Yes, just hanging out with characters must be relaxing, much more civilised than slaughtering and erm... quest-ing.
Maybe Pippin saw you re-doing the flat and got ideas of her own? Not much you can do with a hamster cage. Poo, sleep, eat... she got creative. 
Especially if they look like Hanzo... or McCree...
Maybe so. She's running about in her ball right now. 
Getting plenty of exercise.
Eye candy? 
Pippin's been inspired by the Olympics, obviously. I watched Andy Murray win the gold last night, he was great, kept a cool head.
Oh yes... but apparently the young girls of the internet prefer Junkrat. Positives of that; It's nice to see young girls attracted to an amputee without it being an issue. Negatives; He's a nasty, anti-Omnic racist. (I am very much for Omnic rights.)
Tempted to link pics. There's a video for Hanzo which is gorgeous... I wish Hanamura was real...
Olympics + tennis = my nightmare. Only olympics thing I was happy with was Fiji in the rugby 7s. Having to explain to people that when it comes to rugby 7s Fiji aren't a wee team. Also, Leone Nakarawa has a gold medal, I have a pride.
Thanks for the vid. Wow, it's more beautiful than I was expecting... I suppose artists and designers go into gaming production now? 
Blizzard have people for everything. Their cinematics have gotten so much better in recent years... Watching the Icecrown Citadel one after Warlords of Draenor is painful... the jump in quality between then and now is massive. We'd like them to do full length animated movies, they have the skill, but the costs would be astronomical.
Doesn't look that good in game of course... (especially if you have to play on low graphic quality... but there's nice little touches... that second arrow {shot at Genji, not the goons.} is still in the floor.) I still love competing in that area, Tibet is gorgeous too.
Yes, beautiful quality. Oh Lordy... 
I'm old enough to remember Pong 
I remember seeing it first on the ferry over to Liverpool. There was an audience round it, gobsmacked 
[ That escalating bip - bop - bip ... it was scary, maaaan].
Ooh. That is kind of impressive.
I get a little eep when people call the playstation retro gaming... and I'm like "no. Dude. I had one in my twenties... oh crap..."
Boat on the Clyde constantly booming right now. All I can hear is DOOM-DOOM-DOOM-DOOM. It is not pleasant.
Yeah, I don't have fantastic early childhood recall, but remember that. Probably mid-late 70's? My standout cultural memory was the day Elvis died, when I was six. We came in from playing + Instead of the TV test card, there was a photo of him with his music over it. It was just incredible, like God dying. That's the first death I can remember.
What were your earliest memories Hitch ? *prepares to feel like Methuselah*
Doom boats of the Clyde!!! Sometimes you hear boats here, but its a nice evocative distant foghorn. Maawwwhhhp.
Earliest memories... Mainly being carried swiftly past the large animatronic at the entrance to the Jolly Giant's, because it terrified me. I'm still bothered by robots and such like today. It's why I can't play Zenyatta on Overwatch, even if I am pro-Omnic rights. That said, Blizzard released another animated short yesterday. It's about Bastion, who is a different kind of Omnic... I pretty much cried the whole way through... From the first sighting of Ganymede the bird until sometime after it had finished. And now I have thought about it, and I am sad again.
I'm very close to the river. Also, shipyards. Boats are louder here. Although, in the 80s at night if you couldn't sleep... you could hear the distant rumbling of the trains in Jordanhill. Not anymore mind. Trains are all quiet now. 
You're really into this stuffs - it's great when something makes you cry, in a good heartfelt way.
Oooh, does where you live have a historic feel to it? Has it been gentrified at all? Belfast's docks / shipyards were re-branded as The Titanic Quarter. So craven 
.... mind you brings in tourist business.
I live in the "Maritime Quarter" ... at least that's what it said on the Estate Agent's property details Haven't heard it called that since. Its an old shipping offices though... hence no number 13 in the building out of superstition. I love that.
Not historic or gentrified, no. Just near enough the river. There's a weird class divide in my area. The main road splits it (and the neighbouring area) between the "streets" and the "avenues". My side, the street side, is all tenements and industrial (closer to the river). The other side, the avenues, is all cottage housing, the bigger park and the sports complex. Official channels (schools... kids from that side get away with more in that school over that side. That side's non-denom school, this side's RC... technically.) tend to treat people in the avenues better than our side. The best example I have of this is... have you ever watched antiques shows on the BBC? Occasionally, they have an auction in Anita Manning's auctioneers. This building is on our side of the main road, but the always film exterior shots in a way that's there's no trace of tenement... It's literally right next to one.
Ok. No more ranting. How's your weekend been? I went to a con yesterday and met Al Snow. Al Snow was my favourite wrestler in the 90s, am still a little giddy.
*runs about your building hiding 13s everywhere*
Not at all ! Interesting bit of urban sociology, or is it anthroplogy. Anyways, fascinating.
I grew up in a place like that. Stranmillis has a posh bit [ avenues ] and a streets bit [ council houses, where we lived]. There was a snob I went to school with, from the posh bit, and she would always say, pointedly, "your street". I would say, "actually, its Stranmillis Park" in a wounded Lady Muck type of way. Wish I'd had the confidence back then to tear a strip off her, like I would now.
Flashback ending... 
