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Far Cry Primal. I can see some of the points people made about it dragging along. The story side isn't very pointed or guided, so it's very much a free-roam build things up, explore the world, gather resources, gather more resources, then "oh wow, I found a story related mission!" Still, it's a pretty gorgeous looking game, and the roaming and exploration is entertaining in its own way.

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of those books I pretty much read at least once a year. There's just something about it that always manages to pull me in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwJzTsb2QQ&

I was somewhat amused to see all the outrage Trump has caused... by driving a golf buggy on the driving green at the golf course.

Looked at the steam sales, but eh, having just had to spend money to replace the damn DVD drive on my PC I think I shall hold back for the moment. I'll continue to hunt animals in Far Cry Primal for the time being.

I have to admit, with the mix of handling the job hunt, life chores, relationship breakups and all the rest of it, I've been letting my usual exercise routines drop out of practice the last month or two. I need to get back into the proper rhythm of things again. Edit: After a year of job hunting, I've decided to bite the bullet and go back to university to finish off my degree. Got my acceptance letter today, now I just have to see if I can secure the student loans to cover tuition and living fees....

Had the joys of my PC lock up, stutter, then crash last night. Before rolling into a very, very slow boot up to BIOS screen, followed by black screen of "Unable to find boot device" with occasional angry beeps. The moment I unplugged the DVD drive from it's sata connection, the whole thing worked again. I guess since it looks like I have to replace said DVD device, I might as well do the upgrade to an internal Blu-Ray...

For that oddity of legal issues... NC law - woman can't back out of sex once underway

First hour or so of Far Cry Primal. Have to admit, it is a beautiful looking game.

Ah....found it. DramaFever website. Awesome. Now to immerse myself. You might want to hunt down Sars-Fansubs. They do a lot of unofficial translations and providing for download, but for various reasons it doesn't qualify as illegal torrenting or wotnot. When a Japanese or Korean drama show actually comes out on an official translatable dvd or what have you in the western world they take down the shows they've made available through fan subbing.

Hm, and Far Cry Primal is on Amazon.co.uk for only £21.50 - just for digital copy. So that's half price by all the usual places for it. Treating myself and planning to give a try at some primeval roaming and hunting.

The one thing to pay attention to with Jules Verne, is that due to various reasons, there is a large amount of badly translated books out there. In fact a lot of the original translations added pages, words, and renamed things. It's more the last quarter of a century or so that decent translations have been published, but a lot of the freely available from public domain versions are based off the original translations from back in the day rather than the more accurate recent ones.

He does kind of clock up there with H G Wells as one of the fathers of sci-fi. Plus these days he's considered fairly influential on the steampunk genre. I'm trying to ponder if you're serious about asking if anybody had heard of him, or if it's just my general case of bookworm/geek-hood that makes me think he's much more wildly known than he is.

For those people across the Atlantic, this might be one worth a considered check up.. Millions got free amazon credits from an apple lawsuit and it expires this following Saturday

Life in Shadows. A set of short stories by Elliot Kay. It comes with the label: Warning: Life in Shadows contains explicit violence, extended explicit sex scenes, explicit karaoke, profanity, rampant nudity, assault, murder, breaking and entering, belligerent urban wildlife, premeditated sexual promiscuity, vehicular assault, reckless endangerment, attempted kidnapping, attempted robbery, attempted ritual demonic possession, blatant violation of state regulations of adult entertainment, punching, kicking, cutting, stabbing, shooting, hair-pulling, name-calling, ****-shaming, cheap Halloween costumes, strippers, hipsters, poseurs, police, personal calls while on duty, arson, destruction of private property, lingerie, war criminals, break-up text messaging, lesbian demon seduction, accusations of Mary Suedom, poor workplace morale, premarital sex, nude calisthenics, immolation, false identification, ruthless exploitation of personal beauty, unsafe crowd control standards, vertigo, destruction of evidence, elitism, racism (don’t worry, he dies), open relationships, workplace scapegoating, adult use of plumbing implements, fantasy depictions of witchcraft and paganism, at least one reincarnated ancient European warlord, and a girl-on-girl grenade fight. All characters are over the age of 18, except the aforementioned reincarnation of an ancient European warlord. That gets sketchy.

The first Watch Dogs was pretty awesome, shame it was so underrated, for having the downgraded graphics and awful driving mechanics, it sure made up for it with its great story and hacking/tech mechanics. I think partly it was that while the hacking was an interesting experimental twist on the open world gaming concept, it didn't really have the weight to carry the whole game. That and the protagonist was a fairly unlikeable jerk. Watch Dog 2 is a bit more entertaining, pushes the humour side of things out more. But it has a certain fuzzy opening and shallow start to the story. It doesn't really kick in for story depth until you've already done about half the game. I'm not actually sure what the point of grabbing/earning cash is in the game. Apart from a couple of clothes, and picking up the quadcopter drone, I pretty much have no reason to spend it. The protagonist is a slightly geeky, caught in the works and turned hacker character who isn't a hardened and practiced killer. So it makes much more sense to use the stun gun if you do screw up the hacking side of things and can't ghost/trick your way through the majority of missions. So it's not as if you need to buy guns and ammo.

Saw that Uplay has Watch_Dogs 2 on sale for 50% and decided to splurge and pick up a copy. Going to start playing it after a bit of lunch and a fresh cup of tea.

You might not, but I do. I barely tolerate RTwP, but I adore turn-based. I'm also curious how RTwP has gotten better. What, fundamentally, has changed about it over the years? Very much this. Also, if I were to pay for it, I would show them that there is a market for RTwP RPG's, they wouldn't know or care that I immensly dislike those mechanics; They still recieved my money. I would like to put up for example, the turn based conflicts in Torment: Numenera. I would be perfectly happy with RTwP compared to the horror feeling of facing yet another Torment Numenera combat.

Tomb Raider (2013) followed by Rise of the Tomb Raider. And of course, they went the multimedia route, because Tomb Raider (2013) does Lara's first reveal that the weirdly supernatural mythological/archaeology thing exists, but does a touch of the torture porn and showcases what a hardened killer she can become.. Then they tell the story of what happens in the immediate aftermath, the recovery, plus the initial introduction of the bad guys in Rise of the Tomb Raider in a novel set between the games. I do keep meaning to pick up the Baba Yaga dlc when it's on sale at some point, but so far haven't gotten around to it.

I actually just started a replay of Rise of the Tomb Raider. Not sure what drove that mood.

Hm, doesn't look too bad for a reboot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUDV0CUzG0k&feature=youtu.be Although apparently Sutherland will be putting in an appearance. So not sure if it's meant to be a loose follow-on or just him as a cameo.