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erastes You know when you've been spending too much of your vacation playing Splinter Cell Double Agent when:
You notice a CCTV camera and your brain kicks into gear trying to work out how to get past it without being seen or triggering an alarm or how you would disable it.
When it starts to get dark and you hit the side of your head for Night Vision/Heat Vision/EMP Vision and nothing happens.
When you find yourself never walking on the sunny side of the street.
You see someone a long way away and regret you don't have some zoom binoculars or a sniper rifle sight
You see a pipe on the ceiling and wonder if you could hand to hand to the end of it.
You see a first aid kit and wonder why it's only got plasters and bandages in it, instead of some miracle drink that cures gunshot wounds.
When you see someone you want to avoid there's never a handy locker, dark corner or crate to hide in.
When you confront a closed door you feel in your pocket for an optic cable so you can see who's in the room beyond.
When you know someone is lying to you, and it's so bloody tempting to get around behind him and throttle them until they tell you the truth.
You see two people in a huddle having a "secret meeting" and you long for a sticky camera or a telescopic microphone.
When you just WANT a sniper rifle. For everyday use.
Oh and OMG a new Splinter Cell game on the horizon. I admit freely that SC has stolen my affections from the Metal Gear series. Snake Eater was too bloody HARD, even on Easy - the boss fights were impossible, and I never found the sniper rifle in the very first section no matter how much I quartered about looking for it. Splinter Cell is the game that I hoped Metal Gear would be - plus of course they are coming out regularly whereas it's what? 3 years since Snake Eater? More? I don't even know if Patriots is coming out on the PS2. I very much doubt it.
And I've just been looking at this thread (which is out of date and this is pre-DH) and it's quite true. If Felix Felicis was so successful for Harry (and Ginny seemingly as all her attackers missed her) why did Hermione have such bad luck? Perhaps she didn't take it?
And I've updated the M/M Historical Fiction List.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gehayi kindly put it into alphabetical order for me, and I've begun to link to reviews done and the Amazon links where available. If you've done a review of any of the books that don't have a review please give me the link and I'll put it up there. It gets one of the highest hit rates on the site, so word must be getting around. A lady called Brandy Purdy emailed me today saying that she'd written "A Confession of Piers Gaveston" which I have duly added to the list - has anyone read it?
You notice a CCTV camera and your brain kicks into gear trying to work out how to get past it without being seen or triggering an alarm or how you would disable it.
When it starts to get dark and you hit the side of your head for Night Vision/Heat Vision/EMP Vision and nothing happens.
When you find yourself never walking on the sunny side of the street.
You see someone a long way away and regret you don't have some zoom binoculars or a sniper rifle sight
You see a pipe on the ceiling and wonder if you could hand to hand to the end of it.
You see a first aid kit and wonder why it's only got plasters and bandages in it, instead of some miracle drink that cures gunshot wounds.
When you see someone you want to avoid there's never a handy locker, dark corner or crate to hide in.
When you confront a closed door you feel in your pocket for an optic cable so you can see who's in the room beyond.
When you know someone is lying to you, and it's so bloody tempting to get around behind him and throttle them until they tell you the truth.
You see two people in a huddle having a "secret meeting" and you long for a sticky camera or a telescopic microphone.
When you just WANT a sniper rifle. For everyday use.
Oh and OMG a new Splinter Cell game on the horizon. I admit freely that SC has stolen my affections from the Metal Gear series. Snake Eater was too bloody HARD, even on Easy - the boss fights were impossible, and I never found the sniper rifle in the very first section no matter how much I quartered about looking for it. Splinter Cell is the game that I hoped Metal Gear would be - plus of course they are coming out regularly whereas it's what? 3 years since Snake Eater? More? I don't even know if Patriots is coming out on the PS2. I very much doubt it.
And I've just been looking at this thread (which is out of date and this is pre-DH) and it's quite true. If Felix Felicis was so successful for Harry (and Ginny seemingly as all her attackers missed her) why did Hermione have such bad luck? Perhaps she didn't take it?
And I've updated the M/M Historical Fiction List.
gehayi kindly put it into alphabetical order for me, and I've begun to link to reviews done and the Amazon links where available. If you've done a review of any of the books that don't have a review please give me the link and I'll put it up there. It gets one of the highest hit rates on the site, so word must be getting around. A lady called Brandy Purdy emailed me today saying that she'd written "A Confession of Piers Gaveston" which I have duly added to the list - has anyone read it?
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Thank you ...
Date: 2007-08-07 12:54 pm (UTC)Fellow Travellers (Spanish Civil War/UK 1930s) TC Worsley
Full Circle (WWII RAF) Mike Seabrook
Hollywood's Silent Closet (1920s Hollywood) Darwin Porter (baaad, but amusing!)
The Buccaneer (Pirates!) MS Hunter
The Long Afternoon (WWI, England and Europe) Ursula Zilinsky (m/m and m/f)
Walk the Night (WWII Concentration Camps) Richard C. Reinhart (just got this so no idea if it's any good but doubtless harrowing)
EBOOK
Of this World and the Other (early 1800s US/London) John Coriolan (not read this but thought the riverboat connexion might be of interest - see http://www.johncoriolan.com/world.html)
Djebrin
Re: Thank you ...
Date: 2007-08-07 07:03 pm (UTC)*glomps you*