Hot Heart

Umm, OK, maybe everyone's going to hate me, or maybe I've got the wrong bit, but I managed the Free Bird section on my first try. Assuming it's the bit at the end of chapter 6 with Verdi's Dies Irae playing.

Started playing Spec Ops: The Line. Seems OK so far, some nicely chaotic gunfights. Though, at times, there seem to be more enemies than bullets and only slightly fewer than there are grains of sand.

Well, you might enjoy it as a mindless action film, but '40s noir, it certainly is not. In its favour, I can say that it has a good cast (though, mostly wasted), it's fairly interesting visually, and the action scenes are particularly 'crunchy'.

Gangster Squad. I had no intention of seeing this film, but a few other friends wanted to see it and half of us had the Orange Wednesday deal (2 for 1). Unfortunately, to take advantage of the deal, you can't pre-book, and none of the guys thought to get tickets ahead of time, so we wound up in the front row. You may have seen my friend's tweet that his neck was as strained as the dialogue. That said, it's not a contributing factor to why I disliked the film. Put simply, it's a big dumb action film dressed up in a sharp 1940s suit. Not even Ryan Gosling and the few well-done comical beats (as you might expect from the director of Zombieland) can redeem this one. It makes The Untouchables - an inescapable comparison - look like high art. It's got a squad of token characters, with on-the-nose motivations and backgrounds, and is bursting with every cliche imaginable. The 'finale' had me cringing nearly the whole time. And when it has a crescendo that builds to the final punch... Doesn't help that I can't stand Sean Penn either.

Transformers films or Wolverine butts?

Not one, not two, but three Transformers films?! I thought I knew you, Ethan. Also, Wolverine butt.

Got The Searchers on blu-ray, as well as Arthur (1981) and The Man Who Wasn't There for very cheap on DVD.

That's dedication.

Maybe you're aware of this already, but the guides on here are pretty handy. http://portforward.com/

And your thought was "Hmm, that's OK, I guess"?!

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/423849/20130114/star-wars-old-republic-sgr-gay-planet.htm Oh, dear...

Nope. I'll happily pay for the official translations when they do finally arrive, but that's only just the second book in the saga, with the first having been published nearly four years ago.

Shame I already downloaded the Kindle-compatible fan translations! Their negligence forced me to become a literary pirate!

Heh, that fighting thing looks interesting. The 'pressen' thing actually reminds me a little of Jade Empire ('regen' moves that deal low damage, for example).

I hope you're aware that the whole thing is fake; just a 'parody' account. The casually racist creation of the guy behind Men's Humor as well.

I think it means that whenever the election has taken place, that a Bush or Nixon has either been the Republican candidate or their VP. So, there have been Republican presidents in the meantime, obviously. But they probably had Nixon as a VP going far enough back.

New ME3 ending, courtesy of YouTube transcription:

Whereas, in general, EU PS Store < Everything else.

Ha, I just got that MP3 credit thing, too. I assume you downloaded Red Sweeper or whatever it was called? Not sure what I'd use it for, as I'd only get one song and they didn't have Jimmy Kane by Muse, which is a b-side track I wanted a decent version of.