I’ve been looking at this game for a while. I didn’t get into the beta, and I didn’t want to preorder to get in the open beta a few weeks back. I picked it up yesterday after reading about it pretty much non stop for the last month.
It’s beautiful, the game play is smooth as can be expected on opening week. The quests are short and varied. The main story is interesting, I need to see it from both sides. So far, it’s been a fun 2 days of playing.
I really don’t want to give anything away on this movie, it was a brilliant survival horror/sci fi film and I definitely think it’s full of win. Earth is dying due to over population and an ark ship is sent to populate a new planet. The journey is to take 120 years, and the crews and general population alternate shifts in cryogenic stasis. The action starts when one of the flight crew for team 5 wakes up to an apparently dead ship, there are power spikes that are happening at intervals, but there is no way of knowing what is going on. Compiling the problem is that he has been in the sleep state for longer than plan which can of course, cause temporary memory loss.
He manages to revive a second member of his team, the third is missing and they begin trying to piece together what is happening on board the ship.
The film runs a little short of two hours, and honestly, there’s not a slow spot in the story. As the survivors run across each other, the back story starts to unfold. I had seen the preview, but hadn’t looked into the story at all on this one, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. The baddies are very well done, and I have to say I had dreams about being chased around a hospital where the doors only stayed locked for 15 minutes all night, so yes, I highly recommend this one. 
Stuff disappears around here. Most of the time I chalk it up to us being a cluttered household of scatterbrained geeks. Every now and then things seriously go missing. I once found my car keys stuck in a small gap on the back of the piano. I don’t make a habit of putting my keys there, they normally go on the hall table. The way they were stuck they would have had to slide under a lip from the top, so odd but I guess it was possible.
Last night was slacker night, breakfast for dinner. I whipped up some french toast and the kid opened the fridge to get the syrup. He started muttering that he couldn’t find it, I knew there was half a bottle there, so I bopped him on the head and went for the shelf on the door where it always stays. Not there. Ok, so let’s move some stuff around, pull things out, no syrup. I had the kid go back through it again because I knew we hadn’t finished off a bottle because that would have entailed rinsing it out for recycling. We both opted for a bit of honey because there was no other option.
You know where this is going. I opened the fridge this morning, and dead on center on the bottom shelf with nothing around it. The fucking bottle of syrup. Fucking faeries!
We’ve gone into slow down mode, school and work are getting the routines started up again, and we’re doing a bit more of the networking groups locally; so time has been short. That combined with the fact that I’m going through a writing slump and can’t be bothered to string more than 2 words together most days, it’s making posting a bit of a chore.
I still haven’t fully gotten over the pinched nerve which is keeping the knitting at a minimum. It’s probably the act itself that is keeping this lingering around longer than it should.
So rather than writing, I shall share music yet again. I wanted to put this one out there because the video is a stunning bit of work and I think the subject matter of the song hits home with most of us lately.
Pictures are here
Videos are here
I’m going back to bed now. We’ve decided to start the fund for next year today, parking was excessive, and when buying a bunch of stuff driving down there is very convenient, because you can run out and throw stuff in the car. I think next year we’re thinking about getting a room for at least 2 nights just so we can have a place to take a break during the day. All in all it was much fun. We got to see a lot, but there were some people that we missed due to bad timing all around.