Recent content by Pocket Apocalypse

Right, because it seems to be possible to predict closely what people will think of FF13 based on their opinions of FF10 and FF12, I'll start this by saying that I loved both games, though my preference is definitely for 12. Those of you who now think I'm retarded, please stop reading now...

Well, you've got my vote for ruler of everything ^_--

I never said, and the declaration never mentions, that there is a right to property. If there is such a right, I think it is very much secondary to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I agree that you can't oppress someone in the name of your own right to liberty (except, of course, if...

+1! Either that, or (if there's family around), 'See you next time!'

When a craze for Ostrich farming swept the UK in the 80s (no, that's not the weird fact), it quickly ran into problems because the captive-bred ostriches wouldn't mate with one another. Research published in a peer-reviewed journal (and awarded an Ignobel prize, which is where I know of it from)...

Just to kick the thread off with some conflict, I'm not a cynic, I'm a raging optimist. I look at human history, and I gotta say, things have generally got better rather than worse. Whatever the current threat to us all is, we've survived all the others that we thought would wipe us out (okay...

The tone of my voice is poor but on a good day I can hold my notes; I've sung live and not been bottled or booed.

If you're going to define everything interesting as a form of escape, fair enough, but I think that's biasing the debate a bit, no?

I disagree in the strongest possible terms (by which I mean that when I saw you post that I exploded into a five-minute, expletive-drenched and generally unprintable rant at the ignorance and small-mindedness of your answer, despite the fact that the only audience was my monitor and keyboard)...

I'm tailoring this response specifically to the American situation because it relies on arguably the most American document ever written (the Declaration of Independence), but for the record I happen to agree with most if not all of what that Document says, despite not myself being American...

Heart attack. I don't eat too well, and I already have a minor heart condition. Yay lowering the mood! ^_--

Dan Simmons' 'Hyperion' sequence dragged me all over the emotional chart and absolutely blew my mind as far as what I thought a book could do. 'Schlock Mercenary' for me defines what a webcomic should be. 'Dark Side of the Moon' is a staggering achievement in progressive composition and...

My passion is stories. Of all kinds; fiction, history, news stories, life stories, in any medium, writing and reading(/any other form of taking in). I'm particularly passionate about making sure my own life is a story worth telling. Oh, make that any story except period dramas. This might...

Muahahaha! The universe is mine! Anyway, here's my (perhaps obscure, but by no means undeserved) contribution: Phil Ochs, one of the greats of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 60s. I was overjoyed to see that somewhere near me, someone's put together an evening in his honour later this...

Hmmm... my understanding of socialism is (and I stand ready to be completely corrected in this; I'm sure the point someone made about the term being over-used and never particularly accurate is a good one) is that it's a *social* rather than *economic* doctrine, involving the belief that a...