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That at least got balanced out by some fairly amusing dialogue and storylines. Not monotone voiceovers as if someone were reading a book....

But the good ol USA isn't a country. It's an IDEAL!

Had some bizzaro dreams and have woken to face the delights of Monday.... Let us see where it goes.

An epic love story.. told only in long, lingering stares. And to persuade teenage girls it's really not creepy for an older man to watch you sleep...

So is it just a comedic hissy fit, or something to produce a lot of interesting sound bites in the next month? 20 States have filed to secede from the United States

For the comic beek geekasm (as far as I kinda recall) - Dinah Lance aka Black Canary was the daughter of a non-powered costumed heroine from the JLA days. She started out as a brunette who wore a blonde wig, a leather jacket and some fishnet hose as a way of hiding her identity whilst kicking butt with martial arts ability and general "scrappy attitude", then picked up some sonic based scream powers along the way... So far the series just has Dinah Lance as a brunette lawyer with a hardbitten detective for a father, and they've had the throwaway line about some costume she wore for halloween where she hated the fishnets... So potential for things to go somewhere with that in the future. On a sidenote, the old tv show Birds of Prey was a semi-adaption of the highly successful comic run Birds of Prey, which was Oracle, Black Canary and Huntress, The tv show wasn't too bad in that cheesy comic book show sort of way, but it offended the fans by rewriting a whole heap of stuff, and then projecting it into a pseudo future Gotham where Batman had disapeared and Huntress was the unrecognised daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle (along with some mutant powers).

I'm in favour of making sure to drink water when I get in, and some chocolatey type goodies eaten away.. then when you wake up, hit it with some fruit juice of some sort to double on the rehydration and energy...

I think it depends on just where you know how to shop. I mean, currently the crop of consoles in the UK seem to be around the £170-240 mark, and that's with the next-generation consoles in the near future, so go back a bit in time and the price was higher. Compared to that, you can pick up a low-to-mid range pc for around £300-500. Hell, if you buy a pc without a graphics card and pick up something like an NVidia GT630 seperately, you'll be talking around £250-350. I guess a large part of that comes down to "are you only going to use it for gaming?". To me, whenever I've thought of looking at consoles it always seems that the price of console games has been about 20% more then the pc version of the game. So in the long term of a year or three picking up games the price would actually even out. So that combined with how much I use a pc for other things besides gaming pushes the pc into the superior choice for myself.

Because, Torment's story actually fit the "mechanics" of the Universe it was set in. The logic of the world (as it were) matched that. AC is (nominally speaking) set in the "Real World ™".

My Pc runs on Vista which yeah, was just being released when I got my PC, so, I've had no problems running games.

Okay, I picked up a fairly bleeding edge pc 6-7 years ago. Apart from having to replace the graphics card twice (because they died, not because of a need to make them better) , and a hard drive that also died needing to be replaced, I haven't had any issues and it still chews up modern games with no problem. And no, it still runs on the OS it came with. So, yeah, I'd say it's all working to the good. If I have a technical issue with my pc I can open it up and fix it. If a console has a technical issue.. you don't really have that same option.

Had a wander on the public test server of ToR. Interesting to see how the "Cartel" is set up for when they shift to free-to-play and wotnot. Edit: From the looks of it, free-to-play gives you the class storylines, but pretty much cuts down access to flashpoints, warzones (pvp) and operations. You can use micro-transactions to buy Cartel Coins which you can use to buy things from the Cartel which include more access to those three, plus a small horde of other things. Also a way of buying access to various Legacy perks, other gear, and assorted things. Subscribers will get an amount of Cartel Coins each month as is, and automatic access to all the things they've grown used to... And there was something else I was going to mention, but it's slipped from my mind. Ah well, maybe I'll edit it in later when it jumps back...

Had a push on Tor. Got my Sith Juggernaut to the end of Chapter 2, and my Jedi Sage through the prologue....

I have to admit, I can enjoy reading Pratchett's books once. But I find it hard to re-read them. Hm, apart from Good Omens, but that he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.

Well, I think the groom put it to his bride in some format of "So what would you prefer, I spend the weekend killing small animals, or we go with the strippers?"

Some "Wild Man's Retreat". Wilderness. Hunting, Camping. Beer. The stag do you do when there are to be no strippers.

Well I've started listening to some "learn spanish as you drive" cd's to pick up some basic vocabulary.., as well as having acquired an english-spanish dictionary... Still, I have till April to pick up the spanish. But apparently the bachelor weekend and hen weekend are happening in November for various reasons...

Have been told to prepare for a friends stag weekend. Including a mailed list of items I should have: I think I shall feel relief that I'm actually getting past the lingering remnants of hacking cough before this event occurs..

If it has more "Desmond's Journey" crap, I'm never going to play it. The whole thing with the AC games is you can wait awhile, then youtube watch all the cinematics edited together without any of the wasted time and hour sink...

Scripting is fine for one-off events. But when you have to track what reactions a group has to your collective actions and behaviours.. it needs more then a script running. There has to be some form of ticking boxes / collecting numbers that work behind the scenes. I'm not saying it should flash up "+10 affection" on screen for you to see, but behind the scenes there has to be something happening so that different groups will react to your collective behaviour over time, not just the latest thing you did.

Non-lethal takedowns can make sense for certain tactical / strategic reasons... But to have a character who is a complete pacifist, yet still gets involved in protecting other people from violence is.. unusual in certain settings. I mean, I know historically you have buddhist belief stretching back for years, and elements of various martial artist practitioners who tried to practice non-violence whilst mastering certain physical talens... but extreme pacifism and philosophies revolving around how "bad" war, violence and such are tend to be a bit more "modern" ethical and morality concerns. During the middle ages to renaissance setting, high level pacifism would be..exceptionally unusual to develop considering the normal lifestyles and prominent attitudes. You tend to need more people not so concerned about getting the basics of food and shelter before they start worrying about morality of killing people who are doing bad things... So setting up a complete way to play through a game non-lethally tends to make more sense in more modern day settings then in sword waving, spear chucking eras....

Safe isn't too bad if you enjoy Statham action flicks. Heh, I took it to a dvd night with friends, and one of the girls was all "oh, my bf doesn't allow me to watch any film with a topless Statham in.."