... and we're back in the room
Nice one meeting Al Snow. What was he like?
I'm ok-ish ta. Was a fairly stressed, but did 7 hrs on the treadmill, Sat + Sun consecutively. Feeling better and kind of proud of myself.
Al Snow was great. Like bit more awkward talking to him than Hacksaw last year. Might be because I used to have a crush on him in the 90s and started talking about how he a girlfriend called Colette when he was younger. Couldn't we just talk about Head? She was sitting right there! Great panel too. I don't know if you know who Grado is? (He was in River City... Scottish wrestler.) Al just teased him through out. It was great.
7 hours on the treadmill? That's Biggest Loser epic stuff... You got the Commando shouting at you to move or something?
Bit clueless about wrestling sorry They say you should never meet your heroes... probably less so if you fancy the pants off them? 
Thanks, its only a walking treadmill but an uphill setting. The counselling e-chat sessions I was having.... the "counsellor" said something to upset me. I tend to pace up and down when stressed.... so figured I'd channel that energy.
Also I had much stuffs to buy for Owen's birthday. My laptop rests on a platform over the handlebars... got so transfixed by Amazon browsing I forgot the time. Had some young peeps radio 1 music blasting in my headphones, that helps too.
My wrestling knowledge sort of drops of ten years ago... dipping in every-so-often see what's going on.
Was this a "I can see what they might mean, but it hurts." upset or a "they were just a meanie" upset?
What would we do with radios and internets? I'd probably go off and cry somewhere...
It was about suicide. Y'know... enough said. Honestly I think I'm cursed when it comes to counsellors.
Still... Autumn's coming up... nights drawing in... candles to be lit, spooky things to see.
Oh I must tell you... Owen only has a token front garden, and wee terrace back garden, what would it be, maybe 14 X 12 feet? I just bought him three fruit trees in pots - apple, pear, damson. He'll fit them in somewhere hopefully, otherwise he'll have to go guerrilla gardening
Here's one:
Oh... *glares at counsellor* You going to be ok continuing with them?
Spooky is here! As is Bake Off!
Ohh! Trees are good. *fingers crossed they fit*
Nuh-uh 
Not on your nelly. There was only one session left of eight anyway. At least it was free [ as an Irish based service it was free for anyone Irish but living in the UK ].
Got some nice pressies for Owen in the RSPB shop
http://shopping.rspb.org.uk/bi...y-window-feeder.html
and this http://shopping.rspb.org.uk/bi...g-buggy-nibbles.html
I'd get a window feeder, only it's just seagulls pigeons and magpies round here Seen any more of your nesting starlings?
Nah.. the gulls are right above my head. Would be risky for anything else to come near.
Nice gifts.
Two days? Eep!
Ah yes... I remember a certain decapitation anecdote Mind you, I feed the ones here. Its a good way to get rid of fat scraps. I throw them on to a sliding tin roof thing. The gulls grab the food while galloping and sliding down it wheeeeeeeee.... Its a Knockout for birds
That sounds fun... my roof's a little high though. I accidentally hit a magpie with a bin bag during the week. Normally crows I hit.. branching out.
I saw baby coots today. Little late, but they were very noisy.
You hit a magpie with a bin bag 
How is that possible You've seen my sliding gulls and raised me !
Baby coots, how lovely In your local park was this?
It was in the bin. Put the lid up when I'm on the brock, so I can chuck the bags in without having to touch it. Magpie was in eating waste from an earlier bag... it then got a fright...
Local park indeed. Little late in the year, I think... There's a video on my facebook, they squeak! Squeak!
Sliding gulls are epic though.
Yes, it does seem a bit late. Do baby coots really squeak?
They are the squeakiest!
Cuuuuuuuuuuuute. Is it a nice park? Must be nice in Autumn.
It is. *nods* Quite a famous park, it used to be a quarry... but when they found fossilised trees they built a pavilion around them... and then a park. It's Victoria Park (including the Fossil Grove).
What a cool thing to have in your local park.That and the coots
Indeed. I really appreciate it.
Owen sent me some snaps of his garden including this bumblebee on a dahlia - isn't it brilliant?
Below, those are bee mites between its wings. I saw it in zoom... shivvvvver ....euggghhh
Gorgeous... if we ignore the mites. There was a bee disaster in America because of the zika spraying.
Yes, so sad that, especially as colonies were declining anyway.
*tries to save all the bees*
*remembers she find insects icky*
*tries to save bees from a distance*
Hello. Thought you might like this article about CBT and cartoons. A lot of people saying the song in it helps them... and it's just an ace song on it's own. It's a good cartoon.
Aw thanks a million Hitch That's really interesting 
It's actually a great way to explain MCBT [ Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy ] something I've tried to do on kindle and audiobook, but found way too complicated and brain-befuddling.
Cartoon it's from is very good at explaining things to kids... and deals more maturely with with themes than most grown-up shows. *nods*
Hi there, thought this might be of interest,
BBC 4 @ 8 pm tonight - The Brecon Beacons, with Iolo Williams.
I couldn't even see her posts the other day... Has anything happened on another thread?
I did feel things were getting a bit quieter on this thread. And I'm not good at drawing people out, so I hope I haven't driven her off with my rambling.#
Fingers crossed things are ok. I'll let you know if she gets back to me.
