“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.”

BioWas/Were

BioWas/Were

Rejoice, gamerchuds! Bioware is DEAD!!! There are plenty of people who think this is a Very Bad Thing, and you will find lots of posts on social media sites, expressing their shock and horror that the studio which produced so many great games from all those years ago,...
Why we cannot stop poking the Bear

Why we cannot stop poking the Bear

LRFotS Abeer Yusless provided an interesting musing to my recent poast, about how woefully and inadequately prepared the Western military leadership class is for an actual, really-for-real shooting war with the ROOSKEES: It’s a shame that so many in the west feel the...
A weak mean has brought extremely hard times

A weak mean has brought extremely hard times

We all know that old saying about what I will call – for lack of a better term – “the cycle of times”. It is a simple and effective encapsulation of well-received and time-tested wisdom: Looking at how Ornj Boi has gone about things in his second term, I am forced to...
When MBAs play soldier

When MBAs play soldier

Alexus Grynkewich is not exactly a household name for most people. Nor should he be. He is the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, effectively the second highest-ranking military officer in the entire NATO structure. That is a post once held by no less a person than...
Triple-A gaming deserves to die

Triple-A gaming deserves to die

The latest triple-A game to launch and faceplant, HARD, has been, of course, Gears of War: E-Day. The independent media has been full of news about just how bad things have gotten for that game – and, weirdly enough, this is one game where the backlash is, at first...
Never go full Tory

Never go full Tory

It would appear that Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg realised he touched a bit of a nerve the other day, when he issued a call for Britain to prepare for WAAGH!! with the Russian Orcs of Mordor. As I noted at the time, that went down with most of Mr. Rees-Mogg’s viewers –...
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...
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...
Dispatches from Mordor: My kingdom for a fill-up!

Dispatches from Mordor: My kingdom for a fill-up!

Longtime Readers will recall that I went on vacation back in mid-June for a couple of weeks, and I travelled specifically to Mordor, aka Russia, for that purpose. While I was there, I had the chance to observe Russia’s society, culture, and economy, in some detail,...