Musopticon?

It starts to tremble once you near something magical and will eventually start growling and quaking once you are in the vicinity of monsters for instance.

The problem with that level was the amount of set pieces, furniture, clotheslines and Christmas paraphelia in there. The place felt lived in. I didn't really feel threathened by yet another horde of bums. Not to mention, once you realise that the mannequins do three things when you zap them with your taser/hit them: a)drop an arm or b)yell and become stunned or c)die, the place looses whatever scare it might have had. I just started to hit every mannequin I saw standing(I mean, besides those walking of course) and the level became some sort of demented hobo version of "Where's Wally?". I admit it was fun for a bit. Funnily enough, I thought Bart's Department Store was one of the more well-lit levels of the bunch. Though it might have been the colour contrast to the grey of previous levels. Well, after the awful train maintenance tunnels, anything would have felt lighter. That level has quite a killer spot about two-thirds in though. I guess it might have been even more, had I not lost my fear of the puppets. I'm glad I had seen the scene earlier when my friend was playing and I didn't know what the mannequins were. Very disconserting, liked it rather well. I completely agree with you. The problem is that the scary parts are instanced, always the same. STALKER managed to play on the player by giving both him and the monsters are relatively open playing field. Though Agropom Underground was sort of silly with the "look! a new monstie!" approach and triggers. Fortunately both monsters were tastefully cool.

Was on a cruise...it's fuzzy now. Will probably recount the tale once I get my bearings.

RZA - Liquid Swords! And anything by Black Star.

Funny that, I just finished Paul Auster's City of Glass which is notorious for having long passages that can be interpreted as having hardly anything to do with the actual story. Not to mention, it's never clear in the disjointed and fractured world(though not narrative) what the heck is connected and what is the actual story about. On the surface, it is crime/detective fiction, but soon it starts to deal with metafiction in the form of how detective novels are actually constructed and soon alienates not only the reader, but the focalizer(I mean, the author is a character in the story ffs) and the main character as well. I really loved it. Well, Wheel of Time is so diluted nowadays that I almost feel like it's better to read a story synopsis from Wiki for each novel and not have to drudge through that brickhouse of a book series again, Anyway, you should consider Feist. Start with Riftwar and Serpentwar and decide for yourself if you like them enough to branch of to the various sequels and prequels. He's one of the few fantasy authors who can still grab me. Writes in a satisfyingly martial and figurative style and yet never tries to anything but a fantasy author(unlike a certain Goodkind). The world isn't original, but he has a nice planar-thing going on and creates similar power plots and schemes as R.R Martin. Feist is up there with Robin Hobb and her masterful Assassin and Fool books in my favorite fantasists. You might also consider Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone(aka "Stormbringer") books. He loves his multiverses, alternate timelines and realities and has an ample amount of swords and sorcery to bolster a great grip on allusion and intertextuality. Consider The Skrayling Tree for instance, where he merges Longfellow's Hiawatha into a Scandinavian underworld journey onto the East Coast and colors it with Post-WW2 drama and his ever-present idea of reality being "just" a battleground between forces of creativity and order. Moorcock is awesome and should be mandatory reading after Planescape Torment. I'm trying to find Sword's Song myself, I've really liked Cornwell's Saxon books and his Warlord saga(post-Roman Britain and his vision of King Arthur) is my favorite historical fiction. It is so personal and yet to epic.

Shpongle - Around the world in a-tea-daze

The Vision Bleak - The Black Pharaoh trilogy part 3

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Buffalo Soldier - Soul-shakedown Party - Beats

Oh, sure. The problem is that the scene has yet to catch up to 07. There's a ton of finalized fanwork out that was made for 04 or 05(06 being the first pure multiplayer patch - no idea why since multiplayer is quite dead) and is unlikely to be redone for the newest patches in near future. I'm playing with 1.005(again, feck the zeros) myself and won't likely ever upgrade, since the mod community seems to have to made up their mind to build on well-known ground(read: everyone is just combining modifications or releasing personalized versions of them - google 'Oblivion Lost mod' or 'AKM' for instance). I'm not saying that 07 is without mods, but there's waiting to be done, unless te player wants to mod themself.

