Raithe

As someone who joined the initial kickstarter on Star Citizen, I performed my annual "okay, lets update the launcher and see how much hassle it is to log in and run things now" out of curiosity. Had to make about 5 attempts before it would recognise my login and password, had to uninstall and reinstall it all, then loaded into the port. Spent about 15 minutes roaming around trying to figure out where my ship was while everything was distinctly laggy, and decided to give it up as a bad job today. Maybe I'll try again later in the week.

Its more that every now and again you get a day where I post about 10 things on the funny things forum. And occasionally put a snarky political comment / meme in the middle of a serious political discussion....

Now not mine, but I did fine it amusing when I saw it:

I have the complete set of 6 fully... That's what happens when you reset your feats after building each..... <whistles innocently> The term is panthiestic...

When you start mixing your building styles...

It's the cat pictures. Everyone loves internet cat memes on a gaming forum....

Enola Holmes. One of netflix adaption from a young-adult series of books. Interesting and engaging in its way, Henry Cavil as a slightly warmer Sherlock Holmes than you might expect, and Millie Bobby Brown (of Strange Things fame) playing the lead role of Enola, the young Holmes sister raised in isolation by their mother (Helena Bonham Carter) with a very unfeminine education. When their mother disappears the Holmes brothers return home to discover things weren't quite as they expected, and Enola decides to take off on her own to discover the world and find her mother rather than end up in the finishing school Mycroft was trying to send her to. Enola has a lot of fourth-wall breaking stuff, talking her thoughts directly to the camera as she outwits her brothers and tries to chart her own path, while getting entangled in a few mysteries along the way and proving she's a lot closer to Sherlock rather than being a "proper" lady. It does kind of feel like a pg-13 version of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock films.

They have their ups and downs. The first one has a protagonist who is a pretty much a total *****, so that can affect your mileage on it. The "hacking" aspects provide some interesting environmental factors, and it was a quirky feature that you could potentially have friends join in your game to act as opposing hackers and run certain missions opposite you, but that was much more of a gimmick then something that held truly solid. Apart from that it was a pretty standard open world run around and make money, increase skills, be slightly crazy and unravel corporate conspiracy around advanced technology and the nature of privacy / security and the growth of the internet. Watch Dogs 2 was a lot better all the way around, but again, it can depend on how your mileage may vary for that sort of open-world action-adventure gameplay.

I do keep meaning to do a re-run of ME Andromeda at some point. Ah well. I have now managed to spend slightly over 70 hours in Conan Exiles exploring and building. Worked out that for an engagement value of £1 an hour, it was value to pick up the DLC's and have all the added aesthetics for my building shenanigans.

I have to join the pack in mentioning Cyberpunk as the key anticipation. There is that mix of dread awaiting to see just how Vampire will turn out, hoping for more but worried it's going to crash and burn. Also, I'm a touch curious on just how well Watchdogs:Legion will shape up. The idea of no central protagonist and the multitude of potential members of le resistance.

Christopher Lee IS the center of everything important...

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That night time construction in the jungle...

For that fantasy RIP... Terry Goodkind passed away yesterday. "To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here, we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else’s. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is . . . Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it."