Raithe

If it wasn't for the way they've set up Missing Link on a slightly modified engine style, I could have almost expected them to add in a dlc to the Detroit hub. All the references to "missing women" just seemed to scream out for a subplot to explore. But that would be more in the "minor dlc" in the vein of the Tong's rescue, rather then an actual "expanded story" dlc..

Ah yes the weather. Found I was being a tad scatterbrained and unfocused, so I took the dog out for a walk up and down the hill for a bit between rain downpours. For a day that's been repetitive heavy showers, it's a glaringly bright sun.

Found my internet banking had locked up.. so I had to go through the rigamorale of getting it unlocked. Joy.

I haven't played anything really since I finished the Missing Link. A bit of dabbling off and on with Universe Sandbox... dang it, I can't create a proper binary star system. I think I'm pretty much in "pause" mode for gaming untill Saint's Row is out.

Sometimes life requires that song.

Dad decided to cook a meal tonight. And with the consideration that my mother is not a fan of chilli or ginger, and that about the only form of seafood I won't eat is in curry format.. He made a prawn biryani curry with massive amounts of salt, chilli and ginger. Now I'm going to do a run up for some fish and chips I believe.

I've got the CE pre-ordered. I gave in to that inner-geek pressure. With my odd shift of time to play, I'm not sure whether I'll link to the EU servers on ireland, or see what the lag is like for the US servers...

Hm, I spent about 2 years playing CoH off and on ..When I stepped away from it, I had one character at level cap of 50 (my first character and he'd been there awhile), an alt (villain) at 42, about 3 characters in the 20-30 range.. and two in the 8-14 area.

I've realised I seem to have gotten into the habit of eating only one actual "meal" a day. I don't think you can count a couple of digestive biscuits or a single mini-pork pie as an actual lunch... Even if that sole meal at night is a good mixture of vegetables and protein based food, I really need to start getting back into proper eating habits. That and I'm slipping into that whole "not fall asleep till somewhere around 0330" once more. Maybe that combination is why my mojo has been off this month...

Have the collected Halo scores running back to back as I pace through into the afternoon..

Tis never fun to lose a pet thats become part of the family, but at least it sounds like she had a good last half of a life. The spaniel here is a rescue dog, and she is very clingy even several years on. If there's only one person in the house she'll tend to run in nervous circles and camp out by the front door until someone else turns up. Hm, early monday morning start, mom has a hospital appointment, its turning into a bit of a grey day. And in between I've had a bit of a dabble reading Eclipse Phase , which seems to be an interesting transhumanism/horror/sci-fi rpg.

It's actually kind of weird, the npc's you encounter are all quite well-done (animation wise) they've got some fun quirks and the surface appearance of personality, so you should remember them.. but then they don't actually seem to do much with it. Or have any depth of connection to you.

So it's turned out that my sister has broken up with the bf.. so the whole "i can get a puppy because in a year I'll be moving in to a new place with the bf and you won't have to deal with a growing alsatian" seems to have gone out the window. Apparently my mom's sister and her husband are flying out here from Australia next year for mom's 65th birthday, so in that space of time have to figure out exactly where they'll be staying. Hm, guess that's one thing to put on the "later priority list". My grandmothers neighbours have broken out the ladders to start putting christmas - yes, christmas decorations up on the outside of their house. I've realised I've gotten into the rather bad habit of eating one meal a day, which I should probably give due thought to. I had a minor spending splurge at rpgnow for some light retail therapy, but still can't seem to pick my mood up just yet.. This seems to have been a week of low mojo.

Hm, the thing that bumps the cost up is that statue of Malgus. Of course, the thing is Gentle Giant produces 12 inch statues of various Star Wars figures that sell for (or at least are listed as costing) around the $200-250 mark. So I guess there's always the option to put the 9 inch Malgus on ebay to see if you can get anything back.. of course, the hard core fans will probably already have the CE themselves anyway.... Edit: I have to admit, the whole putting a statue in a computer game and then jacking the price up for CE's is getting a wee bit annoying.

Yeah, that was originally why I got tired of WoW. I wanted more fun PvE content, and all they seemed interested in was balancing PvP and adding raids. I never took part in a single raid in about 2 years of play. By the time Burning Crusdae came out, I had already found an MMO that was more focused on casual gaming. I have a few friends who really got into WoW and the raiding initially. But when they started talking about it as if it was a job "oh damn, ive got to get home because I'm supposed to be providing a healer on a raid tonight" "it just dragged on, showing the newbies in the guild the ropes and i have to work with them on this raid" .. etc.. and they'd come out of the game as if they'd spent a full week working rather then having fun. That to me, seems a reason not to play a game...

Just to add to the geek-levels... Since they haven't pre-sold all the CE boxes yet, they've decided to release an "unboxing" video just to add temptation. TOR - Collector's Edition Unboxed

Hm, just realised that I've had about 5 or 6 cups of tea..and no food apart from a couple of digestive biscuits today.. and I'm still not actually hungry. Now it's half midnight.. so I think I shall throw in some stewed apple to at least make sure I get something.

And did you catch the remark from Quinn in the end about the raging "invisible war" which unfortunately was "profoundly misconcepted"?

Hm, so steam has Sword of Stars reduced to a couple of quid. Anyone played it and ready to say what it's like?

You have to love automated phone systems at times. You'd think a communication company could at least reduce the obvious "cut n paste" effect..

Run around this afternoon doing assorted small chores and bank errands sort of thing. My enthusiasm for the day hasn't seemed to grow much. I need to get my focus back on track and some creative juices flowing again. Of course, it turned into one of those fairly grim october days with that wind, really oppressively grey cloud cover and a touch of moisture in the air.

Hulk Hogan, Sasha Grey... interesting voice cast. Daniel Dae Kim has been the voice of Jonny Gat since the first game... And Arif S Kinchen is reprising his role from the last game. They had an interesting mix for Saints Row 2 - Michael Dorn, Jaime Pressley, Neil Patrick Harris, Jay Mohr... and of course Tera Patrick for the xbox dlc they did. I guess they're a believer in not going for the usual routes..

That puts me in mind of a quote..

Trying to gather some mojo for the day. One of those mornings I just didn't want to get out of bed. Or open my eyes. No idea why just was one serious struggle to do so. Then I find that in the two days since i ran the dishwasher through every single cup has disapeared from the cupboard, so I had I to manually wash a mug if I wanted a morning cup of tea. And apparently the phone is on the fritz so I've got to figure out why we're not getting a dial tone.. but the internet access is good..so I suppose that weighs in on the plus side.

Because... It's True