Victory

The day is ours, comrades!
Pub quiz again, and we busted that joint like Ronald Reagan. The night was busy and the questions were hard, and with previous losses of half a point and one and a half points, to win with a two and a half point lead was quite pleasing. Ended up walking away with £6.25 in loot, that's £50 divided between eight party people.
Nice to finally win, as so many people will be leaving for university soon these events over the next couple of weeks will be the last time I see many of them, possibly forever. So I've gotta make the most of the willing ones while I can.

Taking a step back, I watched Rocky last night and actually quite liked it this time through, I don't know if I liked it enough to keep me going through the reputedly poorer sequels but I definitely enjoyed it. I think the training and final fight could have gone into more depth, but from what I've seen of the other films it looks like they're got that covered.

I also played the demo for World in Conflict and absolutely loved it. In the campaign you take control of a small force playing only one part in a larger battle, which I find much more enjoyable than the usual theme of controlling all the allied forces on the entire battlefield. The multiplayer looks to be really unique with the ability to join a game already in progress and choose to be either an infantry, armor, air or support commander, changing which units are available to you. It also has a very useful friends list and clan system, both of which are all too often overlooked in real-time strategy games.
I'm really looking forward to the full version of this game, and especially getting behind the soviet war machine online.

Reading about World in Conflict lead me to discover the film Red Dawn, which serves as inspiration for the game. Featuring Patrick Swayze (boo), Charlie Sheen (yay!), Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey (cool), it basically turned out to be a wannabe freedom fighter's day dream with loads of guerrilla warfare and communist oppression, so obviously I'm going to absolutely love it.

Today sees the release of the New Zealand stage of the WRC. The first day was awesome, displaying the brilliant NZ courses to have beautifully smoothly winding dirt roads, absolutely ideal for drifting all the way through, combined with the famously stunning NZ countryside it's really fun to watch. And now that I know the names of Gronholm, Loeb and Hirvonen, it's much more interesting to get into, knowing the different drivers styles, records and personalities really adds that all important depth to any sport.