You say you will, but you know you won't

[kingandy]

Friday: Bolton bla bla bla ghostbritain bla bla bla birthday bla bla bla pubbage^[1] bla bla bla fun.  Did not snog anybody.  This is largely because it was me, samharber and the ARMY OF COUPLES.  And while Sam has said he would do me in the past^[2], tonight he was not nearly drunk enough.

Saturday was great, the day consisted of a small amount of shopping followed by four hours of Firefly.  I still object to the overdone Wild West imagery - dirty and functional is all well and good but the ship's kitchen is straight out of the Waltons.  On reflection this only surfaces occasionally, but it always annoys me (Playing horseshoes in the hold?).  Still, the writing is easily good enough to compensate.

After Firefly I abandoned ghostbritain, shunning his weekend-after-Birthday all-you-can-eat buffet in favour of a night in Rock World with stsquad, zheers and assorted friends.  It's the first time I've been there, and it wasn't quite so bad as I expected (but then I did have some horrifically low expectations, which always helps you enjoy something).  Spent far too much time attached by various means to zheers, who as ever was enormously affectionate right up to the point where he apologised.  Did eventually find myself in his bed, but this was because I needed to sleep, and he was wired on Speed and wasn't going to be using it.  Sigh.  Still, at least there was snoggage.^[3]

Sunday: Woke up, for the first time ever, next to a woman I only met the previous day.  Did more shopping and finally bought a crappy wedding gift for my cousin.  Eventually chose an oil-pouring thing, something useful that they may or may not have already.  (They did have a list, but everything in my price range was gone, bought by other people.)  Am determined that arwel and icklejo will get something wholly useless from me to celebrate their marriage, possibly laser tag or a board game.  Or handcuffs.  While in town, accidentally slipped and fell directly upon HMV, and when I got up I found I had acquired the second series of Randall & Hopkirk [Deceased] (Vic & Bob version), as well as three random computer games from the Buy Two Get One Free deal.  These were Thief II, an RPG called Enclave and The Temple Of Elemental Evil A Classic Greyhawk Adventure.

Have so far installed The Temple Of Elemental Evil A Classic Greyhawk Adventure, and it's all good so far - though I think I may have skipped ahead in the plot a little, having gone straight for the contact and found the next area instead of bimbling around town solving subquests.  I will probably head back to town, since I'm having no luck fighting these swarms of zombies and ogres as a first-level party.  Though it does assume a serious preknowledge of the d20 3.5 rules, I've found no real problems so far.  Niggles are that they don't seem to have included the ability for clerics to swap out their spells for healing, and there doesn't seem any way to disengage from a fight - no running away up the stairs, you have to fight to the death.  I suppose it makes a certain amount of sense, since in a paper-and-pencils game you wouldn't have the "upstairs is an entirely different area" aspect, but it's still annoying when I'm officially still fighting the ogre in the next room (though he hasn't actually seen me yet) and I want to go away and rest up.

Still, mighty pretty.

After HMV I also stopped at Forbidden Planet where they'd run out of comic boxed but I bought Spyboy anyway (though it was issue #2 - grr!  Why does nobody tell me when these things are starting up again?), then went to Books Etc where I picked up Death: At Death's Door (a manga-style Sandman tie-in tale that takes place during Season Of Mists), and Creature Tech (a fantastic science adventure story from Doug Tennapel, creator of Earthworm Jim).  Both are excellent.  Creature Tech is about a plot by a mad zombie scientist to conquer the world with a giant space eel.  This involves a demonic hand and the Shroud of Turin.  It is so cool.

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[1] As opposed to "Pubidj", which is just silly.  Pubbage, like Babbage and cabbage and cribbage.
[2] His three constraints are (1) female, (2) hot and (3) breathing, and apparently two out of three is all he requires.  This may have been a drunken lie.  At least I hope it was, for the sake of hot female corpses the world over.
[3] See [1].
[4] The amazing recurring footnote[4].

Comments

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

oh oh you're so cool.

*swoons*

[kingandy]

What, in particular?

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

everything

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

ps. your mother's a tracer...

[kingandy]

?

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

rahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Appology?

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

What did he feel the need to apologise for?

Re: Appology?

[kingandy]

I don't know, leading me on, or chickening out, or something.

It is becoming a habit.

Re: Appology?

[phil-girl.livejournal.com]

Just for being Lee.....isn't that enough? ;)

[myki.livejournal.com]

[2] His three constraints are (1) female, (2) hot and (3) breathing, and apparently two out of three is all he requires. This may have been a drunken lie. At least I hope it was, for the sake of hot female corpses the world over.

Y'know I don't think he was...

[rich-bull.livejournal.com]

You can swap for healing spells, it's something like holding shift or space when you cast the spell, it does tell you in the manual somewhere obscure or not as the case may be. Your life is far too interesting, swap??

