Warnings

Bought a wireless keyboard and mouse so I can pump the laptop through the big TV and have a huge monitor.  Guild Wars looks lovely but who gives a shit about that except me.

The more interesting thing was the warning on the little plastic bag the keyboard was in.  Let me show you, beloved reader-

The funniest thing I've seen today

What I've been warned about is-

1) Don't let your baby crawl about with this bag on its head while you sit and watch

2) Don't put this bag on your head, choke yourself (and I'm assuming masturbate furiously)

So, 1 is aimed at shit parents and 2 aimed at Tory MPs.  

Logitech, you are a funny company.

Anime and Star Wars Mash

This thing is a work in progress and I can't wait to see the final version.  Looks like it leans quite far to the Dark Side.  Suits me just fine.  Poor rebels, they just don't have cool uniforms and, as such, I'll need to hate on them.

Hoping there is a Jar Jar Binks and Ewok torture scene in the final version.  No doubt, I'll be sorely disappointed.

Enjoy

Judged Awesome

Yes, you know what I'm talking about.  Dredd 3D.  (Fruity language alert).  It is fucking brilliant.

Not in a long time has a film let me walk out of the hall buzzing.  Everything about it was electrifying.  The 3D special effects, the banging sound track and the brutal violence.  This is not your normal Hollywood cop-out to a comic book hero.  This is how it is meant to be.  The first 18-cert film in a 2 years.

If you are a non hipster, middle age guy (girl) who knew 2000 AD as they grew up in the 80s then you will adore this as an adult.  It is apocalyptic, brutal, sexy and everything that is base in you that you daren't admit.    You'll love and hate Ma-Ma as much as you do Dredd.  You'll do it to Drum and Bass.

Just go see it.  Show these people we don't need washed down, sanitised, perfectly packaged, happy ending, taste a little bit of sick in our films.

You are numbed by modern day TV and film.  Go see this and take a cold shower.  You'll come out the same as I did, refreshed and grinning from ear to ear.

Then spread the word.

Guild Wars 2!

Never mind about all this boring plane talk.  Onto important things- computer games!!  With some extra time on my hands it seemed the natural thing to do and go buy a game.  I chose Guild Wars 2.  I played the first one a few years ago and enjoyed it but it was a bit restrictive and you were forced down a narrow path of the story line.  Not so with GW2, it is very sand-boxy.  This is a good thing.

The makers have done a good job in getting away from the usual boring aspects of MMORPG of grinding, doing the same thing over and over to get experience points.  Things that get serious XP are good fun, set pieces that pop up, story line and other missions that are marked on the map.

Graphics are great and plenty of people on the servers to help out.  I tend to wander into areas that are too difficult but always some friendly soul will resurrect my broken, pathetic corpse.  Repeatedly.  I run out of ways of saying "thank you".  Talking of dying, not tried the PvP side of things so can't comment on it, although it is meant to be pretty good.

I can recommend the game.  Takes the genre forward in a good direction, has been well crafted and is just good fun.  Kinda what a game should be, don't you think?

If you're on, come look me up.  I'm on the Gunnar's Hold and I'm called Tricky Man.  Yes, I installed it in the evening when all sense of imagination had abandoned me.

And fashion sense.