I finally got round to doing my goggles the other day. I picked these up at the MCM Expo in London at the end of October, when I got them they were plain black plastic with plain dark welders lenses. So I got the paint out and took apart a broken pocket watch to use for parts so I could spice things up a bit. Here are the results:

My goggles, looking vastly improved from their original boring black plastic look...

I'm still working on the second NERF gun and will be making a few accessories but they will take a while as most of my time outside of work is spent either with my lovely girlfriend or playing Skyrim.

PETA, after raising a storm of criticism for being a bunch of overly sensitive whiny little attention seeking bitches about the new Mario game, are now attempting some damage control by claiming they weren't being serious. Oh really? This is the same organisation that had fits of apoplexy over Super Meat Boy, a game that has nothing to do with eating meat or any other vegetarian/animal rights issues, apparently because the main character was made of meat... Like every other sentient organism on this fucking planet. The only difference between SMB and any other character is that he's got no skin. It's a little grizzly but it's got nothing to do with PETA. They just wanted something to get outraged about so they could whore themselves to the media.

You know what outrages me? Groups that claim to be about compassion that advocate and support domestic terrorism. PETA supports the ALF (Animal Liberation Front) a group that violently attacks anyone that does things it disapproves of, especially people like research scientists. PETA has donated tens of thousands of dollars to the defense funds of ALF affiliated activists, including known arsonists.

PETA are hypocrites they kill the vast majority of animals put into their care. Members of their leadership are dependent on medicine that was derived from animal testing whilst preaching to others that they should boycott and "send back" any and all products created by any company that has ever been involved in any form of animal testing.

Want more? Here you go:

• PETA kills animals
• PETA kidnaps healthy animals
• PETA is quite happy to let animals starve and suffer
• PETA will attempt to exploit anything, no matter how tasteless, to garner attention.
• PETA Watch, more info on these fuckwits than you can shake a tasty lamb chop at

Ok, I'm done for today. Off to play some Skyrim, I think I'll spend the evening roasting rabbits with fireballs and making rabbit stew in a virtual world...

PETA are being idiotic dicks again. No surprises there.

Seriously PETA? Haven't that bunch of hypocritical fuck-knuckles learnt that

a)they're irrelevant, no one gives a fuck about what they think. Not. One. Single. Fuck and

b)it's a fucking video game for fucks sake. Kids aren't looking at Mario in the raccoon suit and thinking "Holy fuck I wanna skin a motherfucking Tanooki right the fuck now and wear its skin like some kind of fucked up adolescent simile of Buffalo Bill!", they're thinking "Sweet, this power up lets me do cool shit!". Children, unlike the fucktards at PETA, do not read "ZOMG ANIMAL CRUELTY" into every image that contains an animal related theme.

Stop taking everything so seriously and have a bacon sandwich. You'll feel much better I promise.

How they can even take themselves seriously when their vice president, Mary Beth Sweetland, was an insulin taking diabetic is beyond me. Guess where we got insulin and diabetes treatments from? Bingo! Animal testing.

What is about vegans that gives them such an ego that they think they have some kind of God-given right to preach to people? Is that the only way they level up? Just to clarify something, my position is this: Animal testing for medical purposes is a necessary evil. I would prefer it if there were a realistic alternative but there simply isn't. No matter what morons like PETA would have you believe it simply isn't viable for us to stop animal testing completely. However I completely oppose animal testing for cosmetic purposes. I see no net benefit to humanity in testing on animals so that vain idiots can make themselves look pretty and preen in the spotlight of their own pretentious shallowness.

Ah well, momentary irritation over. Back to not giving a fuck. There's a real zen to it. Kinda feel like eating something with lots of delicious meat in it now...

Yes Skyrim is currently consuming my life. Ye Gods this game is amazing, it completely blows Oblivion out of the water. For the record, whilst I enjoyed Oblivion a great deal I could never stand the class/levelling system in it. It was completely fucking retarded and the most irritating level system I've ever experienced in an RPG. Now Skyrim on the other hand has a beautiful, simple levelling system that doesn't force you into a character archetype and the perks system is fantastic.

Graphics? Amazing. Bethesda's new game engine is beautiful, the landscape rendering is gorgeous even on my Xbox. I can't wait to see how it looks when we load it up on my girlfriends gaming rig. BTW I owe her a massive debt of thanks for putting up with me spending the entire weekend on the Xbox. She even made us dinner and looked after me while I was entranced in the game. Kiki, I love you. Now back to Skyrim. The people really look like people, the Khajit and Argonians are especially much improved in terms of their art and style. Faces now look like faces (remember character faces in Oblivion? Ugh.) and the dragons.. Oh the dragons are truly majestic. Sometimes it almost seems like a shame to kill them. Oh and we now have more than five voice actors. Seriously though the voice acting in Skyrim is excellent and a vast, vast improvement on Oblivion.

Gameplay? Oh fuck yeah. The controls are beautifully done, mostly because they largely stick to the same scheme we've come to expect from Bethesda's openworld RPGs. However they're totally configurable if you feel like changing anything. The dual wielding mechanic is awesome, I'm playing a mage character and blasting everything with fireballs never gets old. The quests are involved and well thought out, the plot is always clear and the story keeps turning and twisting. There are all the usual factions one expects: Mages, Warriors, Thieves, Dark Brotherhood and we also get the Imperial Legion and the Stormcloak Rebels. The intermingling of the dragon phenomena and the civil war is excellently done as each party thinks one of the others is behind the reappearance of the dragons. I must admit I still haven't found out who or what is responsible for that but I'm completely intrigued by the whole thing.

I'm probably about 24 - 30 hours in and I've barely scratched the surface. There are so many sidequests and places to explore that it'll take me quite some time to complete everything but unlike Oblivion I don't feel like I'm being overwhelmed by all that. The interface for seeing active quests is very nicely done and feels much more intuitive. The overall game interface is beautiful, it's always clear and concise and it never gets in your way.

11/10 for Skyrim, don't be surprised if I drop off the radar for a few weeks. I'll be busy slaying dragons.

Damn I can't wait, I'm excited, my girlfriend's excited, pretty much all my friends are excited (apart from the ones that don't appreciate the awesomeness of Elder Scrolls obviously). It's going to be an epic ride :D