“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.”

13 Hours

The words “A Michael Bay Film” do not generally conjure up images of white-knuckle drama and powerful, deeply emotional storytelling. When Michael Bay releases a new film, it’s generally assumed that the new movie will essentially be the result of an...

Poor kid

To steal a quote from our good friend the Captain, “we don’t need to stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiking fathers!”: Spurred on by the profound regret of an older friend who’d searched high and low for the perfect father only to run out of time, I decided to...

You can’t cure stupid

Infinite Elgintensity does his usual bang-up job of mocking CrossSh*t’s unforgivably cavalier attitude toward sanity and safety: Injuries from the Washed Up Loser Olympics (2015) by InfiniteElgintensity Wow. Just… wow. If you’ve ever wondered why I...

Never send a woman to do a man’s job

It truly does warm the frozen core of my evil Minion heart to witness the BBC’sutterly ham-fisted attempts to revive what used to be the greatest TV show ever made: Fans’ fears are growing over the relaunch of BBCflagship show Top Gear amid fresh...

Whoops

Curie-Hultgreen Syndrome comes to the Dakar rally: Four children and a pregnant woman are among 10 people left seriously injured after a Dakar Rally competitor careened off the race track and crashed into a group of spectators.  Guo Meiling, the first Chinese...

A simple equation

Here is something for my fellow maths geeks to ponder. What happens when you allow mass invasions from Third World nations, with Third World standards of hygiene, medicine, literacy, and sanitation, into First World nations with far stricter controls on all of those...

Are they sponsored?

That is the real question that everyone should be asking of these Instagram “models”- who by the way nobody else has ever heard of- that are (apparently) raking in millions of dollars a year from their income making faces and looking hot in very tight...

STAR WARS VII: A Lost Hope

The family went out last night to watch STAR WARS VII: The Force Awakens. Now as I’ve said before (far too many times), I really wasn’t looking forward to seeing this new movie; I figured that J. J. Abrams had simply turned it into another pastiche of the...

That ain’t right…

… but I still laughed my arse off at it: h/t: Return of Kings commenter Drifter Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new...

They forgot Rule #1

What. The. F**K. It would appear that folks in the game development industry really need to start putting Vox Day’s superb semi-polemical book SJWs Always Lie on their Christmas wish lists for Santa Claus: Video game journalist [Didact: that should actually be...