Bingo.

The UI is absolutely fantastic, it’s an improvement over Blades in just about every way imaginable. I still pertain that the Avatar/Facebook stuff is more than a bit shit though.

After having had the Avatar system forced upon me, I did what I could with it. I tried to create VaultBoy with it, but that was a rather disappointing failure. The Tintin eyes, a certain mouth, and a very round face-shape came very close, but the hair selection is a bit crap really. I could do VaultBoy, but without VaultBoy’s hair, and half of VaultBoy is in the hair.

So instead, I created a drugged-out hippie, and that’ll have to do (even though they didn’t have sandals, which is a crime). I am amused by the fact that he spends most of his time spinning his head around slowly as if to mimmick “Woaaahh, look at all the colours.“, but I can only assume that all avatars do that. But mine has a reason for it.

I would’ve loved to be able to completely avoid the avatar thing though, I hate them all, creepy Playmobil people. It’s fine for anyone who has no imagination whatsoever, but for the small minority who engage themselves in creative works… it’s bloody stifling.

I feel like I’ve had a bland, poorly made doll shoved into my hands by a dull-featured, suit-encrusted man who’s apparently making the claim aloud that “this is you”. My response is, quite frankly, “Fuck off!“.

I now imagine Blerk to look really rather handsome.

*ulp*

I demand to see Blerks now, I imagine it to look like that bloke who sits next to the phone in Zelda games

Richard Hammond on drugs.