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Jun. 5th, 2015 02:18 pmInfamous fandom did not take the extended break for incest I hoped it would. I don't know how fandoms exist without angsty first-time fic.
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Jun. 4th, 2015 09:17 pmI'm doing really well for fandoms right now.
( Daredevil )
I also went to the cinema and saw Mad Max: Fury Road. ( My thoughts )
And I was feeling a little bad, because they're both media that have tried and succeeded, separately, at doing het relationships and female characters quite well, and I ended up just slashing two white guys. But! I am also playing Infamous: Second Son. I sort of promised myself I wouldn't buy any more of the Infamous series because the first one was kind of sexist, and the second one was kind of racist. But everyone everywhere kept talking about how much fun and how great the third one was, so I figured I'd give it a chance. And it turns out the main character's Native American! Which I didn't know. And he's lovely. And the second-most important character is his brother, who's also lovely, AND THEY HAVE A BEAUTIFUL RELATIONSHIP, OH MY GOD. The game starts with our teenage main character finding out he's a superhuman, and they get locked up in this world, so he started freaking out, and his sheriff brother just CAME AROUND BEHIND HIM AND HELD HIM AND SAID "You're not one of them, alright, you're my brother, you're MY brother!". All he does is worry about the main character, he said recently he should have just locked him in a cupboard all his life so he couldn't get into trouble. Their parents are dead so they only have each other, and the brother obviously feels completely responsible for the main character. Today a woman from the tribe called the main character to say he should stop superheroing, and just come home, she asked if it was the brother who was making them stay and said if it was the main character should just say he wants to go home because "he'd do anything for you, you know that right?". I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. And the villain is a woman who is genuinely frightening and a believable threat. So now I am here for POC incest and evil femdom too. I BET EVERY TEAM IS GLAD TO HAVE ME ON IT.
Also the game is so good. SO GOOD. It's almost like I forgot games could be fun. I was really enjoying Grand Theft Auto 5, but it's quite emotionally gruelling, and a little confusing about how much it wants you to enjoy or criticise power fantasies. And they have a difficulty system that I find quite - well, difficult. Most games, you can set at the beginning whether you want things to be easy, medium or hard (or worse), and the game will change individual sections according. In Grand Theft Auto 5, there is just one difficulty level, but at the end of each section it gives you a score according to how many optional extra things you did. And if you didn't do them you have to do the whole mission again. So instead of getting to the end of a section and thinking 'yay, I did it!', I get to the end of a section and think 'I did it!...Look at all the things I didn't do'. That's not very pleasant with OCD. Infamous: Second Son, though: fun as hell.
And Bethesda finally announced Fallout 4! skflsfjkl
( Daredevil )
I also went to the cinema and saw Mad Max: Fury Road. ( My thoughts )
And I was feeling a little bad, because they're both media that have tried and succeeded, separately, at doing het relationships and female characters quite well, and I ended up just slashing two white guys. But! I am also playing Infamous: Second Son. I sort of promised myself I wouldn't buy any more of the Infamous series because the first one was kind of sexist, and the second one was kind of racist. But everyone everywhere kept talking about how much fun and how great the third one was, so I figured I'd give it a chance. And it turns out the main character's Native American! Which I didn't know. And he's lovely. And the second-most important character is his brother, who's also lovely, AND THEY HAVE A BEAUTIFUL RELATIONSHIP, OH MY GOD. The game starts with our teenage main character finding out he's a superhuman, and they get locked up in this world, so he started freaking out, and his sheriff brother just CAME AROUND BEHIND HIM AND HELD HIM AND SAID "You're not one of them, alright, you're my brother, you're MY brother!". All he does is worry about the main character, he said recently he should have just locked him in a cupboard all his life so he couldn't get into trouble. Their parents are dead so they only have each other, and the brother obviously feels completely responsible for the main character. Today a woman from the tribe called the main character to say he should stop superheroing, and just come home, she asked if it was the brother who was making them stay and said if it was the main character should just say he wants to go home because "he'd do anything for you, you know that right?". I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. And the villain is a woman who is genuinely frightening and a believable threat. So now I am here for POC incest and evil femdom too. I BET EVERY TEAM IS GLAD TO HAVE ME ON IT.
