Raithe

Despicable Me. Certainly a fair few wry smiles and half-giggles...

I actually knew someone who had been a cop for over a decade in New York, they really believed in helping people but got heavily worn away by the public attitude. It was interesting how cliquish the cops become to support each other in the face of that and cover each other's asses. Although it also got balanced by the cops concealing things to "protect" each other, but then handling it "internally" when it got out of hand. She actually transferred to Internal Affairs after being exposed to some "serious" corruption rather then the low-grade cop stuff. But when she did, lost over half the friends she had in other cops because of the attitude they have towards IA. Within a year the stress got to her along with the withdrawal of the usual cop support system that she quit the force.

"England had an Empire, we had fun. Russia had an Empire, they had fun. America has an Empire, have fun, it doesn't last....."

For some reason, in the past 6 or so months since I last played it and it worked perfectly with no problems then... Saints Row 3 randomly freezes up on my now. Usually during the cut scene at the end of a mission. So I end up having to alt tab out to hit the end process, restart, and then redo the mission once more..

http://youtu.be/X0fsyb-ttcw

Yup. Ubisoft got hacked, the news went out about 50 minutes ago. Still, I always feel safer going to the account site on my own and resetting passwords then following email links in general..

Agreed. There's nothing really challenging in the entire game. That doesn't prevent the game from being a blast to play, but I wouldn't have minded some challenge, at least in some of the optional stuff like the activities/distractions. Indeed. There's nothing challenging about the gameplay. What made me get annoyed with the Insurance Fraud traffic driving was that I always found that those hot spots you were directed to just dried up and hardly had any traffic going through. Which is very frustrating when you want to enjoy the ragdollishness.. Only this game around, there's actually traffic.

Heh, I guess I can simply blame it on picking up all the knacks for how to get it to work when I first played it. I guess doing a replay after this much time just makes it feel a lot smoother to handle.

Hm I spent about 15 -20 minutes this morning running through some of the activities on Saints Row 3.. I have to say, they seem a hellava lot easier then they used to. Did thq do any odd patch before they had to flog everything off? Traffic Diving used to be a pain in the ass with the volume of traffic and cars speed dropping whenever you started that activity, now its like badda-boom-badda-bing and it's all done and completed with no need to chase the traffic down..

Unfortunately, now I've got two connected guilds (Imp and Republic) and a sister on the server currently. I can't run out just for chance to hang with the "cool kids"

Woke up on the early side this morning, battled with an attempt to drop back to sleep. It's got that clammy, pressured feel of waiting for a thunderstorm to kick off and I think that might be pushing the headache along that's grinding annoyingly on my forebrain... Ah well. Cup of tea and a bit of random doodling around without getting overstressed...

Evil Dead 2 is Evil Dead 1 made with more money. The remake suffers from a bad lack of Bruce Cambel, but I guess you don't get to reboot your own movie. Evil Dead 2 was Evil Dead 1 but with more money and a lot more humour twisted in. And Bruce was one of the producers for the remake...

Having a kick around with Saints Row 3. Call it juvenile, but I do think the delivery of the whole " A ****ing tiger?! A ****ing tiger Angel??!" was damnably well done...

Was the "tree rapist" still there? There was.. an encounter with some hedges and spindly bracken, and a weird doppelganger kind of instance. But not exactly the "tree rapist".

What annoys me is that Much Ado About Nothing was on at the cinema here for a week. Then it was off. I'd planned to go see it, but didn't realise I had that limited a time to do it in.

Evil Dead. The remake. It's not bad actually. Definitely much a return to the original, not so pushing the zany humour side that followed after the original, and with it's own spin/take on the premise. A group who are headed into the woods to help the friend / sister of one of the group detox from her drug habit. Of course, said cabin turns out to have a certain book hidden in the basement, and the usual supernatural shenanigans occur.

That attitude will lead you on some crazy adventures my friend.. trust me. I'd like to share a picture to prove it, but it's about as NSFW as it can be. That's what private messaging is for . The proof you can never show on an actual thread...

I don't think I'm quite that desperate yet..

Managed a short burst of work, then throwing laundry around and there is no quick and easy way to get a few dozen socks and such on the washing line to dry... especially when the doorbell or phone keeps going everytime you get started..

And then return to the selection of national flags for the added humour.. Now prepare to close your eyes in startlement for ...

To remove all attention from the famine victim, I will throw in this for the distraction value..

Oh, and to answer this.. pure natural talent, mad skillz (MAD I tell you!), and the utter swagger and panache of a stiff upper lip, even in the midday sun....

Alas, I'm still all on the one East Coast server so I seem to miss out on catching all you wacky folks around..

Olympus Has Fallen. A very silly film. Not in the comedic sense, but in that ridiculous action type of movie. Aaron Eckhart as the President, Gerard Butler as the semi-sort-of-disgraced Secret Service guy, and a woefully underused Morgan Freeman. When a bunch of North Korean Terrorists storm the white house and take it over in 13 minutes when the response time is 15 minutes for the US Armed forces to get there.. Oh, and they make a point of making sure it's NOT North Korean government, but non-connected terrorists who just happen to be from North Korea...and the terrorist leader has actually been hiding himself in the South Korean government service.. Still, entertaining in that silly way. And they blow up half the White House, but don't really get into any hugely jingoistic speeches..until like the final 5 minutes. But there are a lot of reaaallly unsubtle shots. The US flag getting shot up, and then the slow motion tracking shot when the terrorists take it down and throw it off the side of the White House..

Haven't you heard that classic line "only boring people get bored.." ?