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R Lee Ermey. Had been a Staff Sergeant in the Marines after something like 11 years of service. Served time in Vietnam, and at some point post FMJ the Marine Corps made him an Honorary Gunnery Sergeant. He had been brought on to FMJ as a technical advisor, but because he was so good at explaining it and showing it to the guy who was supposed to be the DI, Kubrick decided to have him play the full role. Also of note, given Kubricks massively micromanaging and controlling type of directing, Ermey has been one of the few actors Kubrick allowed to improvise dialogue and actions. A massive chunk of the DI stuff were things that weren't in the actual script.

Out of curiosity I plugged my way through the Deus Ex Go game app. A nice enough run of logic puzzled wrapped up all together, and of course they've linked it to the new game by allowing players to "win" extra praxis kits for Mankind Divided by achieving certain things.

And a large chunk of that was purely because of the casting of that Gunnery Sergeant as the DI.

I was puttering around with an ME2 re-play but I paused and got distracted by other things. Now I'm pondering on getting back into it. Or just waiting for my copy of Deus Ex Mankind Divided to turn up in the week....

For the cat lovers out there... Majestic Maine Coon Cats

Hit the first anniversary of my mother's passing. I have to admit, I really did think I'd have managed to get somewhere by now. Well I've been continue to hammer away on the attempt to get my life restarted and once more into the working world. Which keeps hitting a wall. I will also admit that I'm definitely sliding into that partially resentful feel over half my life having disappeared as her carer because it's left me in this position. Which then adds a touch of guilt because I recognise that resentment kicking in after the fact. However, for the chance of doing something useful I'll be starting a work placement with a charity group for the next 8 weeks. What's supposed to be a mix of business, book keeping, research, marketing, minor IT stuff and bid writing.

We need a Superman film to give us a Lex Luthor that's played like John Glover did Lionel Luthor.

Finally got around to watching Batman V Superman. I have to say, where the hell did Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor come from? Hyperactive manic psychotic genius who magically knows stuff? That was just weird. I'll stand by John Shea as the best version of an adult Luthor I've seen (Okay Michael Rosenbaum handled the young Luthor expertly as well in Smallville). Ben Afleck was surprisingly decent as Batman even if the bat as written was a touch off-putting. I do miss them attempting to show his detective side. The teasing about the soon to be Justice League members was fairly nicely handled, even if Wonder Woman's big role was.. pretty much a throw in rather than anything serious. But the big steal of the film was Jeremy Irons as Alfred, that was probably the best gloss to the whole film.

On the general run of American politics and attitudes...