Also the game is so good. SO GOOD. It's almost like I forgot games could be fun. I was really enjoying Grand Theft Auto 5, but it's quite emotionally gruelling, and a little confusing about how much it wants you to enjoy or criticise power fantasies. And they have a difficulty system that I find quite - well, difficult. Most games, you can set at the beginning whether you want things to be easy, medium or hard (or worse), and the game will change individual sections according. In Grand Theft Auto 5, there is just one difficulty level, but at the end of each section it gives you a score according to how many optional extra things you did. And if you didn't do them you have to do the whole mission again. So instead of getting to the end of a section and thinking 'yay, I did it!', I get to the end of a section and think 'I did it!...Look at all the things I didn't do'. That's not very pleasant with OCD. Infamous: Second Son, though: fun as hell.
And Bethesda finally announced Fallout 4! skflsfjkl
Let me tell you about Valentines Day
Feb. 15th, 2013 11:43 pmYesterday for Valentines Day, I bought myself a return ticket to Coventry, and £50 worth of videogames. That's romantic, right? They were gifts I truly wanted. Also I bought a heart-shaped huge brownie from Marks and Spencer's. It wasn't as good as I was hoping it would be. But it was still pretty nice.
And now I've got my period. That isn't usually something to celebrate, and today it still kind of isn't, but I would much rather have it now than next week when I'm supposed to be away at Redemption. So hurrah!
Also I've now finished The Cave, barring achievement hunting. Also I love Wrex from Mass Effect. I DON'T CARE, I LOVE HIM. Also I found a kink meme for Dishonored, the video game. Including fic for my pairing, for which there was otherwise no fic that I could see. It's always nice when that randomly happens. It's kind of made me annoyed that there still isn't a kink meme for Infamous though. Even though it probably still wouldn't turn up the Cole/Bertrand fic I truly desire. Still. I'm not going to make a list of all the fic I'm still annoyed no-one ever wrote. BUT I COULD.
And now I've got my period. That isn't usually something to celebrate, and today it still kind of isn't, but I would much rather have it now than next week when I'm supposed to be away at Redemption. So hurrah!
Also I've now finished The Cave, barring achievement hunting. Also I love Wrex from Mass Effect. I DON'T CARE, I LOVE HIM. Also I found a kink meme for Dishonored, the video game. Including fic for my pairing, for which there was otherwise no fic that I could see. It's always nice when that randomly happens. It's kind of made me annoyed that there still isn't a kink meme for Infamous though. Even though it probably still wouldn't turn up the Cole/Bertrand fic I truly desire. Still. I'm not going to make a list of all the fic I'm still annoyed no-one ever wrote. BUT I COULD.
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Sep. 13th, 2012 10:36 pmI made it through my ESA assessment, anyway.
It was kind of gruelling as usual, but the woman doing the assessment was sort of nice, and mum was with me. I think it went okay, but it's a funny thing to think about really. Because if I was fine, I obviously wouldn't need an assessment, and if I seem fine they might decide I don't need benefits anymore. So, y'know. But there's not really much point worrying about that till I get the decision, I guess. It was weird though, because I asked the woman doing it about the review, and how I wasn't expecting to have to do an assessment until October, and she didn't know anything about a review and said this was nothing to do with that. So...I don't know what that was. Whether it was the review and she just didn't know about it, or whether it was just a sort of getting all the details/getting everything on file thing now that I'm actually on ESA. I don't know. I don't even know if the questionnaire I did a few weeks ago was for the review or for this assessment. But at the very least, if I DO have a review in October, I hope they won't ask to see me again, since I've already done a review recently. Fingers crossed.
In other news, I accidentally got into Dallas. New Dallas. I'M SORRY IF ANYONE IS UPSET OR THOUGHT I WAS BETTER THAN THAT. I'm not. There's a young guy who is handsome and has an evil father and is evil and maybe a bit insecure. GROUNDBREAKING FOR ME, I KNOW. But anyway. I'm planning to watch it on Channel 4, which will apparently take me 10 weeks. Hurrah. On the other hand, I looked up John Ross' early life from original Dallas last night. IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL. It's like a whole soap child biography, but I don't have to wait years for it to play out. Amazing.
