Raithe

Grey Roger for the warmup and Helmuth of Boskone for the win!

Heh, I like that they've felt a need to put out this:

It looks like it might be interesting... but .. sighs... like Red Dead Redemption its not being released on the pc. Dang it.

I always remember first reading Bram Stoker's Dracula as a kid and finding myself terrified by Harker's descent into madness.. and then no film version has really managed to carry that across. Which has always disapointed me on a certain level.

Or representations of Comic Villains in other media? I mean, John Shea's representation of Lex Luthor in the old "Lois and Clark" was downright spot on for the stylish and smart Evil Mastermind. Definitely pulled off the whole magnificent bastard idea quite a few times. While Gene Hackman's version was .. amusing for a movie, but an amazingly bad rendition of Luthor.

Woke up from some very weird-assed dreams, but feeling a lot better then the last two days. So it's been a bit of a catchup morning on all the things I haven't been dealing with...

Well Magneto has moved to a fairly complex layer of motives these days. No longer just that whole.. one shot "i hate normals to protect mutants" rage and reverse racism. A lot of where he seems to come from is understandable. It's not like you can really empathise the Evil Villainy of types like the Joker or Judge Death. Alien or insane villains might be scary at a certain level.. but the villains you can understand, that you could sort of recognise what might lead you into that behaviour.... I'm not saying Magneto is the greatest, but I can see why he ranks up there.

A lot of the villains peak with their initial presentation. You have a good idea, a certain panache.. but then once that introduction is over and past, they settle into rather average gumbo position rather then full blown classic evil villain type. Although I half expected to see Unicron on that list somewhere..

And once again Fox News goes on a rampage.. Bulletstorm Worst Game for Kids! Don't you just love misquoted and false statistics, and that parents allow their kids to buy games with Mature ratings but its the game companies fault for making the game that's the issue.. Selective Quoting

One of those recent interviews they made mention they've heightened the differences of the classes now which effects the tactics.. Ie: Warriors are to bunch enemies together, Mages are to blast groups of enemies, and Rogues are to take out the powerful single opponents.. Oh yes, and the importance of tactics because they've got "enemies by wave" so you face 10 enemies, but when you kill 7 of them, another 10 enemies will arrive, so you have to worry about tactics of taking out the right ones first... I am swooning at the amount of "tactics" this means you have to use..

Have you seen what his IQ is? Apparently the same as Einsteins.... So how trippy is that?

To go with the snarky quote rather then intelligent discourse.. "Democracy is based on the assumption that a million people are wiser than one person. How's that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one person is wiser than a million people. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?" And the other part of the balance to use Sun Tzu: "Human nature is bad. Good is a human product... A warped piece of wood must be steamed and forced before it is made straight ; a metal blade must be put to the whetstone before it becomes sharp. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles."

The collected soundtracks to Babylon 5... They actually make quite good restfull background music turned down low when you have to stay in bed..

Congrats on surviving so far Nepenthe. Now you just have to make it through the next 30 years.. Spant half the day in bed but the worst of the headahce seems to be settling, so crawled out again to get some fresh tea and some form of sustenance to endure on.

Enjoying the pleasures of a nice, deeply grating headache and generach ugh. After forcing myself up to deal with the start of the morning.. I'm giving serious thought to popping a few more ibruprufen or paracetamol and crashing back to bed for a few more hours.

I know, I was one of the people speculating. Still would like to know when I can get my grubby paws on it! Unless there's been another "delay" that I've missed..the talk was just delaying it till the end of April'ish.. Not really a huge shift in release..

Urf. Getting the day started and tis windy and grey and grim... Had one really vivid dream about sitting my exams some years back..but where everything that could go wrong was. It was one of those dreams where when you wake up..it it took a bit to realise it wasn't actually x years ago and none of that stuff had actually happened.

Yeah, unlike Quantum of Solace, which nobody saw. Eh, how many of the Bond Girls who get 5 minutes of screen time do you honestly remember after the film ends? Sure, the main female ones who are there for most of the film get the big shove of publicity but the "brief moment of flirtyness, a roll in the sack, and then killed by the bad guys" rarely stick to memory or public awareness. Compared to how many people (well, guys) who like the whole "naughty schoolgirl" approach of St.Trinians..

I think the whole really.. St.Trinians remake helped push her to the general consciousness.. The guilty pleasure type of thing.

So true... Well I had to cut that short.. otherwise my metaphors would have really started getting convoluted and weird..

"No matter how many people you love in your life, there'll always be one you loved the most." Relationships fail for so many reasons. Sometimes for sensible reasons, sometimes for just screwed up happenstances. Then there are relationships that don't so much end, as get twisted up, half-strangled and linger like some escapee from a mad scientists lab. You can ignore and compartmentalise a lot of emotional baggage. There are times new relationships can heal the wounds from old ones. Sometimes those wounds just loiter and skulk like a mustachio-twirling villain. So about all you can do is try to ignore them and carry on with life. But they'll still find ways to pounce on you when you're not suspecting.

It being a spam message doing the whole "We wish our customers a happy new year" type of thing makes it really.. amusing.

There's a couple of other elements too.. A lot of the pre-order bonus stuff came out for companies that had a serious "fanbase" who would pre-order games because they liked previous games by the comany.. So in one sense there was a "give the fans something for loyalty" approach. On the other hand.. human psychology is we like to feel we've gotten something for "free". Look at how often people will pick something up in a supermarket or grocery store thats on a "2 for 1" deal even when they wouldn't have picked up that 1 item on its own. So it encourages people who might be interested in a game to pre-order because of the sense of getting something for free rather then having to spend time completing quests or such in-game. The amount of pre-orders for a game can seriously sway a companies budget and how the game is considered by the big bosses. So throw in office politics, and you can see why they want to tempt more people to pre-order..

And one of the things that people seem to be forgetting is that it's not exactly an offical Canadian Government/People thing here.. The Canadian Police set up a task force to investigate this and potentially prosecute the people who had it done.

.. Was just pumping out a quick batch of push-ups.. and the cat came buzzing round the corner and flung itself at my head like a flying squirrel. When you're halfway pushing yourself up and the furred thing wraps itself around your head.. its a touch distracting.