Boom! 100 Posts!

And each more pointless than the last.

Leisure time still fatally curtailed at the moment, though have delved far enough into Just Cause to experience the sheer underwhelmedness that most reviews have spoken of. It's not bad, just disappointing because there's so little substance given the potential of the game's mechanics and immense play area (indeed, in the latter respect it suffers from San Andreas syndrome whereby travelling from A to B - especially on mission business - can become an exercise in tedium). It's sandbox for the sake of sandbox, suggesting a laziness in game design when what is needed is a solid core storyline and enough purpose and motivation to the free-roaming element to make things interesting. Of course, this is still a holy grail that no game has quite reached (except perhaps Vice City, which had the network of businesses to tie the map together - something San Andreas foolishly did away with).

Phew. Have also managed to clock a surprising amount of TV. Enough, anyway, to conclude that Heroes is tiresome pomposity extreme, Entourage is more addictive than crack and that, given the cheeriness of the closing shots of Deadwood Season 2, Season 3 is going to be an apocalyptic bloodbath.