Raithe

Okay, this might be a bit too darkly twisted humour whilst still being sad (as all unnatural death is).. but I couldn't think of another thread to put it in.. In an attempt to prevent a man committing suicide.. LA police tasered him to death. Well, into cardiac arrest, which led to coma, which led to death... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/sledge-hammer-tasered-_n_1429287.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

So Sean Bean pretty much dies in every movie he's been in... Can anyone think of a movie role in which he survives? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJODirze5EM Edit: Technically I suppose, he was pretty much invulnerable as Sharpe.. but that was a tv series more then movie roles...

Hm, I hadn't noticed that much of an issue.. Although, on consideration my Sith Inquisitor probably did "die" a fair bit more then my Smuggler... but my Jedi Knight hasn't had survivability issues as such compared to others. Granted, he's still on Act I, so not too far into things....

But can anything beat Joss Whedon's approach of "Cowboys and Hookers.. In Space!"?

Amazon started off with massive discounts on Kindle, but when Apple moved in like that they had to raise the prices and actually appologised to customers for having to do it...

And in case anyone had missed it and was interested.. Several of the Bioware folks discuss Mass Effect 3 at Pax East Bioware discusses ME3 endings, dlc and tali's face

I have to admit, there's a certain level of awkwardness with Jimmy Vega. On the one hand, I can see why you need a new character like that - storywise it lets you have various explanations happen for people who hadn't played the previous games... But, eh, it didn't seem as smooth or natural as they could have made it. Although he didn't have any daddy/family issues to deal with...

And for the other part of the Legacy update..

And one that will probably amuse Hurl..

Heh, and if you check my comment in the Books thread.. Apple are currently facing lawsuit by the DoJ for allegedly price-fixing ebooks..

Well the Arrivial dlc had the whole "Shepard just blew up a solar system full of bataarians" and getting the whole "You realise you'll have to face the music for this?" speech from Hacket. This leads us to Shep willingly handing himself over to the Alliance to present his reasons and how it happened. I can understand Shep letting the Cerberus crew off, rather then casually hand them into Alliance custody as well. I mean, Kasumi - intergalactic thief, Mordin - ex salarian special task force super scientist, Miranda - former executive officer to Cerberus, etc... It kind of makes sense he does the whole "right, you lot get out here, so you're actually doing stuff in the Galaxy rather then facing the music with me." Although that gets a few holes poked in it by such as the Engineer's being in jail and needing you as Spectre to get them released (I do kind of wish they'd played t hat up more...). Joker was technically under arrest as well, but his expertise was needed to help the Alliance re-fit the new Normandy.. EDI, well, she was part of the ship and managed to conceal herself as just an advanced VI... Doctor Chakwa came along because she was former Alliance and hadn't technically joined Cerberus...

So among the list of things from the 1.2 update..

Quote of the day that kind of amuses me.. "As an officer, the job is to fullfill the mission objectives and kill as few of your command as possible. As an NCO, the job is to fullfill the mission objectives and keep the men alive. It's not so much semantics, as a shift in perspective."

In book related news.. Apple is apparently being hit by the American legal system over attempts to fix the price of ebooks Department of Justice hits Apple with e-book price fixing suit YahooNews - US accuses Apple and publishers over e-books

Not something I did, but something I nearly missed.. but today marks the 51st year since Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.. And apparently last year the UN marks 12 April as "International Day of Human Space Flight"

Apparently it's not that unusual to do when you have a small group trying to get studios interest in a story. Edit together something like that so you can have a very visual hook of the "style/feel" of what the prospective film is to be like..

For the quirky interest route.. The "mood" trailer that's being shipped around studios to develop interest in adapting Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn books to film has been leaked and turned up on the internet. They've edited chunks from a whole bunch of films, then given the "movie text" to add story info and it's actually quite weird how well they've captured the whole feel of the story... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0TOVHEnfe0

Ah, and thus the benefits of working from home are brought into focus...

I'm still dabbling a bit on SW:TOR, and slipping in a mission here and there on a second ME3 playthrough.

10 year old Schoolgirl takes drug-dealer fathers cocaine stash to school for a show&tell session Something about this just amuses me.. Also, for the other Yet another show and tell session, this time in the US

Immortal Sayings: "It's not a half-baked idea! It's.. pretty mostly baked. Maybe a little soft in the middle...."

Well, Alien Ressurrection was written by Joss Whedon if I recall correctly... I think that's the thing about ME3, there were a lot of nice touches scattered around, bits and pieces that felt great or were perfectly suited to the background points... So it makes it feel even more bizarre when you have all those missing or skewed elements that just don't feel good.

And I'm realising I must have been really distracted this morning.. The lesson to be learnt is never to post when you have dogs jumping around your seat and pawing at you..