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Depends on what you compare it to, I guess. You don't generally have to travel for miles to get anywhere in the UK, unless you live in the remote parts of Scotland, and urban areas are a lot more compact. Sizable towns tend to be the most convenient because they have all the amenities you need...

Cities do have their benefits. I spent nearly four years living in a pleasant town (of about 120,000 people) amongst amazing countryside and a few miles from many beaches and a national park, and had a brilliant time there...but there's no opportunity. Anyone with any ambition or drive gets out...

Not a quote as such, more a speech. Arnold Schwarzenegger's six rules for how to be successful. What a guy.

I used to have no energy whatsoever, sleep all the time and be extremely lazy. By a funny coincidence I also had a terrible diet, did no exercise and was very overweight. Nowadays I'm a fitness freak and I have a good diet, sleep far less than I should and go out drinking til 2am on a work...

Marui, unfortunately. I bought it years ago but it seems everyone else makes far superior stuff nowadays!

Airsoft!

Ahh gas blowback pistols are awesome. I also bought a KSC USP .45 at the time aswell, full metal. Felt really solid. Surprisingly accurate and well ranged for such a small piece of kit aswell. Unfortunately in the intervening years it's been left at my dads house some kid nicked it. Now the...

I always suffer in some uncomfortable way if I eat bad food. Every now and then I'll crave a pizza or something, eat it, instantly feel terrible and then remember why I eat healthily in the first place.

Anyone here play airsoft? I had a passing interest in it years ago and bought an M16A2 and MP5A4 (Tokyo Marui for anyone that knows their airsoft) as it was looking like they were going to make the sale, import or manufacture of replica firearms illegal in the UK. As it happens, they did...

It's not a case of it simply being a "bad ending", it literally makes no sense at all, within the context of the story itself. It's absolutely something that can and should be fixed. It's by no means unprecedented anyway, Blade Runner and the Director's Cut of the same have wildly different...

I don't understand how they managed to screw up the ending so damn badly. The game as a whole was, I thought, stunningly well written. In fact, if we ignore the small things like the stupid side quests and having such an abundance of credits that you can basically buy everything, I thought...

It was pretty funny, especially when he started to do some very animated hand gestures to accompany his story of how he stabbed this guy in Afghanistan in the middle of a crowded restaurant.

I know a number of Royal Marines, since their HQ is 8 miles down the road from me. There are a fair few at my jiu jitsu club, as you might expect. Amazing individuals, without exception. There is one guy who's been in the Marines for over 20 years and has potentially sociopathic tendencies, who...

Haven't finished it yet, but I'm really enjoying this. I was completely hooked when I first played the original Mass Effect, couldn't stop playing it until I was finished - although after I was done with it I thought it could have been a whole lot better. Mass Effect 2 I thought was a...

In silent protest at being on a bloody merry-go-round. It may have been just a little bit entertaining...

That's pretty cool. I suspect some of that stuff will be pretty incredible over the next few decades. I got accepted at a few places to do a degree in Aerospace Engineering (with an obligatory additional foundation year in maths and physics), but I decided against it in the end because my brain...

All fields within process control & industrial automation. As well as electrical engineers for power distribution and renewable energy. Almost all DO have qualifications, but usually a one or two year certificate/diploma or something vocational. And unless we're talking serious R&D stuff, a...

I recruit engineers. So yes.

The really important skills for success in work and in life can't be learned in a classroom or a lecture hall, assuming of course that one is literate and numerate and so forth. Which makes the modern-day obsession with widespread higher education all the more baffling. I don't see why more...

I've done that. Played with all the ini tweaks imaginable, even the ones which are supposed to equalise the x- and y-axis. None of it makes any difference. :|