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girlofpreyI went to the cinema yesterday and saw The Wedding Video. I mostly went to see it because it had Lucy Punch in it, and Matt Berry, and I thought Maureen Lipman, but it turned out to be Harriet Walter. She was still very good though. I wasn't really expecting a lot from it, just sort of a bit of British-style farce and then a het closer, but it turned out to be really sweet. In a situation I don't often find sweet. Lucy Punch was great. I LOVE HER. So yeah, I recommend trying it if you just want a sort of gentle romantic comedy. Unless something really dreadful happened in the five minutes when I ran out to the bathroom. I recommend it less if something like that happened.
And on Wednesday, my mum had my YN over for a few hours, so my sister could go out with her other kids and do some things. He didn't seem that impressed to see me when he first arrived, he hid his face in my mum's neck. But eventually we got on a bit better. He's crawling now, and clapping, and he managed to press a big button that makes a noise in one of his books. Apparently he waves too, but when I waved at him he just clapped. Maybe I will see it some other day.
In other news, it's the Bank Holiday weekend, and apparently they're putting everything on the tv. Pretty much everything. The A Touch Of Cloth show people have been talking about for months is on on Sunday and Monday night. A new series of Inspector George Gently is starting on Sunday as well. Unfortunately they're on at the same time, and so is something my dad is taping, The Last Weekend, which to me looks a bit shit, but whatever. We're going to have to do some sort of TV watching gymnastics, I think. We all watch George Gently, so I was pretty happy to record that, let dad watch and record The Last Weekend and watch A Touch Of Cloth in the little bedroom upstairs, and then watch George Gently later with my parents. But the little bedroom doesn't have Sky channels. So it's back to the drawing board. Apparently a soap opera spoof thing (v. popular this Bank Holiday, apparently) which I was interested in is going to be on a bit later on Sunday night as well. It's obviously going to be a busy night.
In other other news, I'm still playing Fallout 3. I did start other games, like Silent Hill: Downpour and Saints Row 3, but unfortunately Downpour turned out to be a bit rubbish (like most other people seem to have said), and Saints Row 3 sort of seems like a self-parody of Saints Row 2, but without any of the things that made it interesting. So pretty much everything's fallen to the wayside but Fallout 3. It's funny, because I've even finished the main storyline and one of the DLCs, but I'm still playing. I really love The Elder Scrolls games, and obviously they're very similar to Fallout 3, but whenever I finish the main quests (and faction quests) of those games I pretty much stop playing them. I think Fallout 3, at least, just does a better job of convincing me that the real story there is out in the Wasteland and that I should explore it, which is not something I generally do in the Elder Scrolls games. I like finding new locations there, but I don't generally explore them for the sake of it. I sort of enjoy just playing Fallout 3 more. Anyway, those are my rambly thoughts on computer games. I'll stop now.
Oh, except that I got an issue of the official Playstation magazine, since I'm so into games now. I would probably have liked to pick a general games magazine more, that wasn't so likely to be biased, but I think it was the only one in the shop. Anyway, they did an article/review of the upcoming Tomb Raider game, you know the one with the sex noises and rape attempts. They feel that "Crystal Dynamics evokes a parental relationship a bit like [non-biological parent and child type characters from another game], replacing the on-screen guardian with your quivering hands". And that this was probably 'what they meant' when they said Lara getting groped would make you root for her like you haven't before.
And it is a bit weird obviously because it's a prequel, and it's about Lara learning her craft (Croft, hah!), so she probably is going to feel a bit more vulnerable than she has in other games. And when people complained that you shouldn't want to protect Lara, you don't with other male game characters, I felt a bit weird because that's exactly how I felt about Isaac in Dead Space. But Dead Space is a pretty extreme example of survival horror in a pretty hopeless situation, and most other computer games aren't like that, and I generally don't feel that way about other game characters. And it does just sort of end up feeling like one of the few ways people/men in general are comfortable with having a competent female character taking the lead in a computer game (or film, or TV show) is if they can reduce her to the level of a child. I don't know. It annoys me. And I don't think computer game makers should be playing into that. I can't tell if it's a step down, a step up, or just a step sideways from just being a sex symbol though.
