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Jun. 21st, 2013 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyI had tuna fishcakes for tea tonight, but when I got them they were a bit cool. Mum made them so I assumed they'd just been left out for a little while when she was doing other things. It only occurred to me after a while that they'd been frozen, and might just not have been cooked through properly. So now I'm concerned about the food poisoning. Still eating though.
Things that have happened lately that I took note of:
In other news, tonight David Platt picked up Becky's sledgehammer. Reason #538 why they should have been friends.
And Despicable Me 2 is out next week. And the week after there's Now You See Me, the film about magician thieves with Dave Franco in it, and The Internship. I feel ambivalent about The Internship, ever since another internet article pointed out there are no films out at the moment in most of America about a woman or a group of women, and I realised it was also true of England, or at least my bit of it from what I could see. And The Internship does like a film about two guys, hanging around with a bunch of other people who are mostly guys, trying to prove they are still worthwhile/man enough to have around. But on the other hand, Vince Vaughn is in it, and seems to be playing a part that doesn't mostly involve being a dick, unlike a lot of his roles nowadays. So I will probably give it a watch after all, if I have time.
Things that have happened lately that I took note of:
- Microsoft have apparently dropped or debunked a bunch of the features in the Xbox One that everyone was furious about, which is probably for the best. The camera and microphone that watches you all the time can apparently be switched off in the menu - if you remember to do that; you can trade in and play used games, but only with 'selected retailers'; and the fact that it was going to need to 'check in' with the Microsoft online servers once every 24 hours or it wouldn't let you play offline, which they seemed adamant about, has now apparently been changed. That last fact is pretty good, since it apparently pissed off every army in the world. I'm still not planning on getting an Xbox One right now, mostly because I have a Playstation and I'd like to stick with them. Although Microsoft's tendency to use their money to buy exclusives for insanely popular games might one day change my mind - people have been talking about Fallout 4 being an Xbox One exclusive lately, although they've also pointed out that even if it was you'd probably still be able to get in on PC. But regardless, it's nice to know that Microsoft are actually listening to people, and capable of not being so crazy.
- Kickstarter set up an account to fund the publishing of a 'dating manual' that actually gave tips on how to sexually assault women (WARNING for triggery content), and didn't pull the funding for the project when this was pointed out to them two hours before the funding period ended. The project got many times it's asked for amount, by the way. None of the quotes to do with sexual assault were actually on the project page to be fair, but still. Today, however, Kickstarter issued a public apology. They said they couldn't cancel to project now it was over, and that the money raised had already gone to the creator. But they gave reasons for their decisions while also admitting they'd been wrong, said they weren't going to allow projects to do with 'seduction guides' a place on their site ever again, and said they were donating $25,000 to RAINN, the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network in America. Their apology post is here. Frankly, I still think they acted badly - if you get complaints like they got, and the proof backing it up they got, I think you should suspend a project right away, they could have always had another fundraiser if it turned out the accusations were baseless. But they did admit they were wrong, in the end. So it's a bit of a knock for what has up till now seemed like a pretty good site, but they're probably worth another chance in the future. Assuming stuff like this doesn't happen again.
- I love this girl:
- Interesting history and the films that are being made based on it.
- This cartoon about birth control:
In other news, tonight David Platt picked up Becky's sledgehammer. Reason #538 why they should have been friends.
And Despicable Me 2 is out next week. And the week after there's Now You See Me, the film about magician thieves with Dave Franco in it, and The Internship. I feel ambivalent about The Internship, ever since another internet article pointed out there are no films out at the moment in most of America about a woman or a group of women, and I realised it was also true of England, or at least my bit of it from what I could see. And The Internship does like a film about two guys, hanging around with a bunch of other people who are mostly guys, trying to prove they are still worthwhile/man enough to have around. But on the other hand, Vince Vaughn is in it, and seems to be playing a part that doesn't mostly involve being a dick, unlike a lot of his roles nowadays. So I will probably give it a watch after all, if I have time.
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