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Hm, and for some reason that brought to mind "Armageddon: The Musical" and "Armageddon 2: The B-Movie." Although in my moments of peace I've been working through the eARC of Ghost Ship, the upcoming latest in the Liaden Universe books.

At least it's not mushroom management. "Keep the employees in the dark, and occasionally throw chits at them."

One of these days, I feel sure we're going to find a bunch of depressed forumites will have banded together to take out a hit on Shryke under the theory that all that good karma/fortune he seems to have needs to be redistributed around the world for other people to enjoy...

Well one of my mothers conditions has been flared up all day so she's been in a lot more pain then normal and generally a little on the short-tempered side (which is understandable). Then to add to the joys the puppy has been an over-excitable **** today, and then I find out my sister was disapearing to some dance thing tonight so I also had to juggle looking after the pup into the night as well as during the day. Then the cat is acting even more twitchy and agitated (beyond producing cat vomit) and I think the pup has managed to nip hip somewhat seriously. Yes, the sound produced when a 3 month old Alsatian stretches out ontop a persian cat is a rather silly squeak. Now my sister helps out at some Dog Obedience class each week so she's full of all sorts of advice for how we're supposed to act towards her dogs. But jeez. "Remember to speak with enthusiasm" "If you let them hear you're angry and frustrated they won't pay attention" etc. She always talks about how she has them obedient or at least generally paying attention to her.. so why the hell is it they then tend to ignore what the rest of the family tells them? As it is, I think I'm going to have to give up a couple of nights to going to those classes with her and seeing if I can pick up some tricks or figure out why they're different for her, otherwise I'll spend all bloody day chasing after the damned things to stop them screwing around. Which ontop of my general carer's assortment I really could do without.

Tis a bright, warm, seriously sunny day here. Which eh, I can kind of see as nice..but my grandad was an albino, my mother has an allergy to UV light..and naturally I'm pretty darn paleskinned because of that. So I tend to lurk in the shadows rather then enjoy the sun. As for the day.. well you know how you plan out to spend chunks of time doing specific things? And then it rolls into a mix of finding out you need to go to the bank (in the middle of market day..) and deal with post, and sort out paperwork to defer student loans, and then find out that cat vomit has happened that needs to be cleaned from the carpet.. All while people are telling you what a gloriously sunny day it is and what a joy to behold summer arriving..

Apparently there are a few links ; The principle one being that the main character you play was abducted in the same event that Tommy was in the original (in fact, from whats been suggested so far, from the passenger jet you saw in the background in the first game). Also, they've mentioned that you'll run into Tommy at various points during the storyline. So it's more that it's in the same universe, and it's still some form of first-person shooter...

I think any night where a sequence of dreams are interspersed with "killer cyborg ewoks" has to go down as not totally restful and a little strange. And considering I made the attempt at an earlyish night..why the heck do I feel even more tired

I actually started a fresh run through of Alpha Protocol... I haven't done that in a fair while. And it's quite amazing how bad you can be after so much time has past.

And they've set it up so the "automatic options" for the Deus Ex difficulty setting is no highlighting, and no objective navigation display...

Well the fans made a fuss about this.. so apparently now they've switched the Augmented Reality to optional aspects...

I'd look forward to a pc version of Red Dead Redemption... But I kind of doubt they'll do that. Edit: And I just can't justify to myself spending the money on getting a console for one or two games a year when I enjoy pc gaming so much.

Well I'd opened up all the islands and was balancing a whole bunch of gf's in the game. So I was probably over the half-way mark. I think it was some mission involving a meeting between chief mobsters at some abandoned warehouse type place that I ran out of steam. I had to quit the game to deal with real life and then just couldn't find the motivation to return and finish it all off. These things happen occasionally.

Hm, Prey had some interesting element, and a damn good soundtrack. Some of the visuals were quite good as well. Of course, that whole "Death Star" type structure can be really funky... I'll have to keep my eye out for what's going on with the sequel then..

I'm pondering making another attempt at GTA IV. I originally played it back when it first came out on the pc..but just ran out of steam with it. Something just didn't seem quite as "fun" as other things.

Having one of those days where I return to a problem, but the more I look at it the more I feel my brains dripping out somewhere and my IQ halving every few minutes. I mean, sure I didn't practice a bunch of my programming skills for about 8 years. But still, where did my basic ability go???

Hey, that's the only way to say the Empire. Kind of like making sure to roll your R's when saying "Laboratory" just like Boris Karloff used to do. But seriously, I'm going to have to persuade you to read some Tom Kratman or John Ringo at some point. I'm sure they'd amuse you. Edit: On another note, my Blu-Ray "Tron / Tron Legacy" just arrived. So I shall have to find some time this week to enjoy that...

Pondering on that immortal question , contemplating exactly what point should you step back from being the considerate and polite gentleman and start being more of the selfish and demanding bastard. That, and the question of principles versus desires. On a totally seperate matter, I've been having to get up about 2 hours earlier then normal to look after my sister's puppy when she goes to work. Which means technically I've been running on about 5 hours sleep a night for the past week.

Trying to alter my mood by going for the slightly bizarre assortment of B-52's music.. You have to admit, they could be amusing and weird... Although they had nothing on the classics of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band The Intro and the Outro

Hey, don't laugh about that. If the DM knows what he's doing, Kobolds can be really dangerous, vicious little gits....

Once you get past the series of events that allows North Korea to take over most of Asia and North America.. The story makes sense once you get going. But it's just a snapshot of the resistance rather than anything more. If you were expecting to play the game of "Red Dawn" you'd be disapointed

Don't get me wrong, the basic story is fairly well done for what's there. And the background events can really push the mood of it all. The mass grave incident can hit a few buttons. But what you're left with is this short story of And then it ends on a partial cliffhanger kind of note.

Yes, as a first person shooter only the mechanics are solid. The trouble is. the single player lasts about 4 hours. And the way they'd pushed some of the pr and advertising for it had suggesting there'd be a bit more to it then just a linear "point a to point b" shoot em up. They'd made a point about going on about how there would be consequences to your actions, and wotnot.. which (to my mind at least) suggests you'd be able to actually make some choices in it such as in Freedom Fighters where you could select which missions you did in what order and that would change what you might face. As it is, 4-5 hours of no choice, just run forward following a companion and shooting people.. and then the whole "we're going to tell the rest of the story in dlc you pay for and sequel games." I don't mind stories being told in continuation like that.. but when they're that flipping short in a single game, it cheeses me off a bit.

Paradox. First in a run of 5 Sy-Fi film adaptions of the Paradox comics. Kevin Sorbo, Christopher Judge, Steph Song.. and the rest the "I know that face" cast of background actors. Basically your alternate reality where magic is real and science is myth, but basically all the key points of culture and history are the same as the "real world". Kevin Sorbo's maverick detective investigating a series of baffling murders that turn out to be commited using "science" which leads to an ominous plot. Interspersed with occasional "comic panels" to shift from one scene to another... In many ways it has the feel of an episode of Sanctuary - the whole cgi background and lots of close in scenes rather then broad expanses. It does have that pulpy-detective-noir-adventure style and the typical mix of ropey dialogue to suit that approach. Sorbo does show off his ability to do decent acting even when other things are being a tad "budget sy-fy". It all comes across as a decent idea with some entertaining moments, but a bit of a mess that has something missing.

Ah hah. I've got the urge to wipe out a bottle of port.. and I've got that batch of cigars a friend of mine keeps stocking up from his trips to Mexico.. But so far resisting that. Temperance and all.

Yikes, I would've thought it was quite cheap in England. What was the pricetags? The straight out retail price over here is