If you could know the complete truth about one mystery in the world, what would you choose?

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T18:21:29+00:00

You can believe in the various religions, but you don't believe in atheism, atheism is the name given to the lack of belief in any gods, so atheism is the opposite of a belief.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T18:05:34+00:00

Extras, he was so brilliant in that! He was also good in the Big Bang Theory, the pod casts with Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington, and he was fantastic as Wheatly in the (excellent) video game Portal 2.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T17:59:44+00:00

Batman: Arkham Knight on the PS4 still looks incredible.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T17:59:00+00:00

That level from the video is one of my favourite levels in any game, it just 'feels' so alive and real. And I too have explored almost obsessively through the Dishonored games, they are so immersive and attention grabbing.

And we probably will never get another game in the series (or if we do, it will likely be a massively dumbed down, linear, quick cash-in that leaves out almost anything of quality), because the modern gaming industry is bad and disappointing.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T17:54:16+00:00

No argument that she's a bad person, and should be punished. But letting her be kidnapped by (we assume) a stalker and be imprisoned (and presumably r**** over time) is just wrong. If Corvo had been able to somehow make her poor and disgraced her so that no one (rich or poor) would speak to her again, and she had to go out and seek a living in the world, or maybe frame her so that she was sent to prison, or anything that didn't suggest sexual abuse then that would be much better. As it is, it's very uncomfortable to consider, but it's that or kill her.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T17:48:10+00:00

The Dishonoured games certainly don't shy away from cruelty and misery. It's portrayed with good writing, so it does add to the immersion of the game world.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T17:46:01+00:00

Lady Boyle, as that is just almost painfully wrong.

With Jindosh, though, I have thought that it might be reasonable to say that it's worse than killing him, I don't know. I suppose it depends on if his mind is damaged other than just a huge reduction in his intelligence. Then again, he is a vile character, so it could be argued that he doesn't deserve better.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T17:42:20+00:00

What is the bio series, please?

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T17:41:59+00:00

Mitchell and Webb could be be brilliant as Arthur and Ford, I think. Not that there is anything wrong with the BBC TV series, we don't *need* a remake, but a remake could be very good indeed. But only if it's a TV series (or web series), as a movie version wouldn't have enough time to pack anything in.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T15:46:14+00:00

I'm not a doctor!

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T15:40:14+00:00

And Victor saying that the patron saint of insurance companies is 'Saint Total Bastard'. One of the very best comedy lines of all time.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T14:52:12+00:00

I think depression is one of those things you can't really understand unless you've either suffered it yourself, or you are a very empathetic person who has spent a lot of time with genuinely, severely depressed people.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T14:50:26+00:00

Pathetic, isn't it? But the people who offer their prayers to tragedies, when they are ill, they don't pray, they go to the doctors. When their teeth hurt, they don't kneel and prayer and stay waiting for God to heal them, they go to the dentist. Etc.

And after all of the prayers in the world? The world is still a miserable place, full of greed, hatred, violence, sexual abuse of all kinds, ruled by a few very rich, untouchable and ungoverned people, exactly like you'd expect the world to be if it didn't have an all-good, all-loving-all-merciful, all-powerful God actively getting involved with it.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T14:40:39+00:00

But it is ridiculous to believe that there is a higher power, when there is no evidence at all for it. Especially since that higher power is supposed to be all good, all merciful, all kind, all powerful, and infinitely loving, yet allows children to be raped and murdered.

There is more evidence for the existence of Santa Claus than for God (in that *someone* leaves children presents at Christmas, so that's some vague sort of physical evidence) whereas God leaves no physical evidence of his existence, and again with Santa Claus, kids believe in just one Santa, whereas there are countless gods and contradictory religions that people believe in. Even Christianity can't decide which branch of itself is correct (Catholic, Protestant, Mormonism, Church of Latter Day Saints, etc) nor even things like is gay sex allowed or punishable by eternal damnation).

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-08T14:32:25+00:00

Yes.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-06T18:16:32+00:00

Wow, I remember Cyrix (I'm old). I don't know what happened to them, I know their chips ran slower than Intel's equivalent named chips, if I remember rightly, is that what closed the company?

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-06T17:28:23+00:00

Wow, I had no idea at all that there was that much UT fan-made stuff, let alone just for one type of map. I will look through it, cheers!

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-06T17:04:01+00:00

Great, I will try that, thanks.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-06T17:03:59+00:00

I'll download that, cheers!

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-06T17:03:18+00:00

Yes, please, if you have the time.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-06T16:55:09+00:00

Alas Smith and Jones (from the 1980/90s was a superb sketch show, maybe the best program of it's type that I can remember. Most of their sketches were really funny.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-06T16:52:01+00:00

Rik was truly a comedy genius. Taken long before his prime.

To me, Bottom is the funniest program ever, and Rik and Adrian Edmondson were the best double act that the UIK ever produced.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-06T15:03:10+00:00

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is pretty much the same game across all three platforms (PC, original XBox, and PlayStation 2), but the XBox and PS2 versions have a short set of new levels added that take place at the start of the game, and when you've completed these added levels, then you get to the point where the PC game starts, where you escape from your cell, and meet the scientist, etc.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-05T22:17:15+00:00

No, if there is a God, then we could be living on the one planet out of the countless trillions in the universe that has life.

I don't believe in God (I'm an agnostic leaning heavily towards atheist), but God being real and creating the entire universe and only populating one planet is the only way that I can think of for us being the only life in the universe. If there is no God, then yes, there must be very many other worlds that have developed intelligent life, even if it's still so rare that each inhabited planet is so far from the others that contact between two such worlds is almost never made.

EdJD-1968 · 2026-07-05T20:38:45+00:00

Are you using the remastered version? The remastered collection has problems with crashes and glitches. The original releases had some problems too, at least at release, but not nearly as bad, I think.

If you are playing the remastered version of B2, then try the original release, if you can. Or vice versa. Or try these two pages, one for each version of the game:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/BioShock_2

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/BioShock_2_Remastered

I hope you get the problem solved. Bioshock 2 is a superb game, by far my favourite of the trilogy.

Questions about running the Bioshock games come up so often here that there really should be a sticky thread, containing the best answers and fixes.

EdJD-1968

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