Whooo, Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory, was nominated for an Emmy... awesome!

I have to say, of all the shows on TV currently, BBT is one of my favorites..

Oh, internets, how I missed you over the past few weeks.


In other news, relocating is fun. Granted, I didn't exactly move a mile, since we bought an apartment in the same block we were already renting in, but still, I'll be very happy not to have to do that again for a while...


On a completely randomly unrelated note, I was listening to Slice of Sci Fi the other day, and Jordan Weisman was on with JC Hutchins, talking about the campaign that they'd been running for his new book.. it sounded like a lot of fun.. I wonder if a certain someone was involved with it.. :D

I know, I know. I have been very, very bad about keeping up appearances on LiveJournal. I admit it!

I sort of stopped reading and writing a while back and moved away from LJ for a bit because a) nothing interesting was happening in my life, b) I took a break from the interwebz, for the most part.

But I'm back, and I guess I'm just returning to my former haunts. :D



So... what's up? How've you fine folks been?

.. okay, so I'm mostly posting this because it's got quotes from one of our favorite ARG creators, Jane!

Dieting as an RPG..


I have to admit, it's true, and I never really thought of it that way before!

I don't quite know why I keep doing this, and by 'this' I mean finding a new series to utterly demolish in a weekend and then require the rest of immediately! Last it was Battlestar, since I only got caught up recently to the end of season 2, and am working on S3 (since the DVDs are so fracking expensive.)

But now, I have a new obsession:

MUST HAVE MORE VERONICA MARS. >_<



PS: who was at the door? "I was hoping it would be you.." ?

Okay, so I just got finished writing a review for Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, for my friend's Gaming site. And while thinking about the accompanying audio review I'm going to do over the next few days, I was pondering the possibilities of other Lego game franchises, what with Batman already coming out shortly.

And I stumbled upon an awesome idea: Lego Battlestar Galactica.


No, really. How awesome would that be? Someone get me Ronald D. Moore's phone number. I need to make the man some more money so he can make more awesome shows.


Oh, and as an extra idea - Lego Firefly. Seriously, how awesome would be seeing Mal and Jayne and Wash and Zoe in Lego form be?

And I'll see if I can do them in one word per item:


NIN's new album (The Slip, get it for free at  NIN.com. :D): Awesome.

Ironman, the latest Marvel superhero to hit the big Screen, starring Robert 'ex-heading-for-skid-row' Downey Jr: Badass.

Collection of David Caruso's best (or arguably worst) one-liners from CSI: Miami: Unintentionally hilarious!



Shit, that's two words. Oh well, I'll try harder next time.

I don't normally do posts about religion. Generally speaking, religion and I have a working relationship of mutual ignorance. I ignore it, and it tends to ignore me. Granted, I have to be a little more forceful in my ignoring when the boys in the very nice suits and bicycles come knocking, but aside from that, I tend to steer clear, simply cause it's not something I'm hugely concerned with arguing about.

(Politics, on the other hand, I'll argue till my face goes blue. My work colleagues love arguing Australian politics with me. I wish they were more up on the US side of things, though, cause that'd be fun.)

Anyway, I'm already off topic one and a bit paragraphs in, so let me refocus: I was doing some thinking, in conjunction with two books I've been reading lately, and came up with, when I organised it and got it all sorted in my head, sounded very heretical, even for one with a rather outside view of religions as they are. Now, because I enjoy having people think about my ideas almost as much as I like thinking about them myself, I decided I'd post them up for people to consider as well.





PS: I've never used this userpic so appropriately. Heh.

Enjoy your birthday, Phaedra. E-thoughts from e-thugs to you.

.. that I have just found God.







... and he builds LEGO.






More awesomeness here at BrickShelf.

... or "How every thing at work ends up being a Star Wars joke."


So, I'm moving at work, down to a new area, with a new boss. He name is Leah. My first question to her today, when I went down to finish off some paperwork is: "Do your pronounce it "Lee-ah" or "Lay-ah""? Her immediate reaction to the latter pronunciation was "Help me Obi-Wan, you're my only hope."

Queue snickers from all points of the compass, followed briefly thereafter about a discussion of how similar Nerf guns are to Stormtrooper weapons in terms of their aiming ability and hit rates.


Oh dear... I'm going to fit in too well, I'd say...

Today's totally, utterly, and completely random thought:


Tutor at the Gandalf the Grey School of Computer Programming, to a failing student:


YOU SHALL NOT PARSE!



