January 2016 – Page 8

OK, I got a question on this Destiny: The Taken King Xbox 360 edition.

So, I have hooked up the Xbox 360 downstairs so that the kids can go play them some LEGO Dimensions*, and I went to go look up to see if Destiny: The Taken King was available on the 360. Turns out it is. Three questions, for those who have played it:

I have a 360 with a couple of hundred gigs of space on the hard drive. Will it run the game properly?
I don’t particularly give a cr*p if it was a complete ripoff the way they changed the content, man, because I wasn’t there for any of that and the game’s only twenty four bucks at this point. Also: nobody’s playing this game but me, and we only have the one Xbox. Are there any other things about the game that I should know about?
This game doesn’t suck, right?

Continue reading OK, I got a question on this Destiny: The Taken King Xbox 360 edition.

Book of the Week: The Invisible Library (cc @GenevieveCogman).

Blipping well TOOK the Post Office long enough to get me Genevieve Cogman’s first novel The Invisible Library; mind you, I had to special-order the sucker from England. You would think that, in these halcyon days of digital inter-connectivity, we could dispense with the ridiculous notion that the British and American editions of a book cannot be published simultaneously. You would be wrong. Continue reading Book of the Week: The Invisible Library (cc @GenevieveCogman).

Tweet of the Day, It’s Not Entirely Bleak And Awful Out There edition.

Pretty bleak and awful? Sure. Even extremely. But people will persist in performing what Eric Flint calls ‘stubborn little decencies’ in order to spite Evil.

https://twitter.com/laurakfillault/status/690553387893452800

Yazidi fighter raising a cross on a destroyed Assyrian church in Shingal city – @EzidiPress https://t.co/8LKSfpDbfp… pic.twitter.com/AQGIozqzKY

— Conflict News (@Conflicts) January 22, 2016

‘Alive.’

Alive, Pearl Jam

Ah, it’s been a long day.

I’m declaring weekend rules because of the snow. Which may be hitting two feet, so good thing I went and got those cold cuts, hey? Sub sandwiches all weekend…

Topic for discussion: the Beatles, and protest music.

IF you agree with the position that the Beatles represented a major transformation in popular music when they appeared on the scene, and IF you also accept the argument that rock and folk replaced jazz and blues as the music most commonly associated with disaffection and dissent, then: what would have Woodstock sounded like, absent the existence and career of the Beatles? Would have it been a jazz/blues-centric event? Would have it been less white? Less focused on Vietnam?

Somebody should write a story on that. Somebody who knows the time period and musical genres better than I do, mind.

Moe Lane

PS: Sorry. I just wonder about this scenario every time I listen to this song. Which is fairly often.

Compared To What, Roberta Flack

Remember: Annual DC Right to Life March tomorrow.

Right in the middle of a blizzard, mind you. You will not be surprised to hear that certain sites are gloating over the thought of pro-lifers braving a major storm in order to march. I decline to link to those sites, for much the same reason why I do not link to hardcore porn fetish sites. Actually, that’s not correct: they are hardcore porn fetish sites, really. You almost have to feel pity…

My RedState post on El Chapo and Fast & Furious.

Found here. Short version: they found a Fast & Furious gun in El Chapo’s personal stash. So, basically, the feds more or less utterly f*cked the whole thing up from top to bottom, then gave it a spin so that the failure would be nice and evenly spread.

I wish that I had written this.

I rarely say that, but in this case it’s justified, because this article is really quite good: “Whatever happened to television’s most famous couples?” …Click through, and keep reading. No, seriously: KEEP READING. I was most entertained.

Via

https://twitter.com/publicroad/status/690300516103000066

My RedState post on CNN town halls.

Found here. Short version: the Democrats are gonna suddenly cram in another town hall. Why? Well, to quote myself: “The Democratic party Establishment does not want to run a white, old, socialist-loving ideologue… but they want to run Bernie Sanders even less.”