152 insights into my soul

Heh, had this amusing dream where I met Karen Gillan at a bar, and we hit it off, and she took me back to her place. Just to talk! But in the dream she was married to Jason Bateman, who caught us and thought we were having an affair. So he like dumps her and she's all sad and needs comforting, but alas, then I wake up.

But speaking of Karen Gillan, with it being a new year, I guess I should do a list of my top 10 (its too much effort to come up with more than 10) favorite babes of 2014. I say favorite, because there's too many expectations from saying "hottest", because then people are all, how could you rank x over y and all that jazz. At least by saying favorite, I'm indicating the list it totally subjective.

1) Barbara Palvin: still my favorite current supermodel. Pretty face, gorgeous lips, banging body (she is a Victoria's Secret model, after all), and you know how I like that brown hair/blue eyes combo.

2) Karen Gillan: Glad to see she still had a somewhat busy schedule post-Doctor Who. And looking totally hot in all the projects I'd seen her in in 2014. She was great in A Touch of Cloth, and of course Selfie. Still the most disappointing cancellation of this season. I'll miss her as Eliza Dooley strutting around in all those cute outfits looking all hott. Heh, even as a bald, blue alien cyborg in Guardians of the Galaxy, she was still smoking.

3) Nina Dobrev: My favorite Canadian vampire. A perfect combination of sexy and cute.

4) Alexandra Daddario- Who cares if her eyes are like, really, really blue that they're almost alien? As I said above, dark hair/blue eyes is my favorite. Plus, that one scene in True Detective is friggin awesome.

5) Evangeline Lilly: My favorite Canadian elf. She is like ridiculously pretty as Tauriel in the Hobbit movies. Too bad they made her character less kick-ass in the last movie.

6) Shay Mitchell: My favorite Candian Lesbian and Liar. Pretty and fit and you know how being part Flip always makes a girl slightly hotter in my book.

7) Shelley Hennig: From witch to were-coyote, she was a great addition to the already gorgeous ladies of Teen Wolf. I mean, it was sad to see Crystal Reed go, but they replaced her with not one, but two hotties in Shelley and Arden Cho.

8) Amy Acker: The girl who shares my exact birthdate, she's awesome on PoI. I mean, its always great when Amy plays the bad girl. Like she looks so sweet and innocent, and it works when she plays adorkable nerds like Fred, but somehow she becomes 1000x sexier when she's not playing the good girl role. But yeah, Root is bad ass, and is one half of one of my favorite OTPs.

9) Sarah Shahi: The other half of the aforementioned OTP. Shaw is a bad-ass in her own right, and I love her tough girl attitude. Shoot (or Raw, if you prefer) make quite the ass-kicking pair on PoI.

10) Anna Kendrick: Again, the brown hair/blue eyes thing. And, her being weird and dorky in real life amplifies her cuteness. Plus, she can sing, which is always a plus! Ah can't wait for Pitch Perfect 2.

Oh weird! So back in the day, I remember hearing about this hot chick from this series of body spray commercials being in an upcoming (at the time) show on comedy central called "Not Another High School Show". It was a parody of all the teen shows at the time, with her character playing "Spring", a version of Rachel Bilson's character from "the OC." I hadn't heard anything about it since, so I figured it wasn't picked up.

Cut to today, where someone posts a clip from the pilot: (and hey, there's the aforementioned chick at the :50 second mark)



Why did they post it, because apparently Alison Brie was on it playing a buffy type character? Also, Jennifer Lawrence shows up as a random passerby at the 1:42 mark. So the site is all, look at this pilot from years ago where beloved by the internet geekdom actresses Alison Brie and Jennifer Lawrence were on.

That is so weird to see those two in something like this! But I guess plenty of famous actors and actresses do lame projects before they hit it big.

So, Ask Men's Top 99 Most Desirable Women's list for 2014 is out. Here's the top 10:

10) Kate Moss
9) Margot Robbie (prolly fresh in the voters minds because of Wolf of Wall St)
8) Amy Adams (ditto, but for American Hustle
7) Kerry Washington
6) Kate Upton
5) Emma Watson (I don't care what certain people say, Emma Watson is cute)
4) Jennifer Lawrence
3) Emily Ratajowski (Did she get famous from the Blurred Lines video)
2) Alison Brie
1) Emilia Clarke

Annie Edison and the Khaleesi as #2 and #1? Sure, why not, at least its ladies I know of, as opposed to some random model.