Also I played through all of the Bertrand parts of Infamous 2. It's kind of terrible that I love him so much. But. His scenes with Cole are pretty much the best part of the game. Also he's pretty much the only character who gets to be a character all the way through the game, and not just be part of Cole's choices. Also he's a baddie who's actually bad, which is something this game doesn't always manage (wankily), and which I do appreciate. Also he has some of the best boots I've ever seen. Also I wish there was a fandom because I get the feeling I could shipwar with the Cole/Zeke fans. They would win on the relationship front, which is FINE. But I would win on the CHARACTERISATION OVER THE COURSE OF THE GAME THAT MAKES ANY SENSE front. And I think that's the front that would win.
And I started Bioshock. Which is about as brilliant as everyone says, and all the awards it got suggests. Which is nice because most of the games I've started lately have been huge disappointments. Yay. Also I bought Overlord, basically because I miss Dungeon Keeper. I MISS DUNGEON KEEPER SO MUCH.
And also, I thought I'd share some more vids from EvilVillainsStudio that I've liked. Mostly I think I like them because of the songs, but the editing and editing together of clips is really good as well. It's interesting, because some of the(made-up) pairings click with me more than others, and I can't tell if it's because of the editing (different sections seems to be made by different people), and because of the actual pairings/characters. It's fun either way though.
There is footage from new Who and Once Upon A Time in these videos. I can only apologise.
( A bunch of songvids/songs )
It was kind of gruelling as usual, but the woman doing the assessment was sort of nice, and mum was with me. I think it went okay, but it's a funny thing to think about really. Because if I was fine, I obviously wouldn't need an assessment, and if I seem fine they might decide I don't need benefits anymore. So, y'know. But there's not really much point worrying about that till I get the decision, I guess. It was weird though, because I asked the woman doing it about the review, and how I wasn't expecting to have to do an assessment until October, and she didn't know anything about a review and said this was nothing to do with that. So...I don't know what that was. Whether it was the review and she just didn't know about it, or whether it was just a sort of getting all the details/getting everything on file thing now that I'm actually on ESA. I don't know. I don't even know if the questionnaire I did a few weeks ago was for the review or for this assessment. But at the very least, if I DO have a review in October, I hope they won't ask to see me again, since I've already done a review recently. Fingers crossed.
In other news, I accidentally got into Dallas. New Dallas. I'M SORRY IF ANYONE IS UPSET OR THOUGHT I WAS BETTER THAN THAT. I'm not. There's a young guy who is handsome and has an evil father and is evil and maybe a bit insecure. GROUNDBREAKING FOR ME, I KNOW. But anyway. I'm planning to watch it on Channel 4, which will apparently take me 10 weeks. Hurrah. On the other hand, I looked up John Ross' early life from original Dallas last night. IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL. It's like a whole soap child biography, but I don't have to wait years for it to play out. Amazing.
Also I played through all of the Bertrand parts of Infamous 2. It's kind of terrible that I love him so much. But. His scenes with Cole are pretty much the best part of the game. Also he's pretty much the only character who gets to be a character all the way through the game, and not just be part of Cole's choices. Also he's a baddie who's actually bad, which is something this game doesn't always manage (wankily), and which I do appreciate. Also he has some of the best boots I've ever seen. Also I wish there was a fandom because I get the feeling I could shipwar with the Cole/Zeke fans. They would win on the relationship front, which is FINE. But I would win on the CHARACTERISATION OVER THE COURSE OF THE GAME THAT MAKES ANY SENSE front. And I think that's the front that would win.
And I started Bioshock. Which is about as brilliant as everyone says, and all the awards it got suggests. Which is nice because most of the games I've started lately have been huge disappointments. Yay. Also I bought Overlord, basically because I miss Dungeon Keeper. I MISS DUNGEON KEEPER SO MUCH.
And also, I thought I'd share some more vids from EvilVillainsStudio that I've liked. Mostly I think I like them because of the songs, but the editing and editing together of clips is really good as well. It's interesting, because some of the(made-up) pairings click with me more than others, and I can't tell if it's because of the editing (different sections seems to be made by different people), and because of the actual pairings/characters. It's fun either way though.
There is footage from new Who and Once Upon A Time in these videos. I can only apologise.
( A bunch of songvids/songs )
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Apr. 29th, 2012 11:19 pmA list of things I was going to post earlier because basic reactions were all I had, but you can have them now just because:
- Vera is amazing. The show and the lady.
- I am annoyed with Infamous, because it has so many problems and is kind of shit, but I also really enjoy playing it, and like the story-telling, if not the story, and now I have a pairing. A pairing with no fandom. Home at last.
