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All good things to hear... Now to just wait the week and anticipate more... Ah, the joys of Amazon "item will be sent on the 26-27th, Item will arrive on 27-28th.."

Me, I always remember some of his monologues as Gabriel in The Prophecy....

Well the delay from the Feb '09 launch date to Oct '09 was given over to making tweaks and improvements. They've been pretty much open about the delay from Oct to this year was Sega choosing to make a publishing decision rather then the game needing to be tweaked more. And that there hasn't really been any work done on the game since they wrapped it up for the October release...

Well.. that could actually work. A rundown school with two main "cliques" .. the lone transfer student who gets moved in and starts to manipulate the social events... A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Yojimbo which was in turn inspired by a novel that was set in a prohibition era town in New Mexico... So technically the version that Bruce Willis and Christopher Walken did that was inspired by Fistful of Dollars..... was closer to the original concept..

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6262887.html Well, they shipped 9 million AC2... and still ended up with a major turnaround compared to last year. But it had nothing to do with that crappy DRM they've started using on their games.. No, its just the "lagging industry" alone that caused it...

I was looking forward to Tron Evolution... (yes, that geek inside has fond memories of both the film, and the Tron 2.0 game)... but Dang it all. It's only being released on xbox360 and the ps3. A Tron game.. and it's not going to be released on the PC.. oy vey...

And of course, if there had been any accident.. his flying licence fakery would have come to light and cancelled any Insurance for the company...

Could Casablanca ever be re-made?

Tropico 3.. Sometimes, you just have to run a banana republic..

Which is worse.. the guy who fakes being a pilot or the guy who fakes being a doctor? One has the potential to kill a whoole bunch of people quickly, the other might just take a little longer to do the same... I guess if you don't have the full official training, you're going to pay a lot of attention to the safety issues though...

And teachers making lesson plans according to the curriculum they're set to teach from... and the books they're told they have to use..

The Philadelphia Story - a classic of it's time. (and definitely better then the musical version Bing Crosby did a few years later). What's interesting is how some of it was improvised.. especially the "drunk" Jimmy Stewart having a talk with Cary Grant, you can see them nearly cracking up off each other. Heh, but I found the Cary Grant DVD Collection Boxed set reduced from

And one of the driving forces behind it is a woman who doesn't trust the school system, and has educated her own kids at home and in private christian establishments.... I think the scary thing about this, is how it could have that roll on effect across America.. Since most states use books published to meet the Texas curriculum... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/1...ites-us-history Of course, while she's all for asserting the constitution "the way they meant it", is she giving any thought that under "the way they meant it" (re: the Constitution) women don't get to vote/be represented?

That's no way to talk about Darcy...

Hm, and some nice shots of Taipai....

Hm, maybe I gave up on it too soon. I caught the first half a dozen episodes and it just seemed like such a ..frat house version of Sunset Strip. It might have just clashed with the disapointment over that being cancelled.

I never did figure out why they cancelled Sunset Strip.. only to have 30 Rock turn up 4 months later.. Hm, maybe 30 Rock tends to be more.. I'm not sure how to put it without coming across as snobbish but.. juvenile humour compared to Sunset Strip. Sunset Strip always seemed to be funny in a smart way without needing to go for the cheap laughs... and 30 Rock seems to me to be practically the same setting, just only using the cheap laughs. Not that I have anything against cheap laughs and pratfalls. I just like to have smart and witty dialogue. Maybe it's my nostalgia for that old school repartee. Ah well.

Tried to ponder how to get into the work place after spending the last 8 years being the primary carer for a disabled family member... Dang it.... Skills out of date, and you can't exactly put "disabled mother" as a reference on your cv...

Endings wise, wasn't it said that there's something like 5 principle endings.. but each one of those has variations within it.. sort of 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C etc.... So that's going to be where all the choice & consequences blend in together on the ending... If you think about it, they've been pumping it more as the choice & consequences having an effect in the middle (ie, during the playthrough) more then for the big finale and how it ends..

And apparently Amazon have a pre-order bonus now.. . But it's nothing that will actually effect in-game play apparently. Just a 24 page "Field Guide" that provides hints, tips and advice on the weapons, skills and abilities of AP....

They all seem quite interesting.. But I think Saudi being the first hub that you have to do to start the storyline might take away some of the "travel around as you wish".. but it should still be some fun... We've seen a fair bit of Moscow in the trailers.. so I think I'm interested in seeing how Rome and Taipai really turn out...

Of course, you never know when that full formal embassy party you're attending will get crashed by goons in full combat gear....

What I find kind of interesting is that they're opening up a touch more "choice & consequences" in it compared to the GTA games... The fact that there's an "honor" system or some such that keeps track of how you act, grows your legend, and changes how people react to you when you visit places and encounter npc's....

Why do I get the feeling I'm going to go freelancer first playthrough....

Just the natural talent of raw oner-awesome?