TV commentary:

The Following- Ah, so that's what's going on. ( spoiler cut )

So what's up with people not knowing Karen Gillan was in this season of NTSF? Like I was looking through the Karen Gillan tag on tumblr and people were all, "Woah, how did I not know Karen Gillan was on NTSF?" expressing surprise that they had Adult Swim on the background and they heard her show up. Then again, I guess she's not really that famous outside of Doctor Who, and NTSF is like a 15 minute adult swim show that a lot of people have prolly never heard of, so those Whovians who are fans might not know this show exists.

Speaking of tumblr, it always weirds me out when I get new followers, since I feel I do more reblogging than actual content, so they would have only found me through some hottie photoset I made. So I feel slightly bad when they follow me, because they prolly only did it because of said hottie photoset I posted and followed me in the hopes of seeing more hottie photosets, and then they end up seeing my friggin tv show/movie ship bs more often than hot chyx.

Hmm, so I saw on tumblr that Tatiana Maslany was on Instant Star, looking all nerdy cute? Also, apparently Manny Santos and Dr Lauren were also on that show?! Like I didn't watch the show regularly, but I thought I caught enough in bits and pieces. I guess I woudln't have known Tatiana Maslany or Zoie Palmer at the time, but I can't believe I didn't realize Cassie Steele was on it. I guess that would be post-Degrassi?

Saw Hangover 3 with the usual suspects. Was kinda meh.

So the word on the street is that Karen Gillan has been cast as the main villain in Guardians of the Galaxy. Honestly, I'm not familiar with that portion of the marvel universe (I know who the Guardians are, and that's about it), so I'm kinda stumped as to who the hell she'll be playing.

Speaking of hotties, started watching Orphan Black since its free On Demand until the end of the year. I'm about half way through, and its been pretty good. Kudos to Tatiana Maslany for being able to play so many distinct characters. I said previously that Cosima is the cutest of the clones, but Alison is the most hilarious. (And dang, I love the suburban soccer mom yoga pants)

It was weird to see Sav from Degrassi as a random IT guy, and Emma as random secretary chick, and I totally didn't recognize that one female cop as Bo's mom Aife at first.

ME blather- Roughly 64 Turian soldier waves away from completing Commando mastery. Ended up changing my plan of which characters I was going to use for that, forgoing the Asari for the Turian soldier, since I could use his proximity mines towards the "turian proximity mine use" part of the challenge. Its kinda annoying that they differentiate between geth and turian proximity mine use, but salarian proximity mine use didn't count towards anything.

But yeah, since I could tackle two of the challenges with the turian soldier, decided to go that route. I hadn't played him in a while, but I got the hang of him. Main thing, don't use marksman all the time. I guess it was just habit from ME2 and using it like Adrenaline Rush. Most of the guns are good enough on their own, I only really need to turn on marksman to help take down an atlas or quickly kill a phantom or dragoon before they close in and kill me.

I also got a better handle on proximity mine whilst playing the salarian infiltrator, so I had re-specced my turian soldier to include proximity mine. I has skipped it originally because laying down mines isn't usually my thing. At least in this game. I mean, it was fine for games like MGS, where I'd set up ambushes with the things- lay some mines down, find a good sniper perch, and then after the blast wipe out the survivors. But solo-MP is a little too, intense for such things. There just isn't enough time nor enough good sight lines to lay such traps.

Proximity mine does work well as a makeshift grenade. Fire it at their feet, or the cover they're standing behind, and they should be caught in the radius. Plus, evolving it for "increase damage taken from all sources for X seconds" is pretty useful against atlases- pop the atlas with it, softening it up, then cut loose with the AR until the clip gets low, which should be about the same time the prox mine cool down finishes, then activate marksman to immediately top off the clip and go to town.

Concussive shot does work pretty well against phantoms too. But since Turians can't dodge, phantoms are pretty scary. Its like pop off the concussive shot and just spray and pray in their general direction until you can activate marksman and hope you managed to take them down during the duration. Else, run!

Ah, so I didn't realize the chick in that new CW series "The Tomorrow People" was Peyton List (The Lucy Lane one, not the Disney one). Nice to see her in something new. I guess CW is going full on teen drama next season. With this, and Reign, and in the winter, the 100 and Star-Crossed- which stars Aimee Teegarden and Malese Jow, also nice to see them in something new.

Still, despite having actresses I like, the concepts don't seem too interesting to me. I think the only new show that's piqued my interest is the Agents of Shield show or whatever its called. I realize now they prolly do have to refer to it as "Marvel's Agents of Shield", because if it was just Shield, it would prolly get confused with "The Shield". Actually, Intelligence with Sawyer and Ruby looks interesting enough, even if its kinda Chuck-ish.

