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As expected, this looks like it's been getting some negative reviews

[spoiler]However reading more about it. I might be interested in seeing this, despite all the flaws and other stuff that's keeping down with the other video nasties. I like the premise/plot or whatever is meant to be just the story. Set who is a uncle to Horus (I have fondness for this gods and you would have had to be any of my close friends playing a particular D&D game to realise this....)  steals his All Seeing eye (Sound like great idea for Thunder Cats film. Where Mum-Rah steals Liono's Sword of Omens (Which we all know from that one episode of Family Guy, that parodies the same cartoon and you could quickly guess one of the magical effects of that artefact sword!))

This during a some coronation ceremony and the rest of the film is quest to stop Set from plunging all of Egypt and perhaps the rest of the world into Chaos. When a mortal human thief helps him by using more dumb luck than actual skill and talent by reclaiming his prise possession ( And handing it back to him!) and then there must be some big boss fight at the end.[/spoiler]

I know it looks worse than 300 (& it's sequel...)  Immortals and the Clash of the Titans reboot. [/spoiler], but I'm still curious enough to waste slightly less than 10 dollars minus the jumble sized soft-drink and pop-corn.

There is a huge Slaine reference here. Well, to me there is anyway and that is that the Gods are twice the height of the mortals and I don't know. I'm just getting that human and dwarf reference and the only one of any significance in this film is the thief who looks like he would become Horus's companion for the time being. I'm just guessing thing this, but it's not really going to satisfy my fix. 

So, if this film has started in my neighbourhood, I might see it next week.

[Steam]

Oh...do they like it then. Must be good if they're still playing it. Maybe I should put the money aside for the Steam download next Monday and I was looking at the new Warhammer game as well.

[Far Cry]

Was going to tell you don't know what Your talking about and then thought your talking about one of the current Far Cry games. As this one won't be out until next week....on the first or maybe you were sent a Alpha/Beta.

Your eldest testing the game.

On that subject, this one seems like more like excuse to have a game about pre-historic times. Rather than being part of the Far Cry series and I was thinking of Assassin's Creed early this morning when I left that link and commented and was going to add that it would be if the Animus machine is involved. They just have that same dude, or some new guy or girl enter the machine and go back in time to assume the role of one of their ancestors. Which is kind of fascinating.

Unless their descended from of these....

Or theses...

[trailer]

I found this trailer while looking for the two other new trailers for this game. You can find them on it's store page on Steam easier enough.

My thoughts on the cave dude's reaction to the giant cat about to pounce on him while he's only armed with a small sharpened bone was reminiscent of this scene from Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom when I first saw it in a theatre close to it's opening week.

See here....

He said something totally unexpected at the point when he realised he had no choice but to cut the bridge down and being a Spielberg film, I was used to the lack of swearing or any thing considered too rude to say. Despite the fact that much politeness is just not real anyway. Yet, everybody sitting around me reacted with thunderous guffaw because we thought he was that much cooler and more like our everyday selves and I thought pretty much the same thing when that pre-historic protagonist quietly exclaims....

Seriously.....

And it has some personal meaning to me as well....but I won't go further on that thought here!

Time I got to bed

[Lego-Batman-Song]

You know as soon as I had started to make this new place a home.....e.g. When my cable and internet was both connected I did search for the Lego-Batman-Song.

Because, I felt it was about me a the time I was starting to get comfortable here.

You know the lyrics....

Darkness......No parents......

BTW, I caught the end of Creep Show two, which is wonderfully refreshing after all the modern horror I've seen lately or anything else really.

The last one reminded me of somebody I went to school with. But I won't go into details there.

Easily found on You-Tube as well.

[Winston Zeddemore]

Winston Zeddemore looks spectacular in in this picture.....

Accidently naming both his firearms The Big Twinkie with a paint job that is supposed to merely remind anybody unlucky enough to be that it wears the colours of the well confectionary sponge cake, but that eruption of flame is also reminder that it lacks the essential creamy filling that might complete the deal. yet, I wouldn't try wrapping my mouth around those for bite.

[Java]

Java has been a bit screwy with my machine in the past. It seems to be fixed now, I just downloaded some driver manually. I really know if they wee the right one, but did so anyway.

