Recent content by Spineyguy

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    Fat and proud?

    Because of the unique way the internet works as a social platform, people will express all kinds of opinions that they don't really mean. Some people will act venomously to others because they don't consider a username and a profile picture to signify an actual human being, and others will say...
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    Earworms and you

    I've had this one for weeks: Might have something to do with an upcoming game.
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    What is it with British accents?

    You think Shrek sounds authoritative? I can think of lots of words I could apply to that character, but authoritative wouldn't be one of them. I think the particular voice that Mike Myers did was supposed to convey a rustic, lower-class, cynical nature, but with an underlying softness that could...
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    What is it with British accents?

    One of the reasons for this, I believe, is that it is much harder to write lines for an American accent that have real gravitas and impact. This is because the homogenised, nondescript pan-American accent that most Hollywood actors and actresses adopt is full of long vowel sounds and soft...
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    I want to get into Warhammer 40,000. Help me out?

    A lot of people will tell you that 40k is childish and expensive and terribly boring, and that Games Workshop are sending it down the pan with crap business decisions, but I maintain that it's one of the most well-developed fictional universes ever to have existed. It's absolutely ram-packed...
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    Historical periods that are barely ever explored in games

    Oh hell, it's going to be one of these. I'm well aware that most Americans are nowhere near as ignorant as their stereotype would suggest, and the joke wasn't even at the expense of those few who really are that ignorant. The two targets of that particular jab were the kind of people who...
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    Historical periods that are barely ever explored in games

    There are tons of fantastic wars that could be the basis for an FPS, if we must pursue only that rather tired genre: English Civil War Napoleonic Wars Boer Wars Crimean War French Revolution Franco-Prussian War War of Spanish Succession But nooooooo, can't have anything that might...
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    RAGE QUIT!!!! Any moments you have done it and why?

    Not given to rage quitting, partly because I don't play any games where unfair play is an issue. One occasion which springs to mind, though, was on a TF2 server I used to frequent. Generally it was an excellent server, full of skilled and respectful players with a good grasp of how to win...
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    Poll: Do you like the British Royal Family?

    This debate surfaces on a pretty regular basis in the UK, and there's been a lot of Royal stuff going on recently, so it's been fairly prominent. I don't believe the Windsors do as much damage as people seem to think. Yes, they live off the taxpayer, but so do MPs, and all the thousands of...
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    How did your parents discipline you?

    My mother used to smack me, generally round the back of the head, but only when I was terrifically bad, which wasn't very often. She did this right up until the point where, at about the age of 5, I hit her back. She freely admits that it was the fact that I seemed to have taken on the violent...
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    Your Voice and You

    I've always thought my voice was rather odd. I'm not from a particularly well-to-do family, but my mother is, and with my father's accent being quite neutral, I've taken on her Kentish mannerisms. That said, virtually every male role-model I've ever had has been from either Birmingham or...
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    Show Off Your Minecraft Crib

    Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair. As it happens, this is actually pretty old, so old that I can't remember what texture pack I was using. But it has four bedrooms, an upstairs art gallery, a huge turret and is balanced precariously at the top of a mountain, so everything's kept...
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    Daily Mail-o-matic

    'COULD FERAL CHILDREN GIVE CLIFF RICHARD CANCER?' HUE HUE HUE