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Londoners ready to clean up their streets...

Stretching my mind out by trying to develop a system model of riots. And just went to get some snackables for lunch, opened up a jar of pickled onions to go with the cheese and biscuits.. and found that the jar had fermented. That is the first time I've ever seen that happen.

Well this one was an interesting question and answer from the Eidos Montreal team..

For the random interest factor.. :

The London inner-city gang culture is quite.. well.. severe. It tends to get glossed over in the international news, but yeah, that's where a lot of the impetus in the riots is coming from. Hell, it was only a couple of months ago we had the arrest of a 15 year old "hitman" who killed a woman for 200 quid and the "props" it would give him with his local gang.

Eh, not in those rioting cities you won't. If it was more Westminster instead of central London maybe.. but not a chance in Liverpool , Birmingham or Nottingham. Well, possibly Bristol - a lot of the lawyers old boys network get their Law degrees there.. but then monocle wearing types would probably get theirs from Oxford... Edit: And Scotland Yard are saying that they will have over 13,000 police officers in London within the next 24 hours...

Well by now, that's money already spent no ? There's still a fair chunk to be spent before the Olympics lands.. and more to be spent during the Olympics....

You really think that ? Actually, most of the people are know would appreciate the Olympics not being here. A lot of people have the view that the government is wasting a crapload of cash on the Olympics when it could be better used for things like..oh.. health and education. The Olympics is taking on the same sort of view as the Millenium Dome when it was being built. It'll be nice and shiny but pretty much a money pit and waste.

Well there's a lot of reports about the various youth gangs taking part and the looting going on.. and the fact that they're using things like Facebook and Blackberries to text /instant message each other to coordinate and avoid police and start off riots as distractions.... Which makes me wonder how well it'll be to get those records and access to prove "conspiracy to commit" charges which are notoriously hard to prove...

Hm, I seem to recall stumbling on some news report yesterday that made mention that a lot of the "heavy riot gear" isn't actually kept in the UK, it's most in Ireland, so they'd have to take the time to ship some of it back to London before it would be available for use... Some of the big water cannon type stuff for dispersing rioters and the like...

I was just trying to decide if he was attempting to be humourous or see if he could frenzy the optimistic fans..

So the latest "facebook unlock" on the DEHR site is a behind the scenes look at how the pre-beta game testing goes. And the new Behind 2027 - Audio

That was the first deus ex! Yup, and I'm sure I heard a line from David Sarif on the "I know you didn't like shanghai but you've got to go back and deal with.." in one of the many trailers/behind the scenes /gameplay shows...

Wasn't there something about the storyline will actually have you returning to cities/hubs you'd visited earlier in the game, so you'd be able to see how some of your choices had affected things... I vaguely recall hearing something about that. And then of course there's that great big circular sea-base thing you catch a glimpse of at the end of one of the cg trailers. So I'm thinking it's some hidden research area in the middle of the atlantic rather then a mcguffin buried in ice at the poles..

Had a rough night with little sleep, and then woke up with the joys of a headache stabbing and grinding away... Although at least there's no stress of the dogs this week, they're off with my sister so a certain sense of peace. But then going to have to keep an eye on mom, she's got a brief hospital visit and surgery this week. Some bones removed from her hand, hopefully reduce at least some part of her pain levels and maybe provide a bit more mobility again for her... Although it's going to be in a cast for 6 weeks or so after...

Thought I'd give Vampire Bloodlines a quick twirl again, updating with the latest "unofficial" patch and all..

Certainly. The romantic in me leans into the sweet gestures of life.. The cynic in me contemplates on the manipulations behind them.. Depending on the mood, one can rate higher then the other. Besides, it's almost impossible to be a cynic if you didn't have some streak of romanticism to start with... One that usually ends up crushed before the cynicism really flows..

You mistake me Hurlshot, I'm not being negative there. It's always nice to see a relationship that's really, deeply in love grow strong. As opposed to just a "nice, friends with attraction and feel compatible and with a dose of lust" that so many seem to go with. But part of that is when it can go wrong, it's a fair piece of hell to recover from. Even with the way it can still hurt even now, if I got the freaky, sci-fi chance to go back and stop it from happening I wouldn't. The good times, and the feelings together were bloody good and worth the pain afterwards. It's just.. really, really not fun having it linger on years after and occasionally slice into the consciousness when something causes it to flare up. That and the emotional scarring makes it really hard to move on with new people and let the same thing (potentially) happen again. I'm a cynic. I'm a romantic. I'm a tad jaded. And I'm just a touch soul-burnt over it all. But I'd still rather have people I know enjoy the fruits of honest love if they meet the person that actually kindles it.

I had that happen once. It was great, right up until the point it all went horribly, horribly wrong. And now I am emotionally scarred and my soul will be bleeding for the rest of my life... Saviour the moments you have together, build good memories, and may it actually last and grow.

Vaguely referring I assumed it was something in that vein and pulling that from my memory.. but you never know if there'd been more then one statement along those lines. But yeah, Hudson really was quite emphatic about it... so I'd lay odds the rumourmill is picking up something ME Universe-related but not ME3 itself... Unless something really bizarre has happened.

Someone's watching a string of Johnny Cash documentaries.. and I don't know if its catching some of that music in the background, but I've slid into a really depressive feeling as the afternoon has worn on... I'm trying to cheer myself up by thinking it's only about 16 days before Deus Ex is released. But then I'm bouncing back on my graphics card dying bit.. and I'm trying to limp on a little more with it before having to spend money on the replacement. It's the whole "I can kind of deal with crash outs and a few display glitches.. so until it really , truly dies....." Of course, it looks like that's going to happen any day now..but I'm nursing it along...

Yes, wasn't it Casey Hudson who gave that answer? The whole.. "No we aren't having multiplayer in ME3, because it's the wrap up to the trilogy, we wanted to concentrate on the important things rather then waste resources. But we might do multiplayer in other games set in the ME universe" type of thing as I recall..

Been getting in some reading while the collected soundtracks to Guild Wars played in the background... Jeremy Soule does some nice music.

Hmm. Steam has the assorted FO:NV dlc with a few quid off each.. I'm being tempted to pick the three up in one fell swoop... Been resisting the urge until the whole lot had been released but I'm feeling an urge for some gaming.. Oh the agonies...

Just to pre-empt the games proper release.. but this tunes been out awhile now and is rather stonkingly moody..