[Nvidia]

Nvidia demands that I download the latest version of Java before it will scan for my correct drivers....

[The Last Dogma]

Ever since, I installed a game called The Last Dogma. My audio started making buzzing noise (Which I fixed by just moving some wiring around the back of the computer.) and the screen resolution got bigger. So that I had to move the mouse to edge of the screen just to see more of it so I can navigate the entire desktop. All the icons are bigger.

Now I have gone into the screen options menu to adjust the resolution and I've tried nearly everyone, but they all look like a some variation of being too large for my screen and always with bigger icons. I don't need it to be that big and find it almost intolerable. Because of the amount of mouse scrolling I need to do to get around the screen.

I tried several things to fix this including restarting the computer hot and cold by just switching it off and waiting five minutes before switching it on again. I have also tried using the Norton 360 Anti-Virus Software by scanning the entire computer for bugs, hacks, exploits, and then downloading the update, running performance tasks, running the self-diagnostic.

The only thing I haven't tried is a full or partial restore?

You know how some games, adjust the resolution of your desktop while they are running and sometimes I notice this as plain as the nose on my face, but they always reset the resolution to how it was whenever I quit from playing them. This time it's stuck in any resolution that seems too big for the screen and it it's not right that none of the settings resolve this that way I would like it to.

I even checked the other computer, since I had set it up in the same room and it was fine it's set at 1400 by 900. So I did the same thing on this one and it's still not right.

[Reece Pieces]

Even though, I found Reece Pieces hard to find. They do sell these Myer Eight in Brisbane......

So, I brought one to try it out and found it difficult to eat properly. It really did taste like smooth peanut butter being eaten by the spoonful.

What do yah think, how about film cross over with Deadpool and E.T. side by side. You know it wouldn't be totally out of place for him since he likes and plays with a stuffed unicorn.

[M&M's]

TS, you are something else! But you know what, you're not actually wrong about those parallels.

I always thought ET's illness was from being telepathically disconnected from his pals, hence the substitute - but inadequate - bond he forms with Elliot, and his 'resurrection' when the ship is back in range. I don't think Earth itself was having any negative effects. And you're dead right about it being M&Ms in the novel, which I also had never seen, let alone tasted.

Your really missing out if you've never tried M&M's (If your partial to chocolate treats like myself and & just wondered right now if those initials mean anything....!). I don't even recall when was the time I've seen one of those small rectangular box's of Smarties in a long while since the introduction of it's almost indentical confectionary equivalent.

The taste is something my late mother would describe as Moorish. It's got this deep rich flavour where Smarties would just seem less like chocolate and more like the candy colouring of the outer shell. There is also the little white M printed on each and every one of them. A friend of my older brother's from school had some mathematic equation dedicated to them written underneath his mug shot photo when he was in his senior year at school. Cause he was always eating them. It's like a drug.

I never bothered looking for Smarties after M&M's had appeared to take their place and was known to buy them in the largest packets they were displayed in. Pouring them into a bowl to pig out on.

That's just between you and everybody here on this forum who isn't the G.P who diagnosed me with Diabetes back in 2010.

[The Martian]

I have been watching The Martian for the third time (Yet, not fully tuned in the while time...) and once at the movie late last year. Not that I have a problem with the film, it's great on a scientific level even though I not qualified to say that and also on level that appreciates film-makers that don't spray a sugar coating on their own work. It might have been a classic if it was made in the same year as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and it still may be.

It was some time after I first saw this late last year.....I know I was still shopping round for supplies to upgrade my Gandalf costume which I'm still sore over.

