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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.." ?

I needed a moment of relaxation.. http://youtu.be/8DUEAG5eO6c

And what was meant to be a pleasant sunday afternoon getting some solid gaming in.. Turned into 10 minutes of gaming, interuption, take care of, lose half an hour dealing with, get back to gaming, 10 minutes in, interuption, spend an hour dismantling a bed, get back to gaming, 10 minutes in...

Been doing a bit of a replay of Saints Row 3 again for the sheer hell of it. Also doing little bits and pieces on TOR for the double xp weekend. Pushing my Consular through into chapter 3 now..

Oy vey. Mom tried to take advantage of Virgin's "switch over your phone line, broadband and tv to us and we'll charge you half price for the first 6 months", only to get told that she can't do that, because we have a second phone line in the house that happens to be Virgin already. So then I phone up and ask about it, and they're perfectly willing to do it for me. The weirdness of how things are set up. They even brought up that the virgin phone line was there, but didn't count it because it's in her name. The joys of it all.

Well I suppose if we're doing that we could just pull a mass of the models used by Wicked Weasel to sell their bikinis

Totally on purpose I suppose? You're a true master! Mad skillz man. Mad skillz...

If it can't rebound to where you're stood, it doesn't count as a real man's weapon..

After a bbq and a few drinks... The axe throwing After a few more drinks, the knives come out... Although it takes real skill to get the handle to sink into the target..

Much as I appreciate those pictures, I'm failing to note the bikini of country on them...

Just had to do a run up into London with dad to pick up one of those hospital style motorised beds for mom. Her old one is acting possessed so she managed to get a relatively new one via ebay. Of course, she didn't tell anyone about it until noon today when it was cheerfully announced "oh you have to go and get this this afternoon".. after everyone had allready sorted plans out. Then the hour and a half trip there, get everything packed into the car, hour and a half back home.. as we walk in the door find mom on the phone with the person who sold it who happens to be saying "oh, there's half the bed they didn't take with them." Which is annoying by the fact that we did take everything, all the bits and pieces they set out for us, and they waited until that late before calling about it.. and now we have another 3 hour trip to fit in at some point in the next few days to pick it up. Ah well. I'm going to grab a shower and then arrive at a friends bbq a bit late, so let loose the general frustrations to sit around a fire and enjoy cooked meats, a hopefully starry night sky, along with some friends and booze of various sorts..

True, I solo'd it with my Sith Assassin with no campaign gear at all. I had some battlemaster but not a complete set. I think the question was more for a straight 50th level character who hasn't geared up, or been played for x months, how they'd find it.

Well I could go and camp outside the university with a camera and take pictures of all the student girls there to put up here.. but that might be considered a wee bit creepy..

To be fair, Hyperion is pretty much "Superman" in a world thats more 'realistic / cynical' then comic book, and if the government had found him and taken him away from the Kent's to be raised up. It's the "grim and gritty" version of what you'd get and what would happen when he realised he'd been lied to all his life. As a character, the film was all about Superman as someone who had never used his power to full abilties and barely knew how to use them. Think about it, according to the film he's spent 30 years pretty much not using his powers if he could help it. So rather then the Superman who is good and true and skilled in everything, we get the Supes on trainer wheels who isn't really confident in himself. I half see this as all setting up character lines for the "Man of Tomorrow" film to follow on Hell, even the "romance" aspect isn't really a romance. It's a crush between Lois and Superman, and even the kiss is just adrenaline rush and no actual romance. As for the balance of Clark Kent / Superman.. that doesn't really show up. He's not one playing the other, it's some sort of half merge between the two without being either. They've tried pushing it closer to the "real" world then a comic book ala Batman Begins, but I wonder how effective that is when you start losing the comicbook campy elements about a man in a bright blue suit who jumps tall buildings and is faster then a speeding bullet and is always impecabbly moral and ethical regardless of the temptation of vast power.

Same here and now a fling writes that she's got shots lined up and ready for me... ffs.. I guess Saturday is gonna roll by exactly the same The important question there being if those shots are body shots...

I think that can come down to just what character you're using and how they're skilled. I know there have been H2's that I've walked through on one character that have been fairly murderous on another. Hm, thinking about it, I think I've done best with either my stealth assassin or my tank/pure damage types. Healer's are a bit draggy, and my smuggler always seemed to get blapped around a lot on them.

And yes, the many, many hours required to play through the board game of Civilisation.. especially if you'd picked up the extension pack for that... The trading, the barefaced lying, the backstabbery, and the "oh, sorry, I'm not actually invading you.. I'm just.. expanding my borders..?"

Huh, Only just realised it's friday about half an hour before midnight and it rolls past. Okay, I guess this goes down as a day i've had very little coherent thought...

The final one is more in the "it has several champions close together" or a "one champion that the moment you engage has another one/two emerge from stealth" to make it awkward to deal with them all at once. But the "boss" battles aren't that hard to do , especially if you utilise your heroic moment and any legacy powers you have access to. And HK comes with a complete set of level 50/51 gear.

It's designed in sections. It's got a couple of Heroic (2+) that are possible to solo if you can figure out how to work them, but the lengthy chunks are solo. Although note, you need both a republic and an imperial character to actually get HK. There's a Heroic 2+ that starts off the series of missions on Belsavis: Section X. Then another Heroic 2+ to go find some schemaitcs if I recall... Then you get these really, really annoying "find" missions where you have to go to various planets and use a sensor probe in an area to find HK parts to dig up. One of these parts will always be on the capital world of both sides. So you'll need an Imperial character that can go to Dromund Kas, and a Republic character that can go to Coruscant. Both of those parts can be emailed across to other 'toons on your account. But there's about 5-6 parts in total. And it can take bloody ages using those sensors to find them. Then there's a final Heroic 2+ back on Belsavis to put it all together. And by solo'able, I mean you can stealth past sections, or you can get killed and move past sections as you revive to get through some areas of those heroics. I would say that the heroic on the abandoned spaceship is incredibly good and atmospheric. It just has that downturn of incredibly annoying sensor probing following it.. which is just..soul destroying in part. Oh, I know that once you've gotten HK for one character you can definitely use Legacy to pick him up for other characters on your account, but I don't know if you can pick him up via Legacy/Cartel if you haven't done it at least once.

I really should feel bad about today. I've done very little actual work. My father took mom out to look around an auction house through a chunk of the morning, which left me alone and minus most distractions - well, apart from the dogs who were actually pretty chill themselves - and instead of utilising that appropriately to achieve anything worthwhile.. I found myself pretty much chilling out and doing sod-all. It was very much that "Hm, I really should do something. But it's quiet and peaceful... Enjoy it just a bit longer..."

Oddball night, slept on and off, with weirder dreams. Don't drink coffee, it's generally uncivilised, going for the proper satisfaction of tea instead. Not worried about sharing, just the instinctive English ability to repress everything..