn't mean you get...

I wish PETA wasn't the loudest and most prominent voice in the animal rights movement. There are vegans with credible causes who like to discuss issues articulately and without horrible flaws in logic, and then there's PETA, who use nothing but shock tactics, jokes that aren't funny, and are...

Bang on the money.

A Bioware Fallout-esque game would be awesome (it'd prob'ly be a lot better than what Bethesda have been doing, as much as I enjoyed Fallout 3), but I don't think the game will be quite like that, or on that scale. Not going to get too excited / despondent until more is confirmed about what...

Glad to see the Discworld series is getting plenty of love here.

I could never really get into the Wheel of Time series. Some good stories in there, but Robert Jordan needed an editor; those books ought to have been cut down by half. (And I've got no problem with really long works of fiction, I just think he regularly included unnecessary garbage). I've...

If you're asking if Australian spiders deserve their reputation as some of the biggest and scariest around, the answer is yes. And yes, they would creep most people out. Myself included.

Not that you were addressing me, but just to jump into the conversation: I'm not sure what you mean by "causing humans intentional suffering". If you mean testing on humans rather than animals, I could only support human testing if the humans are volunteers (a choice that non-human...