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Poked a bit at work, tried sketching out some thoughts, and played a bit with the puppy. Having a short lunch of fresh from the oven breaded camembert and pondering on the urge to have a doodle with some Shadowrun stuff.

There's an interview with Mark Strong out on his voicing Captain Titus in Space Marines. Kind of interesting to see how he came into it and that he's playing a hero for once... Captain Titus Interview

Well happy days and celebrations and wotnot. Congratulations for making it another year closer to the grave...

Fast and Furious Five. Ludicrous physics. But some pretty cars, and prettier women. Fun driving, a few entertaining crashes and some gunshots. So..generally amusing.

Went from a fairly sunny day yesterday, to a rather grey and rainfilled one today.. Pretty much everyone appears to have had a bad night and have thus been cranky today. That and mom's pain levels are a bit higher then normal, especially in one of her arms, so there's been the fun of that. The dogs were being a bit full of energy, and its always fun to give them a run around in the rain to wear some of that energy out. But I still managed to poke a few work related momens through. Now my sister has managed to finish off ME on her new laptop, and she wants me to put ME2 on it for her. Deciding whether I should wait a bit and let her get into the game before adding the dlc missions for her... And that generally optimistic anticipation for the new Deus Ex has actually got me reading through some shadowrun books for that general vibe.

And Gamespot has a couple of cutscenes from the game up already.. Intro-Sequence Cutscene Six Months Later Cutscene

They're also saying the Radiant system should do wonders for making it "unique". Sort of if you get a quest sending you to a dungeon, but you've already visited dungeons a, b, c and d in the area, the system will identify dungeon E as the on you have to go to... Just to make sure you "explore" the world and don't have to backtrack. I don't know, after all the disapointment over Oblivion, this is definitely on my wait and see list rather then jump on straightaway.

Yup, Amazon.co.uk is listing the shipping date as 25-26th.

I have to admit, I liked the : That's what reviews are for.. entertaining little quotes and the occasional metaphor..

Yup, I pretty much told my boss I'm going to be incomunnicado this friday and weekend with Deus Ex.

Well the night ended yesterday with the cat managing to slip out of the house..so there was the fun of trying to catch a black persian at night. Then I had that morning start where I woke up early..and ended up slipping in and out of sleep, consciousness and half-daze for an hour or so before I could stir myself.

I know there's a serious amount of cynicism these days when games reviewers start lashing out the 90+ scores for new games.. but I think my optimism is balanced by the amount of people who played that leaked preview build some months back and how many of the hard-core DE fans pretty much wept in joy that it was a good game more like the original DE, rather then a bad follow-on like Invisible War.. That and the people who'd basically said they weren't that interested in buying the game who tried the leaked preview, and were all "right.. I played it..now I've pre-ordered it.." It's that kind of thing which gives you a little faith that it isn't going to be a complete crock of...

Actually kind of had a fairly peaceful day so far. A bit of a snooze in, some idle pc game time, some reading. Nothing that's really called for much hassle...

So it looks like there's very mixed feelings out there with EA's delivery of the news that they will actually stagger the number of SW:TOR copies they release. Apparently the numbers of pre-orders have suprised them, so rather then release "more" digital or physical copies right away, they plan to stagger it out to give them suitable time to see just how well the servers handle the numbers, and provide time to improve/expand capacity before they allow a next wave of game copies released..

Spend some time of the afternoon playing a little bit more Vampire Bloodlines... Having that optimistic anticipatory wait for my copy of DE:HR to arrive at the latter end of the week.

If you're going to do it.. you might as well do it properly... Floating Cities

Maybe it's because I did Classical Civilisation at college.. but the core of greek myths and literature.. pretty muchb seem to get repeated through stories of all sorts out of europe the past 2 millenia. That might just be the whole.. essential arcehtypes or some such. Or it might be that I'm a wee bit drunk at the moment.

.. Well.. it could just be along the lines of how many page 3 girls seem to list their A-levels while getting money for getting pictures taken of themselves topless...

Well, one of my friends is stuck in that his sweety happens to be in the middle of her postgraduate thesis. So he's been warned of foul happenings if he turns up to distract her. So I went with movies and distracted him with explosions and such as we drank port and smoked cigars. First Battle Los Angeles, and then Conan The Destroyer. Although technically, the port and cigars was during the first movie. Conan had us on the tequilla shots from the good tequilla his gf's mother had sent him from mexico city.

With a resounding thunk. I can only assume people from Amazon getting on the horn and giving them a piece of their mind. Of course, their whole contingent is now sold out, again, and probably at a significantly higher price than what people like me would've paid for it. I won't make idiotic proclamations like "I'll never buy another game from them", but I won't forget... It does make me feel a tad sorry for EidosMontreal though. With all of the excitement and fervour, and fan appreciation they were getting for the release.. to be soured on this note because of the publisher..

Isn't the stats something about a 97% pass rate for students on A-levels this year? Which I have to say seem fairly ridiculous for any.. um...worthwhile results. Throw in that something like only half the college students who got their grades today will be able to make it into University.. it's certainly a tad frenzyish.

Ah the sweet joys of a heavy storm. On the one hand.. you can admire the tempestuous grandeur of nature. On the other.. it bloody killed my internet for most of the day. Although.. to be fair, there's also the 6 weeks roadworks going on outside where they're digging down to do stuff with the gaslines and assorted pipework that might be to blame. .. Or possibly both causing it together... It's an evil conspiracy I tell you...

A positive outlook is supposedly helpful in many situations.. but here's to hoping things turn out in a good way for Tarna. Hm, mom had one hospital appointment this morning so I was up earlier then normal. The joys , having to see the right specialist anaesthetologist this time that they ****ed up last time. It's weird to think that anaesthotology has become that specialised a field.. you now have them specialising in limbs.. Seriously. There's an anaesthotologist who specialises in "lower limbs" and one who specialises in "upper arms and hands"... Yeesh, I think they're beginning to overkill the specialisation there. Kind of amusing, mom doing her "I'm happy to go with a nerve block rather then needing general..." then later as the anaesthatist picks up on her allergies to Iodine and such.. mom did the whole "yes well... I've had x number of surgeries now where they miss/forget that and have given me iodine..why do you think I'm so happy and willing to just go with a nerve block? This way I can yell at them if they try to do it again..." Now it's the wait and see while they sort out the hospital date for the surgery. Waiting lists might just push it to beyond October.. which given that it was supposed to happen the other week and their screwup cancelled that out..

Didn't Apple already have trouble with the EU over region locking the UK seperately from Europe for Itunes? I seem to have some distant memories of something along those lines..

They can arrest people for putting up posters? If they were posters designed to incite criminal behaviour, disturbing the peace, racial hatred etc etc... Or an "I will give x money if so and so is killed" type of poster It's that fine line between freedom of speech and all that jazz. Although technically I don't think the european countries actually have that as a specific founding principle like they have in the states.