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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-28-assassins-creed-4-black-flag-confirmed-by-ubisoft-has-60-minutes-exclusive-gameplay-on-ps3 Assassin's Creed goes all Jolly Roger. The next in the series is to be "Assassin's Creed: Black Flag"

Don't know if its remnants from yesterdays headache and time spent in bed, but kept waking up from weird dreams that were constantly fragmenting through the early hours of the morning.. and now that I'm up I seem to be having one of those mornings where my brain keeps firing off random thoughts that aren't actually connected with anything in particular. Definitely making it awkward to concentrate and focus on anything. I shall rely on the tradition of tea drinking to see if that soothes things down.

I'd say make a short list of a bunch of the special combat maneuvers that are above/beyond the simple hack and slash. Ie - Trip, Sunder, Disarm, etc.. with a couple of notes jotting down what they do, and the basic rules. Make sure your players have a copy and award a little exra xp if they use them with appropriately fluffy roleplaying descriptions for the combat.... Or for using them in appropriate ways. It's a way to encourage them to think beyond just "roll to hit and damage" , especially if it turns combat into something a bit more tactical.

Spent most of the day so far buried in bed with a nasty headache and trying to let my thoughts roam. Forced myself up now as it's a little better and I needed some food and tea. Now checking emails and wotnot trying to focus on figuring out what needs to be done in the last few hours of the afternoon.

The montage sequence in early Children of Dune to the Inama Nushif music was fairly damn excellently placed and executed though... To me, that music set off the whole thing to close to perfection. The birth of the children along with the cleansing of the house... http://youtu.be/IGPFB8yR6zk

Now, last night for various reasons I ended up listening to the Music from the Succubus album which put me in a frame of mind to think about the classic WoD. And for some reason I suddenly started thinking about just what might happen if a Vampire decided to Ghoul one or more house cats. Can you imagine just what a bad idea that would be? Felines (while I appreciate them as pets) are pretty damn murderous and evil masterminds as they are. Throw in a little bit of vampiric vitae and just what will happen? Or even worse, imagine a couple of generations of said ghouled kitties. A revenant bloodline of urban cats all with an increased hunger and roaming around whilst said Vamp is asleep during the day. Since it's well known for cats to chow down on their owners if they croak.. can you imagine the possibilities with one or more vamp's resting?

The other flip side of Kingmaker is that you'll probably have to make houserules over the population numbers. Otherwise.. after about 3 or 4 years of kingdom building, you will have a ridiculous population compared to the rest of the River Kingdoms.

Although there was some recent study that claimed that lack of sleep can age a man's sex life 10-15 years....

There are some things man is not meant to google....

I have to admit, I've got a soft spot for the sci-fi channels mini-series adaptions of Dune and Children of Dune.

A little wandering around on the argument of why a threesome is better as a fantasy then in reality...

Somethings put me in the mood to listen to my Music from the Succubus Club album..

And more in patents then science.. but still: cnet - Futuristic Handcuffs Would Administer Shocks and Drugs/

It's the internet. There has to be cats..

Sliders started off as a great series. There were a lot of really fun ideas to it and the episodes, and the characters blended together quite nicely. But yes, unfortunately, as time went on things got a little.. weird and convoluted. And it all kind of fell apart.

Woke from some strange and vivid dreams about trying to find a psychotic professor in a Warhammer 40k university. A lil on the weird side. Now my day is feeling ever so slightly off-kilter as I drink tea and try to nudge my mind back onto poking at stakeholder requirements.

It did, until everyone had a camera in their cellphone....

I'd try and make a good chemistry joke. But all the best ones argon.

I have to say, I think a Good Day to Die Hard has to rate as the worst of the Die Hard movies so far. I mean, the opening and what turns into a half-hour extended chase sequence through Moscow traffic before the plot really gets rolling. A couple of over-noisy mass gunfights that pull along with fragments of angsty father-son dynamic. I mean, I know part of the Die Hard idea is John McClane in a certain "fish out of water" experience usually. Cynical Cop in a White Collar High Rise building, Cynical cop stuck on an airport, cynical cop being run-around by a mastermind, cynical cop struggling with the digital age... But cynical cop stuck in Moscow with a secret agent son just doesn't seem to get the traction. They don't seem to push the one-liners that provided some amusement, and (to potentially spoil it), they can't seem to make up their mind on who the villain is. And even then, it just..there is no real villainous presence to banter again. What's a Die Hard film without McClane vs Villain banter?

Note : Technically that bear does have a skin condition which caused the fur to fall out. No-one was crazy enough to actually shave it.. On to funnier things -

The Netflix original series? Dang it, it's another one that was done in the UK yeeeaaars ago and someone in the US decided to make their own copy.