- There is no kink meme for Infamous, but there is for the game it's apparently constantly having fights with.
- However, I've decided Infamous is probably the most difficult fandom there is to Google, especially when it comes to kink memes, because almost everyone non-fannish who talks about a fandom's kink meme seems to describe it as 'infamous'.
- I really think I would be less annoyed about Infamous if more people talked about the problems with it, in a way that didn't make me think it was just me, and in a way that there was a good chance of the creators seeing it, so there was just a chance they would try not to make the same mistakes next time. There isn't even an 'Unfortunate Implications' link on the TV Tropes page, and they tend to be pretty good about things like that.
- I did find the last pigeon in Infamous though. Hurray!
- I commissioned a piece of work from an artist on Etsy. But apparently she just got a deal with a children's publisher, and has been working to deadline, and - even though she's apparently done it - she keeps forgetting to talk to me about it. This wouldn't be so bad, except one of my emails got lost on it's way to her before, or 'buried in her inbox', so whenever there's a long gap in emails, I'm never sure if she's just busy, or actually hasn't seen it.
- I still haven't seen the film I was planning to see for ages, Lockdown, with Guy Pearce and Peter Stormare in it.
- The Avengers film is out (I think), and I still haven't seen Captain America. I did not realise it was coming out as soon as April. However, given how popular it already is, chances are it will be in cinemas for a while. However, given how long it sometimes takes me to watch one film, never mind two, that might not necessarily help.
- On the plus side, I've been largely ignoring the long, long pre-release buzz, so maybe I can mostly ignore the post-release buzz until I've seen it as well.
- There also doesn't appear to be a Prison Break kink meme. That seems impossible to me. I was going to say that, well, it started in 2005, so maybe it just didn't quite catch that boat. But then just the other day I found out there was a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang kink meme. So I don't know. Unless I'm just not googling properly.
- Guess which Playstation game I'm playing at the moment? If you guessed "Saints Row 2 again, because you love it", you are correct. If you also guessed "Shadows Of The Damned, because you saw it on Two Best Friends Play and it looked wicked", you are also correct. But that's a bit creepy. Shadows Of The Damned has a non-white main character. In terms of race, it's already streets ahead of Infamous. There is some slightly odd stuff about his white (white, white!) girlfriend who he almost constantly refers to as 'Angel' though. Hmm.
- I hate my dad slightly less now. He's still a cunt though.
- There are about five million dance shows on pretty much this month and next, mostly in London or other parts of the country where I don't live, which I'd really like to go see, but it's really just not feasible at all. Really. Which kind of sucks.
- I don't feel like throwing up anymore. This day is looking up.
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Apr. 27th, 2012 10:28 pmOther mistakes I have made this week:
Googling to find out if anyone else thought Infamous 2 was as racist as I did - found a bunch of forum threads where some people said it was racist, and everyone else argued that it wasn't racist, black and asian people ARE like that, talking about racism is racist, you're just KEEPING RACISM ALIVE BY TALKING ABOUT IT, and how really, the people who should be MOST offended by this game are white Southern people.
Good times.
Googling to find out if anyone else thought Infamous 2 was as racist as I did - found a bunch of forum threads where some people said it was racist, and everyone else argued that it wasn't racist, black and asian people ARE like that, talking about racism is racist, you're just KEEPING RACISM ALIVE BY TALKING ABOUT IT, and how really, the people who should be MOST offended by this game are white Southern people.
Good times.
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Apr. 27th, 2012 09:25 pm( Tonight's Coronation Street, annoyance )
Also, I finished Infamous 2, and the ending was about as wanky as I was expecting it to be. Oh Infamous. You get so many things right, and then just go weird at the end.
Also, I finished Infamous 2, and the ending was about as wanky as I was expecting it to be. Oh Infamous. You get so many things right, and then just go weird at the end.
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Apr. 26th, 2012 08:30 pm- ( Spoilers for last night's The Apprentice )
- To celebrate my ESA win on Monday and because I hopefully won't have to worry about money for a little while now, I am now the proud owner of a Playstation 2. They were selling them for £38 in CEX (I love CEX), and for £42 I got one in a box with all the right wires and controllers already in with it, which the guy at the counter claimed 'felt' like it was brand new. Score.
