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If they actually use the Pathfinder ruleset, it's more like a modified DnD3.5. Dang. Sniped.

Helping out at one of the local charity shops and going through a batch of donated books to sort. Found myself buried in 70's Romance-Erotica for women. Oh. My. God. The plotlines and heroines were just.. No words abound. I wonder how feminism actually made it through that time period.

It's being a pretty shambolic Election so far from all parties here in the UK. The Tories keep falling one way, Labour another, the party leaders are pretty much unlikeable and have things to heartily loathe for various reasons. After her latest screw-up, Diane Abbott has decided to "take a break to recover from stress and overwork" on the day before the election. I would really appreciate it if we could get someone I could vote FOR, rather then keep ending up in a position of having to choose who I'm voting AGAINST.

To just go for the lowbrow humour...

22 years, 3 developers, only 2 games - The fascinating history of the Prey series

I'd rather have a new game with the old graphics, but I'll take that. As long as they manage to hold back on "improving" the actual gameplay I'm down for this as changing the gameplay of a classic is always risky and more likey than not controversial. That said I'd love, love, love a "fixed version" of KotOR2 with improved graphics (as in, with the cut content put back in so the ending at least makes some semblance of sense). Well there is a fan-mod "fixed version" with the old graphics - Just in case you had missed it: http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-sith-lords-restored-content-mod-tslrcm/

For a report from last year... Scientists explain the ultimate earworm and what makes songs addictive

Chris Hemsworth Beats Up Avengers Toys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGyowoviKkc

Okay, I missed this promo being out, but something about the sheer cheese amused me.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLlwgBuKymo

I have to admit, Steam's been doing a thing lately where it crashes, but the process stays running and refuses to be ended. Then it'll hang on shutdown/reboot until I do a manual reboot.

Children now face fines if they don't get a permit to mow grass for money Edit: And yes, I know it's like a town of 14,000 or so and not widespread across America, but it's still a mixture of blink and eye roll over it happening.

Hilary Mantel - Women writers must stop falsely empowering female characters in history

Nurses Story: "Someone just screamed "F**K YOU PAUL RYAN" while we were inserting her IUD and I've never laughed so hard in my life"

"It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realise there is always a way to solve problems without using violence...."

For the British politics...

It's hard to like anything that relates to that film....

A fictional Himalayan country, ruled by the dictator Pagan Min. Also rebels called the Golden Path. And....that just about exhausts what I know about Far Cry 4. :D The fun thing about Far Cry 4, is it opens with you travelling to the fictional Himalayan country to find the place where your mother wants her ashes left, when said dictator picks you up from a tourist bus and slaughtering some "rebels" in front of you. You then get "rescued" and get to go on your Far Cry slaughtering rampage. But... if you'd ignored the rescue and stayed with the dictator, you'd have finished the game in 15 minutes because all he wanted to do was help you put your mother's ashes to rest where she wanted them.