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To be fair, I've often noted the autotarget has a habit of jumping to any CC'd enemies as the guy you were targeting died. And quite often that's just as you're hitting a button to send an attack and you find that original target is dead and the attack's occurred before you can control that target switch...

Getting really stressed out with Splinter Cell Conviction. Okay, so it encourages stealthy and thoughtful gameplay by making it so you die after being shot 2 or 3 times. They then stick you in a full frontal assault with a time constraint to get past security doors, one basic channel to go through, and a non-skippable 15 second cut scene to start it. Oh, plus you don't get to sort out grenades or weapons before, but if you take time to try doing so when it starts you get shot to buggery by the guards. So it's walk up to the desk, 15 seconds of cutscene. Jump over the desk, attempt to run forward - guard with shotgun shoots at you , possibly killing you before you get to the wall to find cover. So.. starts again. Walk up to desk, 15 second cutscene, jump over desk, run forward only getting shot once, cover at the wall, manage to shoot that guard.. by which time the security doors are locked and you start over. Walk up to desk. 15 second cutscene, jump over desk, run forward managing not to get killed, try slipping past that guard to reach the door.. get shot in the back. Start again. Walk up to desk. 15 second cutscene, jump over desk, run forward managing not to get killed, manage a quick headshot on that guard, slip past first security door before it closes, head towards the second as it starts to slide down.. two guards appear with shotguns and as you try to reach cover they kill you. Start again. Walk up to desk. 15 second cutscene, jump over desk, run forward managing not to get killed, manage a quick headshot on that guard, slip past first security door before it closes, head towards the second as it starts to slide down.. Try using cover to get to that door.. two guards appear.. door closes before you can reach it.. Start again.

Science and Art meet.. to Shoot Kate Upton in a Bikini.. in Zero Gravity.

Woke up this morning with a fragment of an idea for work. So I laid there in bed for nearly an hour as I was chasing it around, trying to structure it out and wotnot. I sit up, get dressed, pull out the notepad and pen to jot notes down.. and it's like "Bastard! Where did those memories go!" and I pull a blank on all that I'd been thinking about.

http://youtu.be/tuWJyxqbFPc

So how many of you watched the original UK House of Cards? Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart - So Kevin Spacey's role, but tall, gaunt, white haired, with that cold and precise English accent and ever so pleased delightful smirk as he makes the asides to the camera. http://youtu.be/nwpyaijXMIk

From a nice little anecdote a friend was telling me about: Her 15 yr old daughter wandered into her room to ask something, paused, then did a "Mom, the drawer on that cabinet is open and it looks like your ball gag is about to fall out." She turned around, fixed her daughter with a stare and promptly asked "How do you know what a ball gag is?" The daughter said almost at the same time "Mom, why do you have a ball gag?" She said there was this moment of silence as they looked at each other, and then both pretty much did a version of "This isn't a conversation we want going anywhere, lets just rewind and start over."

http://youtu.be/Mqyvl_EtlHk

http://youtu.be/wbjeJ5nWWF4 "If you haven't watched Castle.. I'm not offended, but it's safe to say I'm a pretty big deal to your mom"

Went out for a few drinks and conversation with some friends. Got told by one of them, that when they have to describe me to people they say that I'm "a cross between Herr Flick of the Gestapo from 'Allo, Allo, and Nathon Fillion in Castle.."

Settled into bed with some hot chocolate and a book last night.. and instead of just a chapter or three.. I ended up reading through the whole night. Realised it had gone 9am.. and managed to snooze for a couple of hours.

Fairly different from that. Almost Human is a sci-fi cop show. Set in the near future, a cop who dislikes robots ends up with a cyborg leg, and an old model android partner (the model removed from service due to being designed to develop "emotions"). It has Karl Urban as the main cop and Michael Ealy as the android. Fairly pulp noir in a cyberpunkish-setting. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2654580/ As for 24.. The premise was good. But as they kept doing new seasons it kind of went from "Highly Competent Agent Baur leads a competent team" to "James-Bond Style Agent Baur with some help" to "Super Agent Baur with sidekicks" to "Superman Baur and his tag-alongs"

Well this 24 isn't actually going to be 24 episodes. They're actually compressing time so that 24 hours will be shown in about 6 or so episodes if I remember rightly...

Eh, I've known a few cos-players. Frankly it's no more silly then a lot of other things. People get frantic to get up in the soccer/hockey/football gear of their teams in fanatical manners. Tech geeks get focused on their hardware.. Some branches of fandom enjoy making costumes and dressing up in that.. It's all to the good, I never see any point in disparaging folks unless they try to shove it down my throat. Oh, or unless they're mad golfers. That annoys me.

Just because..

Norwegian boy takes parents' car to visit grandparents, claims he's a dwarf

Remember, anyplace about half an hours travel north of the Watford Gap is sliding beyond civilised life and into the wilds of northern England...

The other thing you might want to think of.. Look up "Britishisms" on the internet. http://britishisms.wordpress.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_words_not_widely_used_in_the_United_States There's been a few amusing news stories over people complaining about the corruption of the American language by how it's become trendy to adopt various British phrases and slang words of late.

hm, in movie news.. http://screencrush.com/black-widow-solo-movie/

That's as far as I also got Exactly same happened to me the first time I played the game, stopped playing before finishing the first level as it really didn't seem like much and wondered why the game was so praised. Year or two passed and I continued seeing constant praise until I had to go back to it to see the hell is up with it. Now the game is pretty much in my top 5 games of all times permanently. It really is one of the best games ever and you really should give it another chance unless the genre isn't your thing. Hm, well I would say that while Liberty Island does showcase the multiple paths through a "level" as it were, it doesn't really offer much of a glimpse at the storyline or does much beyond a very basic introduction of a few character in the game. So whether that's an aspect to consider?

It's out in selected cinemas and available via streaming from a bunch of places - iTunes, amazon.com, etc. Although that's again, only in the US at the moment.