The answer was Wolverine; geez. Nobody even guessed.
Ho-hum, free muffin.
Summer! I have bought shorts especially. So excite. I don't even know why. I used to dislike summer as child, now its great, I may even sunbathe. Maybe its an age thing. Perhaps I've become female. No, guys work on their tans too sometimes. I may be ancestrally from Brazil or something.
See the segway? You do!? DO YOU!?! Currently Spain vs. Netherlands, had a really interesting conversation about Netherlands and why their called Holland on the train home from London one day. Recently met a famous Dutch darts player (Barney, for darts enthusiasts) who gave me more insight. As I'm going to be talking about the English legal system and what good essay ethics are later I'll spare the details. I like football, I don't have a TV and concurrently I don't know how much I care to go to watch the games at the pub and so on. Baled on the game last night for Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 2 on PSX, which is kind of an obvious choice. Won a cracking fight, Chun Li/Ryu with a Senryu catch finish. I did lose most of the other rounds though. Had some fun upsetting my friend by using spider-man for a while too, until he figured out how to ... I think I'm digressing. What was my point? Its the world cup, yay, on to video games.
I have now played Child of Light and the new Mario Kart which makes me officially down with the kids. Child of light is just, a giant wtf, I like it and it is shiny but I have played a fair few turn based/timer based action RPGs and the system is only ok. I felt like I could complete and that it would be fun, not the point of an RPG like that, you should feel horrified by the impossibility of your task. In my opinion. Mario Kart is great. It has very slight drawbacks, somehow it feels a bit like Mod Nation Racers, just because its so shiny and lets face it, most chibi-karting games are going to be a rip of Mario Kart. Dry Bones isn't in it, which is a little sad, its not so much the lack of Dry Bones as the other new characters in it that disappoint me a little. Not a huge amount. Nitpicking aside, you race around, skid around corners and throw the occasional shell at people. Tracks are brilliantly designed, its balanced, most of the win.
What have I been doing with my life? I have flashbacks of trying to finish the EMA so I'll start there. I understand people had a fair few problems with the question, I didn't so much. I have no idea how I did on the EMA but right now I just want to pass the course and get onto second year. We'll see, I'm not so bothered by a lack of knowledge, I just need to make sure that I can answer an essay question properly. I think before I was just throwing in as much statute and case law as possible where as now I realise I can use facts as examples as well. What to use as examples and how to evaluate my points, so on and so forth are still sticking points. The game is about to restart so I'm rushing.
I couldn't go to Comic-Con because work is a bunch of .. expletive deleted. It wasn't their fault, blah, I had post-traumatic family disorder things to deal with and work had a big staff problem so in the end I just had to sacrifice something. Going to go to winter con with actual real life friends. That way I might not sell my body in order to buy comic book gubbinz. Anyways I went to boardgame expo in Birmingham instead. Played a basket weight of Netrunner, which was good, I won 5 games over the whole weekend. Got some Nationals swag. Which was also nice, met some nice people, learned a bit about how fantasy flight works etc.etc. There was a funny story though.
Maybe two. I had to literally run into the hall for the tournament from the train, I like, ran. And stuff. I had to push through the queue, I didn't have time to get a proper lanyard ticket and so on and so forth. It started at 10AM, I left Brighton at 6AM. A-blahh. So I run in, sign up, all is good and I see my friend Adam .. friend. Netrunner acquaintance. He was randomly in town, so anyway I goes to sit with him and he's like, "So what are you running?", I grin and say, "Professor Saurus, its a head job". I hand him my deck box and he starts pulling stuff out. I'm a bit shocked, so I ask him what he's doing. "Making it legal". I had apparently got the .. card game mechanic thing .. wrong, so I had to change a bunch of stuff. Which I also got wrong, so had to take extra losses and came nearly last in the tournament. Anyway. Thats not the story. Once the second day tournament had ended, I went over to some friends form the brighton boardgame group that I frequent to see what was a gu'arn. Joined in for a game of Cheaty Mages (which is superb, and Holland just scored) and they invited me to join them for the train home. Virgin make you get specific trains. I had to get a different one to go with them, they assured me it was fine and once we realised there were no ticket barriers in Birmingham it all pointed to us getting away with it. Just before London a grizzly (large) Northerner hit me for a fifty quid ticket. I was so tired from .. the everything .. that I couldn't blag efficiently. Then we played Roll through the Ages on the way back from London to Brighton. Which was good. The guys felt so bad they got together most of the money to pay for the fare, which was so nice. I spent it on a board game. Which seemed right to all of us.
On that wonderful note, we now have Netrunner nights in Brighton! Huzzah! We join illustrious places like Edinburgh, Cardiff, Sheffield and London. Surprisingly good turn-outs so far. It makes me happy. A nice card game thing for my mind to much on in the down times. I'm not going to spell-check, so if you made it here, congratulations.
Love you all. I'll be back when the world cup is over, I am a second year and I have developed eye lasers.
Yup yup.
Joe
