The Sandman

I've only watched the first two of the season so far, but yeah it's way better than last season was and it feels like there's not a million different things going on so that's good.

399e? That settled it for good.

The last minute or so pretty much sealed it, PS4 for me it is.

Bottas is third after qualifying. Awesome!

Well, TVLine is reporting it and Gillian Jacobs is welcoming him back on twitter. Great news.

YES! So happy that Community will be back. I liked the finale and most of the season, i can think of two terrible episodes, but that's just about it. Maybe i should check Parks and Recreation over summer, i've never seen a single episode of it and it's getting such a praise around here and EWB usually hasn't been wrong about these things.

Finally got to see Life of Pi and it was surprisingly good and had stunning visuals as well. The tiger looked so real. Great film.

That was my favourite Community episode of this season. Reminded me sort of Troy and Abed's birthday episodes from season 2 which are one of my favourites, just like them, this wasn't really all that funny but more of a character based episode, if i'm making any sense. Also Dean's impressions of Jeff were awesome. If they get a fifth season i hope Jim Rash ends up writing another one.

Great episode of Community again. First episode made me think this season will be a disaster without Dan Harmon, but every episode after has been significantly better. This week's and halloween episode are my favourites so far. The show does feel somewhat different but i think it's just as good and yes, Britta was/is wonderful.

Catching up on Fringe as i got the fourth season on DVD for christmas, just watched the two Astrid's meet episode. She's in every episode but is more like side character like Broyles & Nina Sharp. She's so cute and it's about time she/they got an episode. There was that one episode in Season 2 which was Walter/Astrid centric which had a really sweet moment with them in the end after she got attacked, but this was the first one to focus on her. I really like the whole main cast which doesn't happen that often. It's definitely one of my favourite shows of recent years. Also third season of Happy Endings has been brilliant, too bad that the ratings for it apparently suck and ABC is throwing 2 episodes a week starting sometinme in January, which is great but i kind of get the feeling that they just want to get it over with and quickly.

I've had the same problem in last couple of years as i don't have my Xbox online and it's been hard to find formulas, but i recently found this channel on Youtube that do video formulas, they have some pretty good ones out there. Here's the link. http://www.youtube.com/user/Smacktalks

Trailer for Lightning Returns: XIII. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZD8ZQ6ensA The one character battles will be weird, though atleast Hope won't be there dying every three seconds in every battle like in the first XIII one. Also few days ago i noticed that it's almost been a year since the 13-2 came out and it's been sitting on a shelf all this time and i've barely even started it, there was a time when the release of a new Final Fantasy game caused months of waiting to get it and now this. I'll be getting this as well when it comes out, i really just need to get on it and finish both 13 and 13-2 at some point. My XIII playing ended to the Hope's summon battle for the reason mentioned above, Hope dying in about three seconds every time.

01. The Sword - Apocryphon 02. Green Day - Tre! 03. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten 04. Green Day - Dos! 05. Metallica - Beyond Magnetic EP (Well, the cd release of it came in January.) 06. Fozzy - Sin and Bones 07. Baroness - Yellow & Green 08. Green Day - Uno! 09. Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania 10. Shinedown - Amaryllis 11. Halestorm - The Strange Case Of... 12. Billy Talent - Dead Silence That's every 2012 album that i've bought so threw them all into a list. The Sword's Apocryphon being my favourite thing to come out this year, though it was not as great as their previous Warp Riders and plenty of Green Day there.

Great that there's going to be two finnish drivers next year as well, hopefully Kovalainen could get a spot somewhere as well, i read that he's trying to get to Lotus with Kimi, but seems pretty unlikely at this point.

To me it's always been Spider-Man. I think i got my first comic when i was something like 6 ½ years old and i've been reading it in some format ever since. Actually Ben Reilly was Spider-Man back then and the clone saga was coming to an end around that time i think. It has come to my attention much later what a trainwreck it apparently was, but around that age it was the coolest thing ever. I was watching the 90's animated show around that time as well which to this day remains awesome. I think that maybe it's because of the large range of supporting characters and all that 'regular life' stuff that's made me like Spider-Man more than other stuff. There were few years where i didn't really care too much about it, but Ultimate Spider-Man pulled me back. I've grown to like the current Miles Morales one as well and Dan Slott's run with the Amazing Spider-Man has been really good. Now with the Superior Spider-Man starting i'm not sure to what to think of it because of the possible changes, atleast Slott continues to write it.

I started watching Fringe recently, i wonder why it took me this long because it's awesome. I like the whole main cast and Walter is becoming one of my favourite tv characters in a while. I'm currently at third episode of second season and i've managed to stay pretty spoiler free so far, but there's one thing i've been wondering. Do those images that appear during episodes have some significance, i have a hard time believing they are just some random shots, but what do i know. I don't want to wander at some bigger spoilers about the show elsewhere so thought to ask about it here.

One annoying thing i've noticed on Universe is that in pretty much every match the opponent just suddenly exits the ring and goes to remove the top of the announce table, really a small thing but it's annoying that it's basically happening in every match. Haven't tried the Universe much yet as trying to get atleast most of the stuff unlocked before so, one difference seems to be 5 matches in every show, will PPV's have more matches than the six in before as well? I like Attitude mode much better than the Road to Wrestlemania last year where you basically had to just play until the Y mark showed up leading to a cutscene in every match. Got through the Rise of the DX and Austin's storylines. New Age Outlaws/Legion of Doom objectives took a long time (actually the third one really) and HBK/Taker HIAC, because i got pinned every time, but yeah kind of rewarding when actually winning after several tries. Pretty good game so far.

Okay thanks. I will be getting it then. Console lock isn't really a problem, as long as my Xbox doesn't die on me anytime soon, which with my luck will happen in about a week.

Sorry guys for bringing back an old topic, but me being one of the few in the world without Xbox Live my question is does the Arkham City Game Of The Year edition have all the DLC's on disc and not just download codes. I will definitely buy that if they are on disc, anyone know?

Finland is going against France starting any minute now, we're going to get crushed so bad...

There seems to be atleast couple of people who've read Murakami's books here. I've read Norwegian Wood and Kafka On The Shore that i've thoroughly enjoyed. I'm now 100 pages into The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, nothing has really happened in it, so far it feels like it's not really going anywhere. Maybe it does pick up soon. Anyway, i'm enjoying his work and thinking of which one to get next. I'm thinking Sputnik Sweetheart, After Dark or 1Q84. From what i've read here about 1Q84 and actually just couple of posts back it apparently takes even longer than in Bird Chronicle to get going? So anyone who's read these, any recommends?

I've come across that EWB isn't really the place where people share my love to this band, but this is one fucking awesome cover. Seriously i want this kind of Hetfield vocals for the next Metallica album. EDIT: It's deleted, nothing to see here.

Jamaica - 36,85. World record. Holy shit what a run.

Ruuskanen gets bronze in Javelin for Finland. YES! EDIT: So Women's High Jump and 4x100m is pretty much all there's left, right?

Yay, Finland wins bronze in Women's Elliott 6m sailing. Second medal in olympics and men's Javelin still to come tonight, that's the only field event we are usually good at and there's three of us in the finals.