“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.”

John C. Wright on blue sci-fi

To quote in full: The social commentary involved in stories where a brawny space-privateer in a torn shirt and broken power-armor is firing a vehicle-mounted automatic weapon one-handed upon an undead but rampaging vampire-lord Tyrannosaurus Rex thundering down the...

Shorts

So No More Jar Jar Binks, Then? Pictured: A former filmmaker and producer Jabba the Lucas is apparently a bit pissed off at the fact that Disney (very wisely) ignored all of his ideas for STAR WARS VII: The Force Awakens. They even had the audacity, the bare-faced...

The Darwin Awards: Selfie edition

There are plenty of times in one’s life when it’s appropriate to take a cool photo of yourself in interesting surroundings. The Didact standing in the Negev Desert (No, that’s not me going Super Saiyan, that’s just a lens flare I dropped in for...

Happy New Year

I miss seeing Old Glory flying high in the wind… In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life,...

The Didact’s top ten posts of 2014

This year is fast drawing to a close, so I figured I’d take a few minutes to post my personal favourite posts (of mine) from this year. I am well aware that this is navel-gazing of the highest degree, and I do apologise for that. I’m not normally given to...

Boxing Day

Now this is one of the few bans I could actually get behind Apparently, this is where all of those weird traditions of eating leftover turkey turned into curry, and watching the Boxing Day Test match, come from: Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day...

Happy Christmas

“From IRON MAIDEN, from Eddie, and from the boys…” I love Christmas. I always have, even though in my family this holiday has never held any religious significance. In the past, this holiday was always a time for family and friends. When I was...

Of COURSE the Chief would win

I mean, I’m surprised there was even any question about this: All respect to Captain America. He’s a badass. But when it comes to badassitude, the Master Chief not only broke the mould, he broke the scale. (Literally. Dude weighs 1,000lbs in full...

Now THAT is a hypercar

The new Ferrari FXX K is… quite something. As the author of this review very amusingly points out, the marketing bods at Fezza probably put in that space between the “FXX” and “K” in order to ensure that the car’s name...

And now for something completely stupid

Supermodels in absurdly expensive bras. Need I say more? There are lots more where those came from. And if you have to ask me what the point is of all this, I’m going to ask you to check your pants to see if there’s anything down there. Share this:...