Raithe

https://vimeo.com/183479286

I think in some ways it's easy to forget that the original MacGyver was mostly working for that fuzzily undefined Government funded think-tank / agency. But that was just more of a mechanism to get Mac involved in various things, so there was rarely any particular emphasis on it. In this day and age, they always tend to put a big focus on the organisation in todays tv shows.

Did you try the Beyond Earth expansion? I heard it made it a lot better, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to throw more money at it. I want to try the expansion.. but I really can't justify basically buying a 2nd game to make the first one decent. Which the way they're pricing it, is pretty much seems to be.

Don't get distracted by.. oooh.. shiny!

When I was a kid, I remember going across the Bay of Biscay on the Canberra. Even with the cruise liner stabilisers, the amount of passengers that got extremely seasick due to those rolls was quite entertaining for someone who wasn't bothered by it. I've been in an odd and somewhat introverted/anti-social mood this weekend, so I pretty much ignored the adult world and for the first time in years re-read David Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean series (well okay, I've only got about 3 books into the Mallorean at current time). Kind of odd to think that Eddings is now dead, and that the Belgariad was originally written in the early 80's.

Because...

Since I've been catching up on odd tv lately, I watched Hooten and The Lady. A UK production for Sky originally, it's a genial romp that's firmly inspired by the old Alan Quartermain / Indiana Jones style pulp adventures. Has Ophelia Lovibond playing the descended-from-nobility Englishwoman who works for the British Museum finally getting to go out into the field. Once there she ends up in the Amazon jungle facing cannibals, murderous Frenchmen, hidden treasures, and runs into Hooten, a roguish American adventurer (played by Michael Landes). From the looks of it they've put some money into filming on locations in South Africa, Cambodia and various other places for it. The pilot episode seems to establish that they aren't worried about being substantial or serious about any of it, just simple pulp adventure fun in the modern day. I gather that each episode will focus on some different artefact and roam around the world.

I tried the new MacGyver. It's hm. I'm not getting the magic from it. I mean I know it might be fond nostalgia for childhood memories, but the original as cheesy as it could get had a sense of fun to it? While there are some amusing moments to the new one, I'm not sure it's actually getting that sense of fun as a whole. It might just be because they had to reshoot the pilot and it's still shaky ground. So I'll probably give it a few more episodes before I can make up my mind on it properly. It runs through a few standard clichés, the current trend to have the sexy female hacker, the obvious twists, and the setup for the potential mysterious big bad. They've kept Mac's commentary to the audience, and they've added in cgi text identifying components during the MacGyver jury-rig moments.

The first Watch Dogs was one that had great promise, and then went nowhere. So I'm firmly in the "eh, I'll wait and see, and maybe get it when its on steam sales 9 months down the line"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv3vMSEBF1A

Well, to be fair, I would like to see more about the Hotel and the characters that make it up. Maybe it was Ian McShane and Lance Reddick and various others in those supporting roles, but you just had that sense of there being stories behind everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRp1CK_X_Yw