- Audrey was awful to David in Coronation Street on Monday. Even after he threw himself to his knees and looked at her with his most desperate eyes. He had been pretty awful to her though, and she had just had a health scare. I'm hoping things will be better tonight.
- Despite my vague promises, I still haven't watched any snooker lately, except bits and bats (Ding losing and Ali Carter winning, both in highlights things). I understand I missed another Dominic Dale match. Oh well.
- I have been slashing the main character in Infamous 2 with the bad guy (sort of), and then they made it amazing. It was brilliant.
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Apr. 16th, 2012 05:08 pmI have been watching Prison Break series 1.
( A cut that is hopefully not a fug pair of scissors, which basically means 'Spoilers' )
So yes. I have been watching that mostly. And trying to ignore Pirates: In An Adventure With Scientists being one of the most disturbingly sexist children's films I've ever seen, with some extra racism thrown in to support the sexism. And trying to ignore the weird racism of Infamous 2.
( The weird racism of Infamous 2, spoilers )
So yeah. That's been my week. Also in Coronation Street, David wore black and blue, and I hate Kylie. And I hate Leanne. But whatever.
( A cut that is hopefully not a fug pair of scissors, which basically means 'Spoilers' )
So yes. I have been watching that mostly. And trying to ignore Pirates: In An Adventure With Scientists being one of the most disturbingly sexist children's films I've ever seen, with some extra racism thrown in to support the sexism. And trying to ignore the weird racism of Infamous 2.
( The weird racism of Infamous 2, spoilers )
So yeah. That's been my week. Also in Coronation Street, David wore black and blue, and I hate Kylie. And I hate Leanne. But whatever.
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Apr. 2nd, 2012 04:49 pmWe went to Cannon Hall Farm on Saturday. It was only a slight debacle - my mum was working until 2 o'clock, and the night before I asked mum if she'd told dad what was happening, and she said yes, and that morning I asked dad if he knew where we were going, and he said yes. But mum didn't know dad was expecting her to call when she got out of work, rather than just turning up at 2.15 like she'd told him. And then when we picked her up, dad didn't know we were going all the way to Barnsley, he thought we were just going to a local farm shop, and he didn't know exactly where it was and he didn't have his sat nav. I ended up looking up the webpage on my mum's slightly old-fashioned phone, and we ended up driving up and down looking for it for about half an hour, on the right main road but on the wrong side of Barnsley. But anyway. We got there in the end. At about 10 to 4 when my mum hadn't had any lunch and they were claiming the cafe would stop serving food at 4 o'clock. But everything was fine. And I had some quite nice onion rings.
And when we got into the farm there were plenty of animals and baby animals about. Baby goats, a few baby donkeys, piglets, one single calf, and lambs, lambs everywhere. Right up to proper newborns that had apparently only been born the night before. The goats were probably the best value for money - they all kept fighting each other, even the ones that looked heavily pregnant, and they had just two kids running around, harassing the adults, sneaking under fences and leaping up in the air. The lambs did plenty of springing up and down though. And in one building there was this one single little chick running around on it's own. Apparently it's brothers and sisters hadn't hatched yet, and it didn't need it's parents around, so it was just there on it's own in a pen. I hope it has some company by now. Or soon. Also we were promised baby llamas, but we didn't see any. Only adults, hanging out with goats and looking like they might spit at any moment.
Also I have started playing Infamous 2. I had sort of forgotten how much fun it is playing Infamous. I have some issues with the story, but the gameplay, kdjfslk. It's basically just flipping around and having superpowers. Playing as a guy who can be either good or evil, so they have him just be sort of flippant and annoyed as a baseline. Annoyed but basically good superheroes are one of my favourite things. Also, I think the games are really good because you always play in a city, and they REALLY go to the trouble of making their cities beautiful. I mean, it's not like it's all their own idea. The first game is set in "Empire City", which BEARS NO RELATION TO NEW YORK, and the second game is set in "New Marais", which BEARS NO RELATION TO NEW ORLEANS. But also the graphics are beautiful, and all the building sort of look like they're part of the same neighbourhood but are all different, and they have billboards and ads around, and little details like plants climbing up walls and grills on the windows and stuff. It's lovely. I really love the Infamous games.
