Arrrggh, no, give ME the budget of 100 plus million

Why, why, WHY have they set War of the Worlds in modern day America? This is almost at 'Ford Prefect is to be played by Mos Def' levels of potential badness. If the end of the film is something along the lines of Tom Cruise uploading a virus to the mothership with his laptop while quipping "you messed with the wrong planet, you Martian motherfuckers", there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

In other news, contrary to what you might have heard, or to Internet scuttlebut you may have read, the end of Halo 2 is not annoying. It is in fact super annoying.

Blatant 'and now you'll wait years for the sequel you bitches, take it, ahahahahaaaa!' endings are bad enough tacked onto movies, (with the possible exception of the Back to the Future trilogy) but for whatever reason they're that much worse on games. Probably because you want some reward for your hours of effort that is more satisfying than a big old 'to be continued, much later, when we feel like it' kind of effect. Having read about the disappointing cliffhanger nature of the game ending beforehand, I was nonetheless still extremely surprised at the point that the game just up and stopped.

Oh well. Good game anyway, and at least in staying up to finish it off I've proved that despite having turned 27 I can still childishly deprive myself of much-needed sleep in order to play video games. I may be getting hassled (a surprising amount, I must say) for falling asleep (for 15 minutes, mind you) at the party on Friday, (a good one. Cheers to all for their presents and presence. Incriminating photos to follow, if I can find somewhere to host them on the net) but where are my detractors at the time of writing? In bed, every single one of you. And I have to go to work in 4 and a half hours, too. So there.

Hmmm. So there and damn.

Possibly back soon. I could be making this up. I sometimes do, you know.