As I was writing.....[spoiler] I personally believe this film is the spiritual successor to E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. Bearing in mind a lot of obvious differences between the two films...I'm not even sure -without looking it up- if this one got as many awards as E.T. and stuff like setting, teenagers and their younger sisters and older brothers. Playing any of the earlier versions of Dungeons & Dragons with your older brother's friends & ordering pizza, leaving Reece's Pieces  (I always had the assumption these were really M&M's (And think I may have read this in the novelisation and it was great at that time because of all the references to pop culture of that time!) and then well after the film's 30th anniversary reboot. (Yep, they inserted a scene or two with better computerised effects and swapped guns with wireless phones/walkie-talkies....) I found out he was using Reece Pieces which I could only get by ordering them on line. Which I did and found they taste like drops of peanut butter encased in a chocolate shell that would make you think they might have been M&M's.
Seriously, I think the company said no when if they could use those in the film!) to lure a
weird creature (Never realised until now the irony of how a young teenager used candy to lure a supposedly elderly creature into his house so that he could play with him and I use the word supposedly because E.T. is also known to be a -Child of the Green Planet- because comparatively it's still a child of it's own universe, and then a even way older in comparison to the oldest among human inhabitants of Earth. Which may contradict with some thing I will be writing down below.) he found in your backyard the night before getting drunk by mental telepathy, wearing a mish-mash of Gerty's clothing (This might be the firs t case of alien transvestism, apart from the inside knowledge of have it's really a sentient and intelligent a part reptilian-potato/part monkey of neither sex being part plant and then there are some who might say it really is female!) & learning the local language using a Speak & Spell (Remember those!), Government adversary's, and professional enthusiast known for the sound of jangling keys almost always hanging from his belt, a high school crush, two magical bike rides and a rainbow exhaust trail. There is also stuff about the absence of Elliot's father who had supposedly left his mother for another woman and was now in Mexico. This has lead me to believe that his father was sent from Mexico in that orb-shaped spaceship as a E.T. to spy and to check up on him face to face. Realistically, that's not the best way to do that and on the subject of realism. The majority would not agree realism has no place in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial unless they're Carl Sagan and others like him.

There wasn't any of this in obvious manner, and has the thought of seeing Mark Watney (Matt Damon) in female clothing or wrapped in a white sheet while squashed into the front basket of a bike. Yes, well the latter has crossed my mind a few times. While I only thought of the former right now and thought again of giggling to myself. He also had more tools than the squashy little alien, but I think his psionics almost made up for it. Almost made up for his being surrounded by people would react so badly to seeing him right in front of them unlike Mark who was apparently alone. Maybe the natives were watching him the whole time and just spooking him every now and then like that time it looked as though the weather had broken into his hot-house garden or farm and destroyed it all. ( Not sure if that happened like that, for I wasn't really taking much notice and I don't recall it exactly after the first time!)

Mark did establish contact and was able to communicate with mission control using text after salvaging a probe that only had to be, dug up, moved and plugged in to the solar relay near base camp. While E.T. built it's transmitter from essential parts of electronica, spare parts and other junk and use that get back into contact with it's own people and later on extend his telepathic link with his the crew of the ship that had abandoned him. It was still returning home after all that time and that is rumoured to be at least 8 million light years distance.

E.T. died from being exposed to Earth as a foreign place to him for a extended
amount of time after his crew thought he got caught and severed the telepathic link between them and him. This might have played a bigger role in his temporary dead state. I know this never exactly happened to Mark, but he was presumed dead and lost all the same.

Aside from both building or salvaging communications to help them get back home. They were also both Botanist. In fact E.T. species is very well known for it. It's like a Druid/Alien and also good at obtaining those rare herbs to sooth the mind. (Something I learnt from skimming through the
second novelisation....which I have never read properly, because of how silly & cartoony it became!)
Such a shame as I might have been interested in seeing a sequel and then you learn that's terrible idea no matter how much money could be spare to pump into that notion!) So, is Mark Watney and he even almost proudly exclaims just that infront of the computer terminal's camera.

It's at that moment that the creators of South Park's juvenile humour concerning this actor
in their comedy-spoof on Thunder-Birds. I can almost imagine Robot Chicken now doing another E.T. joke (I know they have done a few already....) where the little alien repeats over & over that "I'm Matt Damon" as if that would explain everything. Even though that would be totally lost on most viewers. We understand!!!! (With head nodding....)

I think I have written everything I wanted to illustrate those parallel between both films and I never really wanted to offend Matt Damon with talk of strange boys using candy to lure him away with them, (Because I just though of that angle when I wrote it!) or Matt & Trey who made him out to be a moron in one of their films and I forget the other thing right now and just want to go to bed.[/spoiler]

I hope this makes sense, because I'm not reading all that.....

My favourite picture....

Yeah, I have mine!. Only one mind you. I figured I order one every month or two until I have enough.

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