I’ve Got Confessions To Make

 

The silence here lately has been down to a dangerous daily routine of falling asleep in front of Star Trek: The Next Generation, waking up at 5am and playing Prototype until work. Dangerous, but not unpleasant.

Prototype has caused me to break a mouse, and Star Trek has my brain quietly working on a master formula to generate Star Trek plots for Star Trek Online quests, and ways they could interact with a player-chosen crew.

Meanwhile, The Sounds have a new album. It’s nudged them back into the lead as my most-listened artist on last.fm, partly because their songs have a tight neatness to them that allows me to listen to them almost indefinitely without irritation, and partly because until this album, they were unique in never having produced a worthless song. That’s the last one on Crossing the Rubicon, but it’s their best album despite it. Two reasons, one of them is this:

Do you find that some bands just sound like two guitars and some drums? When No-One Sleeps When I’m Awake kicks in, it reminds me that The Sounds are one of the few that don’t. They produce a thick ribbon of undulating noise that your speakers seem happy to belt out, as if they’ve finally got something to sink their drivers’ teeth into.

The other reason is Home Is Where Your Heart Is, but it’s possible I’m just being a big sap about that one.

prototype annotatedI see now why most swords extend in only one direction.

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The_B: I quite enjoyed Prototype while it lasted, can't see myself returning to finish all the side missions or play the New Game + mode though, to be honest.

And some of the targeting was infurating, especially trying to get Intrigue targets that were too happy to wade into an Infected area.
 

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Troll: Om nom nom nom nom. Thanks Tom!
 

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qrter: The A.V. Club site is an offshoot of The Onion - they focus on disecting and discussing popculture in a more or less serious way, through reviews, interviews, etc.

That said, I've been calling it The A/B Club for years now, because of the same thing Tom noticed. :)
 

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Caleb: My last one sort of degenerated into "Hot baked goods on fresh fruit action".

Yeah, it's a long story. And it's also one that would never occur anywhere else in real life :P That's why I still mess with omegle when i'm bored.
 

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EGTF: Thanks Tom, sorry about doing the idiotic thing of getting singer and actor mixed up.

I'm in Chicago next weekend, I'll have to check out this bottled Guiness phenomenom. And take artistic pictures out of a plane. But no playing *unannounced* game for me, I lack the importance and 9 years of age that Mr.Francis has over me.
 

I Am Here

 
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Cartho: Man that breakfast looks extremely good!
 
 

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