Author: GriddleOctopus

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  • The Itch

    The Itch

    I keep getting diseases that are tortures. Not real tortures, not like ending up in a Turkish prison and having all that shit happening to you, whilst your president whistles the tune of the ECHR and shows the press your grave-to-be. Not that kind of torture. Just mild psychological torture.

  • What Choice Is

    What Choice Is

    This is what choice is. The universe is deterministic. Most objects in the universe don’t have control over their direction through it. However all objects have randomised internal structures. Some of those randomised structures resulted in inheritance – that is successor objects which retained protected elements of the previous objects, normally tiny. Once these were…

  • Stupidity's Unpopular Cousin: Intellectualism in the UK

    Stupidity's Unpopular Cousin: Intellectualism in the UK

    “to be an intellectual is to be someone motivated by ideas. That doesn’t mean that you’re simply interested in ideas, or that you enjoy the abstract reasoning associated with chewing through logical problems. It means that you’re someone who thinks about ideas and then changes their life on the basis of those ideas.”

  • Battleborn Review | Techradar

    Battleborn Review | Techradar

    There’s a fine line between bravery and foolhardiness; Battleborn straddles it, legs akimbo. On the one hand, it’s made a good effort to mingle MOBA and shooter mechanics, mixing the team combat, creeps cooldown specials and in-match levelling of a MOBA with the fast pace and face-to-face combat of an FPS. On the other, it’s…

  • Total War: Warhammer review – an intimidating blend of empire-building, strategy and high fantasy | Technology | The Guardian

    Total War: Warhammer review – an intimidating blend of empire-building, strategy and high fantasy | Technology | The Guardian

    Warhammer is a range of tabletop strategy games; Total War is a series of historical battle simulations. Combining the two should have produced a black hole of nerdiness so unapproachable it would crush all mortals. Strangely, however, this is probably the most accessible each game has been for years. Source: Total War: Warhammer review –…