who watches the puzzle pirates?

Almost ready to leave for England, which is lucky because, well, that's what we're about to do. It'll be the first time I've been back in 18 months, and me and Holly are going to run around eating lots of sweets and crisps, drinking lots of pints, taking a holiday-within-holiday with my parents, and generally causing localized and negligible havoc in the South London and North Wales areas. You'll likely to see a few less ffwd updates, too, since I'll be popping online periodically from the UK, but mainly to update Slashdot Games in a panicked fashion. Yay.

In other, vitally important news, anyone with a Windows or Linux PC and some brain cells should check out Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, a massively multiplayer pirate-themed puzzle RPG (stop snickering at the back, there!), which is actually freakin' excellent, with all the good bits of Super Puzzle Fighter, Chu Chu Rocket, the PopCap games, and added pirate-y goodness. You get to do puzzles to fight enemies, duel other people, get money, buy your own ship, and you can even purchase your own island. Welcome to Half Man Half Biscuit Cove, may I help you, arrharr?

Finally, started re-reading Moore and Gibbons' Watchmen, and I'd almost forgotten how startling it is, even now. It's amazing to think that Alan Moore broke through into mainstream comics with what must be one of the best pieces of creative writing in the twentieth century. Hyperbole ahoy, f'sure, but from zero to hero in no time flat, even if his 2000AD material had been on the boil for a while. Even if you don't read comics (and I didn't, up to a certain licensed title), you owe it to yourself to buy a copy.