For once I have something positive to talk about! At first I was being negative about the dog story before I saw the video. "So Fable 2 has regressed into a fancy version of Black & White" I thought as I looked down upon Whoville with a sneer, but then I took off the Grinch costume and watched the video. It actually looks like a npc companion that WON'T be a burden for once! Sure he can be injured but it looks like a simple heal spell will take care of any problems like that. And you don't even to use him anyways, he's optional! I won't be stuck with some inbred mutt that I have to stop every ten seconds to let them catch up as I explore! Forget about ultra-realistic graphics and physics, we need AI that can intelligently take care of itself without constant attention. And it looks like we may have something like that this time. But of course I could be horribly mistaken and Fable 2 could be just as disappointing as it's predecessor, ah there's the good old negative me.

When driving past a pedestrian jogging on the side of the road another car will ALWAYS be coming in the opposite direction at a distance that will ALWAYS make you pass simultaneously while you're swerving to avoid the stupid pedestrian. You never hit but you hold your breath as your sideview mirrors come within a hair's width.
I hate pedestrians, both virtual and real. Virtual pedestrians are suicidal, hell-bent on getting run over so you get heat/stars etc. from the police. They either run into the street or they're programed to dive out of the way but they dive INTO THE WAY OF YOUR CAR. Real pedestrians act like they own the world and jaywalk like they don't care that they're entering of the turf of big shiny metal things that go fast. Oh go ahead Madame Cellphone, cross the street at an odd angle, ensuring you're in the street for the longest possible time when the light is green, we don't have anywhere to go. RUN THE *BEEP* OVER! RUN HER OVER NOW! Ahem. I mean... aww forget it.

And it's all thanks to YouTube, their merger to Google, and places like photobucket and imageshack.
You browse the internet and see a link to a funny video and say to yourself "Jolly good, my funnybone could do with a good rub!" in a Vaudevillian actors voice. So you click the link and it's a YouTube video so you click play and lo and behold the video has been removed! "Blast and damnation!" you exclaim as you run off and find a maiden to tie to traintracks before her Mountie boyfriend can interveine. Image bandwith exceeded? Image linking not allowed? It's enough to make you want to vomit in rage! Now every blog post and every forum thread has a shelf life because they all use these fickle hosting services. I swear these are signs of the collapse of the internet because soon everybody is going to be using YouTube for everything and one day all the videos will be removed "due to terms of use violation". Broadcast Yourself? Yeah, well Broadcast THIS YouTube!