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And incredibly spot on...

Been poking around on Kingdoms of Amalur of late. Lots of pretty visuals, not many memorable characters...

Having a slow start to the day here with one of those draining headaches grinding along on the forebrain. My mother is having a major cleaning/reshuffle of things around in her room. Which with the furniture and odds and ends and her moving around doesn't really leave room for anyone to help her. Plus it's that "carefully constructed stacks of things" that only she knows how she wants them organised. So I'm pretty much staying out of it except when there's a need to shift the bed/furniture around and provide those chunks of manual labour... Tis hot and sunny and bright outside.. so I'm pretty much lurking to the shade inside and avoiding the feeling of life today..

The first three seasons are quite good and interconnected. The 4th doesn't quite hold up as much, and the 5th while quite interesting in what they try to do and entertaining in it's way, doesn't quite seem to hold up to the promise of the first few seasons. Edit: Of course, I might have picked that up because I pretty much watched it enmasse when I had seasons 3, 4, and 5 all together over the course of basically one long weekend and bank holiday... Oh, LadyCrimson, if you're watching that Sherlock series, keep your eyes out.. Jude Law turns up as a young boy in pretty much one of his first acting gigs if I recall correctly.

Caught the latest episode of Castle. Heh, some amusing bits to it, and re-inforcing relationships by having Becket stood on a bomb while Castle refuses to leave and attempts to keep her spirits up. Only now I'm having flashbacks to all the old tv sci-fi shows in the 90's that would save budget towards the end of a season from one episode to put towards some major two-parter special effects end-of-season extravaganza by having a "flashback" episode... An excuse to basically only film a couple of characters in a small room, while large chunks of the episode are just a montage of clips from earlier in the show with various voice-overs as characters talk to each other.

What can he not do?

Heh. Wait for it...

Yes, and yes (the purple tie).. All of the key male members of both families were colour coordinated with the bridesmaids dresses. As in, a matching set of silk tie, handkerchief for the top pocket, and cufflinks, were all matched to each bridesmaid - although the father of the bride was colour-linked pink via the sash thing the bride was wearing...

Not to forget just how the bridesmaids looked (as we were talking pretty ladies in Mexico..) And yes, I did end up standing in front during those important speeches.. Which was quite a sizable group. Let me point out, the following was the "close, intimate family" for the restaurant meal after the civil celebration aspect. The wedding guests for the church day, were..quite more numerous.

Oh, and for the confirmation, Yes, there were mariachi at the reception: And for a view of the church: Which we left looking like:

Oh, and after a hospital visit this afternoon, more fun stuff with doctors. Aka, the bone doctor who flat out said that "that's the worst knee I've seen. All bone is on bone, the joints, the knee-cap. The mobility issues and pain that causes must seriously impair quality of life" combined with how hip and spine are worsening.. He followed that with the whole "if I had my way, I'd have you in this afternoon to do the replacement and at least deal with that." Add lengthy pause, before the "Buuut, with all of the other issues going on, I'm just not confident that there wouldn't be any other complications due to all the other issues, so we aren't going to do it." Which leads into him covering his ass, and organising yet more time for the various specialities to write letters to each other, without ever actually doing anything... All of this has my mother in a very good mood...

Hm, having an odd start to the morning here. I have to admit, after having to spend the better part of 18 days with the groom's family during that trip to Mexico, I was really quite glad when we got back to have that time away and plenty of my own personal space. But for some reason I'm having that slight disconnect today, especially since apart from a chunk of last saturday, I haven't actually talked to anyone in person outside my family in the couple of weeks since I got back. Also, I definitely miss the fun flirty banter I got to engage in with the various pretty women in Mexico. Nothing serious or taken far, just.. fun and making them smile. Heh, of course now pretty much all of them are now in-laws of one sort or another to my friend... So having a slow cup of tea, and trying to figure what has me all discombobulated as the morning rolls on.

Heh, funny thing, it was built a fair few centuries before the Aztecs built what would later become Mexico City. They found it abandoned, and literally did teh "hey, we have no idea how to build something like this, so if we can't do it..no-one can. It MUST be the work of the GODS!!" So it become one of the central points of their religion that the Gods build that city when they created the world.... Edit: Oh, and to the size of the place? There are still a large number of the smaller pyramids that are still buried, as of yet they haven't been uncovered or excavated yet....

It could be worse. You could have woken up from a night out drunk with friends and found the writing on a lot of other places...

That's the thing, a well-run goblin or kobold encounter can be just incredibly vicious if they get the whole ambush, mob, snare/trap aspect rolling along. They are not stand and fight creatures, it's all about the hit and run and sneaky, devious, underhanded whittle away. They will attempt to cripple, blind, bleed, poison, infect.....

And to prove I made it up there.. The view from the top of the Pyramid of the Sun: And looking incredibly touristy and casual in my elegance..

Also, the views from Teotihuacan..

Since we have this thread, I suppose I really should throw up a few shots from my time away in Mexico.... Views at the nice little hotel we stayed in for the few days of the wedding "proper" : And yes, t he groom as prepped just before we left for the church:

Having a few nights of awkward sleep. I guess at least last night I managed to get some sleep, even if it was just faling asleep, waking up suddenly, half dozing off, repeat for hours.. The previous night I just ended up staring at the ceiling until some time around 5am or so before actually dropping off. Potentially that's catching up with this morning, but we'll see how the day shapes up.

The Esseles (republic) and Black Talon (imperial) are probably the flashpoints that are more story-centric, dialogue, and have potential choices that change how they play out. The majority of the rest are pretty much the same regardless of whether you're playing Imp or Rep - Except the story specific Revan related paired flashpoints that crop up around level 33-36. Although I will say it is surprisingly satisfying to finally be able to shoot Grand Moff Kilran in the face.

For the connections of the manly arts of camping on the other thread... I present to you "Macho Tent!"

Hm, and Origin have all the Kingdoms of Amalur dlc at half price at the moment. Decisions, decisions....

Picked up a cheap Kingdoms of Amalur via Amazon , I'll see how much that can distract me over the next week...

I wouldn't put it in quite that vein. After all, there are times when you can have a really great story in a game that you're enjoying, and then you end up with some annoying as get out, grindy, nonsensical and fairly meaningless bossfight that isn't about skill, technique or character.. but about mashing a few keys repetitively to avoid the boss attacks, while you slowly whittle down their 200k+ hit points using only specific moves because the bastard is invulnerable except in specific instances... If orgasm was like that, people really would stop having sex..