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http://youtu.be/qPUZo3dQSEM

I don't think it really gives much away, they create a character, have about two combat sequences, show off some of the graphics in general and dialogue. While Josh and two guys talk around stuff, wander into commentary about Icewind Dale 2 adventuring companies, commentary about kickstarter, and other bits and pieces.

Registered up for Tough Mudder. So on the 17th of August, I will probably be wishing I was dead and resting somewhere, as I struggle through the Cirincester Mudder course. .. I'm really hoping the heatwave will have firmly passed us by when that time arrives.

To help the week slide down..

Heh, and in the non-surprise... BBC News - New Broadband Users Shun Porn Filter

In regards to that recent "Lionfish" science news.. io9 - Sixth Grade May Have Stolen Biologists Research Frustratingly, there's actually a petition going around demanding that Arrington's name be added as an author to Jud's most recent scientific publication. Jud is now trying to figure out what to do about the situation without doing anything to discourage the girl. "Most of you are aware of the massive amount of time I put into exposing kids to science, and I obviously don't want to do anything to diminish this young lady's curiosity or enthusiasm," he writes. "I'm thrilled that she chose to look at lionfish for her science fair project, but encouraging an outright lie is poor parenting and a horrible way to introduce a youngster to a career in the sciences."

Okay.. For that post-Monday follow-on..

If you liked Defying Gravity, you might like to chase up Threshold and Odyssey 5. Again, both sci-fi series that got cancelled after the first season, but both worked really nicely with over-all story arc, individual episodes, and some good character interactions and snarky dialogue.

Sorry to hear Woldan, hope everything turns out well.

To help round out the Sunday and prepare for the fresh week..

They did do a w40k novel where a Rogue Trader found himself developing psychic powers, and ended up with an Eldar Farseer having set things up so that when the Farseer was "killed" the Rogue Trader had his soulstone, and ended up getting "soul switched". So the Eldar took over the mon-keigh's body, and the Trader's "soul" was trapped in the soulstone. There have been other instances where a powerful but "dead" Eldar was able to influence in various ways situations around their soulstone.

http://youtu.be/diU70KshcjA

http://youtu.be/FDFom5Typ0s

http://youtu.be/OjgDoxfHW4w

Well if we're going to round out the Friday...

Well, to wander into something that kind of amused me.. io9 - How Long Would Batman Last in the Real World? From a response after that question was asked on Redditor

The oven stopped working, so spent a chunk of the afternoon getting that out and looking at it. The control board is fried, and replacing it would cost about half the price of a totally new oven....

To slide into that end of week curve..

Although if we're going to keep parodies in here rather then on the music thread... http://youtu.be/Ek4Op89V2_Q

Also, just for the weirdness factor of all these news articles doing the "it's a fake, it's true, what happened? wtf knows?" Telegraph - Scientists baffled by appearance of giant crater in Siberia