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Well the Federation also suffered almost as crippling fleet losses over Vulcan (which soon after got imploded; a major population/cultural/political centre for the UFP). I wonder if Commander Data's awful and terrifying artwork could help lighten things up? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dh1kKv9zPs...

http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/voy-living-witness-review-6607010 lol Chuck just subtly slammed SDN here He's not naming names but he gave an accurate enough assessment why a place like SD.Net sunk with intellectual inbreeding and a stifling atmosphere coming from entrenched group thin...

Still, at least the creep isn't spamming the place with wholly inappropriate child pornography. . Now I want to know what 'appropriate child pornography' would be :v Nothing, I hope. :wtf: Anyway a few years back we had this weirdo who turned up on a forum and really did spam images that were prett...

Still, at least the creep isn't spamming the place with wholly inappropriate child pornography. So, SDN. I've kind of been procrastino-lurking there a bit these last few days, and I've seen a few interesting discussions in the Science-Fiction forum. Kind of want to participate in the discussions, bu...

All three major gaming console firms are ruthless bastards though, even cuddly looking Nintendo (with the predecessor of Nintendo's incumbent CEO/chairman having links with the Yakuza through gambling cards).

I think Microsoft have done the right move, but we're not really past the opening skirmishes of the current console wars yet.

I think super hero movies are a bubble waiting burst sooner rather than later.

When do you think Mike Wong will come back to the foundering, rudderless SD.Net?

I guess this as good a visual representation as any for Microsoft's nonsensical strategy with the Xbox One:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=ezAJeaCySV4

evilsoup wrote:so the new superman film is simultaneously stupid and boring

Like the continuity confused Superman Returns was universally regarded as? Man of Steel gotten a 56% on Rotten Tomatoes, a mildly negative reception so-far.

OK, I clearly overreacted here, I should just watch my fingers and stop thinking about the uncomfortably Politically Incorrect Tropic Thunder . Also (to stop this thread derailing) I've read that the Xbox One and PS4 do not play 360 and PS3 discs, but will have access to older generation games throu...

Either way Microsoft have done something very short-sighted and stupid by having the Xbox One needing an mandatory internet connection, which is too impractical and hamstrings it (when the internet can be very temperamental in most parts of a typical developed country and at certain hours of the wee...

What's next for the PC Thought Police to "outlaw" for fear of offending people? Nincompoop? Halfwit? Moron? Idiot? Slow witted? Ignoramus? Imbecile? Idiot? Brainless?

Sony has learned from its mistakes with the PS3 and finally saw sense in giving the consumer some leeway within reason, while making the internet an optional function, while Microsoft after the considerable success of the Xbox360 has gone inexplicably full retard with the Xbox One needing a mandator...

Seeing a play through there was somebody who ran out of the queue, leapt over the wall, and threw a grenade at a border guard. Also do citizens and immigrants, if their papers are not in order, sometimes bribe you to cross the border? Your character's pay is paltry and your family struggles.

But I'd be interested to know how much abuse there is in the "independent" porn community, cam girls and the like. Well in Romania cam girls are kept in brothels overseen by abusive pimps (according to Straha's article) "working" in seedy and potentially dangerous conditions for...

"Rape" comes in at No. 7 for both Turkey and India.

Really? Fair enough then I was spawned the 17th of July in the year 1990 of the Current Era. I still have difficulties proceeding the fact that the USSR still nominally existed at some point in my lifetime, as for as long as I can remember it had been something gone, existing only in the history bo...

Flagg wrote:

Infinity Biscuit wrote: Is this like the sliver of unpleasant Americaphobia that people talk about when America is criticised and insufficient mention is given of the sins of the Soviet Union/China/etc every time

Pretty much.

Yes, the selective and whiney rhetoric in both cases gets mind numbing after a bit.

That was a nice bit of bullshit, wasn't it. The Quebec intelligensia-political complex has been on an run recently on pushing conformity under the guise of "reasonable accommodation." The awful thing is its getting widespread support there so the local politicians are jumping on the bandw...

The Eurocrisis with Germany and Greece and the over-industrialisation of East Asia while the West slides into ruin are examples of mission creep, with wealthy magnates from different backgrounds not really thinking things through when trying to cut corners to further their profit (like politicians l...

Try not to be too smug Big O, your quite likely to wind up dead should this come to pass. As will most of us, I should think. Oh no, I don't want things falling apart like in Syria, but I get the impression that the current system of Globalisation is not working and could end suddenly, when its fat...

Unbalanced economies eventually implode (in Germany's case high exports to indebted countries and low worker wages) and the UK will also pay dearly for its criminally insane property prices, nothing to properly replace collapsed old heavy industries, the increasing cost of essential living, decreasi...

I'd like to see the bottom to come out of Germany's export economy eventually then see Thanas' face go from this to this .

Why didn't Greece's establishment ignore the austerity policies demanded by the ECB/IMF? Not that the British establishment that have been any better.