“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Friday T&A: Border Dispute Edition

Friday T&A: Border Dispute Edition

I missed the instalment from last week, out of a combination of sheer laziness, and a dire need for sleep (due to having what in most cases amounts to a mild cold, but for some reason ended up being a proper Man-Flu). So, this week, in the wake of the MFIC’s...
When boredom is your friend

When boredom is your friend

By random chance, a video from a trainer and coach in his mid-forties, with three small kids, crossed into my EWCHOOB feed the other day, in which the guy talked with refreshing candour and directness about the need to stop dicking around and wasting time in the gym:...
Monday morning MAN-FLU

Monday morning MAN-FLU

Once again, the weekend has come and gone FAR too quickly for anyone’s liking. And once again, we are forced to contend with the horrible results of… MONDAY. In my case, I spent the past week recovering from a cold – well, that is the prosaic name...
HALO is dead, and they have killed it

HALO is dead, and they have killed it

Fresh off the total failure of HALO: Campaign DEvolved, Microslop moved a couple of days ago to essentially shut down Halo Studios, or whatever it is called, and has now shunted all future HALO development to… Activision: Xbox announced another major shift Tuesday in...
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori?

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori?

Some years back, when I thought that Bozo BoJo was actually going to do some good as Prime Monster of PommieBastardLande, I wrote quite favourably about one Jacob Rees-Mogg, an MP for North East Somerset, who eventually became quite a high-ranking member of the...
Monday morning diesel delivery

Monday morning diesel delivery

It is Monday, and for me a rather annoying one, coming as it does after a solid holiday spent in foreign lands. I got back Friday afternoon, and spent much of the weekend simply resting and doing very little of note – which is my default to begin with,...
The overhyped collapse of bullsh*t consulting

The overhyped collapse of bullsh*t consulting

Over the past few weeks, I have seen a fair few videos popping up on my EWCHOOB feed about the collapse of corporate and management consulting jobs. They are all much of a muchness – there does appear to be something of a script circulating around the creator...
Tolkien is F***ING METAL

Tolkien is F***ING METAL

A few days before I went on vacation, Gary from Nerdrotic released a video explaining why the latest season of DEM RANGZ O’ POWAH!!! has completely failed to make any kind of impression among the viewers and the fanbase. The analysis was very good, as you would expect...
Friday T&A: Golden Roofs of Miklagaard Edition

Friday T&A: Golden Roofs of Miklagaard Edition

I am finally back after a couple of weeks off, during which time I was essentially doing a whole lot of nothing. And that was no bad thing. This description is not entirely accurate, of course, but this was a family trip, not a solo one, and as such, the pace of...
The grim darkness of the near future

The grim darkness of the near future

To live in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget...