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One of the big reasons why we've been kicking and screaming to keep the Pound and not get fully dragged into the EU... And the politicians from all parties seem to keep trying to get us in through the backdoor while the public resists..

Mutants and Masterminds works quite well. 2nd Edition was rather brilliant for being able to adapt to pretty much any type of setting you wanted with a little thought. It might be geared around the "Superhero" concepts, but it flips to sci-fi / fantasy / modern spy or whatever pretty darn easily once you get your mind around the system. They have released a 3rd edition recently, but I haven't really had much of a look at that. On a sidenote, DnD 3.5 did tidy up a few of the flaws in straight 3.0.

Hm I vaguely remember some documentary on linguistics talking about the fact that English is one of the few languages that will out-n-out invent new words from whole cloth. The majority of languages will combine current words or re-use old phrases to mean new things. Apparently that's one of the chief reasons there are so many English words in modern Japanese... There was more to it then that.. but dang it.. I should remember not to make a comment if I can only half-remember the subject source..

Indeed... Scientists Ponder Zombie Attack...

And the end quote from the organizing zombie : "A few of us are in the pub now - it's been a really good day."

On a sunny English day.. following the news that the civic council were unprepared for a zombie invasion.. Zombie's invade unprepared Leicester

Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Sorting some things out and caught this on in the background ... Which can be a really depressing song.

DE:HR - How it was Made One of the latest interview type things..

Having a quiet evening in.. got a bbc show on looking at The Kennedys and the whole furor it raised in the US about historical inaccuracies, weighing in how accurate it was, whether it was reverential or just a character hackjob.. and how much was made up or not. One key point was the big "sign a petition" that cropped up to prevent the show from being shown. Call me weird..but do you think they'd react the same way if I started up similar petitions about the many hollywood induced pseudo history thats hacked up English related events? *cough* braveheart *cough* U-571 *cough* I mean , seriously, I've met people who have taken the basics from films like that and thought they were historically accurate. I've actually had someone tell me that we should be grateful that the Americans were able to get hold of an Enigma machine and let us have it...

The man had the names of his favourite rpg characters worked into the "tattooes" he wore in xXx.

It's not news.. but I do like the music to that new AC:Revelations trailer..

To those of us that played it, there's an awful lot of good stuff that outweighed the flaws. We don't say it's a good game because it has no flaws, we say it's a good game because it was fun, it pulled you in, it was interesting, and at the time it was somewhat groundbreaking. The combination was greater then sum of its parts .

Hm, somehow I seem to have pulled one of those muscles in the neck/shoulder region. Quite a few shoulder movements, and pretty much all head movements now send out rather annoying spikes of pain.

And in the history of the UK being on the islands.. one person has wanted to become an Argentine citizen. And that was about a week ago.. and The Argentine President handed him the citizenship papers in person.. at a big rally commemorating the 29th anniversary of the Falklands War. A nicely calculated political move that. And then she promptly calls the UK "colonialist" for not wanting to negotiate away the islands even when the rest of them want to stay with the UK. The joys of politics.

Whether you liked it or hated it, Deus Ex has a place in gaming history. When combined with the likes of System Shock, it had an awful lot of influence on games and the people who develop them in the decade since its release. Live with it.

Hm, I think I'm going to have to reload an earlier save to my ME2 from before I went on the Lair of the Shadow Broker escapade.. dang it. I'll try doing various other things before going back to it.. and seeing if it still crashes at that spot. What's kind of annoying is checking all the forums about it...and no-one has that specific problem. All of the LotSB related crashes are for people returning to Illium and entering the hallway by Liara's office. No-one seems to have had this gimp up their game by crashing out between the mission report and returning to the Normandy.

I completely agree. Like the second Riddick film, really. Vin Diesel has some interesting ideas but they struggle in the execution of the movies. And Vin is still trying to get the Riddick trilogy on track ... I actually quite enjoyed Chronicles.. but then I'd seen a bunch of the "behind-the-scenes" stuff for it, and the actors just had a lot of fun playing around with the potential "hammyness" of the characters from what came up.. I think that might have tinged my perspective of the film.. That and Colm Feore doing a speed presentation of Macbeth to the cast (doing all the parts) when it was used as an example for the Necro-dudes and half the cast admitted they'd never read it...

Eh,thats nothing. Start worrying when you forget where you put your enemies teeth..

Hm, I have been re-playing ME2.. got all the companions, but before running the loyalty missions I decided to do Lair of the Shadowbroker.. completed it, get the Mission Report sequence..and then the game crashes out. Dang it.

I have to admit, I find it interesting how your brain can link music to certain memories.. and how years later you can hear that tune and get the total flashback and emotion of the original event... And on the seperate note.. good god its been grey and drizzly today. I'm missing the scattershot sun. The cloud cover has been lingering awhile..and had to miss the lunar eclipse the other night due to hazey clouds.

For the slightly off-the-wall thought... If you're having trouble with getting a proper "script" as such written, have you given thought to getting it developed as a sketched out storyboard style?

Not quite the heavy reading material.. but I saw a copy of "Icons: The DC Comics and Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee" going for a reduced price. I'm finding myself strangely tempted. There can be something compelling about art books that can firmly stir the imagination. Also when included are design sketches and comments on how things developed. Although balanced against the possibility of Syd Mead's "Sentury II" designs and sketches..

Yup, I have my original cd's with the Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack.. and I still keep getting distracted for hours by that game.. Some day they'll make a sequel. Then again, maybe I'd rather they didn't. Yeah, the odds are they'd Civ5 it.. (note, while i enjoyed some aspects of Civ 5..something just didn't click right)

And the fact that Washington is using "The Malvinas" to refer to the islands could be a touch worrisome..

It wasn't just the physical level design. Pretty much all of it was geared towards you not being stuck on a single play style. You could treat it as a shooter and go through it like that, but you could turn sneaky and bypass things, you could hack systems to bypass, and a few points where simple conversation would get you around.. Quite often a combination of all of that provided the most fun. Part of it was exploring the world to find those sorts of alternate ways to do a mission or to get to a location. Throw in some of the background fluff, the books you could find and read, the newspaper articles, something about it gelled in a way that's kept DE in that top 10 rpg lists for the past decade.