So, Firewatch is the new game that has been very well trailed and reviewed.

So, I picked it up on Steam and played it through in about three hours. I could have done it faster, but I spent a bit of time admiring the scenery and engaging in conversation. This may be of concern to some, because arguably that's not much bang for your buck. You could ( Read more... )

Okay, it wasn't great, was it ( Read more... )

So, Fallout 4 ( Read more... )

1) Siege machines ( Read more... )

First, the nitpick. In Neal Asher's latest 'Owner' series, the book Zero Point, someone eliminates half the world's population, which at this futuristic point turns out to be some 8-9 billion people dead out of 18 billion. At which point we are told about vast corpse rafts floating around in the sea, incinerators doing massive overtime, and piles ( Read more... )

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From Stumbling and Mumbling - blunt, accurate and delicious:

"There is, though, one man here who is entirely consistent [on self-ownership] - George Galloway. His claim that Assange's actions were "not rape" is consistent with his support for dictators, in that both represent a denial of even the weakest rights of individuals' self-ownership. Our ( Read more... )

How would you like to work here?

Lovely. However, the article I got to it from says this is due to massive-scale kleptocracy.

The quick summary is that the Chinese are effectively forced to save, because they have no welfare state and a one-child policy that means they've got hardly any children/grandchildren to look after them in their dotage. ( Read more... )

They say in the process of a disaster, things seem to go in slow motion and mere moments seem to stretch out in our minds ( Read more... )

So, I was told about (by verlaine) and read Christopher Priest's barracking of the Clarke Award nominees for this year. Then, for fun, the ripostes from all and sundry.

It may well seem like authors such as Priest or Adam Roberts (a couple of years ago about the Hugos) throwing petty fits of pique. However, it's unclear to me what is actually gained from ( Read more... )