I’m a little late writing about the third episode of Stargate Universe.  The reason is basically that I don’t have anything to say about it – neither good nor bad.  I suppose that could be considered a bad thing (that I don’t have anything good to say).

I guess it did have yet another glaring instance of the characters just not thinking again.  The premise of the episode is that the ship runs out of power, drops out of super-hyperspace, and heads toward a solar system.

Minor spoiler ahead…

(more…)

From xkcd, number 651:

This is exactly what bugs me about the TSA’s “security” these days.

I’m watching the second episode of Stargate Universe as I write this.  I’m not exactly excited by it.  Again, I’m going to hide this behind a “read more” link… if you’re not reading this on the front page of my blog, and you don’t want spoilers, stop reading now.

(more…)

I started playing Champions Online over the weekend (curse you, Shamus!) and of course I had to go with a dual-sword-wielding hero.  He does technically have super-strength, but he rarely uses it as a weapon.  Some of you know me as “Heron”; some of you know me as “Heron Blademaster”, and that’s this hero’s name (sorry, no swords in the pictures):

From the front; you can see CO's broken cape physics.

I got these from CO’s website.

From the back

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Sorry, I’m not sure how to get those two to be side-by-side without pasting them together in Paint.  Anyway, I like the design; it’s I-like-killing-things-with-swords without screaming I’m-a-westerner-who-thinks-he’s-a-ninja.

I played through nineteen levels without having to grind (that’s a good thing) and without being required to join a group just to progress (which happened at level 13 with Lord of the Rings: Online, and is also the reason I stopped playing LotRO).  I found that I shared Shamus’ experience in Snake Gulch, though, which means I got frustrated and started a new character.  (I’ll go back to Heron Blademaster in a while.)

Champions Online is a good break from the completely-serious sort of atmosphere of WoW or LotRO; it’s also a good MMO for super-hero fans who like playing alone (like me) because they can’t be bothered to sit there trying to get a group of people together for an hour so they can go spend fifteen minutes killing some guy hiding in a sewer.

The other day I mentioned Linkin Park’s Leave Out All the Rest being the closing credits song in the Twilight movie.

The DVD also contained a recording of a live performance of that song.  Turns out, Linkin Park sucks at singing.  The lead singer can’t stay on key.  He ended the song on the wrong note.  There isn’t much he could do to make me more disappointed in the band.

I’m brewing another Linkin Park-related post in the back of my head that I’ll write in the next day or two.