I'm also waiting for a game to download, which is why I'm writing a slightly rambly post. Black March is also over, and I went a whole month without buying any entertainment products, which is quite a long time for me, woo hoo! I've also gotten interested in Prison Break, after finding out that Peter Stormare is in it, but the boxsets are weirdly still expensive. It's also Eastercon on Thursday, and I need to pack at some point, yay. My game has also finished downloading.
And when we got into the farm there were plenty of animals and baby animals about. Baby goats, a few baby donkeys, piglets, one single calf, and lambs, lambs everywhere. Right up to proper newborns that had apparently only been born the night before. The goats were probably the best value for money - they all kept fighting each other, even the ones that looked heavily pregnant, and they had just two kids running around, harassing the adults, sneaking under fences and leaping up in the air. The lambs did plenty of springing up and down though. And in one building there was this one single little chick running around on it's own. Apparently it's brothers and sisters hadn't hatched yet, and it didn't need it's parents around, so it was just there on it's own in a pen. I hope it has some company by now. Or soon. Also we were promised baby llamas, but we didn't see any. Only adults, hanging out with goats and looking like they might spit at any moment.
Also I have started playing Infamous 2. I had sort of forgotten how much fun it is playing Infamous. I have some issues with the story, but the gameplay, kdjfslk. It's basically just flipping around and having superpowers. Playing as a guy who can be either good or evil, so they have him just be sort of flippant and annoyed as a baseline. Annoyed but basically good superheroes are one of my favourite things. Also, I think the games are really good because you always play in a city, and they REALLY go to the trouble of making their cities beautiful. I mean, it's not like it's all their own idea. The first game is set in "Empire City", which BEARS NO RELATION TO NEW YORK, and the second game is set in "New Marais", which BEARS NO RELATION TO NEW ORLEANS. But also the graphics are beautiful, and all the building sort of look like they're part of the same neighbourhood but are all different, and they have billboards and ads around, and little details like plants climbing up walls and grills on the windows and stuff. It's lovely. I really love the Infamous games.
I'm also waiting for a game to download, which is why I'm writing a slightly rambly post. Black March is also over, and I went a whole month without buying any entertainment products, which is quite a long time for me, woo hoo! I've also gotten interested in Prison Break, after finding out that Peter Stormare is in it, but the boxsets are weirdly still expensive. It's also Eastercon on Thursday, and I need to pack at some point, yay. My game has also finished downloading.
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Sep. 1st, 2011 11:48 pmSo, I sort of accidentally finished InFamous. In fairness, the last of the story missions all had names like 'End Of The Road' and 'The Truth', but when I saved my games and looked back at them they had a statistic for how much of the game you'd completed, and after the second to last mission it said I'd only completed about 80% of the game. I'm guessing that's because there's still stuff I haven't completed, and I was doing a Good playthrough, so there's a lot of evil stuff I haven't done. I don't know. But anyway, I've done it. Sadly though, I wanted to actually look at what people were saying on the internet about it, but there's a second game, and I don't want to spoiler myself for it. I sort of have anyway, looking up a couple of things, but happily I found two conflicting sets of spoilers, so I still don't know what actually happens. Unhappily though, the second game must be new out, because it costs about £40, and I just spent quite a lot of time playing the first one, so I don't really feel like diving into a new game right away. So I'm still spoilerable. But I'll just have to be strong. And get and play it eventually.
I did enjoy it though. It took a turn for the super-angsty, which was kind of a shame, because I was really enjoying playing it as just a "random guy gets superpowers, fights bad guys" sort of game. I have nothing against angsty stuff, but sometimes I do just want something straightforward and adventure-y. And it's kind of annoying when you think you're playing/watching/reading one of those, and then it turns out you aren't. It was still good though, I did enjoy it. And I'm looking forward to playing the second game at some point.
Anyway. Another thing that has happened in my less than brilliant week is that I got my appeal papers from the DWP last week, complete with an explanation of why they didn't award me ESA in the first place and 'respectfully requesting' that the judge at the tribunal confirms this decision. And this week I got a letter from the Tribunals Service saying the case had been passed to them, and sending me a form to fill in. I have to do it and send it back within 14 days or they may assume I don't want to go ahead with my appeal, but before I do that I have to decide whether or not I want to actually appear at my appeal hearing. And I don't know. Apparently, people who appear at their hearing tend to do better than people who don't. But the fact is I'm not really expecting to be awarded it anyway, so I don't know if it'll make much difference. And the idea of actually going to the hearing, and having people question me about my illness and why I think it means I can't work doesn't exactly thrill me. But it might take longer if I say I actually want to appear, rather than them just deciding it without me, which would at least mean I got ESA payments for longer. And I got another letter with the form saying that the Tribunals Service I was being referred to was very busy at the moment, and I probably wouldn't get a hearing before next February, so I'd have lots of time to prepare. But I don't know. I probably will decide to appear. I'm just not really looking forward to it, or to telling them I want to do it. But I have to send the form off within the next week or two, regardless.
