Somebody at the Beeb was playing too much Halo…

Especially if you enable ad-blocker. ;-P

“Sierra Donor Services contacted plaintiff again and advised that it had the right to make the decision to remove Gloria Woods from life support and then to harvest the organs of Gloria Woods in light of the Department of Motor Vehicle records.”

“Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes four years ago, the Colorado teenager says TSA screeners forced her to go through a full-body scanner in Salt Lake City last week, breaking her $10,000 insulin pump in the process.”

The Oppenheimers and the Orwells.

“Again and again, studios churn out the same story of saving the world, the same inhuman flat-as-a-pancake characters, the same lack of moral nuance, the same horrifically violent foundations (who actually enjoys the murder-porn segments of military shooters in which you rack up fifty kills per minute from an invulnerable gunship?), the same insipid dialogue, the same absence of intellectual maturity, the same disregard for the real existential dilemmas human beings face. The end result of this, for anyone who both plays games regularly and actually cares about such things, is that you feel—despite the surface-level fun—like you’re wasting hours of your life that you will never get back on mindless adolescent escapism.”