Raithe

Ah, and now, both in the name of providing some space for those relatives arriving tomorrow..and in keeping my sanity over the upcoming month.. my whole computer set-up is now crammed into a room that's about 4' by 6'..

Endgame was okay. But then, I was a fan of the tv series, especially as it smoothed out over the first couple of years.

The barbaric concept is believing that robbing people off freedom, punish and degrading them will somehow make them better people.. You know how we scorn parents who always criticize their kids and never take the time to teach them the skills to actually be good? The reason for that is it produces rotten kids - society works on a much similar principle, if people don't feel like they belong or that their actions have no real social consequence (ie they are hated no matter what), then what's gonna make them change? The carrot is infinitely better than a rod, especially working with people. Of course some a just looney and needs to be taken to a brightly lid facility with rubberwalls, but let's not judge every misdemeanor as deserving of that. okay, not every prisoner has no voting rights. I can't remember the exact breakdown, but pretty much the "misdemeanour" crowd , especially those who have sentences of a year or three are able to vote. But it's pretty much aimed at the "hard time" cons. And the moment they get out of prison, they can vote. But whilst they're in prison, as part of thepunishment for breaking the social contract and commiting crimes that get you arrested.. you can't vote. It's not like they are stripped of the vote to right until they die.

Call me crazy, but having a bunch of non-elected officials, most of whom are bureaucrats rather then geniuses of legal ability and aren't even from your country tell your elected officials what they have to do, even in the face of the actual democratic voting on the matter... Especially when it started due to a literal Axe Murderer who delights in attempting to "game the system" making the original complaint?

Apart from the boss fights.. I enjoyed the majority of DEHR. The art direction was coherent and solid throughout, and the storyline pretty much held together, which is rare enough in most games today..

He was also a character named "Jesus" in one of those Mel Gibson snuff films. And he got hit by lightning during the filming of said film. He's also a devout christian, but won't push his beliefs on other people and actually learned Aramaic for the role, not just reading the phrases out loud or such.

So how many folks have been paying attention to the ongoing issue between the EU Court of Human Rights and the UK's long stand that if you get sent to jail, you lose your vote while you're in prison? It really kicked off back in 2004, when a convicted axe murderer complained that he wasn't allowed to vote... and the ECHR ruled in favour of the man.. While the panel of unelected Judges (the majority of whom have never even held a Judicial position in their own countries) from the EU's Human Rights Court have been pushing this, the UK has had a few votes and even cross-party support in not giving into the pressure of changing the law. Daily Mail - Prisoner vote row : European judges insist prisoners MUST vote

Jim Caviezel - You might remember him from the last remake of "The Count of Monte Cristo", as well as the currently running tv show "Person of Interest". I have to admit, I kind of enjoy Outlander it's an interesting use of a fairly typical fantasy/Viking story but wrapped up in limited sci-fi trappings. That and it has John Hurt and Ron Perlman to add a touch of gravitas, and Sophia Myles for some eye-candy that can act...

They did say they only needed 500k subscribers for a brief time to get into profit (or something long those lines). So considering they hit the 2million units sold/subscription for the first month at least..and have been fairly consistent at that 1.6+ million mark for the last 3 months.. I'd say they're doing fairly well.

And dang, nearly got stranded up in the Attic for a bit. Shifting stuff and the ladder broke under my feet, resulting in a rather frantic jump and grab to prevent tumbling down...

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Aunt and Uncle are turning up from Australia for the next month (on and off). So despite much urgings to deal with it before hand, it's still turning into the flurry of activity over the several days before they actually land. Shifting stuff around, clearing it into the attic, trying to persuade people that yes, they can get rid of it because they haven't actually used it for years and having it in storage in the craft room "just in case" is kind of pointless.. Since I've had my computer set up near my mothers bed/main area (since I'm her primary carer and she's disabled) I'm trying to figure out where I can get a comfortable space to shift it all to. Nothing personal, but her sister and brother in law are nice and fine in small doses. And we hear from both of them how much they "love and miss each other" due to being on different continents.. but give them a couple of days together and they will wind each other up something chronic. It might be selfish, but I so don't want to be stuck in the same damn room as them for large chunks of time over the next month.... And of course, in the middle of this rush and getting furniture and assorted stuff shifted and cleaned.. mom decides now is the time to insist that pieces of DIY are done around the house even if its taking time out from making sure there's actually space for those familial visitors to sleep... Hanging new rail curtains, and other moments of purely That and the general sniping and joyous feeling occuring between mom and dad over it all.. I foresee great, fun times over the next few weeks... I'm trying to not get involved in that side, and just get the jobs all done and completed.

That's similar to how I've been splitting it all out with my playthroughs. I have to admit, I loathe Corellia. I see they're trying for the whole.. "grim, dark war-torn, horror of war vibe" but I just get "confused, grindy, craphole" instead. But pretty much playing through prologue and act 1 seems to be a lot of fun, especially once you've gotten to grips with the mechanics of the game.

Geek Explosion Waiting to Happen.. Vader. Batman. Vader. Batman.

Chilled beer? What are you, an American? Natch, we keep the wines, port and beers in a cool pantry instead..

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/kingdoms-of-amalur-dev-misses-payroll-6377467 Although a sequel to Kingdoms of Amalur is in the works.. apparently the studio has had missed payroll due to financial issues..

Hah! I didn't cut and paste. I manually typed in the verification code...

Did you capitalize one of the letters? I think thats a requirement. Yeah, I did a mix of uppercase and lowercase. I'm giving up for the moment and shall try again at some later point in time..

His house. His freaking tools. Plus with ceiling height of around 8-9 foot, its pretty much a two person job to get it done correctly. Edit: And to further aggravate my mood, Steam won't recognise my password and allow me to login. So I run through the whole "reset a password" thing, and even after putting in the verification code they send me.. every choice I try making for a new password gets classed as "this is an invalid password" it's more then 5 characters long. It's got numbers and letters in. What the freak is invalid about it?!

Trying to help my parents organise things for when my mom's sister and her husband are visiting from Australia in a month. Needing mass cleanup and getting rid of stuff to free up more space. Mentioned to my father that if we could get the wallpaper hanging finsihed.. the stacks of wallpaper rolls filling up the craft room can be disapeared. His response was all "Whatever. A few rolls of wallpaper isn't much in the grand scheme of things." When I pointed out that it had been started 4 years ago and that the hall still hadn't been finished, he went into a "There's no need to raise your voice, and besides I've got stuff to tidy in my room." and sulked off. To be fair, it was interupted by my grandfathers illness and death so it was understandable it got halted at the time. But still. Four freaking years on and he just gets passive aggressive over finishing it.

Well I've managed to get my SI and Smuggler to 50 now.. although I haven't finished the Smuggler's storyline..and I still haven't travelled to Ilum yet.. I seem to be juggling time on my Bounty Hunter and Jedi Knight as well.. I do think that's one of the key approaches to not getting burnt out on the worlds. Alternate Imp/Rep styles... My sister created her first Alt.. she's trying out a Sith Sorcerer after getting her Jedi Shadow up to late 30's.. So I had a Sith Warrior and we actually ran through Korriban and Dromund Kaas together which was an interesting experience (okay, technically we still haven't finished DK just yet..). It's interesting to note how the game picks up on you being in a group, and also had some references to us being the same group who did the Black Talon - The Imperial Agent who hands you that mission straight from Allo, Allo talks about it , and I can't recall him saying such when solo'ing it...

And this is a pic I stumbled across.. Someone who takes their gaming maybe a wee bit too seriously...