J.T.

So Michelle Yeoh is getting her freak on with Will Yun Lee this season on Strike Back as the co-antagonists. YES~!

This is exactly what I did. Small car FTW.

To my dismay, YouTube has vids of the Dwyer suicide. Not for the squeamish and very disturbing since you're watching a poor man with the weight of the world on his shoulders blow his brains out on live television, but worthwhile if you can manage to sit through it because you will get a better sense of what Esmail was apeing in that suicide scene..... which in retrospect I am increasingly finding to be rather tasteless.

It is the catch-all term I use for all schmoozing with female NPC's for the sake of plot progression and whatnot. I hate Bioware and Rockstar for making girlfriends and romantic interests a near requirement for their games because it always feels tacked onto the story..

I just maintained a steady speed in and kept to the highway. When traffic got tight, I threaded the needle in between cars and tried not to brake too suddenly to kill my timer. It wasn't that difficult. The key was buying that cheap Class B sub compact at the chop shop in North Point. Slow and tiny cars FTW.

I am finishing up my Sleeping Dogs playthrough from last year. Kneeing fat guys in the gut to stun them and tackling the shit out of guys armed with meat cleavers is not old yet. I have killed a man with an umbrella. Looking forward to my first kill with a fish. I replayed the fight at Club Bam Bam twice but I couldn't get any fish to spawn when I threw one of the thugs into the aquarium. I am guessing the game is going to make me wait for my Death By Fish moment. GTA Online racing with the guys has prepped me well for racing in this game. In order to win, I have to be the biggest douchebag in the field and ram guys off of the road.. I think I redid Detour over a dozen times. Some asshole kept running over the starting line girl while trying to cut me off at the beginning of the race. Romance feels shoehorned in like it does in most games, but at least the girlfriends serve the purpose of revealing a set of collectables after you get your freak on. Slept with Amanda and visited all of the health shrines and slept with Tiffany to reveal the location of the Jade Statues, so brawls are going much better now that I have 200% health and more stuns available in my melee arsenal after returning a couple of statues to my sifu. Slept with Not Ping and now have the locations of all of the CCTV cameras in the city. Held off of doing more drug busts until I unlocked my new safehouse in Central. Kinda bummed that Wei's Korean girlfriend broke up with him, but he did cheat on her with Not Ping. I guess Not Ping is going to find out he was sleeping with Tiffany and dump him as well. I am in first place of the DVDVR people on my Friends List for Safe Driving. I find it hard to believe that only I unlocked the achievement / trophy for driving clean for over two minutes. I have a wardrobe of clothes but I am following Neil's advice and only wear stuff that boosts my Triad XP. I am making Police XP in my sleep via cases and drug busts so gun skills are covered and I need to boost my melee perks via more Triad XP. I am really bad at karaoke. I barely have above 90% for the songs at Club Bam Bam. Now I have to wait until I unlock K-Bar before diving once again into sing along hell just for another achievement. There is way too much extra shit to do and I am already close to halfway through the main missions. I keep forgetting that the story in this game is not as huge as GTA 5's so I should stop progressing the plot for a bit, finish up the drug busts in Central, hit up Tran for car jacking targets to boost my cash reserves, and then see what Roland has for me. When I have more cash, I will buy a Class A car and finish these stupid races. I also need to beat dudes down in these fucking Fight Club thingies. I will probably have to break my Triad Only gear rule and wear the Thug clothes to the Fight Club thing since they boost your damage output by 10%. Between that, food benies, and my health regenerating when my Face meter is full, I should at least be able to get past the newbie FC in North Point for now.

I am late to the Sleeping Dogs party because I have spent a shit ton of time becoming legend in Destiny.

I played Paragon DudeShep and Renegade FemShep. Renegade FemShep gets the best lines in the game, especially in ME2.

I am bummed that Rebecca was killed off even though she was a loose cannon that needed to be silenced, but I am interested to see what they do with Wesley Gibbins, Master Criminal in the upcoming season of How To Get Away With Murder.

I enjoyed Oculus for what it was. The short is far better than the movie, IMO. I always advise people to watch the movie before watching the short. Then you won't be jaded. Once you compare the two, you usually find the movie to be extended minimalism. The horror in the extended feature feels like filler after you take a good hard look at the base material.. Oculus is a story that does its best work within the limits of short film.

The Stand ruled. Speaking of "quality" Stephen King stuff, why in the hell did Rodriquez throw money at getting a Dark Tower miniseries on El Rey? Aside from a premium cable network, this is the only place where I'd love to see a DT movie or limited miniseries since I'd expect to see decent production values and uncensored content.

