Raithe

Just to add to the collection off odd dreams... I woke up from one where I was trying to escape an event organised and hosted by the mother of a friend. The woman who happens to be one of the most annoying, irritating, small-minded, mean-spirited, soul-destroying people I have ever met in my life. And she has such a horrible, grating laugh that just claws its way through my mind. It wasn't a nightmare, but damn was I glad to finally wake up.

Spent half the night awake, then finally managed to fall asleep sometime around 5am. Woke up in the midmorning from a rather odd dream that seems to have included some vaguely supernatural/gothic ruined castle and dungeons turned into an archaeological dig, whilst I tried to find some lost item...and dodged a pseudo police/paramilitary anti-magic extremist group and flirted with the female officers in Han Solo type manner... then getting hit with an obviously supernatural cursed super-storm to the area... Was a little..bizarre and groggy when I woke up from that. Firmly glad to have that first cup of tea of the day..

The one of the Emperor dancing is just plain creepy... Although.. This actually sinks into the forebrain too damn easily...

Have you ever realised how the major holidays are exercises in deception and warfare? Christmas - an exercise in obfuscation and forensic cryptology. New Years Eve - a form of globally coordinated mass ordnance deployment. Easter - Infiltration and Recovery. Valentines Day - Psychological Warfare....

The whole Anderson / Udina councilor thing is actually part of one of the books they did.. So it's in extra media that you don't come across if you only play the games. Something Anderson does basically results in him taking action where a councillor shouldn't... and thus he resigns to not cause trouble, leaving Udina to take his place. Hm, my theory on the Shroud sabotage is that it relates to the thermal issues - ie, the Salarians had modified it to vary the temperature when expelling whatever organisms were involved - thus any potential genophage cures (which by all that is known would be some form of biologically tailored virus like the original genophage) would therefore be stressed/altered/destroyed so as not to work). In fact, that might have been part of what was slowing down the Reaper poison? Or if it wasn't slowing down the poison, the Reaper's might have been using some form of nanotech, which would have been immune to those sorts of temperature variations that the sabotage caused.... See, wild speculation abounds..

The best "explanation" I've heard put forward is that a> shepard was actually unconscious for awhile, and the surviving members were pulled back during the retreat, and that b> the normandy was caught in the explosion of the mass relays and "pushed" into ftl travel by all that weird energy spilling around..

I guess it's one way to straddle the balance of "artistic integrity" yet also the "listening to our fans".... Edit: Or maybe they'll throw something into the mix beyond "red, green, blue"... Although it's interesting to note that Jennifer Hale has admitted she's heard nothing about needing to do new lines.. So I'm guessing it's more going to be something in the vein of cutscene alteration/extension plus some form of slideshow...

I seem to be having a bunch of vivid, re-occuring dreams that mash up a bunch of sci-fi / conspiracy theory / pulp adventure stories all together the past few nights. Which is a little weird.

Okay, something that amused me - According to the Director's commentary on Ferris Bueller's Day Out.. the character of Ferris Bueller is a sociopath.

I'm still pushing along. Although Belsavis is a bit of a drag to push through with my Smuggler. I like the concept, but something about that planet doesn't really click right for me.

Dr.Who as 16-bit rpg game.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gML41Vb9I1Y

I tended to favour using Carnage as the extra power. Just for that oomph of Armour takedown that it's useful with...

Count the ammo power as another one? You flick incendiary on and forget about it

"Everybody talks about leaving a better planet for the children.... Why does nobody think about leaving better children for the planet?"

I don't believe so. But then they're all limited to two weapons, so it doesn't really come into play....

Heh, I saw a similar proposal to bring back "Dueling" - The thought process being, that in the day and age where everybody could carry a weapon, and it was possible to engage someone else in a duel, people learnt to be much more polite with each other rather then accidentally insult folks in the street...

There's a dozen movies using the names of Greek myths and stories. The content is pretty darn negligible of the actual myth/story..

"Movie Titles that describe your sex life: Lemony Snickets - A Series of Unfortunate Events"

Not quite as bad, but the US is focusing on warrentless cellphone tracking.,. US Government's Latest Weapon: Warrantless Cell Phone Surveillance

Following on from the assorted China Hacking, and UK Bigbrother news.. Interpol: Lack of Internal Laws and Resources Hurst the fight against Cybercrime

Because it has to be slipped in somewhere... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOqHUa2LfNY&feature=youtu.be

Bioware - The Old Republic Live the Ship Droid Experience!

From George Takei..

It adds an interest that several Chinese companies were involved in some of the UK internet backbone development. Although supposedly the Government did run a lot of watchers on them to make sure they didn't put any backdoors for the Chinese government.. Paranoia makes you wonder if they were specifically keeping an eye out for developing their own versions..