Raithe

Still feeling cruddy. Only made worse today by a general malaise and "ugh" feeling of down/depression. Decided to pretty much say feck it all and ignore the world today. Then of course my sister and mother get into something, no idea what, so they're just sniping at and doing stuff to irritate the other. I can't be arsed to mediate it today, so I'm ignoring that as well.

Not that anyone's told me.. But then maybe they've just been politely not mentioning it.. Hm, on a totally random thing, I think the quote for the day comes from a friend "I'm not saying that the sex was good, I'm saying even the neighbours had to smoke a cigarete after".

For some reason I have a sore throat and thumping head. I kind of feel as if I spent the night smoking half a dozen cigards and throwing back even more glasses of rough whisky. Unfortunatley, I did neither. So I have no clue what's brought this on. Cup of tea and figuring out what I'm capable of poking at this morning..

Heh, for a "party game" not a computer game, but still... Kickstarter - The Princess Bride: Prepare to Die

Seems as if BruceVC already has a copy so if you are still interested Raithe, I can send you the steam activation code. Groovy. I'd appreciate it then mute688.

dang it, beaten to it..

Yeah. I think I'm in the same boat. My current rig is pretty much 6 years old. I mean, it was state of the bleeding art when I got it (and yeah, expensive as get out), so it's still keeping up. Quad core 2.4Ghz, etc... But principle systems are getting a little worn, so if I get some decent money in I really should think about a complete overhaul..

Well there's a few ultranationalists in Japan doing the whole "people talk about forced prostitution by Japan is similar to the talk of wmd's in Iraq. There's a lot of propoganda, very little actual evidence."... All fun and games...

There's a time and a place for e-books of all sorts. But I'll never get rid of my library. I like my dead trees too much. There's something about the texture of the paper, the scent of an old book, and the sound of well-worn pages being turned as you read that just make a full reading experience...

Sitting down for lunch and feeling like something a little silly, so I'm watching some Hanazakari no Kimi Tachi. A truly oddball japanese series about a girl who pretends to be a boy to get into an all boys school so she can help a guy get back on track. Because she feels to blame that he got injured saving her life.. It's.. a little more convoluted then that, but there's a lot of bizarre elements to it.

I got my mother a paperwhite to replace her original kindle this last christmas. So far there have been no problems with the screen. Although the last week or so the battery seems to be acting up and the wifi connection keeps turning itself on or off at various times.

For the amusement value.. Inside the Battle of Hoth - A critique and analysis of the Empire's tactics and strategy through the important and game changing Battle of Hoth...

Sorry to hear bout that TrueNeutral. On other more cheerful matters, I decided to indulge in some decadent sweet tooth type moment. Sliced up 3 bananas, slowly built one layer of said slices, added sultanas, cinnamon, sprinkled sugar.. splashed bacardi rum, added cream. Then repeated, layer after layer until all banana slices were used up. Heated it all up to that point just before the banana slices start to lose their shape.... then added a fresh drizzle of cold cream and ready to sit down and eat...

Mayhaps the amazing lens-flare in the music video caught my eye.. or your levels of Google-fu need more work grasshopper.. That, and I happened to catch io9's post about it as midnight hit here in the UK...

Did you not notice I put that up in the music thread already?

Well, there seems to be a new boxer (the dog) has moved in to a house across the street, and one of the houses out back from ours is doing some construction.. all of which is combining to set the two dogs in this house off a lot. So every 10-15 minutes it seems that I have to stop whatever I'm doing, go downstairs and deal with them getting set off and barking loudly. And of course, the cat has decided to have lots and lots of manic moments. He was a right bastard the other night and decided to stalk my hands as I was doing push-ups, so I'm currently healing up assorted claw scratches. As someone I know says "cat's sharpen their claws with salt and malice, and grow their muscles with pure hatred and pain"... Edit: Hm, and I can never sit through Fiddler in an appropriate manner, ever since I listened to the H.P.Lovecraft Society developed "A Shoggoth on the Roof"....

The First Ever Music Video Made in SPAAACCEEE!! - Also, Commander Christ Hadfield's farewell to the ISS as he's heading back to Earth.

I think a lot of people are treating it more in that "proof of concept" role rather then being seriously dangerous/compromising in it's own right. Although a lot of press do seem to be pushing the sillyness aspect of "oh my god, the sky is faaaalllllling!!!" with it.

Been watching a bit of a japanese tv show. Boss 2. A special police "countermeasures unit" that's really the "reject squad" of talented people with serious flaws in some form... It always amuses me with jdoramas how they can flip from being quite serious acting one moment and then flip to wildly overblown over-acting and back again. That, and how often the leading characters are the totally inappropriate wild cards that are never supposed to succeed in the straight laced heirarchy of japanese society. Balancing genius of some form with complete social dumb-assery half the other time..

Also, an example of what can happen when you're sorting things out and find a small box of old lego wedged in the back of one wardrobe.. and promptly lose half an hour fiddling...

Oh if we're going to do the flip back in time as well.. Here's a celebrity shot from about 5 years back.: My mother is a major Stargate fanatic, and I had to go push her wheelchair around a very small "convention". As in, Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, and about 100 fans, all enclosed in the Bishop's Palace in Wells. Ended up having tea and crumpets with them as well.

Interesting point of psychology, people are more willing to die for a cause then they are to live on crippled or partially maimed. If you have a bunch of people who have a lot riding on their self-identity as confident, strong, physically capable... and then they get stuck in a position where they're missing limbs or the ability to walk, open a door on their own or such like.. They can become willing to consider things they never would have before. I remember reading in some biography about an ex-KGB guy years ago, that if he really wanted to get information from someone he wouldn't threaten to kill them. Just shoot them in the elbow and knee joints. He'd paint a picture of them living like that, unable to put on a light switch, feed themselves, go the the toilet, without having someone else doing it for them...

Had another little pootle around with Game Dev Tycoon. Still can't seem to get my R&D up and running until around year 23/24. Which means I can't get AAA games until around year 27... I am being pretty consistent with getting those 7-9 game ratings tho...

Hm, and on the movie news and rumours front.. apparently David Goyer is at work on a Count of Monte Cristo script while he's been writing/producing Da Vinci's Demons. Now the man who helped write with Christopher Nolan for Batman and also wrote Superman.. is apparently spinning a few ideas for the "19th century version of a Dark Knight".

Hm, having that pause between a bunch of authors I like releashing new books. Can't seem to find the right mood on which to look at some fresh authors at the moment. Might just re-read The Count of Monte Cristo one more time...