Recent content by Melon Hunter

Penicillin, but it's nothing major: just stomach cramps/irritation. It was kind of annoying to find out about, though. I had a meal at a fancy restaurant a few days after getting a bout of tonsillitis, and I was barely able to eat anything thanks to my antibiotics! It took a few more spells of...

I'm fresh off the back of a game creating the ultimate blob: conquering every province on the map as the Roman Empire. I started as the Byzantine Emperor in 867 and the final independent duchy fell in 1247. It was actually a pretty interesting tour through the game mechanics, especially mending...

Beaglerush [https://www.youtube.com/user/Beaglerush] does some very well thought-out LPs of XCOM: Enemy Unknown. His current series, Live and Impossible, is an uncut Ironman Impossible playthrough of the Long War mod for Enemy Within. The videos are really long as a result: the shortest is about...

The most tragic thing is, the Watergate scandal almost happened not in the Watergate hotel, but the nearby John Hancock Hotel. Maybe that was a deliberate cover-up... #hancockgate #gatecock

Oh, hardly. The fandom may have slowed its growth considerably since 2011, but the franchise itself has been going from strength to strength. I think MLP has been far and away the most profitable Hasbro toy property for a couple of years now; regardless of how the fandom's doing, FiM is doing...

Taking the mostly lethal route in Dishonored bags you the High Chaos ending, where Emily ends up evil, everything generally goes to shit, and Samuel the boatman gets all passive-aggressive. Which is a bit hard to avoid, considering most of the game's items and spells are in some way lethal. To...

In the form of meringue. But seriously, I will generally take eggs any way, provided the yolk is nice and runny. Poached, fried, boiled... kinda too many to choose from to say my favourite. Eggs Benedict is up there, though. I'm also partial to scrambled eggs and omelettes. One of my...

I just finished Kill Your Boss by Shane Kuhn (called The Intern's Handbook over in the States). It's a really great read with an interesting concept at its core: a contract killer firm that disguises its assassins as interns to bump off corporate higher-ups. The idea being that interns are...

I've done Two-Face for a themed party called 'The Beast Within' before: It was based on the garish one out of Batman Forever and cobbled together from whatever I could find in charity shops or budget clothing stores, as I only decided to make the costume a few days before the party...

The Old Chateau from Gen IV (DPP) was genuinely creepy. Gardenia, the local Gym Leader, is too afraid to go inside. The windows glow purple at night. There's two ghosts you can see inside, which will properly freak you out if you're not expecting it (the game disables all controls momentarily as...

At the end of June, I'll be heading off to East Asia for a month. I'll be spending a week each in Singapore and Malaysia, and two weeks in Japan. As the first half of the trip will be on business (at least it's a university research trip on behalf of corporate sponsors), I'd like to be able to...

May I just say I think this is the best title for a thread I've ever seen in the Advice Forum. As FizzyIzze said, flat caps look quite nice and function pretty well in keeping the sun out of your eyes. Also, judging by their turning up in various High Street stores, it's a fairly popular...

PC Gamer came up with three interesting rulesets to use, including the gloriously named 'Corvo Attano: The Loudest Man In Dunwall'. There's also the 'Night Angel' playthrough option, where you point the Heart at enemies and listen to what it has to say about them, before dealing with them...

A lot of job interviews can sink or swim on the sort of language you use. I'm sure you'll be asked the generic competency questions like 'when have you shown your leadership skills' (and there's oodles of lists of these questions online, so I'd recommend looking them up and writing out some...

Never watched Cars or Cars 2, so Cars 3 I similarly couldn't care less about. However, a sequel to The Incredibles I have been wanting for a very long time. It ended on such a blatant sequel hook that it always felt a shame that it was never followed up with another movie (until now, of...