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Well, not so much weird but still.. BBC News - Voyager Prove 'leaves the solar system'

Had an early morning doctors appointment. The wheels of the NHS grind steadily..but slowly. It took three weeks from attempting to book it for there to be a slot open. Of course, then I had to set the alarm for earlier then normal and went to bed thinking to myself "you have to get up early" - so I found myself waking up on the hour, every hour from 3am onwards. Then after the GP listens and pokes, she decides she wants me to have an ecg and fasting blood test, so I go to the nurses station to book that..and get told it'll take two weeks before I can have that appointment.

There was a reason I said "If you like those slightly kooky supernatural tinged thrillers." I've actually read the book it's based on this week, and I have to say they actually did use a lot of the dialogue from the book, not just the usual Hollywood adaptive screenplay. Sure, some of the lines were shifted in scenes to suit a movie rather then a book, but they were still pretty much as is. And that "character talking to the audience" is how the books are written.

Catching up on season 4 of Justified.

A Boy Makes Anti-Muslim Comments In Front Of An American Soldier. The Soldier's Reply: Priceless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueT79ZPY9IM&feature=player_embedded#t=289

Prince William to take Conservation role as he leaves the military

For the slight difference in this thread..

I have to say, I think Benedict did Khan well as he was written. It's just that the character as written for ST Into Darkness is purely that solo "genius" figure, and not the sweepingly charismatic one that could persuade people to follow him and inspire loyalty. On one hand, it makes sense becase as LadyC says, it's the embittered Khan trying to get his crew back rather then the leader with a crew and casually capable of turning his enemies to his side. In Wrath of Khan, he was embittered, but he had a single focus (Kirk) and he still had crew and family that helped stabilise him a bit - at least until Kirk really started punching his buttons. In Into Darkness, he's alone, he's been alone for a long time, and he actually thought the Federation had killed his crew earlier.

Indeed. Well, it's Odette Annable, and she did voice Amata.

Hm, managed to carve out some time to run through my first Bounty mission. Spend a fair bit of time running around shady characters before I finally managed to get four of them to talk. I think I ended up interrogating about 27 shady characters to get those four successes.

The annoying thing is that every game they've done (Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Deathwatch, Black Crusade, Only War) all use ever so slightly different rules systems. Mostly similar but with tweaks and shifts. Same weapons have different stats and damage dice, Special Qualities that are treated every so slightly different... Things that they fixed in one game with Errata since it was first published.. they then put in one of the later games without that Errata. After all of this, they've started developing the 2nd Edition of Dark Heresy... and it completely dumps every single thing about the games system for something totally new and with absolutely no connections to any of the other games lines. Oh, and they've announced that they will no longer produce anything for the Calixis Sector and the new game is set somewhere else.

In deference to Wals then;

Since we haven't had a serious update here inwhiles, this needs a grouping of fresh pictures:

It's a key strategy even in the easiest ones for me It makes them all easier, but it only becomes something you really HAVE to do for those heroic high level space missions.

Made it through the night with some weird ass dreams. Lots of important "trying to help with a friends wedding" but never actually knowing just which friend it was, throw in a house I knew, but had a totally different internal layout, and about a dozen and one girls from my past all there. Scurrying around juggling a bunch of groomsman duties to help out and all sorts of oddities kept happening. Then I woke up with a grinding headache. So now, on to a cup of tea and the cat being in some loud and noisy caterwauling mood for some damn reason.

Remember, flipping power from shields to guns and back again at various moments really becomes a key strategy.

I'd say it's more a matter of balance and situation. If you're stone cold sober and they're slurring their words, they're a bit too drunk to make informed decisions and it's not so gentlemanly to have your way with her. if you're both somewhat squiffy together, it's more of a mutual thing. If you're drunk and randy at a party and stumble on a girl who's near passed out drunk then it's definitely taking advantage and more rapey. - Isn't that a wonderful adjective?

Heh. Ethics - A Letter to My Son About Consent

Heh. I've had a woman find it incredibly offensive that I wouldn't say yes to sex because she was drunk. Even when she sobered up and I was "look, if you were sober and wanted to I'd say yes, but you were schloshed out of your skull so I was a gentleman". All she focused on was that I had said no at that point so I obviously thought she was unattractive and had therefor insulted her...

For another slice of relates news that might interest Indias Incredibly Powerful "Abused Goddesses Campaign" Condemns Domestic Violence Also on this subject, many years ago I used to date a girl who really did my head in. She would say "no" when she wanted me to take it as "yes", and would say "yes" when she really wanted to say "no", yet she'd also say "no" when she meant "no". if I took her "No" as no when she meant "yes" she'd get catty. If I took is as yes when she meant no she'd get even more catty. I just want to say, I am not a freaking mind reader. Trying to pick up signs of exactly which she was meaning was way too much hassle and mind games so I got out of that relationship. So while there's a lot of areas where the men have to learn exactly what is and isn't and recognise rape culture as a problem.. you can't lay the blame for everything on just the men. Sometimes the women can be just as frakked up.

Odd Thomas An adaption of the Dean Koontz book, although I haven't read that yet to see how it compares. Quite a well done film to my eye though. If you like those slightly kooky supernatural tinged thrillers it's definitely worth a watch.

Well, so far with a brief playaround in general and some of the story games, I've played with Dark Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, and Goblins. It just seems that I can barely do one action before there's a screwup that causes my turn to end and then the opposing team does half a dozen tackles, moves, passes without a problem. Gets back to me, I move a character, he falls down, turn ends. Opposing team does a whole bunch of moves, leaves half my team prone. I start my turn, take a step past an opponent, falls down, ends turn. Opposing team does a bunch of moves that all work perfectly. My turn, I make an attempt at tackling, my guy ends up with a big red x, and it's the end of my turn...

Heh. BBC News - Eastenders turning Glaswegian Accent to Co**ney Ah, the joys of the boards language filters..

Just tried running a quick game from the story for a lunch break. Hm. Yeah, not sure i'm enjoying this. I can't actually do anything because they fumble on trying to pick up the ball, fall over if they run, fall over if they try tackling anyone, get ko'd if anyone tackles them, fail all attempts at passing.. The amount of "You rolled a 1 when you need 3 or higher. Do you want to re-roll?" "yes" "screw you, you still failed."