BF3

Good old Battlefield is out again.  I remember spending rather a lot of money upgrading my rig to run BF 2 a few years ago.  Since then, I've pretty much given up PC gaming for exactly that reason.  My good mate has got the new one going on his setup and complains that 64 people on one map is too much.  WFT!!  I call that a target rich environment.  He also complains the multiplayer maps are all rush maps (basically run about killing as much as you can before you get blasted).  Again bring it on, it's the only way I know how to play.  My mate does subtlety.  I don't.

Do I by it for the Xbox or my gaming laptop?  Actually thinking I should buy it for both.  Single player on the PC with the graphics will be amazing.  Multiplayer on the Xbox, satisfying and stable.

Life presents hard choices.

Next up, Ferrari 458 or a pension?

When Heaven turns BAD

My personal heaven is the Nuburgring.  It wasn't the case for quite a few people on this day-

OOOOPS

And here is the view from some annoying French twats.  Skip to 9.50 unless you want their irritating words and noises for 10 minutes.  I could barely stand 20 seconds of it.  Probably French Hipters, the worst kind!

STFU!

Remember kids, it isn't the speed that kills.  It's the stopping rapidly.

Spoiled!

My deepening love affair with HBO continues with season 2 of The Boardwalk Empire.  Awesome.  Chalky White now my favourite character and the actor played my favourite character in The Wire (HBO, what a surprise)

You are a very good actor!

Also putting a smile on my face are new season Walking Dead and Dexter.  Neither of which are HBO but we'll forgive them because they are only a ball hair less awesome than HBO shows.  

The pish weather makes me feel less guilty about watching so much telly.

Lion's Den

If you happen to live/visit the West End of Glasgow (should West and End be in capitals?  Makes it sound more important than it is. Bit like God) then visit Hillhead Bookclub.  It is Hipster central!!  I love this place and I did a twist on hug a hoodie, in my case hug a Hipster.  Of course, I didn't hug anyone.

 In particular, I enjoyed the couple of Glaswegian drunks at the bar who were pissed (being drunks) and staring at the Hipster girls ordering drinks.  Right next to them.  The way they were looking at them was less "hug" and more "bundle into back of Sierra and end up doing a 7 year stretch at Barlinnie".

Worth a visit.

Could have been there.  Wasn't. (That can't be his wrist, surely?)

Cycling home I discovered I have more than 1 gear on my bike.  More proof that I'm definitely not a Hipster. 

You know it's not right

Not going to get all heavy and political and financial on you.....

But

You know things are fucked up when we lend more money to countries/institutions who are bankrupt from excessive debt and will NEVER pay it back.  I don't remember voting for these idiots to spend billions of our country's money on banks and other countries.  It has to stop.

You lend money to someone who can't afford to pay you back- you lose your money.  Why are banks a special case?  It is so simple and yet the politicians are either blind to it or corrupt.

An excellent episode of Max Keiser here with Rossane Barr (remember Rossane on telly?!? I never found it that amusing).  Skip to 13mins 30sec to see what she has to say (however, the stuff before is worth listening to)

I don't fancy her

Okay, I got a little political and heavy on you.

Sorry.

I'm enjoying.

Percy Pigs (Reversy)

Red wine

The West Wing

But most of all....

Portal 2!!

Why didn't I get into this game when it came out I don't know.  Perhaps too much Call of Duty or some other nonsense.  This is one of the best rated games ever.  Now I see why. 

The developing story is fun, the characters that take you through it are great and genuinely funny (not that geeky funny with in-jokes), super slick design, great graphics and some pretty hard puzzles.  It is a puzzle game at the end of the day.  Maybe that is where my resistance lay. I'm so happy I didn't resist.

These are the cutest things ever.  

As the turrets say in their cute voice.......

I'm different