Just tried the pint of "Bailey's and Bourbon"-flavoured ice cream I bought from Udders. Much softer than I expected. Other brands on ice cream feel rock hard when I dig into it with my spoon but this time, it goes in much more easily. Taste-wise I've already tasted it before on the evening I bought it, when the person handling the ice cream advised that I try the ice cream before I buy it.
Lucky for me that I did because the first flavour I tried, Amaretto Black, had a very strong alcohol taste. Bailey's and Bourbon, like it says on the website, is bound to please. It tastes mostly like Bailey's Irish Cream and who doesn't like Bailey's? I have never tasted bourbon so I can't tell how strongly it tastes.
Playing Business Tycoon Online, a text-based virtual-money-making MMO. It's like Utopia but more complex and is about capitalism rather than war. Then again, economic warfare is a kind of war too. Interesting, to a point. No matter how much better it is compared to Utopia, the last game of this sort I've played, it's still a text-based game.
IMO the most outstanding feature of this game is the fact that players are given the option to buy 99,990 Gold for US$9,999, with a bonus package of ingame items that's supposedly worth another $9,999 plus an extra 35,000 Gold.
If I had 10k USD that I'm willing to waste on a text game, I wouldn't be playing this game.
Also playing Open-TTD, which stands for Open- Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Basically some guy remade this game on his own and is letting everyone play for free. Okay, I don't know if it's some guy or some guys but nevertheless it's nice free single-player game.
If you like games like Railroad Tycoon or CEO, you will like this.
In this game, players are able to build an empire of buses, ships, trains and planes. I named them in order of their profitability. One can have all four or just specialise in one. There isn't much difference between them other than their costs, except for ships which only work on water.
I started this game with buses. They're cheap and easy to plan. Roads are readily available in most towns and cities so I just needed to connect them to create an effective bus network. But I can never seem to master lorries. Lorries carry all sorts of non-human cargo while buses carry people. Most of my lorry networks make losses and those few that are profitably don't make much.
I've never dealt with ships much. They're slow and there aren't many places where they can be used. If I wanted to connect something just slightly further from the coast using ships, I have to spend lots of money to make canals and stuff, which is troublesome. However, it is again easy to profit when you transport people.
Trains were the second form of transport I experimented with. It's like a large-scale version of buses but requiring extra efforts due to the need for rails. Roads don't affect town growth but diagonally-built rails do. On the other hand, once you have a rail network you can transport much more cargo and people faster. That is, until the factory you're sending cargo to close down suddenly even though you've been supplying them with everything they need. I've had that happen quite a lot of times and they really piss me off since rail networks and train routes take time to design.
Planes are my favourite of the four. They're fast and large airports can have two or even three cities/towns under their area of influence. Best of all, they make the biggest profits per plane. The downside is that they are the most expensive, each plane only carries a single cargo type and players are limited to only 200 planes.
I've downloaded a few AIs to play with but I probably suck because a few of them actually beat me in the two games I have them activated.
Just finished the Genesis of Shannara trilogy. It's what I expected - excellent work but nothing that would give the reader that impact that some other series have. The most outstanding quality I think the Shannara series has is its consistency - it's always very good but not fantastic.
Been watching a few films.
The 2009 Star Trek movie lived up to its name. Never been a fan of this franchise but after all the things I've heard about it throughout my life, I did have certain expectations before I watched it. It probably helped that I've never seen a single episode or film of Star Trek before so that I did not have overly high standards like most Star Craft players will have for SC2.
Anyway it's a good film, exactly what I expected from Hollywood. Exciting, attention-grabbing, shallow, lots of explosions.
Inglourious Basterds is another nice film I've recently seen. Probably the best movie ever for anyone who still feels anything for the Jewish people who died in WWII. I know I don't, ever since I realized Hitler's attempt at genocide was not the first nor the worst. Heck, it isn't even the most recent one now.
Surprisingly, the biggest names in the cast did not dominate the film as much as the Landa guy. In fact I felt that the story was mostly about the villain more than anyone else, probably because of the way he stood out much more than everyone else. Just days after watching, he's the guy I can recall the most clearly from the whole movie.
Anyway I thought it was just like Star Trek but on a lesser scale and different genre, in that I can probably use the same words from above to describe this film.
The Secret In Their Eyes, or El Secreto de sus Ojos, was the last film I watched. It's the sort of movie that I have not encountered in a long time. I feel that the biggest difference between it and most movies I've watched is that it agrees with the view that the life sentence is a more cruel punishment than the death penalty.
Another major difference is that absence of sex. I've grown so used to all those Hollywood and British film always containing sex scenes that right when the credits began scrolling at the end of this movie, I asked myself,"Where's the gratuitous sex scene?"
So alright, there was sex at the beginning. But that rape scene that was the reason for the entire film, unlike those common in today's movies where they just suddenly kiss each other and clothes start dropping. Out of nowhere, love seem to always spark between the male lead and the girl he's working with. It's like, why can't they ever just remain platonic friends???
It has always been so obvious that those sex and nude scenes were completely unnecessary, like why do they always want to show the girl crying or thinking in the showers? She could easily do the same in the rest of the time when she's nowhere close to the bathroom.
Anyway, so there were some nudity in this film but they were all necessary. I think there were only two scenes containing that and the first has been described. The other was when the rapist showed his true colours.
I'm no artistic person but I thought it was unique that much of this movie had to do with their eyes. I'm sure the actors really put in effort to make their eyes speak volumes.
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