“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.”

The Endpoint of Game

Danger & Play answered a reader’s question recently about why he doesn’t really post on game anymore; his respectful disagreement was a masterpiece: Think of game like an investment strategy. Ideally we would all have substantial assets that would...

Biography of a Wild Sigma

I realise that I’m borrowing rather liberally from the socio-sexual hierarchy that Vox (rightly) claims as his invention, but it applies well to this Daily Mail article, which is an excerpt from an upcoming biography of an artist named Lucian Freud: So how did...

Crazy Cat Lady Plays the Blame Game

I was going to post about this Daily Mail article pretty much as soon as I read it, but naturally Vox, since he is both much smarter than me and blessed with far greater amounts of blogging time than I am, beat me to the punch. Sneaky bastard… Anyway, I’m...

Give Your Inner Misanthrope a Hug

Turns out that he is right, and that one of the biggest management fads in recent years is, unsurprisingly, completely idiotic: Large open-plan offices do not improve staff communication, morale or productivity, a study has found.  Such offices have become common...

Energy-Sucking Extroverts

Badger’s finally poked his head out of his hut, and damn but it’s good to have him back. His latest post on the yawning gap in understanding between introverts and extroverts is a fine work in and of itself, but here’s the best bit: My experience...