Recent content by ClockworkPenguin

If you have to put more effort into your leisure than your work.... shit, who'd want to be hardcore. It's just a flipping hobby. Look, I get that posers can be annoying especially if you are really into a thing, but just take a step back, roll your eyes if you must, and let them get on with...

None really. They either survived and therefore aren't 'old', never really existed, had good reasons to be removed or whilst agreeable either have been or could be replaced by superior values. For example, noblese oblige. It would be better if people in power recognized the role fortune and...

I'll always have a soft spot for the old point and click puzzle games. Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer etc. I guess that might be for as much the comedy as the puzzles though. Strategy games are also good. I guess I like games that you can take your time over and have a cup of tea whilst...

I'm clearly spending to much time on twitch. I mentally inserted a kappa on the end of "they all have reasonable motivations too"

I can't stand numskulls who take every opportunity to blow their own horn.

Not really. Laws tend to be there for a reason. I'm not saying I think the law is absolute and you should never break it, but you should at least think about why they made the law before you break it. Sometimes a law is indeed to protect narrow interests. Sometimes a law has reasonable...

I graduated with a 2:1 in Physics this summer. Got rejected for all my phD applications though :(. So now I have an infinite of free time I'm spamming job and phd applications. Hope to get the latter, I really like working in an academic environment, but I gotta pay for internet somehow so if I...

In my experience, the best way to create victims is to tell people who are trying to speak up and get problems solved that they should just shut up and put up with it. Moaning is annoying, but saying you have problems isn't "being a victim". Suffering because of those problems is, and a great...

Well, assuming dragons are aerial predators, they probably have excellent eyesight so you wouldn't have to increase the monitor size to dragon proportions. The actual processing units don't need to increase in size either, the only things that need to be changed are the physical inputs- buttons...

While a controller needs opposable thumbs, I'm sure a dragon could use a sturdy enough mouse and keyboard. Since the exact details of the hypothetical aren't laid down, there's no reason not to imagine the best case scenario where humans and dragons work together peacefully, so there's no need...

But in that case, being a dragon is a terrible choice as you would be destroying yourself as a sentient being.

Ugh. I watch twitch so much these days because it isn't youtube. Can google just eff off trying to monopolise the internet.

I like that you're not afraid to give yourselves a ribbing.

With respect I disagree. I am not your employer, the restaurant is. Nor does tipping 'cut out the middle man' and serve as an example of 'pure capitalism'. A 'pure capitalist' system with no middle man would be one where, when I entered, available service staff would be lined up so that I...

In clubs? No, because clubs are the worst places ever. Formal dancing? No, because I spend the whole time counting under my breath and worrying about how cold my hands are. When I am absolutely certain that I'm on my own in the flat? Yup. Sometimes I sing badly as well. It is quite fun...