Does he have a weirdly shaped mirror in his house that makes his haircut look good?

Liked what they’d done with Shadowrun Returns; backed Shadowrun: Hong Kong; got Shadowrun Hong Kong -on time (or thereabouts), as promised, and they’re busy working on the mini-expansion mission that was promised as a stretch goal.

Good for him! He could grit his jaw and convincingly bark his lines like nobody’s business.

Sullivan Stapleton was in around four seasons of high-concept action nonsense ‘Strike Back’ (which is theme tune twins with the Borderlands games, for fans of pointless facts). Strike Back was terrible, but you have to give Stapleton credit for committing to his dreadful lines.

heavily based on lines from Jonathan Swift, indeed:

The wee kid is ace in this.

But what lives inside them?

I have a soft spot for that film, as its sheer appalling terribleness forced me, trapped on a plane back from Japan having watched most of the entertainment on the flight over, to watch a film about a time travelling cake-making samurai. It was surprisingly good.

/Desperate half-assed suggestion at under-prepared-for brainstorming session

Oh crap, I had genuinely forgotten that film existed and now I’ve been reminded of it too. Sorry!
But no, I actually meant nobody had bothered to special-edition-ify the originals, because the stop motion animation is of its time and has its own charm.

The practical work is always going to look like excellent practical work. The CGI started to date as soon as the edit was committed.

OK, that is a genuinely awesome story.

Just make John C Reilly anything and you’re at least a third of the way to a good movie.

Probably just a cheapskate mackem with a rollie, yep.

Indeed. Not 100% sure he would have been able to slow down before hitting her (possibly got an unbalancing push from that chasing player) but there was a marked lack of checking she was OK before celebrating his touchdown.

Woo yay science! now you know.

The only “some ways” Origin is better than Steam is that I rarely have to use it since I’m not currently playing any games that require it. The best thing that can be said about Origin is it’s not quite as appalling a heap of shite as it used to be, and that it’s better than Games for Windows was (but then being…

Careful now, don’t make them angry. They’ll send some toilet-spiders and drop-bears after you, and probably some deathvoles and devil-bats too.

Not making me pray for the sweet release of death is all I can reasonably ask from Heroes at this point. (Was there really a fourth series?). I’ll put this one into the “cautious optimism” pile - thanks for watching it so I didn’t have to go in blind.