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The acoustic version like this is so much better then the electronic one. Cruxshadows can be a bit hit or miss at times, but when they're good, they tend to be really good.

From EidosMontreal...

Outsourcing because they didn't have enough time. Whats interesting is that in a recent interview it was.. Dugas brought up that they'd realised they didn't have enough capability in the boss fights, and they couldn't achieve what they'd wanted to in the time they had, but that the game testers all had fun with them. So while they expected the "not deus ex feel" complaints about the boss fights they were still some shocked by the unrepentant hate of them... Also, that they had developed the boss fight in the upcoming dlc to actually be more in line with what they'd wanted to do for the actual game. So here's hoping that there's some form of improvement actually happening....

Another brief bit about TOR European Expo - Meet and Greet Q&A Highlights Daniel Erickson and Stephen Reid providing the answers.. Along with this short note of interest..

When I did my industrial placement back at uni, as the sole IT guy in the office I had a poster reading : "We are the Willing, Led by the Unknowing, Doing the Impossible, For the Ungrateful. We have now Done So Much For So Long - For So Many With So Little We Can Now Do Anything With Nothing." Although after a few weeks it was gently asked that it be removed since there was the potential of actual customers catching sight of it....

I don't know.. A big picture of Captain Mal with that quote from a cult sci-fi series would kind of go with a Professor who gets to make various irritated snarky comments at thesis students who constantly bug him...

I think that what made me blink the most is that the folks behind the censuring were taking the stand that the (to my mind) obviously humerous posters were potentially inciting violence due to containing words/imagery depicting death/acts of aggression... Just.. very wtf.

For some bizarre reason, for about an hour today I kept thinking it was friday...

Some things do make you blink... 'Firefly' and Anti-Fascism Posters Get Professor Threatened with Criminal Charges on University of Wisconsin Campus

More TOR related gubbins. A general interview with Daniel Erickson (the guy holding the reins on the writers group for TOR) Eurogamer Expo - totalbiscuit interviews Daniel Erickson

Hm, now I'm feeling all ooold. The "service fee" for geting a new passport is now apparently

Heat Rises - the latest "Richard Castle" book. A fun semi-pulpy detective story. A part of me is still amused at the way they've actually created the books that the character writes in the tv series. And that they're written in a way that matches the style of the show.

Eh, I've found myself in the situation where I've been able to enjoy the aesthetic sight of a pretty woman, I enjoy their company, I can be charming and flirty in a friendly, meant to amuse manner - but since that breakup, I've actually only had the serious urge to hit on a girl I've met a few times. So I've been more assuming the role usually reserved for the "gay friend" of a girl rather then straight guy who they have fun with.

For those with an interest as well.. Updated Q&A on TOR Companions

It has the potential to be neat..but the trouble is you can set her off with the smallest thing. It's odd, she'll become bosom buddies with someone for a few months, go out of her way to help them, spend massive amounts of time, treat everyt hing they say as if it was sage advice.. And then something will happen. They say the wrong thing, they might be late to a meeting, or forget something..and suddenly boom. Persona non grata. And then she will act as if they mean nothing to her. It's something I've always found a little weird. She's lost at least one job because of her attitude. Office administration type of work, where she was also one of the first faces members of the public would see. The combination of "Everyone should know never to talk to me before I've settled in with my first cup of coffee at work or I will be mean to them" and the "if I think they're a fool and an idiot I shall let them know in no uncertain manner regardless of professionalism" doesn't always work so well...

Hm, so for that slightly random.. my mother turned around and did the whole "between your sister's firm stand on not having kids, and you not bringing any girls home to meet the family in awhile, I've come to the sad realisation this branch of the family is going to end and I'm not going to have any grandkids".... Which actually kind of spun my thoughts back to the single girl I've seriously loved and would consider raising a family with. Now that's kind of depressing. Why are there certain emotion scars that just won't freaking heal up. You can get to the point you ignore them mostly in day-to-day life, but then things crop up that just.. rub them raw again and make you oh-too-aware of them again. Although I can understand my sister's position and kind of thank the deity of your choice that she will never be a parent. She's 35 but has the unfortunate habit of acting like a spoiled 17 year old, and she has this position that the majority of tact is lying to people which she doesn't believe in. So if she doesn't like someone or something, rather then be polite to them she will let them know exactly what she thinks and feels. Which is one thing in your personal life... but she applies it in her working one as well. She holds it as a badge of honor that she won't lie to people on how she feels about them and won't recognise that it comes across as rude and/or bitchy.

Sorry to hear that Enoch.. I'm sure you'll have plenty of positive vibes heading your way in the hope for the best. Hm, on this side of things.. I've just spoken with a guy I'm doing work with.. and been told that my official objective for the next couple of days is to "chill out" which is kind of interesting. I guess that's a good thing for a friday. Now to see if I can actually stop thinking on the work....

Urf. It's always fun when the planned afternoon gets turned into a series of errand runs. Although its a nice and sunny day.. running back and forth around the village tends to turn a little meh. Especially when part of it is picking up kitty litter and carrying the bags back home. Now I get to coax feeling to return to my fingers and enjoy some cool fruit smoothie...

Hm , sounds like good practice for dating a lot of the women I've known. The trick with women is to not start qualifying yourself but make them do it, instead. Can't do that with job applications. Not so much the qualifying yourself.. but on reading their minds because they wouldn't actually share things. Or the say yes when they mean no. or Say no when they wanted you to take it as a yes..and get incredibly pissy if you didn't choose the correct response.

Hm , sounds like good practice for dating a lot of the women I've known.

Had one miserable headache flare up as the afternoon wore on and evening started yesterday. I ended up giving up and taking some pain pills and crawling into bed and darkness before it got too late once the family were sorted. Of course, then I seemed to spend the majority of the night still conscious rather then managing to get to sleep. Still, tis a fresh day and at least I don't have any stabby pains at present circling my skull. Enjoying that nice cup of tea and considering where I need to focus on for the day..

Are you talking about the stretching cat, the cabinet he's sprawled on, or some other object?

He's not quite so "small" even if he is only around 7 months old...

Having some general irritation to the start of the day. Got my hand lightly scalded - pouring out some recently boiled water from the kettle, the overenthusiastic puppy bounces around my legs then makes a pounce for the nearby cat thus causing me to jerk and water to splash out across the back of my hand. Nothing serious, but it leaves that annoying tingling sensation across my hand now for a little bit.

I somehow managed to cut my ear. And I will say the bugger bleeds like you wouldn't believe. For some reason I never counted ears in the same category as head wounds for bleeding effects.