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Hey, I have great respect for women who wear fishnets. I did it once for the Rocky Horror Show and it's bloody murder unless you shave your legs first.

Heh, for some reason hot lawyers always remind me of an early scene in Castle. "You're hot, you're intelligent. You should have become a lawyer. The only reason attractive smart women become cops is because they're damaged in some way." Still, to return to the mood of days of ComicCon and non celebs.. I'll throw in a Red Riding Hood

Hm, had very trippy dreams about trying to take off from some jungle valley surrounded by serious cliffs.. and the object I was flying kept changing between an old twin-prop plane and a flying table. I think the heat is getting to me. That and the humidity is hanging around the 50-60% mark which isn't helpful. It's killing my appetite and I've been forcing myself to actually eat the last few days.

Vol, that wasn't a whine, that was a general comment. For the second, a top and just above the knee length skirt is really not flashing huge amounts of skin.. Or at least, if you consider that flashing skin, you really need to get out more.

Decided to follow Hurlshot's lead out of curiousity and pick up a copy of Risen 2 in the sale, having a short poke at it now.

Well we weren't bringing it up to say it worked great or whatever. More in the way that what Wals was talking about sounding like the idea of Radiant, but focused on NPC companions and the archetypal stories that tend to go with them.

Hm, gran had a fall the other day, so she went in for a checkup. They found she was showing signs of anemia, so out of the possibility of internal bleeding she's spending a couple of days in the hospital. Of course, now they've discovered a duodenum(?) ulcer thats right next to a key artery or something. So the joys of somewhat risky surgery potentially ahead. Funny thing, when they told her she was going to be moved up to the G8 Ward (the geriatric wing) she was all "No way in hell. My husband was taken there right before he died and he got crap attention. He was ignored, they forgot to give him the right meds, they did this that and the other wrong and made his last month pretty hellish. If I'm not staying in this ward I'm going home." After some hemming and hawing they decided to not move her.

It's not always about showing skin, sometimes it's just about style and pose..

Heh, I always remember hearing a discussion between a Navy guy and a Marine. It was more joking, but the Navy guy was all "I don't consider it a weapon if I can't use it to hit an enemy ship that's on the edge of the horizon and it's not lobbing shells x inches", while the Marine was all "if I can't carry it with me, it's not a weapon it's just an artillery piece that floats."

Ah , my friend is currently living in North Carolina. So no NHS covered medical expenses.

It's all about a certain style.. Not about the half-starved barbie-ness Oby..

http://youtu.be/yqypDzIdNLU

I can understand it if the job directly relates to financial matters and all that, but it really sucks because I know their issue with credit checks is because of medical bills they've had to pay over the last few years. So it becomes a real bastard of a circle to get back to a good job to successfully pay things off when they won't hire you because...

Technically its the "Radiant AI", which is divided into two parts - one that relates to npc's and one which goes with story. Supposedly the NPC part is geared around giving them certain things to do, but not scripting that behaviour. So the ai will change how they act to achieve a set goal depending on whats going on around them and what the player has done in the area. The story side is more what you're thinking about (I think). Supposedly a dynamic quest generator type of thing. They have a whole stack of quests, but depending on where you are in the game, which dungeons/locations you've already found, it changes up the various locales and makes sure you never get sent back to the same dungeon for multiple quests or a dungeon you've found on your own, and which "basic" npc provides the quest and such like. Very plug and play quests though, not anything really deep or with evocative story telling. Or at least, that's the general theory to it. One of the supposed things its meant to do is say you get a quest relating to some character being kidnapped, it would check the gameplay to see if there was some NPC you'd already met that would fit the bill and say that character had been the one kidnapped. Part of making it feel more like a living world. But I never really noticed anything like that actually happening when I played the game. So I have no idea if that's just a talking point they had that never actually got developed fully.

Found out a friend didn't get a job they were interviewed for.. because they failed a credit check. I mean, how the hell does a credit check cover if you're skilled and capable for doing a job? And if you get the job, you can actually earn a living to pay off the bills...

I shall simply say.. Legs.

Apparently this got announced at SDCC... http://youtu.be/y364b2Hcq7I

The heat is still ongoing. Quirkily enough, estimates are being given that around 760 people have died in the UK due to the heatwave for one reason or another.

If we're celebrating cosplay at comiccon... (and just to walk the edge of some matters..)

I think it's based more on how at the time the Mormon Prophet "discovered" those extra Commandments under his field and formed his wacky cult. That's how it was generally perceived by a lot of people of the time. One of those crazy nutjob things. Just like Scientology gets viewed by a lot of folks now. Not to have a crack at Mormons. I've known a few and they're quite devout and sincere in their belief and they generally don't try brainwashing and abusing folks in that manner. It's just that shift brought about by time. What society at large in one time frame perceives as a crazy, minor cult... Come back a few decades/centuries on and it's an expansive and non-crazy world religion. Just like Christianity after Constantine decided to back it... If it hadn't expanded into the Roman Empire's state religion and sank hooks into the political movers and shakers, would it have become what it has? One of the reasons its always hard to split religion and politics. Where influence and power goes...

Which is weird because by all accounts of people who work with him or meet him, he's a generally friendly and sincere guy (if occasionally nuts). Although that could just be the hollywood system of not maligning a powerhouse who might take offence and blackballing you in the industry... But would that really stop the likes of Jeremy Clarkson and Simon Pegg?

Heh, the comment someone made that I've always liked was: "If you think about it, the Mormon religion was the Scientology of it's time. Now look where they are. Be scared of what the future may bring."

Actually, I know my knowledge of American History is a bit ropey at times, but I seem to recall some mention that references to "God" didn't actually turn up in the constitution when it was originally written? That they were more slipped in some years later. Hm. now it's going to niggle away at my mind while I try to remember where that worked its way into my memory. And I kind of thought they were written as "Guiding Principles" not "Carved in Stone Tablet Commandments"

Eat some sushi while sat in the hammock watching a gloriously golden-red half moon rise over the house. Hm ,also got drawn into a discussion with a topic of "if you had the sort of job that you could do from anywhere, where in the world would you live and why?" For some reason that just made me think of some of the cruises my parents took me on when I was growing up. The classic P&O cruise liners, not those annoying, brash, coastal "party ships" that so many people say are cruises (I know, the snob in me breaks out ). How there'd always be a batch of old folks on the ships who literally lived year round, staying from one cruise to the next, because it worked out better then paying for an actual retirement home. Just imagining what it would be like if you had a job you could pretty much phone/internet in while living as a passenger like that. All the services, the fine dining, the entertainment, the theatre, the cinema, the library, the casino, the clubs... The travel, the rolling ocean waves and sea breezes, every few days hitting a different port and another culture.. That certainly sounds appealing to me.