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Jun. 11th, 2012 11:13 pmI finished Dead Space. Dead Space is great. Except for the part where it had a twist at the end that...wasn't so much a twist. It also had a rather lovely spoiler (pretty much) in the trophies section. If you are playing Dead Space and wish to be unspoiled for it, DO NOT look in the trophies section. But yeah, the other twist. I don't know, it's weird because I knew the spoiler from having seen a clip from the beginning of Dead Space 2. I still think it was not that much of a twist, I just don't know if it wouldn't have been so MASSIVELY NOT A TWIST if I hadn't seen that clip. Hmm.
But yeah. My first proper survival horror game. It was terrifying! And often really difficult and frustrating, like when I kept complaining. But if I kept at it I did tend to make progress, so it was not really that torturous, overall. I have Dead Space 2 and am planning to start it shortly. I am promised Isaac will have a voice and personality in this game. I am excite.
I also started playing LA Noire. Where I basically get to be socially inadequate and bad at driving, but now while trying to solve crimes! I've mostly got the hang of not randomly accusing people of lying though, just because - I think - in things like Poirot and stuff EVERYONE tends to be lying about something, and it's good to get everything out in the open. It doesn't seem to work like that in LA Noire. The driving, though, is terrible. The cars are slow and I do not understand the traffic system. It probably wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't also still playing Saints Row 2, where you can speed around, wreck up public property and kill dozens of bystanders pretty regularly with no consequences. They take a much dimmer view of that when you're an 1940s policeman. I'm learning though. But man. You can't even powerslide.
It's my grandma's funeral on Thursday. My dad arranged it on Friday, and I suddenly realised I didn't have anything to wear. My mum suggested my grey interview suit, since at least it's sort of sombre, but I decided I'd feel a bit odd if I ended up being the only person not wearing black. So I was planning to get an affordable sort of black suit from Marks and Spencer's or somewhere. However, the Marks and Spencer's in Wakefield apparently don't have a Tailoring department, and I can't see anywhere else having one other than Leeds. And between my counselling tomorrow and another course in Wakefield on Wednesday, I can't see myself having the time/energy to go there before the funeral. So I've decided to just get a black top or shirt and wear it with my interview suit, rather than my white interview shirt. I think that should be dark enough really. So I have to go and get that tomorrow or Wednesday. Between the 3 hours of sleep I had last night and my other appointments (if my counsellor isn't ill again, of course), including another 8am start on Wednesday, and then the funeral on Thursday, I'm not expecting great things from my effort levels this week though.
Springwatch was a bit sad tonight. They had massive flooding in that part of Wales over the weekend, and their production site got flooded and they had to evacuate it. But they were back tonight, and amazingly most of the nests they were watching survived the storm. Also Michaela Strachan seems to have calmed down a bit - she started off the presenting gig being a bit cheesy and over-enthusiastic, and it was a little bit annoying. But someone seems to have told her she just needs to be calm and care about wildlife. Or she discovered love for it by being on the show. Either way, I'm enjoying her much more now. I still miss Kate Humble though. I quite like all the presenters on Springwatch, though. They stare at each other while they reel off facts.
But yeah. My first proper survival horror game. It was terrifying! And often really difficult and frustrating, like when I kept complaining. But if I kept at it I did tend to make progress, so it was not really that torturous, overall. I have Dead Space 2 and am planning to start it shortly. I am promised Isaac will have a voice and personality in this game. I am excite.
I also started playing LA Noire. Where I basically get to be socially inadequate and bad at driving, but now while trying to solve crimes! I've mostly got the hang of not randomly accusing people of lying though, just because - I think - in things like Poirot and stuff EVERYONE tends to be lying about something, and it's good to get everything out in the open. It doesn't seem to work like that in LA Noire. The driving, though, is terrible. The cars are slow and I do not understand the traffic system. It probably wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't also still playing Saints Row 2, where you can speed around, wreck up public property and kill dozens of bystanders pretty regularly with no consequences. They take a much dimmer view of that when you're an 1940s policeman. I'm learning though. But man. You can't even powerslide.
It's my grandma's funeral on Thursday. My dad arranged it on Friday, and I suddenly realised I didn't have anything to wear. My mum suggested my grey interview suit, since at least it's sort of sombre, but I decided I'd feel a bit odd if I ended up being the only person not wearing black. So I was planning to get an affordable sort of black suit from Marks and Spencer's or somewhere. However, the Marks and Spencer's in Wakefield apparently don't have a Tailoring department, and I can't see anywhere else having one other than Leeds. And between my counselling tomorrow and another course in Wakefield on Wednesday, I can't see myself having the time/energy to go there before the funeral. So I've decided to just get a black top or shirt and wear it with my interview suit, rather than my white interview shirt. I think that should be dark enough really. So I have to go and get that tomorrow or Wednesday. Between the 3 hours of sleep I had last night and my other appointments (if my counsellor isn't ill again, of course), including another 8am start on Wednesday, and then the funeral on Thursday, I'm not expecting great things from my effort levels this week though.
Springwatch was a bit sad tonight. They had massive flooding in that part of Wales over the weekend, and their production site got flooded and they had to evacuate it. But they were back tonight, and amazingly most of the nests they were watching survived the storm. Also Michaela Strachan seems to have calmed down a bit - she started off the presenting gig being a bit cheesy and over-enthusiastic, and it was a little bit annoying. But someone seems to have told her she just needs to be calm and care about wildlife. Or she discovered love for it by being on the show. Either way, I'm enjoying her much more now. I still miss Kate Humble though. I quite like all the presenters on Springwatch, though. They stare at each other while they reel off facts.
