The Hall of Fire

Like some here, I find the substitution of other words far more annoying than swearing.

If youy want to say F***, say it, don't say flip.
If you want to say S**t, say it, don't say shoot.

The substitutions are far more "immature" to me than simply saying what you mean.

Interestingly...

While I don't have a problem with swearing in my daily life, I do kinda object to it in video games.

Go figure.

Which thread should I discuss that in

I suppose a clue is in order.

What do the Ians have in common, that makes them not?

Swearing is a fact of life in Ireland. Everyone does it but nobody means it. As a result, its pretty hard to insult us. We're too used to our friends calling us dickheads to pay attention when someone really means it. My bosses from the top down, all swear. In a peculiar way, guys on the floor have ...

Here's the link Kams is refering to.

http://downloads.comingsoon.net/snowlarge.mov

This is far more interesting to me than Ringers, which was really poor to be honest. I certainly intend buying these, but I may wait for someone to pick them up as a Cristmas pressie

First clips starting to appear!

http://progressive.stream.aol.com/newli ... 12k_dl.mov

Mines not really a groaner, its a genuine crossword type clue, albeit targeted at a particular audience.

Either will work

I really see opinions on this subject being a bit bimodal... in two dimensions, actually. There are the people who are adults (or insolent pups :P) who have played the games for years, and find themselves feeling vaguely accused of some sort of latent evil for even wanting to pursue them. These adu...

Ok. Quickie.

Ians Head Covering (10)

Conga Rats?

An interesting sidebar to this discussion. Rockstar Games, who make the notorious GTA games recently announced a new game called "Bullies" and the reaction was, predictably, major. Bully gets picked on in the House of Commons Thursday 27-Oct-2005 2:52 PM MP Keith Vaz is concerned over Rock...

Only teasing you V! You should know by now that if I have something to say nothing will stop me from saying it, even in the face of my better judgement

But Alatar, saying that the destruction of the Ring is in accordance with Eru's will is not saying that the Pinkie of God nudged Gollum over the edge. That would be a cheat. Believing that Eru had a plan for Middle-earth doesn't turn everyone into a robot. For the Ring to be destroyed, a lot of peo...

I'm assuming you don't mean me

I vote for 1. I agree with everything you said Prim, except if you think its ok after all that for God to "make Gollum slip". If he's going to intervene directly (and making Gollum fall is direct intervention) he might as well have struck it with lightning at the Council of Elrond. It chea...

As usual, I disagree. To be honest, if I believed for one second that the climax of the novel was a huge Deus Ex Machina I'd never read it again. It would defeat the entire purpose of the novel. "Small hands do them, because they must", except not really cause at the last minute when they ...

Hmm. Anyone interested in watching the Keira movie now?

Very few people, reading LotR once or even twice, would pick up on the 'spiritual' undertones. Tolkien does keep it very subtle and low-key...always in the background or off-stage. But it is there , and once you know about it, you can't ignore it (sorry, vison !) God, in the form of Providence, doe...

What Mith said.