Oh, and I have been watching the soaps. Apparently, Declan on Emmerdale represses his feelings about people he loves when he finds things really difficult with them. I am in no way writing this into my Nathan/Declan pairing. No. But it would be an awesome time for Nathan to come back, and for them to decide they love each other, or at least are willing to put up with each other so they can be near each other, because it seems like Declan needs SOMEONE around. And on Coronation Street, I'm still not a big fan of David and Kylie as a pairing. But the sight of David standing in the rain, waiting for his wife to let him back into the house she'd locked him out of, and casually lying to her in order to get back in so he can explain things to her, was certainly very very welcome. I'm still finding it hard to like Kylie. It seems like she's had a hard life, but I just struggle to see anything NICE about her. And the writers, or someone, claims she's just 'incapable of being nice or friendly', but I don't really buy that, because she fakes it pretty well sometimes. I know that's not the same thing, but if she knows how to fake it, why can't she just make herself do it? Until she either decides no, she can't stand doing that long term, or until people start being nicer to her and she doesn't have to, or until it gets easier and she can just do it without it being so much of an effort? I don't know. At best, I just see her as being like a child. And that makes me think it's not really a great idea for her and David to get Max back. I already didn't think that was a great idea after the episode where they really went on about how much they wanted Max back, and then had a conversation where David said he couldn't see himself growing old, and just wanted to have adventures and die young, and Kylie said she wanted to come along too. Which doesn't really fit with the stable parents they apparently want to be. But whatever. I failed to see the episode where she blackmailed Audrey though, so possibly I have missed some of her characterisation, or am imagining it as being worse than it was. I don't know.
I have not been watching Hollyoaks lately though, since last Friday anyway. But I probably should, because it's Hollyoaks Later next week. Aaah!
I did enjoy it though. It took a turn for the super-angsty, which was kind of a shame, because I was really enjoying playing it as just a "random guy gets superpowers, fights bad guys" sort of game. I have nothing against angsty stuff, but sometimes I do just want something straightforward and adventure-y. And it's kind of annoying when you think you're playing/watching/reading one of those, and then it turns out you aren't. It was still good though, I did enjoy it. And I'm looking forward to playing the second game at some point.
Anyway. Another thing that has happened in my less than brilliant week is that I got my appeal papers from the DWP last week, complete with an explanation of why they didn't award me ESA in the first place and 'respectfully requesting' that the judge at the tribunal confirms this decision. And this week I got a letter from the Tribunals Service saying the case had been passed to them, and sending me a form to fill in. I have to do it and send it back within 14 days or they may assume I don't want to go ahead with my appeal, but before I do that I have to decide whether or not I want to actually appear at my appeal hearing. And I don't know. Apparently, people who appear at their hearing tend to do better than people who don't. But the fact is I'm not really expecting to be awarded it anyway, so I don't know if it'll make much difference. And the idea of actually going to the hearing, and having people question me about my illness and why I think it means I can't work doesn't exactly thrill me. But it might take longer if I say I actually want to appear, rather than them just deciding it without me, which would at least mean I got ESA payments for longer. And I got another letter with the form saying that the Tribunals Service I was being referred to was very busy at the moment, and I probably wouldn't get a hearing before next February, so I'd have lots of time to prepare. But I don't know. I probably will decide to appear. I'm just not really looking forward to it, or to telling them I want to do it. But I have to send the form off within the next week or two, regardless.
