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Heh. I am so tempted to pick up Organ Trail and gift it to some friends with kids. A retro zombie survival game where you travel westward in a station wagon, scavenging for supplies, fending off the undead hordes and bandits (who might or might not resemble Apaches), while possibly dying of dysentery or 9 other diseases.... All in glorious 16 bit colour with electronic beeps.. That hits nostalgia for the old school BBC computers...

I'm keeping an eye on Alpha Protocol. Just in case it drops below the 50% off before the end of the sale.. either way I'll add it to my digital library. Then I won't have to worry about digging my physical copy out in the future.... I did get tempted by Long Live the Queen when it was just under £2... Just for the fun of how many, many ways you can die.

UN Committee backs Argentina over the Falklands

Alternately trying out both the Floris Expanded mod and the Silverstag mod for Mount and Blade Warband... both add, tweak and tidy up a whole lot of features. Mostly in slightly different ways. I can see how they had some of the same modders working on both.

Just for the historical interest.. io9 - Harappa: A Civilization Without War And it does go quite a bit further on.. but I'll let those interested follow the actual link for the rest of it..

As many times as I've played AP, I've never gone with a martial arts build. I guess I wuss out whenever I think of the boss fights and think about having to take them on with hands and feet. I planned on using AR mainly (then ended up using MA more), so I had a backup for tougher bosses. The ones I used MA on worked pretty well (Marburg, Deng) even without Fury. Brayko and ranged bosses were a no-go though. Juggling the combination of Stealth, Martial Arts and Pistols is pretty much the clincher for dealing with everything..

You're going to get to the end.. and find out just how damn replayable it is when you start to explore all the possible endings depending on your actions..

For who is next on the Iron Throne...

Picked up Mount & Blade Warband on the steam sales and have been slowly poking along on that and getting to grips with the setup. So far avoiding becoming anyones vassal and just exploring the world and chasing bandits and doing the odd quest...

Just got home from training. Circuits. 20 minutes with about 3-4 minutes of break in there. three "circuits" with 30 seconds of each exercise. I'm feeling a little broken and not so much looking forward to the next workout. Still, shower, tea, food and I'm sure it'll start to feel better...

http://youtu.be/eD-HCt4Kaow

http://youtu.be/-Ik2ikgOyNU

Since it was a sunny day.. I waited until night had fallen to take out a bunch of old paperwork that needed to be disposed off, some limbs that had to be lopped off the beech tree, and set fire to it all. Whilst sitting back in a lounger, looking at the stars in the sky and having Two Steps From Hell cycling through play and echoing around the garden.

To throw a random assortment..

Tesla Motors release all their patents.. TeslaMotors - All Our Patents Belong To You

To follow on from Father's day.. Although I'm thinking this is more for Hurl http://youtu.be/DOKuSQIJlog

Since it's that sunny Saturday, let's throw a few things around..

Woo. and GoG now does Alpha Centauri with the Alien Crossfire pack. I think I'll pick that up just so I don't have to keep using my old cd's when I want to run the game.

I like blowing them up with a steam vent. I'm not good at gauging distance for those kinds of things. It works for me once in a while during car chases (using the steam vents on vehicles behind me/just slightly ahead of me), but when I'm standing still and a car is moving toward me but is still around 100 meters away, I suck at judging when to activate (I barely seem to get those blue notices to "neutralize" during convoys). I always found parking a car about 200 m in front of them, and stepping into the middle of the road with the automatic grenade launcher worked wonders for the convoys... Also, when you've done, what.. 10? You get rewarded with that anti-vehicular in-game version of a Barret 50 cal. that's quite fun.

Edge of Tomorrow. I actually quite liked it. You spend the first quarter of the film disliking Cruise's character quite a bit. They handle the time loop aspect in a fairly interesting manner, and managed to switch up a few things as it went along without getting too silly.

Not strictly books.. but the comic adaptions of David Weber's Honorverse have started.. http://youtu.be/wqxiKPJZLlE

I seem to be stumbling through the morning in a general zombie state after one of those nights I just kept waking up after having dropped off for 30-60 minutes sleep at a time. Trying to pull my reserves together and enjoy some fresh tea to fortify myself for actual thought...

Just to break into more childhoods.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFtBjc1dz7w&list=PLFWHlH4koGZAeH9x2wWeTB32VCESjRI51&feature=share

Just to help the week along...