TV commentary:

Doctor Who- ( spoiler cut )

Its that time of year, when people come out with their hottest lists. Because I'm lazy, I'm just doing a top 10. Which isn't that different from last year's top 10, with only a couple new entrants and some rearrangement. Links go to their tags on my tumblr:

1) Barbara Palvin- surprise, surpise, a blue eyed brunette. But yeah, I just love those lips and that smile. (among other things!)

2) Victoria Justice- Not to sound creepy, but unlike a number of former teen actresses, she did indeed grow up to be as hot as people suspected she would be. Its a shame she's not in more stuff.

3) Karen Gillan- Still my favorite redhead of the moment. After all, she's already way hott, but she gets the accent boost to her hotness, which kinda makes it unfair.

4) Nina Dobrev

5) Odette Annable- Yeah, she was #1 last year, but I will admit there is always a factor of "famosity" to these kinda lists, and unfortunately, she's just been out of my mind's eye since House was canceled. Apparently she was in an ep of New Girl this year, but that must be after I stopped watching it.

6) Katrina Bowden

7) Sarah Shahi

8) Ashley Greene

9) Alison Brie

10) Naya Rivera

Eh, I'm too lazy to come up with something clever to say for all of them, other than, "they're all cute and hott". I could do a top 25, or even a 40, but top ten is all I can bother to arrange.

The latest Team Unicorn video, "For the Win":



Hey, the girls look hot and geek references abound.

ME blather- So, the new Citadel DLC for ME3 dropped and it had basically everything I was wanting:

1) Wrex as a squad member? check. Sure, its only in the citadel missions, but I was pretty sure that was going to be the case, just like you can't play Aria and Nyreen outside of Omega. I was worried he'd only be a NPC, so I was thrilled that you could have him in your squad.

2) The ME2 squad mates as squad members? check. Well, its only in arena mode, but again, I suspected that would be the case. I mean, like Wrex, I was worried that the only appearance by them would be just more convos/cutscenes with them, but thankfully you can play with them. Alas, you can't play with Thane, Legion, Mordin, or Morinth though. And they kinda mucked up Kasumi's skills, taking away everything that made her unique (shadow strike and flashbang grenades) Its like, shadow strike exists in MP, why the hell did they trade that out for tactical cloak?

3) Speaking of, more face time with everyone? YES! Every character (well except Legion) gets new content. Heck, even Thane and Mordin get little things. Plus, more romance scenes! You kinda got screwed in the game previously if you romanced a non-squad member like Jack or Miranda. But now both ladies have as substantial content as Liara or Ash. Actually, you also got screwed if you were playing a femshep, because their options were lacking, and they got less content as well. But Citadel fixes that. Like femsheps who romance Garrus get more than the paltry bit they had in the game proper.

4) ways to make money? Finally! Between the arena, casino, and arcade, there's plenty now to do in between missions. I could possibly max all my weapons out without having to do a NG+!

Anyways, the dialogue throughout is hilarious, this honestly is the best add-on you could get for the game. Well, if you're a fan of the series, as its total fanservice.

Now, onto the plot of the DLC. ( spoiler cut )

So one of my favorite new hotties of the moment is Victoria's Secret model Barbara Palvin. (I made a photoset!) You know my thing for blue eyed brunettes. And she has the cutest smile.

TV commentary:

HIMYM- Heh, did they really have Rachel Bilson just show up for a little two minute thing there at the end? I had totally forgotten she was with Ivy from GG. Its like the GG finale all over again! I am kinda glad they remembered that Rachel Bilson was the roomie of the mother.

But are you friggin kidding me with the Ted still pining after Robin thing? Hopefully this is the last of it, since the implication of his talk with Lily is that they'd make these confessions and just get it out there and never speak of them again. Its like, let it go show, particularly since we know she's not the mother!

But anyways, the flashforward, so it looks like at the very least, Robin and Barney have the ceremony, since she is dancing with her dad at the reception (the Mother is the bassist in the wedding band!). I mean, I was sure they'd get married, otherwise I think a good portion of the fans would riot, but there's a part of me wondering whether they were going to pull some BS where we see the flashforward to the day of Barney and Robin's wedding, but they don't end up going through with it.

ME blather- The Hammerhead looks cool and all, and its way more fun to drive than the Mako was, but damn if that thing isn't fragile. I heard someone refer to it as a glass cannon, but that implies the thing does big damage, but it doesn't! Owel, thank god I'm past Overlord. Hopefully the Firewalker missions aren't nearly as bad.

I've ended up taking Miranda along for most of the last few missions, because she's just too useful not to. I mean, since she has both overlord and warp, you're set for tackling every defense in the game. I was aghast that Tali doesn't have overload, but that's prolly because she gets energy drain when you get her loyal. That mission just unlocked, and I have enough spare squad points that I can immediately raise it to 3 once I get it.