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For that slight look back... GamesRadar - Hitman's Most Memorable Mission

And for the not so serious... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajyNRnyPMs

Okay then... North Carolina High School Quaterback and Girlfriend charged as Adults for exchanging nude photos

Well, frankly the whole thing is set up by several variant cultures from quite different backgrounds that have a few hundred years of history driving the various elements. Okay, to be fair, it's more like a millennia and some loose change of history driving it all. Sure, the last 20 years of global politics are much more distinct in shaping it, but a lot of the slow, grinding, driving forces have been laid down for a whole heap of time.

Hitman Agent 47 It was surprisingly good for a game-to-movie adaption. As a stand alone action flick I'd rate it. It has some fairly well done characters, a bit of tension, and some nicely choreographed action sequences, plus a couple of small twists just to add to it.

I once read a Star Wars novel set after the original trilogy. They killed Chewbacca, and I threw it in the trash after that. Yes, the whole.. New Order setting and the Yuuzhan Vong was very.. offputting. They had some interesting ideas, but as a whole that part of the EU got very warped and messy. Frankly, the Thrawn Trilogy, some of the Jedi Academy related series, and a few others were pretty damn good. Just there were a lot more flawed than polished gems that did turn up.

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The Books We Call Baen

And for the other dissonance.. the Westboro Baptist Church are also joining in on the hate of said clerk.. They're hammering her for not having repented adultery and that she should get back to her first husband because if she was a good and devout Christian she wouldn't be living in sin with another man..since a true Christian wouldn't recognise divorce or remarriage while the first husband is alive.

And as we take that turn in our amusement...

Mancy means divination by means of something. So, can you tell the future from corpses? If I recall well enough, it was originally nigromancy, and was more on the art of communication and divination using the deceased. The zombies and animating the dead came later...

For the fun ending to my weekend, I went online to check my bank stuff and deal with monthly bills.. and found out that despite being repeatedly told that I would get 8 weeks of the Carers Allowance paid following the death of the person I cared for (thus giving me some time to reorganise my life) in fact they stopped paying it the moment I told them my mother had died. So I have three weeks of missing funds. So I'm foreseeing the joys of starting my week tomorrow with government bureaucracy and phone calls....

Drone flyby of the new Apple Campus 2 under construction... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FqH02gN29o

Now, did I glance at a wrong headline or has the clerk now claimed they shouldn't be able to send her to an all woman jail because "they" are trying to break her will, because those jails are full of lesbians? The things that social media newsfeeds stream across that you really try to avoid paying attention to.....

The atmosphere for the most captures the movies quite well, it's got that bleakness with very strange people who have stripped to the bone morality due to survival ethics in a post-apocalyptic world. I will say after reading a bunch of the "historical objects" you find (pictures, letters, blah-de-blah) that pretty much every reason for an apocalypse seems to have happened. Plagues, Government restrictions turned tyranny turned popular uprisings, war, global warming, seas disappearing... It wasn't just one or a couple, it was pretty much every way and the kitchen sink for the world to disintegrate. I have to admit, I let my gaming OCD take over a bit, and I ended up doing all the possible side-stuff in the first two regions and reduced the Scrotus levels to 0 in both Jeet's and Guturash's territories.. which seemed to give me all the tokens I needed to max legendary status and the upgrades you get from those griffa tokens before I was even halfway through the story-side of things. From the time you get past the barrier wall it seems you spend most of the time doing that side stuff just to give the game time to award you scrap from allied camps so you can upgrade the car.... Also, one slight contrast to the movies after finishing the game..

Okay, this io9 article makes me want to watch this Dragon Blade even more then I expected from the so-bad-its-good feeling it was generating.. io9 - That ancient romans vs Chinese movie is a total so bad its good-gasm

To truly run with the internet on this even more...