[kingandy]

Ah, excellent, I started reading the manual but it was mostly just D&D rules that I already knew. I will have a closer look next time I am in town (noooo so far away!).

And no, you can't have my life, it's mine and you can't have it.

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

The shift+spell is for Icewind Dale 2, and the new Neverwinter nights updates (I think). Not sure if it works with ToEE, since that's by someone else.

[lord-blipvert.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, speed.

Firefly's overdone theme-stylings

[pkgem.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about Firefly. The whole "wild west" theme is taken a little to far and a little too literally at times. In the first episode there is a guy who is wearing a string vest, tie and jacket - I mean I know they are on the "frontier" of space but are you telling me that people can build sophisticated spaceships but have forgotten how to mass-produce cheap shirts!? People dressed that way in the "wild west" because they couldn't afford cotton not because it was fashionable or made a statement (other than, I have no real income). Generally, I remember the first episode bugged me (for more reasons than this) and hence I didn't bother with the next few.
Then I caught another one and was pleasantly surprised by the good quality of story and characteristaion and at how funny (ha ha - in a good way) it could be. Then I watched most of the rest of them.
I think it is, on the whole, a higly enjoyable program and it never should have been cancelled. It was never given a chance to get the wild west/ space them right and it was never given a chance to allow an audience of regular viewers to develop. Mostly, it wasn't given a chance. I suspect it was like "hmmm, we're not getting as many viewers as Buffy, let's can it" without considering Buffy season 1's original viewing figures - which I doubt were huge either. Dang those corporate TV bosses!

Re: Firefly's overdone theme-stylings

[kingandy]

I said to Nook "Why are the guns done up to look like revolvers?" and he said "Because they are revolvers! Energy weapons are far too expensive for the Frontier Of Space!" It seemed a good argument at the time, I forgot that we have guns in the real world that aren't energy weapons and yet are also not revolvers.

Buffy's first season ratings were through the roof, this is how they got a second season. It was a mid-season replacement for something else that got canned halfway through ... so the corporate TV system can work sometimes.

Re: Firefly's overdone theme-stylings

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

Revolvers are a lot more reliable than automatic pistols (by a *large* measure), and a lot easier to maintain.

So there you go. Plus, Jane has lots of other, non-wild-west-y guns.

I liked Firefly a lot, even though I was partially unsure during a couple of the first episodes when people wearing Starship Troopers body armour featured. The characters and dialogue is just fantastic, and was in no way a large part of the inspiration for the Black Kraken at Maelstrom (though that seems to have totally fallen by the wayside, hence my near-total lack of involvement with them this event...)

Re: Firefly's overdone theme-stylings

[ghostbritain.livejournal.com]

If you carry on with that attitude, young lady, i won't let you borrow it.

Get over it. It's a stylisation that makes the show different. It makes sense, although the explanations are only given to justify the inclusion, if you follow...

It's a nice idea, it's different, it's fucking funny, incredibly well characterised and fun all the way.

If it didn't go all the way, it would just be ripping off several ST:TNG/Voyager episodes.

But then, i never like Star Trek tech. It was always too shiney and did everything.
I liked Alien because the crew were idiots who essentially only knew how to keep the ship flying using string and gaffa tape.
I like the Millenium Falcon for much the same reasons.
I like Firefly partly because of the old west feel.

Look at Enterprise - That was supposed to be what Firefly is - a ship full of chancers rocketing into space, not actually knowing what they were getting themselves into with very primitive tech.
Unfortunately, it looks higher tech than ST:TNG in many ways (the displays for a start...)

Nope, you and Andy are wrong.

I'm Queen...

Re: Firefly's overdone theme-stylings

[kingandy]

You make the same points as us, except this line:

I like Firefly partly because of the old west feel.

reads, in my version, like this:

I like Firefly despite the old west feel.

As I say, tramp steamer dirty tech is good. It's the cowboy hats and string vests that stretch my suspension of disbelief.

OVERALL, GOOD.

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

Useless...handcuffs...

Tch.

*shakes head ruefully*

[kingandy]

I meant "useless" in a homemaking sense; fun rather than functional. Obviously Laser Tag is not useless!

Saturday Night

[angelic-angie.livejournal.com]

You forgot the words 'fully clothed' on the waking up on Sunday comment. *grin* After all my pure and innocent reputation could be tarnished otherwise. Great to meet you on Saturday, I had an excellent time, and you did an amazing job on Lee's neck, well impressive. As promised I will add you to my list, see I'm not totally crap just moderately. Speak to you soon.

Re: Saturday Night

[kingandy]

But I was not fully clothed --!

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

you're quite lucky it wasn't 2 women...

[kingandy]

Yes ... lucky. Luck, luck, luck.