We're all for tolerance of other people's beliefs here at Kontraband, but it's always cheering to hear about Scientology taking a beating because it seems to rest on manipulation, the promise of life-improvements and lots of other batsh#t. Using pseudo-psychological processes like "returning" to erase painful memories called "engrams" (a term Mr Hubbard stole from neuropsychology), they seek to enlighten, but are in fact doing the opposite by closing people's reality tunnels.

All Hubbard's theorizing is just the raping and pillaging of modern science for his own means, warping, bending and reshaping to fit his personal philosophy. Which is fine, but to turn that into a cult which claims legitimacy, well, it doesn't strike me as a trustworthy organisation.

Which is why it's good to hear this, that they've been convicted of fraud because that's what they are: fraudsters.

Death, it stalks us - according to the Toltec shamans - at every turn in our lives, every corner it's behind us, following us. We cannot avoid it, even when we try to escape from reality when we play video-games. As this gruesome yet awesome list of morbid scenes from PC games shows.

It has the exploding, fiery, twitching, detailed dying bodies of the creatures from Starcraft 2 - those developers must be some sick puppies. It also has the disturbingly enjoyable catastrophe of a roller coaster crashing into innocent men, women and children in RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 and the haunting sight of a field of slain Romans from Rome: Total War.

It's got plenty more as well, so go check it out for your morose afternoon death fix.