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Are there enough mods to prune the 0-post accounts resurfacing as spambots?

phpBB doesn't seem to have much for spam control, the built-in CAPTCHAs hardly work.

Maybe it's time to jump over to bbPress before things get rolling too hard...

Rogue One slots in under Revenge of the Sith in my book. It's not as bad as Episode I, and could never be as bad as Episode II, but it doesn't gel for me. The characters are constantly making decisions or doing things that don't make any sense, or are at odds with what we've learned about them. Rem...

Is the forum now being backed up periodically?

I loved ME1 and even ME2. I've always been a PC gamer first, and even though the plot was wonky, it was the PC controls for ME2 being a bad port from a console that I really took offence to. I never got ME3 basically because EA refused to sell it on Steam. Still, I can't help but feel some interest ...

Waiting around for the new Cory Doctorow.

I highly recommend The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling!

Higurashi reminds me of Cardassian literature, with the endless march of generations performing the same service to fate...

Trudeau cancelling electoral reform in Canada will be a long-term benefit for the Tories and a lifeline to the Bloc Québecois.

Ultimately, it will be good for niche movies through the streaming services, and turn theatres -even more so than they are today- into humdrum places that all show the same set of mass-market films. Hardly the death of the art, but possibly the death of the 12-plex.