Skie

This game is bloody fantastic.

Its GTA without the shitty slowdown, targeting, punishing game mechanics or stupid inclusion of real life annoyances.
Its Crackdown with more abilities.
Its hilarious.

10 minutes of APC driving shenanegans and the US military has had to spend $1.4 billion trying to stop me. The huge crowds of civilians make collateral damage in any other game look tame, and you dont get any punishment for killing them either (which is good, because its hard not to because they are everywhere)

Its also a pretty well done PC version, which is nice considering many previously PC centric developers tend to make shitty PC versions of console games :(

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The generic word + animal name of BloodDragon is gone, now I be Skiefire.

rawr

Thanks jaxx, never even thought to see if LJ let you rename accounts.

Looks like a normal rainbow to me :/

Also, have some awesome retro gaming music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVu53CSbCtw

Happy new year!

I took my nans new dog (a Westie) for a walk today because she is out all day so he obviously needed feeding and taking to do his business. It was raining a bit but I still took him on the route I used to take her old dog; round the greener areas and back via the canal.

He's great off the leash she said, so when I got to the fields just before the canal path I let him off, and he runs around like a crazy dog and does actually come back when you call him, great. We get to the canal, and I decide not to leash him because he's been fine so far, and whenever he goes near the edge he never looks interested in the water and comes back whenever I call.

Until he spots a duck on the bank. He makes a mad dash for it, but it jumps into the water to escape. He runs to where it entered the canal, looks at me, then makes a blind leap into the water. He must have immediately decided water was a bad thing, because he just spun round in the water and began paddling straight back to the side with a scared look in his eyes.

Now UK canals have decently heigh edges, so I had to get on my hands and knees and lean over, grab him by the collar and yank him up and out. I wish I had taken my phone with me so I could have gotten a picture, but he looked like a little white mop. Other than being soaked, he was fine and just as over-eager as ever, and I gave him a good towelling when I got him home.

He still didn't poop, though. And christ was I wet and dirty when I got home.

But at least I know he can swim now.

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Long tongue is long.

Passed my test this morning. Still cant get over how well it went, after being so nervous for the entire weekend before.

3 minors :D

Cant wait for this thing to start wandering around. Might go and have a look at it at lunchtime seeing as the arena is just a few minutes walk away.

That was hell. Felt sick all the way down to london (nearly 4 hours on trains), got into the hotel and then just emptied my stomach :(

Thank god I did that, though. Felt fine immediately afterwards, and managed to stay that way all the way through the assessment. Having a battery of arbitrary management tests done on you (including a role play with two people watching while you have a meeting with an actor who plays one of your dysfunctional members of staff) is bloody stressful. Hope I passed, dont want to have to do that again :(

This makes me giggle like crazy. I grew up watching the Adam and Joe show, so its great to see them still at it :D

Apparently the idiots in charge have decided, in their wisdom, to allow everyone to take leave at the same fucking time.

So, its just me and myself in for the next week (at least, the guy due back the soonest does fuck all but is managements golden boy). This is going to be fun, I might just unplug my phone and go at a snails pace. Ill be the only person in capable of doing the work that this whole team exists for, yet there will be 5 other people in who will just be sitting there 'managing' and more than likely giving me more work or just slowing me down.

Cock.

I has car (still not taken the practical test yet, but this lets me have more practice without it costing stupid amounts)


It looks better from behind (and the shots of the back I did take came out badly, thanks to the reflection on the bonnet)

Seems I aced the theory test. Thank god.

Come out of the room, given my results and before I could read them I was asked "how did you score so high on the hazard perception part? Its the highest score we've seen" by the test centre staff. Seems they fail most people on that and wanted to know what sort of pointers to give people (the instructions are crap, and scare people with a big scary disqualification message). Really pleasant bunch of people there, and I seriously want a touch screen now, the test itself was fun because I was geeking out.

49 out of 50 on the multiple choice. A Pass is 43
70 out of 75 on the hazard perception. A pass is 44 (HGV/Bus pass is 50ish)

Now the easy part, the practical. Yay?

I thought it was today and managed to not sleep Sunday night thanks to the combination of nerves, last minute revision and the bloody heat/humidity. Then I got into work and looked at the appointment letter and it said, quite clearly, that it was on the 1st July. DOH!

I also cut my dreadlocks off. Total pain in the ass to maintain. I'd love to have them again, but I would really need help with them at least once a week. My arms almost fell off dealing with them some days.



Cutting them off was fun, though. They were a lot longer than they look (the picture on the left was taken in march, too. Right one taken today. Yeah, I have the same shirt on) nearly two years of growth.

..I am now a learner driver. And I haven't killed anyone, even after two hours of driving. Woo.