Best gifts are the ones coming straight from the very depth of heart.

What’s best than spending holidays with your family and (good) friends?

In hard times, you should keep an eye, perhaps both of them, upon your wallet. Especially during the holidays.

If you are a non-believer consider Christmas a sort of challenge: the more good actions to whoever you have in front of you, the better person you are!

Save a thought to whom is having trouble, all around the world, and say “Tnx Jesus for I am lucky to be here right now“.

Remember that NOTHING in this world is due. Everything gotta be conquered!

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whoever and wherever you are.

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Recently I’ve finished Deep Silver’s game DEAD ISLAND, and I would like to share my feedback on this release, because it shocked me, in some ways. The game itself is awesome, since it gives you the opportunity to smash, shoot, chop, grind, burn, kick, stomp, crash thousand of zombies, even in cooperative mode with other online players. Unfortunately the background story which was supposed to lead the game throughout the four acts it’s divided into, leaks from everywhere. Here’s why:

The four main characters (from now on simply “heroes”) have well developed personal backgrounds, which you come in contact with when you have to select one of them before actually beginning the game. On the other hand these private stories don’t get developed throughout the game, and that’ a pity because in the cut-out scenes (the cgi intermezzoes during important moments of the game) one could have had the possibility to know more about their interactions, troubles, thoughts and so on. To make digital characters more human.

So it’s not furthermore developed the personal lives and matters of the dozens of side-characters either, of which the game is full (i.e. the Lifeguard tower, the Lighthouse and the Church crews). Not only, infact you don’t even know what’s their fate since as the game runs, the plot got focused only on the “vaccine” (during Act 3) and the “escape” (Act 4), forgetting completely all the helpful people left in the Resort and in the town of Moresby.

Maybe that’s because also the fate of the four heroes is highly uncertain? At the very end of the game you can see them flying away with a chopper along with a prison inmate, Kevin, and the daughter of shaman Ope. Where to?

It’s not a matter only of developing characters backgrounds, also the general plot of the game is poor, leading any player to ask him/herself the following (unanswered) questions, at least these are mine:

1. What was, in the end, the source of the infection?
2. What’s the Australian army role into it, if there’s any?
3. How the infective virus works? I mean: what’s the relationships between the ingame so-called Walkers (the classic zombies, slow and half eaten out) and the Infected (the screaming red-eyed ones, fast and highly aggressive, apparently non-eaten out by anyone)?
4. How did the Moresby town hall get swarmed? Did the guard at the door leading to the supermarket got so drunk and left the door open? [if this is the case, so it's the heroes' fault]
5. Why none of the heroes usually shed a tear, or at least show some sympathy throughout the game? Even when you got interactions of some kind with some side-characters and later they die, our heroes are so brave that they’re only concerned with the final goal!
6. Assuming that in single player mode, whatever hero you’re gonna choose, for the plot of the game you will actually be playing with the four of them all, in the very beginning of the game, did they wake up in the same hotel room?
7. Why did colonel White in the Act 4 deceive the heroes? Since there was room for everyone in the chopper and the heroes did not need the vaccine at all for their natural immunity to the virus, couldn’t he simply take the vaccine, say a polite Thank You (since he never left the prison control room while the heroes traveled SO FAR) and leave the island altogether as a team? Did you really need the classic “Final boss stage fight“? Really?
8. Is it possible that throughout the WHOLE resort, beach bars, bungalows there is not a single champagne bottle for Svetlana?

Probably I even forgot some of them. In the end a very good game to be played, probably better in single-player mode than in cooperative one, where everyone goes everywhere forgetting you have quests and side-quests to complete. But, as far as I’m concerned, I can’t definitely stand a game with a poor plot behind it, especially on a matter I do love so much, which is Zombie!

You know you really love someone when in the situation of having to choose between Love and Sex, you choose the first one.

Big Bang Theory | returns: 2011-09-21
Fringe | returns: 2011-09-22
Greys Anatomy | returns: 2011-09-21
The Walking Dead | returns: 2011-10-30

When women go to choose a husband, they have to follow the instructions at the entrance:

You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are 6 floors and the value of the products increase as you ascend the flights. You may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you are NOT allowed to go back down except to exit the building.

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband.

The 1st floor sign on the door reads: Floor 1: These men have jobs.

The 2nd floor sign reads: Floor 2: These men have Jobs and Love Kids.

The 3rd floor sign reads: Floor 3: These men have Jobs, Love Kids and are extremely good looking.

“Wow,” she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the 4th floor and the sign reads: Floor 4. These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and help with Housework.

“Oh, mercy me!” she exclaims, “I can hardly stand it!”

Still, she goes to the 5th floor and sign reads: Floor 5. These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, help with Housework and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the 6th floor and the sign reads: Floor 6. You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

To avoid gender bias charges, the store’s owner opens a New Wives store just across the street.

The 1st first floor has wives that love sex.

The 2nd floor has wives that love sex and do not piss husbands off.

The 3rd,4th, 5th and 6th floors have never been visited.

I always liked travelling, since I was very young indeed. I was one year old or younger when I placed my little foot into belgian soil for the first time, when I was 3 I’ve been visiting France, then Austria and Switzerland and so on with all the other countries marked with a yellow dot.

A lot of time has passed since these early memories, but the spirit of travelling hasn’t change a bit. As you can see from the enclosed map, my favourite routes bring me in Europe into an imaginary road which connects Italy to Belgium (my favourite place so far).

I’ve also been outside the old Europe, and the yellow dots tell you I’ve been in Trinidad and Tobago (lesser Antilles… yes: Caribbean) and New York and Miami (but in reality I’ve been transiting there to reach the Caribbean, so basically I never visited any of these cities).

What else? I’ve also been fascinated by Far East, so China, Japan and Thailand will have me as their guest in future, I don’t know when yet, but I wanna go and visit these countries. As well as India.

South America honestly does not attract me so much as well as Australia, as per North America I would like to reach a small/medium town, far from the big metropolis, to meet and know the true american lifestyles (not the shining plastic one of the mass medias).

Well for my personal experience in life, and for what I’ve been told by friends all over the years, I can easily disagree with that statement.

I mean: there can be friendship between a boy and a girl only under one, strict, condition. This condition is that at least one of the two is not good-looking. It’s easy to explain this: unless you get this fundamental condition, there will be sexual interest by one of the two towards the other, willing it or not. You will always have some *fancy* thoughts for your friend, you will always *hope* then sooner or later the other will melt down and love will develop from friendship.

If not love at least sex. Whoever believes the contrary simply has his own eyes wide shut or is not good-looking (so, non attractive to anyone).

I definitely would be interested in having some feedback upon this particular subject…

What can you see by US made TV series? Extreme pride, lust for money, no interest whatsoever for what people really are.

You just need to show, be glamorous, big cars, big houses, fashion places, fashion clothes, everything so shiny but also so fake and plastic.

Shame on you all.

You suffer… But why?