Okay, that was as bad as it sounded in my head. Oy vey!



I am annoyed I missed the Rabbit Hole day. I feel I should post-date it and claim it was a temporal malfunction of some description, or a localised warp in the space-time continuum. Hrmmmm...

From Bec, talking about the new Skittles limited "Showtime" flavours:

"Wow, the Jam Donut tastes like Jam Donuts!"

Merry Christmas, everyone. Many presents were given, including one which is being used right now to cool down my coke..

Brilliant, those people at TG.  Also got a pair of pretty awesome shirts from them.


And someone special was very, very pleased to receive THIS TRULY AWESOME PRESENT. Yes, CAPS were appropriate. :P


Again, Merry Christmas to my many friends here on LJ. Even if I haven't commented lately, rest assured I read everything.. kinda like that semi-benevolent god. Hell, there's my next band name. Semi-Benevolent God.

Need to add Complex at the end, I think.

CHRISTMERRY MAS!

Allow me a complete turnaround of mood from my previous post, if only to boast that I got published.


Okay, so it was online, and it's run by a group of friends, but yes, I got an actual review published. And it didn't turn out too badly, if I do say so myself.

Click here!

..  mongoose with unlimited-rocket-dude on the tail end..



... should I feel like an idiot, taking a half-tonne green-armor-clad-Covenant-squashing-monster on a quad bike?



These are the questions that haunt my boring-assed day at work..

Only this time, it's a good'un.


HALO: THE FUTURE OF GAMING.


I love whoever comes up with this crap. :D

My love for you is like a truck
BERZERKER!

Kekekeke.

Playing Gears on Hardcore is a whole new ballgame. On Casual, it was possible to stay out in the air for a fair while before the drones will target you, and you can empty half a clip into somone before they turn on you. On Hardcore, no chance in hell those tactics will win the game. Staying out of cover in a firefight for more than a few seconds is deadly. Of course, having someone sneak up behind and empty two shotgun rounds into you while you're focused on another enemy is equally as deadly.

The whole key is situational awareness. There's something to be said for this game and it's AI. Just fifteen minutes ago, I watched as a group of drones manouvered themselves left, then swung back right, keeping the four of us pinned down with fire. A moment later, they ducked into cover, and me and Dom advanced on them while they reloaded, with Kim and Cole giving coverfire. As soon as Kim and Cole moved up, the drones backed off a little way, still keeping under cover enough to make killing them difficult. As soon as I popped out, I was sprayed, so I was concentrating on trying to get a few hits in every time I popped up.

Only a few seconds later, Cole, Kim, and myself were dead. I looked on as my body gibbed, and watched a single grenadier, shotgun out, slamming rounds into the back of us. Yep, they'd manouvered us into a neat little trap, leaving one guy behind and pulling back to make us overconfident, and when he snuck into our rear, we were fucked.


I didn't even know that the AI could pull that kind of trick. Even more respect to the Epic team for their fracking awesome game.


Anyway,  as you can tell by the post title, I just faced and beat down my first Berzerker. Boy was that fun. Easier than I'd expected, actually, considering the amount of trouble the last Berzerker in the garden gave me. Mind you, that fight gave lots of people trouble, I'll bet. Getting enough shots on them in Hardcore is tougher than expected. I need to practice getting them hit, then moving backwards while keeping the Hammer on them long enough to give me space to refire it before she charges me again. Practice will make perfect, naturally. The corpser fight coming up in Act III scares me.


The only thing I'm kinda worried about is my reliance on cover and the inherent fragility the game is putting on me. I'm wondering just how well that'll translate to Halo3 in a few days. I'm wondering if my over-reliance on cover might be a bit of a weakness come time to step into the Mjolnir armour, afterall, the chief doesn't seem to know the concept of cover exists... well, at least, that's my experience from the PC version of Halo and the Xbox version of Halo2.. well, I guess we'll find out sooner or later. On the plus side, getting used to the Gears controls will hopefully get me into the aiming for Halo, if nothing else.. though again, switching from 3rd person over-the-shoulder to first person might take a bit of getting used to.

I'm actually really excited by the Halo 3 launch, actually, more excited than I thought I would be. My pre-order is sitting in the back room of my local EB games, and I have actually gazed upon the glory of the boxes which mine is in.. ahh, but I could look and not touch.. soon, my precious... soooooon...

Time to sleep now, I think. Sleep, and dream of chainsaw facestomping..

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