Oh, and I have been watching the soaps. Apparently, Declan on Emmerdale represses his feelings about people he loves when he finds things really difficult with them. I am in no way writing this into my Nathan/Declan pairing. No. But it would be an awesome time for Nathan to come back, and for them to decide they love each other, or at least are willing to put up with each other so they can be near each other, because it seems like Declan needs SOMEONE around. And on Coronation Street, I'm still not a big fan of David and Kylie as a pairing. But the sight of David standing in the rain, waiting for his wife to let him back into the house she'd locked him out of, and casually lying to her in order to get back in so he can explain things to her, was certainly very very welcome. I'm still finding it hard to like Kylie. It seems like she's had a hard life, but I just struggle to see anything NICE about her. And the writers, or someone, claims she's just 'incapable of being nice or friendly', but I don't really buy that, because she fakes it pretty well sometimes. I know that's not the same thing, but if she knows how to fake it, why can't she just make herself do it? Until she either decides no, she can't stand doing that long term, or until people start being nicer to her and she doesn't have to, or until it gets easier and she can just do it without it being so much of an effort? I don't know. At best, I just see her as being like a child. And that makes me think it's not really a great idea for her and David to get Max back. I already didn't think that was a great idea after the episode where they really went on about how much they wanted Max back, and then had a conversation where David said he couldn't see himself growing old, and just wanted to have adventures and die young, and Kylie said she wanted to come along too. Which doesn't really fit with the stable parents they apparently want to be. But whatever. I failed to see the episode where she blackmailed Audrey though, so possibly I have missed some of her characterisation, or am imagining it as being worse than it was. I don't know.
I have not been watching Hollyoaks lately though, since last Friday anyway. But I probably should, because it's Hollyoaks Later next week. Aaah!
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Aug. 29th, 2011 12:48 amHello. I've not been posting much lately. I've been playing InFamous, basically. I'm at that weird point where I want to loook around on the internet and see what other people have said about it, but I also very very much don't want to be spoiled for it. So I'm being strong. Mostly. Anyway. I'm really enjoying it and playing it a lot.
Also I had kind of a bad night last night, when I had what I thought was a perfectly normal bath, and managed to wreck up the kitchen ceiling again. Slightly worse than before, really, because it seemed to have run down one wall to the window and dripped onto the windowsill. It's just annoying because mostly it doesn't happen and I didn't think I'd done anything odd last night, except maybe the water briefly got a bit high. I didn't think it was a problem, but apparently it was. So I'm going to have to not let it get high at all in future, and hope that solves the problem. Mostly I was worrying that maybe having 2 hour baths was what I was going to have to change, and I didn't really know how when OCD generally makes things take so long, or at least that it would be hard to change if I tried to. But I have 2 hour baths pretty frequently, and water has only come through to the kitchen ceiling twice. So I'm going to go with the 'not letting the water get that high' plan, and hope things go well from there. And if not, look at trying to reduce the amount of time I have baths for. That seems like the best plan, at the moment.
Hmm. But anyway. The TV tonight has informed me that the new series of George Gently starts next Sunday, which makes me quite happy indeed. In some ways I'm expecting it to be terrible, because the first three/four series' were great, and it's hard to imagine the BBC being able to keep it up, the way the Miss Marple dramas have gone a bit rubbish recently. But perhaps they will suprise me and still be great. I hope they do. But anyway, new George Gently, rah!
Also I had kind of a bad night last night, when I had what I thought was a perfectly normal bath, and managed to wreck up the kitchen ceiling again. Slightly worse than before, really, because it seemed to have run down one wall to the window and dripped onto the windowsill. It's just annoying because mostly it doesn't happen and I didn't think I'd done anything odd last night, except maybe the water briefly got a bit high. I didn't think it was a problem, but apparently it was. So I'm going to have to not let it get high at all in future, and hope that solves the problem. Mostly I was worrying that maybe having 2 hour baths was what I was going to have to change, and I didn't really know how when OCD generally makes things take so long, or at least that it would be hard to change if I tried to. But I have 2 hour baths pretty frequently, and water has only come through to the kitchen ceiling twice. So I'm going to go with the 'not letting the water get that high' plan, and hope things go well from there. And if not, look at trying to reduce the amount of time I have baths for. That seems like the best plan, at the moment.
Hmm. But anyway. The TV tonight has informed me that the new series of George Gently starts next Sunday, which makes me quite happy indeed. In some ways I'm expecting it to be terrible, because the first three/four series' were great, and it's hard to imagine the BBC being able to keep it up, the way the Miss Marple dramas have gone a bit rubbish recently. But perhaps they will suprise me and still be great. I hope they do. But anyway, new George Gently, rah!
