Raithe

Well, don't feel too bad LC, I also noticed that. Well, after noticing a few other things first.. but I did notice that..

Well mine is based off the main bad guy from the old "The Young Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" film... Maybe that's telling psychologically. But the thing was the character used it both ways Raithe and Ehtiar depending on whether he was playing his "good person of society" or "evil villain mastermind". I liked the sound and the way it reversed and have pretty much used it for years. As to the avatar picture, that's a section of one of the Mutants and Masterminds RPG book covers.. Hm, again, possibly telling.

Caught a rerun of Threshold. That was a good show, shame it got cancelled. Although it did get me thinking, treat the alien force as chaos and the warp,the DNA warping as corruption and mutation, the Threshold team as inquisition acolytes, it would make a good Dark Heresy campaign.

"everyone has to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer" You know, there's something about a batch of insomnia that really pushes the urge to not be social..

So how long is the contracts thing running? I'm not likely to be up and running again for most of the next week... So do I have to grit my teeth and wait for it's next turn up ala the Gree? Or is it going to be running a lengthy time?

Wondering if I'm going to start to develop the shakes without use of a properly working and active pc.. Of course, it's always the way. I've gone through a few weeks of just not having any serious gaming urges, then the moment I can't sit down and play them..I'm all "damn it, I need to shoot something / conquer the world on x game" and its bugging the hell out of me that I can't scratch that itch.. heh.

My dear boy. In my opinion the original A-team, locked in a garage with an oxy-acetylene blowtorch couldn't do much for YOUR sanity. ~ Realised I've been having a migraine all day. Am now also suffering hypochondria. I resent that remark. I have a certificate PROVING my sanity. It's in very pretty crayon too. So there!

Not exactly news per se.. but weirdly entertaining io9 - Creepy psychological technique

If we get 'em early enough we can make sure they have manners, politeness, and general courtesy pounded into them....

Should it be considered a sign of addiction that when my pc is borked I'll use my smart phone to surf the Obs boards and make comments? Edit: Also, I really don't know what to make of Hello Kitty. I've seen a girl with it tattooed on her, and I've seen a Darth Vader costume mixed with Hello Kitty. I don't think either really did much for my sanity.

Heh, I nearly went with that one, but was keeping to the "russians" to follow on. Of course, if we're going to do the "women of RA" on this thread.. that runs to what, about 20 odd ladies? About 7 Allies, 7 Soviet, and 7 Rising Sun? If not more...

If we're going to go that route... Let us at least be gamer geeks about it..

Eh, I'm not sure the whole people-power thing should be taken as anything more then background character of what's happening in the city. It doesn't actually mean Garret's going to be directly linked to it... just taking advantage of all the opportunities such chaos might unleash.

Love this idea! Hold the music though. Crickets, owls and night sounds are music enough for me! Well, I'm sort of on the outskirts of a city. So I tend to go with oh.. Gregorian or Two Steps From Hell music..

Hm, depending on exactly how you want to go.. sliced up bananas, build a layer, sprinkle dark sugar, cinnamon, maybe a dash of nutmeg, sultanas, splash of cream and rum (or brandy or..well, whatever you feel like), repeat layers like that until all the bananas are gone. Cook until the banana slices are juuust started to lose their shape and the sugars almost caramalising.. serve. Tastey, sweet, and ever so slightly alcoholic (depending on your chosen recipe levels..)

Remember to save the wood for bonfires. That's what I did when the old apple tree picked up a disease and started dying. Then you can split the logs, build a fire, and sit around under a star studded sky with a bottle of <insert beverage> and a good cigar while listening to relaxing music..

I blame Saints Row. Before Saints Row nobody would have called GTA the "serious note". Nonsense. GTAIV pretty much re-branded it as the "Serious, not really fun, almost kind of emo one."

Well, it's always fun when a professional opinion is given as "it's bollixed." So I can get a new hd and pick up a new op/sys and that will fix some things but not everything, due to age and wear of the motherboard and such they can't guarantee how much will be a problem unless they do a complete overhaul and diagnostic. So the likelihood is, a whole new motherboard could be needed...

Ubran Fantasy is currently sweeping along (mostly on adventure/conspiracy/murder mystery, with the odd horror styling) - Jim Butcher is still going strong, Kim Harrison, Carrie Vaughn, Ilona Andrews, Jennifer Estep - They're all managing to do some quite nice stories and charactesr without making it all relationship angst like some others. Sabrina Chase did a nice trilogy "Sequoyah" - out of time pilot, caught between an Alien-Human war, being hunted by elements on her own side because of information she has locked away in her head from the past.. Oh, the Kris Longknife series by Mike Shephard is generally entertaining, a nice mix of space opera / miltiary sci-fi with some low-level humour brought along by character dialogue. The "poor rich kid daughter" who in an attempt to get away from her politician father, business magnate grandfather, and "hero of the human race" great grandfather runs away to join the navy and has to both live down (and up) to the family name. Jean Johnson's started work on a sci-fi series , which is quirky because until now she's been a romance author I believe. But the sci-fi works on a certain level, a character with massive precognitive abilities joins the military in an effort to start laying the domino's that need to flow so that x hundred years in the future the right person will be born with the right elements in place to enable them to save the galaxy... Baen Publishing does seem to have a lock on a lot of Sci-fi/fantasy authors. Especially things that wander into military sci-fi areas. John Ringo, David Weber and the like. Oh, they've also picked up Steve Miller and Sharon Lee, so the Liaden Universe is still going strong. Seriously, if you like space opera that has a lot of banter it's worth a lot (best description I heard was "Star Wars meets Pride & Prejudice"). L.E.Modesitt is still plugging out intelligent sci-fi and fantasy. Steampunk in various forms is having a big swing out - both in variations of action / mystery / horror / urban fantasy styles. So a little bit for everyone. With general actiony sci-fi, there are a hoorde of self-published authors you can look at via Amazon on kindle. Some are crappy, but there's a surprising amount of decent stuff (if you can get around some annoying editing or lack thereof) for a dollar or two. Nathan Lowell's "Share" series was an interesting take on sci-fi, focusing on life on a trading ship across the stars. Very little direct "action" , no shoot-em-ups at all, but more character interplay, trying to make a profit and learning the ropes of the universe as they go. Thomas DePrima's "A Galaxy Unknown" is a mixed bag, harkens back to the style of E.E.Doc Smith's style of grand space opera, generally entertaining with a few odd elements.

Dammit, I want to get in and try it out. I have to wait until I get things fixed. By which time..event's will be over.

Getting my pc ready to crate up and take along to Novatech for that health check up and assessment. See what comes up with that. Hm, it's also turning grey and raining off and on. This kind of suits my mood.

BBC - British Library Wi-Fi blocks "Violent" Hamlet. Heh, once again highlighting how wonderfully well network filters put in place to stop children accessing pornography work, the British Library stopped users accessing online versions of Hamlet due to the text containing "violent content".

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/15/living/literally-definition/index.html The definition of literally is no longer the literal definition of literally. It now includes "Used to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling." So now "literally" means literally and figuratively, two things that are completely opposite. That... that seems like it's going to be problematic.

Heh, the Obs boards are on my phone's "bookmarks". Of course, since I'm at home, I just have it connect via the wifi and the router's internet. Not suck up data service..

Do you realise what you can do with a smart phone nowadays? It's not that hard to googlesearch "sfw cleavage"