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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..

Nearly had a panic attack when I booted my pc up and suddenly got "cheksum error" followed by a "cannot detect operating system" messages... After a bit managed to sort it out, something reset my bios to default factory, so I had to reset the raid and wotnot. But geez, that's always scary when that sort of thing happens. Decided to let that stress go by blowing stuff up in Saints Row 3.

Heh, I'm half tempted to dust off my stacks of those boxed sets and supplements and take a picture of the pile..

Got asked to do some tech support on the laptop belonging to one of my sister's friends. They got talked into buying a flash-bang HP laptop via PC world a few weeks ago. Of course, then they didn't realise it didn't have a cd/dvd drive, and all of their software drivers for the printer and router and wotnot they have at home.. are of course on CD. And these folks are incredibly non-technically savvy. Then I get into it, and for some reason, even though they paid the £30-40 to have it set up for them by PC World, and it's only a few weeks old.. it has a ridiculous amount of updates that should be done. Firmware, drivers, windows 8, a massive amount. But they all hang. HP's auto updates, Windows Updates, they say they're downloading and installing, but they just hang. Then trying to get to systems controls to find out if there's anything odd.. and every time you click on anything there, the computer freezes. So spending a few hours looking at that and trying to figure out what part of it is just Windows 8 annoyance and what's actually a problem. I am thoroughly even less-impressed with PC World then I already was. Which , actually, is kind of impressive by itself.

Ow. I repeat, Ow. I have no bloody clue what I've done, but something on the left side of my back really isn't liking me at the moment. half my arm movements and any forward curvature of my spine sends joyful spasms of aches and pains along that side of my torso.

Isn't a chunk of the anti-gay bible aspect in Leviticus? Which also has the big chunk of "tattoo's are bad, mmkay?", "you should not cross-breed cattle" and the "you're going to hell if you wear clothes made out of more then one type of material" if I vaguely recall... It does seem to me that if the various churches are okay dropping the latter bunch and not stressing over them, why are they getting so hooked on that part?

And an interview with Brian Fargo looking back over his career for those who might be interested.. polygamia - Brian Fargo : The Golden Era of Computer RPG's is Yet to Come

"Drink leads to drunkeness, drunkeness leads to beer goggles, beer goggles lead to dirty women, once you have a dirty woman in your jock.. forever will she dominate your destiny...."

Besides general puttering around, dabbling at work, taking some phone calls, mentally preparing to steal my sister's room when she moves out and turn it into a mix of office and game room.. Made a playlist of the complete Pirates of the Caribbean score and had that running throughout the evening. Played host and made tea when a friend of my mom's visited so they could have a general chit-chat. Didn't win the Eurolottery roll-over. Hey, when it's hitting the £150 million plus, you'll throw down for a couple of lucky dips for the sheer hell of it. What is it they say, you have better odds of dropping dead on the trip to get the ticket then you do of actually winning the jackpot.. Having a big mug of hot chocolate before I track down where the cat is at, and make sure things are all sorted and organised before I call it quits for the night and go face the challenges of Morpheus...

In my experience, about 70% of the time they just want a friendly face to tell them they still look good. Remember, women are completely mental. That's why the Crazy / Hot graph was invented.

Challenge.. Accepted. Since Wals hasn't had the chance to do so yet..

Well I'd have reacted differently, but I'd still have reacted. I ran it by a couple of people I know who are not well-versed sci-fi geeks.. and none of them have a problem with the name. In fact, none of them recognised the soylent name in the first place...

Eh, I made a bet with some friends back in secondary school that I'd still be going strong a century from then. So to win my pound we've arranged to meet up a short distance from where my school was when I'm 114... Edit: I mean, literally ever couple of years one of us turns round and does the "Remember, 2093, July 21st, just outside of Clements..."

hm, apparently gran fell down out in her garden this morning and is still being a bit wobbly. So its the family arranging to get her in for a doctor's checkup this afternoon. The joys of making it to your 90's I'd say...

Pushing through the morning, had an on/off sleep, and a bout of weird dreams, now sipping tea and letting a minor headache fuzzle around in the background. The dogs are being a bit back and forth and all "fuss me! fuss me!", and the sun is shining so I'm pondering whether to try clearing a bunch of laundry before I poke at something work related.