Good news is that it’s such a bastard to program efficiently that most games don’t make full use of it and you can get away with a certain amount of approximation in its behaviour for speed. Nice work, Sony.

Compare that with z80 or 6502 based machines, where you need to be beyond cycle perfect in some cases. Need to simulate every rising and falling edge for the CPU and its coprocessors in a SNES if you want to avoid every edge case, for instance.

Thought they were running GPT on a Playstation3 cluster, there. Sure, get the PS3 for cheap, but spare parts will be a bastard.

You killing them with artillery, or you just have very small handwriting?

Ah yes. I remember preparing a recipe once that included frying up the ingredients in a cup of oil, and that turns out seriously fucking greasy if you use the UK cup size.

Bear in mind that the gallon we use is different from the US gallon, too:

• a UK gallon is eight (imperial) pints of 20 fluid ounces, so 4.54 litres
• a US gallon is 231 cubic inches, so 3.79 litres

The reason that I thought American car fuel economy was so terrible as a child is partly because UK mpg is +20% on US mpg for the same car on the same fuel. But also, because American car fuel economy is so terrible.

A mace is a tool to defeat plate armour - can still cause bludgeoning damage and concussion just by smacking it hard enough. Regular soldiers would probably be wearing mail, which can be defeated by a piercing sword, and peasants would have a gambeson at the very best, which can be defeated with slicing swords or (preferably) axes.

No, these are weapons for killing aristocrats.

I’m thinking buy a little cocaine, and then blow the rest on strippers. Treat yourself.

Clicking the ‘Activate’ link prompts you to enter your shoe size and postal address, so that you may receive a shark plush toy and your own pair of The Socks.

Ah, I thought that the Wendigo was posting about its love of the outdoors on its blog. The internet has ruined me. I suppose it would end up a bit hungry if it was that far from its neighbours.