Raithe

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.

Also, if this wasn't a forum of fairly well-versed sci-fi movie goers, that would probably have gone over a lot of people's heads...

For that Nostalgia Flashback of Amusement!! http://youtu.be/bCeESZhmHsM

I have to admit, I do enjoy starting a new character and running around on the beginner planets...

Is this where the old crack of "rugby is a game played by men with odd-shaped balls" comes into play?

http://youtu.be/l1VfLiRcilA

You have the madonna with the big boobies hanging on your wall? a slightly gay gestapo agent hitting on you and airmen hidden in your house?

No , not brandy. Port.