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Indeed. A man who admits to comittting rape, and then accuses the women of being hysterical definitely needs a publicist. ~~ I probably shouldn't have laughed, but this story cracked me up.

Brainwave: Leisure Suit Larry.

Congratulations, man. A blow against the tyranny of the mediocre. Now, quickly move to your penguin based office model and see the rewards roll squawking in!

You have to like a man who says "Yeah, this post-apocalyptic wasteland is OK, but can I make it MORE apocalyptic?"

I'm not sure I'd have been happy with whatsisface the legate calling me gay and laughing in a voice which hasn't broken yet, while griefing by hiding in inaccessible map segments. Hence pvp strikes me as ...suboptimal.

For some reason it feels perfect this morning. I think I may have broken my brain. EDIT: For the love of god, don't watch the video, just listen to it. I do not endorse the incredibly poor quality visuals. Unless maybe it's like Alanis singing about irony with the ironic lyrics that contain no reference to irony.

'm fatigue irritated, but it occurs to me that a lot of this academic research is unfocussed and unbelievably slow. At least compared with research inside companies. Also, while academic researchers invent ideas, real technological leaps come when those concpets are married to manufacturing kno-whow so that novel technologies can be made at a cheap enough price to transcend performance s-curves. Discuss, or ignore, too tired to choose.

Had a bout of hiccupping last night . Not serious until I doscovered I had graunched my back. Got almost no sleep, despite necking pills. Two hours just before dawn left me feeling quite human. Now in that half-twilight world where I you can do familiar actions, but the unfamiliar leave the mind cold, still, and unresponsive. May have radio interview later. Joy.

Maybe an ammunition bandolier? That would be pretty cool.

I'll keep that in mind. Must be due an upgrade sometime soon. I should add that my last upgrade qualified for a smartphone but I parlayed it into a craptonne of free minutes.

I've been on nil by mouth. The first thing you eat when you come off it tastes 100 times better than it has any right to. Please convey this to tarna along with my instructions to have a good fillet steak and a good Argentine red.

Interesting point. I don't have a smartphone because when I'm out and about I don't want a gnat's battery life. Just a thought, but surely the 'herd' are always (and quite logically) going to rely on being in the herd?

I was about to go to bed, but a thought occurred to me: In every RPG I can think of, and in fact in shooters and even some simulations, the 'bad guy' is entirely scripted. Event triggers or sometimes time triggers cause pre-set actions to be thrown at the player. This works for a bit, but becomes very tedious very quickly. Plus with save and reload, the shock value of big shifts is either obviated entirely or so heavily scripted that the narrative impact is lost in annoyance. What I want - what I suggest we ALL want - is to be Holmes vs. Moriarty. To pit our wits against a clever and resourceful and CHANGING opponent. By which I mean changing and clever at an operational level. I accept that this will be genuinely difficult to do. But I also suggest that it is at least one way in which gaming might take a proper step forward.

My bad. Sorry.

WARNING! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! Be very very careful about how you build your character. Check guides.

Slacker I demand a review in the medium of interpretive home baking.

The EDL's all a bit like trying to solve sexual discrimination in the workplace by setting fire to trees. I'm all "Oh good. Waitaminute..."

Mmmm... Polish beer.

It really is damned catchy, isn't it? I keep wanting to buy it, but don't know any way to do so. The EDL are an interesting bunch. Bonkers, but interesting. The irony is that by attacking Muslims they are helping cement AlQ propaganda. AlQ would dearly love for everyone to think all Muslims are evil, because then all Muslims would have little choice but to get behind AlQ's take-over-the-world-or-die agenda. Anyway, not the place for that discussion.

Bad day with my back. Am listening to 1940s music which is surprisingly analgesic.

Gotta love that movie.

According to the review of the relationsip in the book Razor's Edge, Hugh Bicheno describes a lot of near misses and frankly mental behaviour on both sides. Makes me angry when I think how much of our country's international behaviour up to and including war comes down to the gossamer imaginings of convinced pacifists, communists and pan-Europeans. Britain has a significant weight in world affairs, both economically and militarily, and I just want to grab people by the lapels and shout at them to try a bit bloody harder.

If you've got a strong historical case for the plot then I'd say run with it. Parrallels with Apocalypse Now may turn people off but it will turn others on. I'd guess it'd be a crapshoot how those numbers balance out. I also don't know how many man hours it will take for you to do the book. Keep us posted. Sounds fun.

It's probably worth adding that while there's a very strong thread of pro-US thinking in the UK upper echelons, popular culture is sickeningly racist about the US as fat warmongers and fools. It wouldn't take much to shift the UK away from the US. One populist PM. Milliband or Nick Clegg. Take us straight into the EU camp. *bitter laugh* Nonetheless, I hope it won't happen. Whatever troubles we face with Europe an Atlantic perspective is our best bet for maintaining our independence and prosperity. I reckon.