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In other news, did anyone watch Planet Earth Live last night? They did a few videos/stories about various baby animals being in PERIL, THE WORLD IS SO PERILOUS FOR BABY ANIMALS, and then they switched from feed to another to hear someone, somewhere saying "Let's not overDO it, team, we don't want to look like we're-" and then just stopped. It was amazing. Also, humpbacked whales are heroes (sometimes). And I can't really take much more of Richard Hammond's Serious Eyes, but I'll probably try to watch some more anyway.

Also this week: Tom was in charge of a task on The Apprentice, and his team lost, and he TOOK SOME RESPONSIBILITY for them losing. I mean not for long, obviously, he was back to screaming at his teammates about how they didn't do this, and they didn't do this by the time he was back in the boardroom, as is the way with The Apprentice. And then revealed he was already running a multi-million pound company on the side. But still. For just a brief moment he said he had to 'take some responsibility for the failure of this task'. Behaviour I have not seen from anyone or any project manager so far this year. I STILL LOVE HIM A BIT. I also really quite like Gabrielle, the 'kooky', arty architect who was in charge of the other team. But lack of business ANYTHING is kind of really frustrating. 'I deliberately didn't ask for a budget!'. Yep. Well done, Gabrielle.

I have not been watching Britain's Got Talent this year, which is a shame, because I always mean to. Although there's only really one judge at the moment that I feel like I can stand, David Walliams, and maybe Alisha sometimes. Mostly though, it's because I don't watch Saturday television with my parents generally - they have a nasty habit of watching the X Factor - so I sort of avoided it by accident and kept forgetting it was on. But anyway, my point was I watched a bit of last night's. I liked the basketball people. And the Ring guy. Britain really DOES have talent.

In other news, I have finished Shadows Of The Damned (a computer game). I had a bit of panic about it after it screwed me over earlier this week - it's hard to explain, but it's mostly a third person-shooter, but then a few sections of it were in 2d sidescroller mode. I was in the middle of one of those when I felt like stopping for the night, and I was a little worried about whether it would save right in that mode. But it had checkpoints, the same as every other section. So I quit out of it, then reloaded it to see what it would do, and it took me back to the beginning of that section, before any of the checkpoints. That was annoying, but then I quit out of it and checked the save again, and it seemed to be saying the save was from a previous section. So I loaded it again, and it had taken me back to the last checkpoint/save, just before a fight in the previous section. Which was even more annoying, but I'd done it before. But the next day when I loaded the save and went to play it again, I realised it had taken me back to the previous section - but also taken away all my health items and, I think, most of my ammo. After trying a few times and dying horribly in the fight, I decided I'd just have to restart the chapter, and at least have a shot at getting some new items. So I clicked to do so - and it took me back to the beginning of the sidescroller bit, AFTER the fight it had just taken me back to. If that makes any sense? But I wasn't complaining. Not at that point.

So anyway, I was freaking out most of the rest of the week about it doing something like that again, or just fucking up my saves in general. Because you can't save your game manually in Shadows Of The Damned (that I could see), so you can't have a back-up in case one save file gets corrupted. But anyway, it didn't, and last night I suddenly found myself at the last boss fight and the end of the game, and now I have won! Hurray. And I really enjoyed it - it was a bit weird, because it was done in a sort of Grindhouse style, and there was a lot of playing around with sexism and a bit of racism, in the style you might find in those films. But it was all so overblown and sort of sarcastic about it (most of it) that I didn't mind it so much. Although other people might. But anyway, mostly I really loved it, and apparently it's not that well-known. So if you like games that are very combat-heavy, with amazing graphics, that are a lot of fun - and you don't mind a bit of grotesqueness and some (heavily underlined) sexism that's probably not meant to be taken that seriously - then I thoroughly recommend it. Apparently the studio's next game is about a cheerleader with a chainsaw fighting zombies, coming out in June. I am excited.

In other news, I still haven't seen Captain America or The Avengers, and I am spoilered already. Curse you, the internet. I should probably just bite the bullet and do it. But at the moment, having missed all the free showings on Sky Movies, that seems to entail shelling out £7 for a DVD. Which I'm sort of reluctant to do.

Other things: what I like about the internet, and fandom, is that nowadays, it seems like even if you have a fandom or a pairing that has no fandom, and no fic, and no discussion even...if you look hard enough and it's a new enough book/show/film/whatever, sometimes you will find at least one thing that touches on or mentions or gives some thought to your pairing. Which sometimes is sort of enough (for a while). I am back in fandoms with no fandoms again, as you may be able to tell. Woe.

I am slightly achey today, but much less achey than yesterday. Hurrah.

Some things I did last night:

• I found out that Scott Adams, the writer and artist of Dilbert which I used to read as a kid, is a massive dick. ( Spoilers for the article I guess )



• I made tiny weird banner of fannish woe:
  
  
  
  For use in similar situations.



• I downloaded every track of the Vitamin String Quartet's tribute to Lady Gaga, which with some vouchers my dad gave me from his beer bottles, I only had to pay for one track of.



• I watched the episode of Casualty where Jordan, in the middle of an operation, randomly talking to Toby about the Godfather, and the episode of Casualty where Dr Jordan and Toby seem to eventually be the only doctors left in the ED, and Jordan slowly starts to have some respect and regard for Toby. Oh. ( Rambling about Casualty and Toby/Jordan )
  
  
  Probably one day I will stop mourning Toby/Jordan and keeping a vigil over all of TV for ever for any sightings of Matthew Needham. Maybe.

Then today, I don't know if it is Shark Week or Shark Day or something, but the Discovery Channel for full of shark documentaries. I watched Sharks: Are They Hunting Us? (the presenter concluded that no, unless we are acting like injured animals or prey or something they want to investigate (ie bite), they don't care), and Shark After Dark, which I think they mostly made because of the rhyme. It was a WONDERFUL WAY to start the day.