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For the amusement value... Rapidly evolving low-cost mobile technology keeps military up at night As the Darpa Deputy Director gives various testimony on "Emerging Threats" , the need to look at the current pace of developing smart phones and the like comes to the forefront.. Heh, it's growing into a dangerous world out there. Wait.. it's always been a dangerous world.

Not out and out laugh out amusing, but some generally quirky furniture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB4bvvyl_ss

Hm, something from IGN's Q&A Mass Effect 3 Preview Report So it looks like you won't be able to amble around regardless once you've picked up certain quests.. That could be interesting. Depending on how well it's handled.

Self-guided-bullets further in process of development....

Well they have said all those times that you'll see a lot of people turn up again as squad-mates if only for one-off missions... so there's that potential. Throw in the whole "romance triangles, and personal conflict" that's been talked about.. I wouldn't be surprised if they manage to fit that in..

Ah, but if (as it said) the Ensign they've got there is the lesbian romance for FemShep, then I doubt they'd casually have Kelly replace her. Hm, then again, with the way Kelly was played in ME2...

No Hammmerhead in the shuttle bay.. Hm, and no Tali on ship. So looks like she's going to be elsewhere... Wonder if you do run into the ME2 crew in any format as you wander around tho... Kelly or the Engineers mayhaps.

.. Just one serious freaking cursing streak at the pc. Running errands, got home, put the kettle on and checked email. Game - (the company) have just done a "We'd like to thank you for the 8 month preorder of ME3 Collectors Edition. We won't be giving it to you. To say sorry, here's a 5 pound voucher for the next game you order from us." Edit: For any other UK folks who've just been hit by this; http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1264480/uk_where_to_buy_the_mass_effect_3_n7_collectors_edition.html Gee, it's wonderful to hear this so close to the release date.

Random thought - those "missions" you could pay to have influenced via the Shadow Broker once you'd completed it. Odds on whether you'll get any "emails" or relevant effects in ME3 due to them?

Realised I need more focused exercise then the scatted I do each day. Spent a chunk of time running on the spot while out in the garden with the dog.. then realised I could not actually raise my knee up more then a few inches because my thighs were too damn tired.

Might be of some interest to all those talking on the music.. Interview by gamespot with a couple of the composers.. http://uk.gamespot.com/features/sound-byte-meet-the-composers-mass-effect-3-6350923/

No matter how many times hear it.. the conversation between Liara and Sheperd about "omni-gel and that security upgrade" always makes me chuckle. Which also makes me think, the odds of them re-using that car-chase style of sequence in some mission in ME3 or not.. hmm. To ponder.

And to further fuel the pot.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17184955 Argentina turn away two P&O cruise ships from port. Because a> they're British, and b> they'd been to the Falkland islands.

If I was spending the time playing video games, I wouldn't complain about not sleeping.. Although I did manage to get about 5 hours sleep last night. Of course, then had the phone go as the clocks hovered around 8am and the alsatian came pounding in and jumped on me...

Heh, my sister is finally getting around to installing the copy of TOR I got her for christmas. I mean, she loved Kotor I & II, so I thought give her a free month to play around and see how she likes it. Of course, now she's doing the whole "if I don't like this I've wasted an hour of my life installing this and jumping through all the hoops." - that and using the phone to call me from upstairs and quiz me on various matters about it as she's getting it ready to play...

Just had a really nice home-made dessert. Plums slowly stewed in half a bottle of red wine, glazed with a little syrup and brown sugar. Then coated with some cream. Maybe not uber-healthy, but damn tasty.

True, but some of those balloons are being launched in London and Berlin..so you'd think they'd pay a wee bit of attention to those contest boilerplates.

Okay.. either I'm totally missing something.. or no-ones really paying attention... The whole Mass Effect Space Edition competition? Various cities around the world launching weather balloons with copies of the game and you track the gps condition and you might be able to get that copy of the game.. But you have to fill out a form on the website to take part.. and part of it includes reading the "rules of entry".. Now is it me, or doesn't that automatically disqualify the majority of people in Berlin and London..?

See, I haven't had any issues like that. The only real thing that crops up for me is exiting TOR. It takes a few minutes, and even then my pc is acting like a dead cow with sprained ankles for about another 5 minutes before things are running smoothly or quickly. The longer I've been playing TOR at any stretch, the longer it takes to settle out when I quit the game... I do get the feel of a memory leak or some such in there...

Underworld Awakening.. Heh, Kate Beckinsale in that tight outfit, a few fun set action pieces (although one does slide into a Matrix / Equilibrium reminiscent event), the usual arrival of a "twist/surprise reveal" in the latter third of the movie, and Kris Holden-Reid as another Werewolf. Oh, and the ending pretty much screams out as setup for another film. Still, enjoyable popcorn for the brain.

After last weeks fun boutage of insomnia.. I'm still trying to get my body to recognise some decent sleeping patterns. Forced myself up and seeing if I'm actually capable of thinking appropriately...

Well that does look a little wonky..

Hm, just how many times do I have to mention this on this thread? Reapers like Sovereign are 2km long.. but the ones you see rampaging on Earth and such are apparently Reaper "destroyer" variants that are only 160 meters tall/long. o O (at least, according to the Art of Mass Effect Universe notes..) So definitely suggests that Reapers come in different versions depending on the tasks they need to do...

You should watch that and be careful.. I mean, first you go and become a drone at some big company..now you're being insufferable? Before long, you'll be wearing one of those suits and talking pure management-speak with no regard for civility.....

I have to admit, this is one of the reasons I dislike grabbing strategy / management heavy games like this in digital format these days. I like having a manual I can sit back and read through, or even glance at easily during my gameplay. Digital copies of games just seemt to have crappy in-game tutorials and/or pdf manuals that are a pain to read. Call me old fashioned, but I still hanker for the days of old when pc games came with half inch manuals