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Getting back into Research Mode.. pulling assorted newspaper articles and deciding just how to organise them and examine which bias is what.. That and we've ended up pulling the carpets up in one room to figure out where the hell those bloody fleas have settled. Every other room in the house is clear, the pets are clear, but the fleas keep turning up in that one room even after multiple fleabombs..

Of course.. the question has to arise.. Have they hacked Amy Winehouses phone yet?

Well to put it in perspective.. Isn't there only about $500 of real, printed money per person in the USA? I seem to remember that cropped up somewhere in a documentary. And that's pretty standard throughout the world.. So when you're talking just the 1's and 0's representing all the "money" floating around in banks, it's pretty much all imaginary and always has been. Even the gold and silver currency of ye olden days tended to be based on perception of value and the faith you had in it (considering how many governments debased the coinage of the time) rather then the real value of the cash in hand.

Captain America.. It's a good movie, but as has been said not great. There's not the same feel of superheroics that you get in other "costume" movies, more of a partially pulp adventure style. That's probably due to the combination of the world war 2 setting, and the fact that Captain America doesn't really have any wacky powers, just.. slightly suped up physical capabilities. Stark works quite well as a background character, and The Red Skull hams it up enjoyably in that "i'm so evil i've split from the nazis" way. Throw in a few chuckleworthy lines of dialogue and the expected Stan Lee cameo, and its all an entertaining mix.

They've already shown the teaser clip from the intro where a young Bob Page is talking about mysterious plans.. and yup, they got the same guy doing the voicework... Edit: And from Mary's "um.. no comment" to the question of whether Jensen is related in anyway to the Dentons... I'm guessing there's going to be some form of connection, especially if Jensen does turn out to be that Patient X ...

It was a great game, it had its flaws, but overall the joys certainly overcame them. I didn't have any bugs mess up my playthroughs... although the hacking could be a little irritating at times.. Hell, AP was what brought me into the Obs forums here back before it got released..

A Southern small-town prosecutor called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?" She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a young boy, and frankly, you've been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you never will amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you." The lawyer was stunned. Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?" She again replied, "Why, yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster, too. He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem. He can't build a normal relationship with anyone and his law practice is one of the worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three different women. One of them was your wife. Yes, I know him." The defense attorney almost died. The judge asked both counselors to approach the bench, and in a very quiet voice, said, "If either of you bastards asks her if she knows me, I'll throw your sorry asses in jail for contempt."

That kind of reminds me of the Darwin Awards.. the Guy who decided to rob a gun store in Texas.. and walked around a parked police car to enter the store.

The other problem is that you can't tell if they've just got short hair.. or hair that's pulled back into braids/ponytail etc to keep it out of the way..

For those with an interest... DEHR ComicCon Panel Edit: They basically have their key "science advisor" there talking a lot about current augmentations and where the science is going and how they worked that into the game.

They pretty much used the same arguments decades ago on comic books. Which brough us the "Comics Code Authority" back in the 50's. So they cut down on violence, removed supernatural elements, forbid "lurid or gruesome illustrations", condemnded "sexy, wanton elements", and successfully killed a large section of the comic industry at the time....

If you count the guy with the microphone wandering around the audience to find those with questions a moderator.. But I mean.. you have them being asked questions like: "do you get a choice between the Empire or the Republic?" "will players who have Empire characters play on the same servers as those who are Republic?" "I'm a big fan of character development... so will i be able to give my character purple hair in the game?"

On a semi-random note.. I've just been watching some of the BioWarePulse videos from ComicCon.. and I'm kinda shocked that the dedicated fans who line up to get in on those panels then ask vague questions about stuff that BioWare have already answered in clear cut news about the games months earlier. Although mostly more noticable on the SW:TOR panels more then the others... I mean, if you're dedicated geek enough to not only get to SDCC, then find out when the panels are, line up and get in to see them.. how can you have ignored multitude of preview reports, the bioware forums, the specific game news, and assorted media releases they've made out?? Right, minor rant done with..

I think one of the freakiest one I've had was years ago, when I was around 12 or so. One of those zooming about as if flying, just that first-person viewpoint with no real feel of a body, but going at rapid pace through these dark, claustrophic tunnels where the flaw was hidden by piles of skinned bodies. The bit that's always stuck with me is how well-lit the bodies were while the rest of the tunnels were creepily dark. Never had any clue what was behind that dream.

Getting a wee bit annoyed now. Trying to do some work based on a bunch of stuff that's been written with OpenOffice, and every time I open up OpenOffice I get about 3 minutes to look at and read stuff before it crashes out. Going to redownload OpenOffice and reinstall it, see if that fixes things. And the gorram smell of the fleabomb we let off in one of the upstairs rooms is stinking the whole house out. We thought we'd gotten ontop of it, with the cat and the dogs not showing any..and then a bunch of fleas turned up in one of the traps we'd left to be sure. Not the best way to spend a sunday..

The same old gameplay we've seen before.. Although this time with the Sentinel rather then the Soldier, plus a fair bit of chat with Hudson on various aspects. Also a few comments on how they're working on the script for the ME movie... Gamespot Comic-Con Talk with Casey Hudson

Enjoying a moment of silly madness

Yes, my sympathies go out to her dealer. It's kind of interesting how the split is with her death, people are either pushing to make it a grand tragedy and wail at the loss of such a great human being.. or they're taking the stance of its about time, she was such a bad human being, a bad example to kids etc... There seem to be very few people taking a middle ground stance. Spending a chunk of my time cleaning up my sister's old laptop so my mother can use it. A lot easier for her to perch a laptop on her bed rather then twist to use her pc. On a side-note, I have to say the whole biometric / webcam identify as part of the login on the Alienware laptop is quite funky.

Welcome to the original AC then.. Spent a little of yesterday on the first Penny Arcade adventure. Got up to the big end fight with the Dark God.

Glancing at the ME facebook.. the majority of votes are going for Version 5 there.. and a lot of the comments are with the "5..with red hair" variations...

I quite enjoyed the pc port without too many difficulties. Actually I'd say I had a lot more fun with SR2 then I did with GTAIV. But that could be purely personal preference for that silly fun rather then grim angst that GTAIV had.. But no real clue on the modding community..

Just to go from brain hurt to something a tad silly.. New trailer for the upcoming Saints Row the Third.. SR - Syndication Unsurprisingly they have Daniel Dae Kim back as the voice for Johnny Gat No word yet on whether Eliza Dushku is voicing Shaundi once more, but I wouldn't be too surprised.. And apparently Sasha Grey is voicing one character this time around..

Just to follow on for the SW: The Old Republic line.. Some of the ComicCon TOR Panel..

Not to ignore the bombing incident, but I've had a nice lift for the day. Just got the phone call that told me that that report I did the other month had gone through the external examiners to everyone's satisfaction, and I've now got a job. Well, have a final "interview" of sorts to go through where I get to see how it was graded, find the flaws and figure out exactly what I'll be doing.. but still. Rahr! Now a glass of port to celebrate. Hm, I might even break out a cigar..

Sony developed SWG. That and apparently it was really crappy unless you were dedicated. Plus it was designed from the start so you had to group from what I hear. As in, classes had fatal weaknesses that you needed another class around to balance out. Which killed a lot of solo activities. Although a lot of the dedicated fans apparently left after one update that retconned the galaxy or something... The rumours had it that part of the update was because Lucas' kid played the game and thought they needed to change stuff, so it filtered though... o O (although that might have been rabid conspiracy theorists behind that one..) And while you might say it crashed and burned, it's still actually playing. Although it's to be shut down by the end of the year. So it's had enough people playing it to keep it going....