Recent content by Mad_Ogre

Man... such a tough question. Deus Ex could reeeaaally do with the graphical reboot. I'd LOVE a remake of Final Fantasy 7... imagine how absolutely epic that could be... oh my god. The thing is I'd probably give my right kidney for a remake (specifically JUST the graphical reboot) of either of...

what about the dog's bollocks?

Many people are going bald at 20, some even before that! Anyway... I like the way I think about things in general. I like being able to concentrate better when it is dark than when it is light. I like my intelligence. I like my own sense of humour - if I read something I wrote a while...

With regard to the 'have one's cake and eat it too' phrase, I know you guys seem to have come to an agreement on what it means and I can see your point, but I have always taken it slightly differently. I always thought that the word 'have' does mean consuming, so the sentence is basically...

I think it just means that many seemingly evil acts had good intentions behind them at the time. The eugenics movement may be seen as a good example of this.

The phrase 'as it were' has always outraged me for some reason. I think it is because it is a phrase to which the meaning is not self explanatory to the extent that it barely fits, and also because the people who use it are - from my experience - pretentious jerks who think they're more...