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Feb. 2nd, 2014 07:33 pmYou know, sometimes I think barely anyone likes sharks and they probably aren't going to be saved from extinction because of fear and people not seeing any reason to save them and whatnot. Then I see people protesting the shit out of killing them, and I realise maybe they have people onside and maybe I'm kind of an idiot.
Also Philip Seymour Hoffman died. That's kind of a shame.
Also Philip Seymour Hoffman died. That's kind of a shame.
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Aug. 1st, 2013 12:26 am( Cut for pet death, probably the last one, but I may go into some detail. Also, death in general I guess )
And what I WASN'T expecting this week was while I was listening to a Welcome To Night Vale podcast, partly to take my mind of all the stuff that had happened with the dog, for there to suddenly be a line about a woman putting her "3 year old Weimaraner to sleep", for fairly shallow reasons. That hit a little close to home. These things come to try us, I suppose.
And what I WASN'T expecting this week was while I was listening to a Welcome To Night Vale podcast, partly to take my mind of all the stuff that had happened with the dog, for there to suddenly be a line about a woman putting her "3 year old Weimaraner to sleep", for fairly shallow reasons. That hit a little close to home. These things come to try us, I suppose.
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Jun. 17th, 2012 10:38 pm( My grandmother's funeral )
So that was the main part of the week, really. But it wasn't too sad overall - it was, but she'd been ill and sort of mentally not herself for so long and she was so old that we were all ready for it really, I think. It was a nice day.
Other than that, I am still playing computer games. LA Noire continues to be slightly annoying - a big part of it is questioning people and doing interrogations, and you mostly have to either check your evidence or watch their faces to figure out if they're lying or not. But sometimes it's not clear which bit of evidence proves which thing, or if they'll talk about something completely different based on that bit of evidence. And you're supposed to be able to tell if they're lying if they look away from you, but sometimes they look away and are telling the truth, and sometimes they're looking right at you and are just really good at lying. It's frustrating. Also, you're playing as kind of a dick. But I'm guessing that's mostly to try to explain how he can be a detective and still so shit at interrogating people sometimes.
However, we have a new-ish character. A cop with a strong Irish accent. Do you think he's:
A) Good?
Or
B) Evil?
Also we have a new character with a Southern accent. Do you think he's:
A) Good?
Or
B) A paedophile?
It saddens me slightly how much American fandoms hate people with Southern accents sometimes. Southern accents are often kind of beautiful.
On TV, and on a similar note, I saw an amazing new documentary series the other day. It's called 'Moonshiners', and it on the one hand follows people in Southern America who are making and bootlegging moonshine, and on the other hand also follows the police trying to catch people making and bootlegging moonshine. The camera crews must get so much side-eye from both sets of people they're following. They do have one lovely character though who said that he makes moonshine because it pays, and because he loves it, "And what can you replace something you love with? Nothing." Heart.
In other TV news, Springwatch has finished, and yesterday I saw a Poirot where Poirot basically looked up a schoolgirl's skirt, WITH HONOURABLE INTENTIONS, and then gave another schoolgirl a priceless jewel that technically belonged to another country. Why is Poirot such a dick? Also today I watched a bit of tennis, where the Queen's Tournament final ended suddenly in a default, when one of the player's kicked an official. David Nalbandian. Just an hour or so before my mum had told me she didn't want him to win because "he's not a nice person, he's just unpleasant". I believe her now.
I'm off now to play Dead Space 2. I'm also enjoying that...it's a bit more crash-bang-wallop than the first one, in some ways, and it's starting to get hard sometimes in the annoying way that Dead Space did. But it is still good in a lot of the same way. I sincerely hope it doesn't go rubbish at any point soon.
So that was the main part of the week, really. But it wasn't too sad overall - it was, but she'd been ill and sort of mentally not herself for so long and she was so old that we were all ready for it really, I think. It was a nice day.
Other than that, I am still playing computer games. LA Noire continues to be slightly annoying - a big part of it is questioning people and doing interrogations, and you mostly have to either check your evidence or watch their faces to figure out if they're lying or not. But sometimes it's not clear which bit of evidence proves which thing, or if they'll talk about something completely different based on that bit of evidence. And you're supposed to be able to tell if they're lying if they look away from you, but sometimes they look away and are telling the truth, and sometimes they're looking right at you and are just really good at lying. It's frustrating. Also, you're playing as kind of a dick. But I'm guessing that's mostly to try to explain how he can be a detective and still so shit at interrogating people sometimes.
However, we have a new-ish character. A cop with a strong Irish accent. Do you think he's:
A) Good?
Or
B) Evil?
Also we have a new character with a Southern accent. Do you think he's:
A) Good?
Or
B) A paedophile?
It saddens me slightly how much American fandoms hate people with Southern accents sometimes. Southern accents are often kind of beautiful.
On TV, and on a similar note, I saw an amazing new documentary series the other day. It's called 'Moonshiners', and it on the one hand follows people in Southern America who are making and bootlegging moonshine, and on the other hand also follows the police trying to catch people making and bootlegging moonshine. The camera crews must get so much side-eye from both sets of people they're following. They do have one lovely character though who said that he makes moonshine because it pays, and because he loves it, "And what can you replace something you love with? Nothing." Heart.
In other TV news, Springwatch has finished, and yesterday I saw a Poirot where Poirot basically looked up a schoolgirl's skirt, WITH HONOURABLE INTENTIONS, and then gave another schoolgirl a priceless jewel that technically belonged to another country. Why is Poirot such a dick? Also today I watched a bit of tennis, where the Queen's Tournament final ended suddenly in a default, when one of the player's kicked an official. David Nalbandian. Just an hour or so before my mum had told me she didn't want him to win because "he's not a nice person, he's just unpleasant". I believe her now.
I'm off now to play Dead Space 2. I'm also enjoying that...it's a bit more crash-bang-wallop than the first one, in some ways, and it's starting to get hard sometimes in the annoying way that Dead Space did. But it is still good in a lot of the same way. I sincerely hope it doesn't go rubbish at any point soon.
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