girlofprey

Oh my God, it was close today. Weather-wise.

I did finally manage to get to see X-Men: Apocalypse though. My main question: who didn't like this movie? The reviews were terrible, people were saying it was worse than Last Stand. And - it was not. I forgot that Bryan Singer is a possible-paedophile, and I had been thinking of boycotting his movies - forgot about that till his name came up massively on screen. But the film itself was well done. Bits of it were awesome.

Also - a thing I forgot to mention the other day: after my assessment-that-didn't-happen, I went into my local games shop to pick up a game I'd asked them to order for me. I got chatting to the guy behind the desk about E3, and started talking about how I'd found the Microsoft conference quite boring, and that the trailer for Scalebound, the only game I'd been interested in before E3, had actually put me off it more than anything. I was aware someone had come and stood at the desk just beside me, waiting for their turn, but then they started talking about the trailer, and I turned around and realised it was an Xbox rep. He talked in the most robotic way I've ever heard in real life, he had an Irish accent so there was every reason his voice should have had personality, but it didn't. I mentioned how the game had been delayed from this year to next, and he said like, 'yes, we have such a strong lineup of games this year we didn't think it was necessary to release it this year', 'we didn't want to crowd Christmas again, and as we have such a strong line-up of games we thought it best to push it to next summer, so people can enjoy it then, and it won't get lost at Christmas'. He was wearing all-black, including a black fleece with 'Xbox' emblazoned on the arms, and had mirrored sunglasses on so you couldn't see his eyes, and it was just like talking to a robot. Terrifying.

The thing with the MP woman is still fucked up, and now the right-wing newspapers are describing her killer as 'a loner with a history of mental illness'. Cheers. Thanks for that, newspapers.

I went to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park today, with my parents. It was nice. There's not a huge amount of animals there, but we saw some lions, and some giraffes, and some polar bears, and some leaping lemurs. And some painted dogs, which are super pretty, and I've never seen in person before. It's pretty good considering it's only half an hour from my house and only costs £16 to get in.

The news out of Germany has been a real shock to me, as I'm sure it has been to lots of people. We still don't know what happened, but it's looking pretty grim from a mental health standpoint. A part of me's worried there's going to be a backlash against people with mental illnesses because of it, and Piers Morgan seems to be already leading that charge. Ugh.

On the other hand, I'm incredibly happy Jeremy Clarkson has finally been fired from Top Gear. OH HAPPY DAY. Quite apart from how I feel about him, though, his behaviour has just been getting worse as the years have gone by because everyone let him get away with it, and if they didn't punish him for hitting someone, he'd have ended up killing someone at some point. And been like "oh, but was I PROVOKED though? Their very existence provoked me'. So I'm glad consequences have come to pass, finally.

I got the PS4 remaster for Borderlands yesterday, for my birthday, and I sort of wasn't going to before I learned it was coming out on my birthday, and that seemed a little too perfect to ignore. But I'm glad I did, because it has made the whole game 10x more beautiful. Some games you really can't tell the difference, but Borderlands, the style must really suit a remaster or something, because every time I move in-game there's just so much more depth and everything looks great. Super happy with my purchase now. And I might be able to exchange about 3 game cases for just the one.