The magazine did also have an interview with a female game developer though. Which was quite nice :D
I also found a site through Tumblr that does little arty pictures and messages of dogs, cats and miscellaneous. This is indeed a pretty accurate representation of what it's like to own a Weimeraner. In case anyone was wondering.
And on Wednesday, my mum had my YN over for a few hours, so my sister could go out with her other kids and do some things. He didn't seem that impressed to see me when he first arrived, he hid his face in my mum's neck. But eventually we got on a bit better. He's crawling now, and clapping, and he managed to press a big button that makes a noise in one of his books. Apparently he waves too, but when I waved at him he just clapped. Maybe I will see it some other day.
In other news, it's the Bank Holiday weekend, and apparently they're putting everything on the tv. Pretty much everything. The A Touch Of Cloth show people have been talking about for months is on on Sunday and Monday night. A new series of Inspector George Gently is starting on Sunday as well. Unfortunately they're on at the same time, and so is something my dad is taping, The Last Weekend, which to me looks a bit shit, but whatever. We're going to have to do some sort of TV watching gymnastics, I think. We all watch George Gently, so I was pretty happy to record that, let dad watch and record The Last Weekend and watch A Touch Of Cloth in the little bedroom upstairs, and then watch George Gently later with my parents. But the little bedroom doesn't have Sky channels. So it's back to the drawing board. Apparently a soap opera spoof thing (v. popular this Bank Holiday, apparently) which I was interested in is going to be on a bit later on Sunday night as well. It's obviously going to be a busy night.
In other other news, I'm still playing Fallout 3. I did start other games, like Silent Hill: Downpour and Saints Row 3, but unfortunately Downpour turned out to be a bit rubbish (like most other people seem to have said), and Saints Row 3 sort of seems like a self-parody of Saints Row 2, but without any of the things that made it interesting. So pretty much everything's fallen to the wayside but Fallout 3. It's funny, because I've even finished the main storyline and one of the DLCs, but I'm still playing. I really love The Elder Scrolls games, and obviously they're very similar to Fallout 3, but whenever I finish the main quests (and faction quests) of those games I pretty much stop playing them. I think Fallout 3, at least, just does a better job of convincing me that the real story there is out in the Wasteland and that I should explore it, which is not something I generally do in the Elder Scrolls games. I like finding new locations there, but I don't generally explore them for the sake of it. I sort of enjoy just playing Fallout 3 more. Anyway, those are my rambly thoughts on computer games. I'll stop now.
Oh, except that I got an issue of the official Playstation magazine, since I'm so into games now. I would probably have liked to pick a general games magazine more, that wasn't so likely to be biased, but I think it was the only one in the shop. Anyway, they did an article/review of the upcoming Tomb Raider game, you know the one with the sex noises and rape attempts. They feel that "Crystal Dynamics evokes a parental relationship a bit like [non-biological parent and child type characters from another game], replacing the on-screen guardian with your quivering hands". And that this was probably 'what they meant' when they said Lara getting groped would make you root for her like you haven't before.
And it is a bit weird obviously because it's a prequel, and it's about Lara learning her craft (Croft, hah!), so she probably is going to feel a bit more vulnerable than she has in other games. And when people complained that you shouldn't want to protect Lara, you don't with other male game characters, I felt a bit weird because that's exactly how I felt about Isaac in Dead Space. But Dead Space is a pretty extreme example of survival horror in a pretty hopeless situation, and most other computer games aren't like that, and I generally don't feel that way about other game characters. And it does just sort of end up feeling like one of the few ways people/men in general are comfortable with having a competent female character taking the lead in a computer game (or film, or TV show) is if they can reduce her to the level of a child. I don't know. It annoys me. And I don't think computer game makers should be playing into that. I can't tell if it's a step down, a step up, or just a step sideways from just being a sex symbol though.
The magazine did also have an interview with a female game developer though. Which was quite nice :D
I also found a site through Tumblr that does little arty pictures and messages of dogs, cats and miscellaneous. This is indeed a pretty accurate representation of what it's like to own a Weimeraner. In case anyone was wondering.
