Can Christians ever manage to reclaim Christmas as a Holy Day? Well, in the first place, technically they'd be re-reclaiming it, given they stole the holiday from Paganist beliefs in the first place, particularly Mithras worship. Mithras? Christmas? Noticing a similarity there? There's absolutely no evidence that Jesus was b...
I've voted for 'no' rather than 'yes' on this simply because I can't understand why she would bother in the first place. The only thing I can think of is so Rowling could generate a little publicity for the books and generate a few more sales; this would have made sense in a year or two when the books weren't flying off the ...
This really is a rather vague comparison, like apples and oranges, or perhaps like asking 'Which is more entertaining, television or radio?'. Both have their strong sides, and both really rather depend on which specific game you're looking at. Comparing an MMORPG like World of Warcraft to Snakes and Ladders wouldn't really b...
There's quite a few websites about nowadays with half a dozen games on, and not much else. There's also quite a few with hidden costs, where you need to pay to access some features. Some are fairly reasonable, like www.pogo.com, which charges a nominal annual fee for full access to all its games, and has dozens of games whic...
It's very easy to consider Snape an untrustworthy character; Rowling spends an awful lot of time through the series setting him up as a very unlikeable character. He's unpleasant to the hero, play favourites, is unpleasant to look at, and has, to say the least, a very chequered past. Indeed, in most of the books, if villainy...
I'm going to vote no on this, but only the strictest possible interpretation of the title. Which bears a little closer examination, before I explain why. "Will people eventually write their own version of the Bible, in the manner of, say, Wikipedia?" First of all, it might be worth reminding readers what Wikipedia is. The wh...
I could recommend science fiction books until the cows come home, so for reasons of brevity, I'm going to quickly suggest ten novels no-one should go through life without reading at least once. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury - A glimpse of a possible future where the very act of owning a book has been made illegal. Gripping...
I'll be trying very hard to veer away from Space Opera in this article, as opposed to actual science fiction; Star Wars, as an example, is no doubt extremely famous, but to me, it fails to really challenge perception in the way good science fiction should. You could easily replace the setting with, say, medieval Japan, and k...
I don't believe in miracles, but I'd better be clear on what I consider a miracle. According to Mirriam-Webster, a miracle is defined as "an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs". And there's the problem right there, the D-word. For something to be a bona-fide miracle, it would have to be divi...
City of Heroes is one of those games that I keep hoping another company will emulate, and produce a similar setting. I wanted to like this game so very, very much, and indeed, it certainly has its good points, but they just don't make up for the bad. Why not? Read on... I'm a big comic book fan, always have been. Not to the ...
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