Monte Carlo

Go Italia, go!

That seems to be seriously channeling Mystery Men... ...but they got the "Lightning Bolt" in so all is forgiven.

Mitt Romney must be quietly pleased, at last something to unite the fractious American centre right.

Just got WH40K Space Marine for UK

Why, Bio? WHY?

The trailer looks great and controversially has (gasps) the swastika in it. Ain't that illegal in some European countries?

I just killed the big boss after spider chick in Act III Hell (see how I keep up with the D3 lore?) and got two uniques with Nephalim Valour 5. They were 'almost useful but not quite' as opposed to 'completely crap.' Off to the AH with them! Go!

Sorry, Entrerix is more or less on the money: Kingdom of Heaven was a bit of a mess (not a disaster but has the 'scent of meh' about it) and Robin Hood mit Russell Crowe really was average. Ridley's mojo is on the wane, I am sad to say.

Level 60 at last. Yay! Tigs loaned me his Belt of Win and all of a sudden I'm just a teeny bit awesome

I am reading The Fear Index by Robert Harris, a thriller about a complex financial trading computer program that predicts fear in markets and trades accordingly. It has a fairly unsympathetic protagonist I'm struggling with TBH, but as with all of Harris' work the plotting and detail is compelling. Part of it, where all the mutli-zillionaire investors visit the clinical Swiss offices of the trading company, reads like a twisted version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

The Total Realism mod was great, it finally made the Phalanx really crap-yourself-scary.

I think, on reflection, that Rome:TW was the best of the series. I know it's heresy to say so, but there is something magnificent about it.

You have probably led a Life More Manly, Bro. These are like battle scars.

^ Ditto the BBC. I'd make it subscription only in a flash. It's another tax.

And even your retort proves my point. Badda-bing!

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/22/some-stalker-fallout-1c-proposes-a-nuclear-union/#more-113277 What do we think about this? Genius or utterly awful... I think it could be either.

It's Financial Suicide Simulator III. You play Greek hedge fund managers and score points, Angry Birds style, for jumping off of higher and higher office blocks belonging to financial institutions.

I'll let that go... Same ****, different name. Or what are these distinguished Canadian preferences you'd like to communicate to me? Wow you really are a bigot.

You live in a Scandie statist paradise and therefore your opinion is moot. The government takes my money and gives it to India, the feckless and to pay for schools that struggle to teach kids to read and write. I think the government has some gall asking me to pay for that.

Just finished the Sniper Elite V2 demo. Head-shotting Nazis at 200 metres with my Springfield is very good fun, especially with the physics engine taking into account heart-rate and windage. The anatomically correct and very gory bullet-cam is another gruesome addition. It looks nice, there's lots of stealth involved as well as hosing Fritz down with your MP40. Think I'll get the full version.

It was a tough movie to make. The book is too good. Xavier Bardem made the part his own and they nailed a lot of it. They just disappeared up their own arses at the end.

Mrs. MC and I often wistfully consider this. We spent almost ten years going on holiday to the states on road trips (in every flavour of hire car) but the classic RV trip always eluded us. When my son is older we might do it. I went to Oregon once, to a town called Alturas. It was great, we stayed in an old hotel and I half-expected Clint Eastwood in a poncho to enter the bar at any moment.

19K repair FFS? I'm in Hell and I find that the profit from beating a mob is 25% of my repair costs!

I'm not sure about Drive... the 80's styling / homage thing was a bit too contrived for me. And Ryan Gosling as an actor is a bit too cool for school. He was _much_ better in that politics movie with George Clooney. No Country for Old Men? 75% genius, 25% meh. The book was awesome, though. I haven't seen a History of Violence, but I think it has Viggo in it. I could watch him paint a wall and be interested, he's a great actor.

:: sighs :: I so badly want RV road trips. But I live in Britain. Which is laughably small.