The suicide scene was pretty nasty. Sympathies to the families of the slain journalists in Virginia but there is no reason that episode should've been postponed. I am guessing that televised suicide of Budd Dwyer (whom that scene was obviously supposed to emulate right down to the blood gushing out of the E-Corp exec's nose) is so far out of the collective zeitgeist that folks would incorrectly scream too soon and try to compare it to the live murder of those poor people. Now I have to go and listen to HEY MAN, NICE SHOT~! by Filter. What the fuck is White Rose up to? Angela sending that shoe salesman to fetch her a pair of Pradas was fucking awesome. Next season, I am looking forward to her becoming the monster she once hunted. So very Nietzschean.

I like Sam's voice but seriously GET SADE OR NOEL GALLAGHER TO SING A FUCKING BOND THEME~!

This weekend I chilled with my family and barely played at all. Got online long enough to lose an Elimination match on Monday afternoon, collect the Elimination grimoire card, and went back to playing Sleeping Dogs. Live is down so I couldn't even get online to get my last drug bust in before work. The only thing I plan to do in the game this week is smash Urrox on 32 PoE. Not really jazzed to complete the Elder Cipher bounty I have since it should auto-complete after the patch. I will probably spend most of my game time in Hong Kong this week and make the occasional foray to Destinyland. Figures that they extend the Moments of Triumph thingie after I busted my ass to get Skolas perished.

I did not notice whether or not Elimination was available in the Crucible playlist this week. I need to suffer through that before Reset to get the Grimoire card. It would also be nice to smash Urrox and finish off this EC bounty before Reset. Not sure if those things will happen because my custody weekend is this Labor Day weekend and if I am smart I will keep my distance from the console.

Now I know how people spend hours trying to get past 35 PoE. Went in last night with my DARPA homie and one of our internet nephews. I love Rob like family, but he has the worst habit of dying at the absolute worst possible times because his situational awareness leaves a lot to be desired and our internet nephews tend not to embrace the bullet stopping power of hard cover. Reminds me of strikes with odessasteps. We got stonewalled in Round 4 last night. Rob gets tunnel vision when he is in ADS and before you know it, he gets flanked and kacked which means fewer rockets going to destroy the target: a target that is two levels higher than all of us and can almost one-shot you with his Shrapnel Cannon or by melee if you assault him directly. Everyone but me dies and it is left up to me to get the fucking Captain and it usually ended in tears. The target and the adds either end up smoking me directly or the Target gets to the checkpoint because I am the only guy left standing and I don't have the firepower to bring him down. The one time we did get manage to kill the first target, Rob or our internet nephew would get spike and I would inevitably get spiked trying to revive them. Rob (for reals) died seconds after we killed the target and I said, "Okay, it is really important that we all survive..." We got through Rounds 1-3 in one try with no wipes and then we literally spend two hours redoing Round 4. I have no idea what it is about Round 4 that stops teams cold. I have beaten Skolas a couple of times without a Defender or a Sunsinger in the fireteam, so I know you don't need the magical trio (Bladesinger, Sunsinger, Defender) to get to victory.

After I get confirmation of my Y1 emblem and VIP junk after launch, I'm moving all of my exotics to the vault and rerolling everyone.

360 will need 10 gigs because the cinematics, textures, and graphics will be dumbed down. Bittersweet.

1) Shit, I have like nine Crucible bounties on me right now and I might not be online until after Labor Day.. 2) Not sure how I feel about this. Happy that the path to ECs is easier, but unless they increase the % of a EC weapon dropping from Skolas's chest and all of those Exotics get Year 2 upgrades there really is no reason to do 35 PoE after TTK launch unless you just want the card for Skolas.. 3) Got all of those cards. Looking forward to my rerolled hunter not dying in Dock 13 while on patrol after TTK launch. 4) TWENTY GIGS~?!

Bah. May as well open it next time I am online and hope for a new faction shader.

You can still chat with me in Party even though you will be on XB1, you know. I played a lot of Sleeping Dogs last night. Yeah, I am contemplating getting Khepri's Sting but I also want to save my coins for what Xur has after TTK launch. I got a Dead Orbit package today and left it with the Postmaster. I want to save it until after launch, but I can't remember how long the timer is on mail or if there is a timer.

As for the "controversy":

MIND BLOWN~!

I say both. "I have been honored to serve as the commissioner of this fine sport but recent pressures have begun to take their toll on me and I'd like to take time out for my family who I haven't seen in a while and have still been so supportive of me, so effective immediately..."

The whole point of the NFL is that they have their own rules and standards and police their own people. This stupid ruling is the equivalent of asking your dad if you can have cookies because your mom told you no. I seriously hope Steelers D breaks Brady's collarbone in Week 1.