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    Hm, have to stop eating and drinking in a couple of hours to fast for my doctor's appointment manana. That's not so much a problem in general, but I am not looking forward to starting the day without a cup of tea.. It's just not civilised.
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    I keep doing bits and pieces at the moment rather then focusing. I've got a Sage at 46 who's about 1/3 of the way through Belsavis. My Smuggler and Inquisitor are both at 54, I've got my Trooper hovering at 19 and an Imperial Agent at 20. The rest I've left at 50 having completed their class stuff. I've been playing the game since it first came out and I still haven't actually done any of the operations. I should probably get around to trying the queue for one at some point....
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    How about for general sanity we skip that gif and stop reposting it, and start putting in other pictures again?
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    "Best Friends Forever After...."
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    Hey, I like a lot of Bioware stuff, and I think when you get down to it most of the other forumites enjoy Bioware games to a point. They just happen to be more vocal about talking about the perceived flaws, and taking the piss out of the pre-ponderance of BW style romancing rather then discussing other aspects...
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    For the "Then and Now" approach..
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    Got back from the birthday bbq somewhat drunk. A random conversation ended up with the birthday boy blowing a pipe full of icing sugar across the bonfire to cause mini fire-bursts. He's a chemistry PhD and Researcher. Various wives / girlfriend / female cousins of the family were present and while they enjoyed the fire bursts were a bit disappointed in the effort it took to get it right. I gave him a good bottle of 10 year old tawny port, which we ended up drinking as we smoked cigars around the fire afterwards. Then he gave me a good bottle of Azul tequila as a present after some good natured threatening of me after I hugged his wife - he'd just been attending a chemistry conference in Mexico. I realised how long it's been since I last tango'd a pretty lady, and his wife poked me and asked why I didn't impress any of her friends and family at the wedding some months back with it. To which I replied salsa music is not a good intro to a tango, and holiday romances with the family of your best friends bride generally isn't a good idea.
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    And for the other school related news.. Utah Football Coach Suspends the Entire Team
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    Having a bout of flatness and lack of focus. Hm, also got that fasting blood test and ecg at the start of the week. That'll be fun. But mostly trying to psych myself up to go to a friends birthday bbq tonight. Although I have managed to pick up a card and a bottle of good tawny port to take along. But the autumn seems to have flashed back into grimly grey weather today which isn't helping.
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    Heh, from an author's blog. On Being A Teenager in a Digital Age
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    Oh, not sure if many of you knew this was out there.. but if you didn't I'm sure the Breaking Bad crowd will get a kick out of it.. http://youtu.be/OuoZqLyMMI4
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    http://youtu.be/fCZgw12m8lw
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    I definitely have noticed a change in those high level spaceship missions. I used to be able to spend 5 minutes running through one just for a break from everything else and having a bit of fun with the music blasting out and shooting up enemy fighters and completing the mission and usually getting most of the bonuses. The last week I've just given up in frustration because I keep getting smashed to a pulp by the halfway point on every one I've tried playing.
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    Well it's more a thing with my dad. But parts of it is that I provide an amount of "house keeping" rent to my mother, so there's figuring out which goes which way. Plus family politics. Although it was kind of amusing to do my dad's old trick with the phone bill back on him. He used to drive us all insane every time the phone bill turned up and run around questioning everyone on all numbers called so he could figure out if there were any that shouldn't be there. So I went with the "Hm, so do you recognise this number from Fareham? This number from..." I actually have another phone line for my work at home which is on a separate bill, so I leave it up to them to sort out who handles the other house phone that's part of that package. The tv is mostly used by my mother, who when she's having a bad day with all the health issues tends to have that switched on in the background by her bed. It pretty much gets divided by her covering the tv, I cover the internet, and dad does the "but I don't really use them" while every other moment you find him on the computer or watching the tv. Family politics, always fun..
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    Coulson turns out to be a LifeModelDecoy but doesn't know it? It was a nice brief appearance of Ron Glass as well. Be interesting to see whether he turns up in more, as well as if Agent Hill makes any other cameo's as time goes by. They do seem to be having Coulson be fairly whimsical with his humour. How effective that'll be as they develop it out, and compared to some of Whedon's other shows it felt aimed more at the juvenile crowd and not quite as dark as he can go.
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    Sorting out some bills. Since for various reasons I now pay the direct debit for the phone lines, internet, tv package.. I got to chase the family for their share, and the joys of folks doing the "well I use x, but I don't really use y much so should I really be covering..."
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    Or to return to a classically exotic style..
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    It doesn't beat the original approach... http://youtu.be/aVZUVeMtYXc
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    And for random tv news.. SyFy seems to be taking a break from reality tv to do : Deadline - SyFy Projects
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    Although one thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is whether the stronghold is going to be a generic, one size fits all type or if it's going to differ in any way depending on your race/culture/class etc. I mean I'm sure the basic elements are all going to be the same regardless, but is there going to be any thematic / art differences to the stronghold depending on such issues? Is our wizadry types going to be creating more arcana filled towers compared to our warriors military fortifications? Our close to nature ranger-types establishing a blending-into-environment stronghold? Or our roguish types pushing more of a fortified caravanserai? Will they effect the possible extra's and additions we get to push for the strongholds? Are some only going to be available if you're of a specific class, or if you have a particular companion / henchmen / hireling / minion?
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    I have to admit, I'm getting a little annoyed with the change to the patch/game loader these days. I think I'll just pop on for a quick check, sort out some crew skills or wotnot.. and then it has a short patch update. So it takes a minute to download. That's fine. It then spends 20 minutes "Re-organising files" "Verifying files" taking another 30 seconds of download, then Re-organising and Verifying those files...Then updating. By the time it's over the planned 10-15 minutes of poking around in the game for a break is gone and dusted and half an hour is spent with the bloody thing just doing that.
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    The Blacklist looks like it might be interesting. Although there has been a rather large supply of conspiracy/criminal masterminds abounding on tv of late. James Spader working the mojo as the man with a plan. Of course, it's hard not to see it as an "evil" Alan Shore..
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    One of these days we really should arrange a mass gathering of Obsidianites for Ros to take out on the town so we can be truly amazed...
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    Castle. Well the answer to the proposal was as amusing as was generally expected, and then they kept it fairly serious for the rest of the episode. And leaving a season opener on a cliffhanger, that's kind of unusual.
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