… Oops, I didn't notice the thread was nine years old! I think it's an interesting subject in any case.

(I don't remember what I used to post ten years ago. One or two messageboards I used to post on at the time are still alive but… I'm afraid to check, haha.)

Welcome!

But rather than an evenly spread decline in standards of living, I'd expect a shrinking number of people to maintain high standards at the expense of a growing underclass. That is to be expected. :| Some egalitarian societies (e.g. the Ju/’hoansi ) have managed to survive for a very long time; they...

On the one hand, it's incredible to see how far humanity has come from the early days and the progress we're still making in science, medicine and technology. In many ways, life is better nowadays than it's ever been — poverty worldwide is declining , violence has decreased dramatically , more and m...

My 2017 favourites — plenty of electronic music and weird stuff: ♫ Albums and EPs: Ben Frost – The Centre Cannot Hold (experimental, industrial) Djrum – Broken Glass Arch (electronic) Blanck Mass – World Eater (electro-industrial) Sarah Davachi – All My Circles Run (drone, contemporary classical) Ar...

I tried The Deer God , which was on sales on EU PSN, but had to uninstall it because it was too glitchy and almost unplayable at the end. Too bad because it was a fun, atmospheric little game. That's too bad… I want to play this one someday, if only because of how good the visuals are. Especially t...

Christmas cookies!

Finished: 　 Professor Layton and Pandora's Box 　 Radiant Historia 　 Ghost Trick Currently playing: 　 Boxboxboy! 　 Shin Megami Tensei IV I had slept on the Professor Layton series at the time, but they're really addictive. I liked Radiant Historia very much too, except for the last dungeon and trying...

They're banning words now… :shock: Trump Administration Reportedly Instructs CDC On Its Own Version Of 7 Dirty Words Why the CDC’s “7 banned words” is worse than you think The seven words that were to be stricken from official documents being drafted for the 2019 fiscal year budget, according to the...

Happy post-birthday!

The way winters are traditionally pictured in folklore and the arts may seem less and less realistic to future generations. Maybe settings with a biting cold and snow everywhere will evoke remote or imaginary countries instead of winter as they know it. We have a word for “sensitive to the cold” in ...

The lawnmower is an important invention in sports-history. Especially so for the British Lawn Mower Racing Association . Getting dark at 15:00. I like winter — city lights, hot drinks, listening to night-time music (or playing survival horror games) when it's still early in the evening… snow when t...

French can get pretty crazy. Nearly every letter can be silent, it's very common to find three successive silent letters in a word, and H is never pronounced but has two different ways of being silent. The full past participle agreement rules are so complicated they take up about a dozen pages in gr...

My husband had to have one, but I made us a RetroPie not too long ago so, outside of the unreleased Starfox 2, I didn't see the need to have one <.<. But, I'll give him credit, he didn't have to pay a ridiculous amount for it, as he actually got it preordered on time. I would have been pissed if he...

Meanwhile, ICQ still exists but everyone I know has stopped using it about ten years ago… and I don't know if anyone misses MSN Messenger. (The one platform French people of my generation miss is Caramail, but it was more than an instant messenger: it was a free e-mail service with integrated chatro...