For me, I was brought up on an Atari ST. Most of my fond early game memories were of this and DOS. The first game I ever completed was the epic colonisation strategy game, Millenium 2.2, when I was 8. :D I also remember being throughly owned by the classic that is UFO: Enemy Unknown (aka. X-COM: UFO...

One can argue that leaving education up to the parents is tyrannical in its own way, to which I must respond, "all children are brainwashed by someone; if it's a question of who's doing the brainwashing, I would rather have the parents responsible for it than any government." Of course, t...

I believe it is the duty of the government to provide at least basic education to its citizenship. Without this obligation; only the bourgeois and nobility would ever get educated, and progress of civilization as a whole would be slowed. This is especially important these days as well, because being...

Huh...never really struck me as cluttered. Probably because my widescreen gives it a stack of whitespace to either side, heh... Also, in retrospect, I suppose it very much reminds me of some of my own writing pads. I will use every inch of whitespace on a good page; and can manage staggeringly small...

BTW, does anyone know of any good anime blogs that are written by intelligent bloggers. Perferablly one written by a girl or at least not a guy who's got a fucking hard on and no girlfriend (aka sexually and socially repressed) and likes to mention "rape" "fap" or "moe"...

Yeah, its another example of delicious railtracking. But I agree, it was a fairly fun read. As for wizard wars; I guess it's just an obvious track to follow in any fantasy literature that has magic. People love power => People hate people with Power => People are People => People fight over power Se...

Yes, the lesson to be gained here is always read the small print before signing ANYTHING. No matter how boring. I caught my estate agent/landlord out on a dodgy clause because of this. This has also saved me when they try to sneak horrible DRM into some games. I think they expect some people to just...

I agree. The encounter rate seems to be higher while surfing too. All the more reason to throw a repel while surfing. Yeah, it was like a permanent slot in my party considerations for some time; the WATER KILLER, a powerful electric, just for the reason of horrible surfing encounters. My party usua...

Indeed, learning becomes much more fun, ironically, when you're out of school.

College and University are always great memories for me, and I still enjoy sucking up new information...

Most of the time, for me at least, I start with a name and build a character and story around it, rather than writing a story based around nameless NPCs and naming them later. But, when stuck, I often use Behindthename to help with names. I even used it to name my Etrian characters LOL. ^_^' Hmm, I ...

I always found Tentacool to be worse. To the point where I'd always use a repel when surfing.

Yes indeed, the huge save slots are the only means to enjoy all of the Taiga Workshops again in FSN; or the rather large number of Tsukihime Endings. LOL.