Now, as we all know, being a woman on the Internet with an opinion is a dangerous thing. Woe betide the female who decides to voice their feelings on a particular nerdy subject without making it clear that they love said nerdy subject very much. See, of course, the shitstorm that Jennifer Hepler endured for having an opinion on games. The year is 2012, and this idiocy still hasn’t ended. Allow me to post these [...]

Chapter 5: OMG BLOOOOOOD! Are you scared yet?! ARE YOU?! So Bella talks to the jerk a bit more, and he just comes out and tells her that he’s a jerk and she shouldn’t be friends with him, WHICH OF COURSE SHE DOES NOT LISTEN TO because of him being perfect. (Take a drink!) Once again, I want to make it clear that at least two or three normal, nice guys are vying for her [...]

Being in the web design business, and being connected to a number of freelancers and entrepreneurs, I get quite a few interesting articles in my email inbox most days. Sometimes I go read them, if I have the time, but this gem showed up this morning and the title alone made me go and look, if only so I could confirm my suspicion that it would be… less than the highest quality material. I swear [...]

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Once upon a time, I went to the cinema to enjoy the latest huge, crazy disaster movie. Having a degree in geology makes big disaster flicks somewhat hit and miss for me, but I thoroughly enjoyed stuff like Dante’s Peak and I figured that Hollywood at least deserved a chance to impress me. See, science is genuinely pants-wettingly scary, when you get down to it. Earthquakes are terrifying. Volcanoes are terrifying. All the stuff that [...]

You know, I never thought Ireland would be the first country to pass something like SOPA. In retrospect, though, it’s almost inevitable. The combination of politicians who are easily bought and technologically ignorant seems to jive well with licensing agencies who have a lot of money and are not technologically ignorant, but certainly dishonest in the interest of protecting their business model. Ah yes, the business model of the IRMA. They say it’ll protect Irish [...]

So Mass Effect 2, then. It’s a very different game from the first one, and although I do not in any way regret the loss of the Mako – no one can tell me a tank that handles like a shopping cart on grease is a good thing – I think I prefer the gameplay in the first one. Specifically, I dislike this whole ‘thermal ammo’ bullshit. It doesn’t make any sense from a technological [...]

Oh comics, how do I enjoy thee… some comics, anyway. I do not buy them. I read them online, because at least there I have an outside chance of enjoying a comic series with women in it. I would love to buy into the fandom of comics but it’s been clear for a while that neither DC nor Marvel really want my money. I think I can put up with that, of course. It seems [...]

I’m playing through Mass Effect right now, in preparation for the release of Mass Effect 3. (Yeah, I’m late to the party, go figure.) Can I just say that I love being able to play a female character? I adored Knights of the Old Republic because I could play the kind of Jedi I think I’d be, if I were able to command the Force – a paragon of justice and light, who just happens [...]

A quick recap, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet – Sebastian Marshall is a businessman. He does a lot of business-related things, one of which is writing about business. He wrote a book about his philosophy of doing business, and got a deal with Simon & Schuster for it. Then a number of things happened, not the least of which was a delay in S&S getting payment to him, and a rather [...]