Steam version is patched to final, 1.0007 iirc(give or take a zero, all patches have been inside the same numerals), which means that the game is pretty stable, but you are bummed about mods. Unfortunate really, since the quality of both fanpatches, tweaks, total conversions and regular mods has been consistently high.

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, if you have yet to play it. There's tons of sniping ground, a wide selection of weaponry that can be scoped and everything happens in the tastefully dilapitated radiated hellscene of Chernobyl. Soviet nostalgia, jamming East-Bloc rifles, brooding rainswept vistas where wind plays with broken steel barrels and half-torn trees, the constant ticking of Geiger counter lulling the player to a post-apocalyptic vision far more indepth and complete than its predecessors such as Glow ever managed. It's not perfect by any means, but a great game nevertheless.

Stalker:Shadow of Chernobyl it is, though I reckon Blodhemn is using some mods. Honestly, the game is pretty unbalanced in its unmodded state and it is advisable to install some mods. However, there's only a couple of spots in the game where the enemy spawn can be annoying, and two of them are in Garbage and can mostly be avoided at least, and I don't think the respawning is enough to call a very decent game "garbage". Well, to each their own. I think there are worse problems as it is, like the high amount of glitches still in play or the fairly idiotic quest design.

Wait, what? What should I see or what is missing?

My gf was invited to a birthday party of her old friend in Lahti and she took me along. I have to admit that the prospect of sleeping till 3 o'clock and then gorging on toast, sausages and mango juice did seem more favourable to me at first: About the only way a party with a ton of a unknowns can be fun if you are punch-drunk at the onset and I was freshly shaven and soberly handsome, not at all in the mood for drunken skulduggery. Fortunately we left so early in the morn that there was time to visit her old home, a massive country house with a living room as big as our whole downstairs floor ffs. And cats and food and silly Tavastian antics. Nevertheless, after eating and having a bit of fun over her relatives, we went for the party. There was free booze and stuff to eat, I had the missus with me and the party turned somewhat pleasant. Music was generally awful and this fellow insisted on everyone getting naked and doing the helicopter on the balcony. He wore a raccoon hat and yelled at people down the street to join in. A lovable bunch everyone, I just generally detest prancing naked without several oz of Jameson in my system...or without wearing war paint and a cloak(lol wales 07) The party went well, yet we left mid-point to see another old friend of Ida and it turns out he's her ex. Oh well, we weren't exactly bosm buddies and his accomodations were spartan, but we got to sleep off the hangover and the fellow had a snappy taste in music and bars. The general high point of the eve must have been either: -Talking myself into a music club without proper identification in tow, the gorilla at the front was menacing but sensible -My graceous lover and ersthwile therapist, Miss Ida -Asking her mother on choosing good wines to purchase -Her cats <3

I lost almost 13 kilograms(yes, you sweduclown) of weight during last autumn. It was also the autumn when I hopped on to the winds of student lifestyle to try out my still-wet wings. Go figure. I have been very lax on exercise as(s) of late, but the prospect of having a steady job during the summer and excelling in it(graveyard bushboy lol) will give me impetus. Not to mention, I miss running and workout.

Get it here! The demo includes four tutorials, two small maps with up to two AI players, one randomly generated medium map with up to 3 AI players, and 90 minutes of playing time (single-player only). And apparently it is only 536 megs! I'll give it a whirl(read=merge with the game for several 90 minutes) and I'm sure you folks who have yet to buy the title are glad of the chance to try it out before purchase/acquirement. Hell, it's about time.

^<3 Ghostland observatory - Sad sad city

That. Is. A. Grand. Avatar!

*black bartender does a spinkick* Yeah, an inescapable masterpiece of music there. Beta Satan - Great moments of pleasure

Ninja Gaiden BLACK!

Rick Astely - Never gonna give you up NEVER GONNA TELL A LIE AND HURT YOU!

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek

Opeth - The grand conjuration \,,/ Also, sorry Shryke, I hadn't noticed your message in my profile. No, I haven't heard of them, I'll try them out soon.