Gaming

Really enjoying WatchDogs again now that I've got back into it, and turned off the online hacking invasions.
I was considering starting from the beginning like I did with Tomb Raider but the story is coming back to me now, plus it's kind of irritating that the game has only one save slot so if I do go back I lose what I've already done.
I still may restart but for the time being I'm just happy to be sneaking and hacking again and tonight I managed to take on a large gang of well-armed mercenary-types without having to fire a single shot and the subsequent getaway chase was great fun and unintentionally spectacular as I ended up jumping the car over a poor, scared pedestrian.
And I didn't kill them. For once.

Aw, doesn't Jacob get an achievement for the double horse takedown?

 

It was a bit of an accident really and I almost killed myself in the process. I pressed the wrong button and ignited the explosive whilst carrying it to the cargo that I was supposed to destroy in a more peaceful manner. Thankfully I'd just levelled up my health and had enough medicine to save myself but the horseys were gone to horsey heaven by then.
And then three policemen came to see what was going on so I did a runner.

It's all Charles Darwin's fault somehow.

Exactly.
Darwin's famous book On The Origin Of Species even has a chapter called "Levelling Up Your Health Just Before That Bomb Goes Off".

Although you can't see it in the screenshot Darwin himself is actually right there on the other side of that back wall and is talking to me as if I'm by his side.
At least he's not as random as Karl Marx.

Cats standing up!

After much travelling and side-questing along the way I have eventually met up with Aya in Alexandria.

 

And she cut my hair and shaved my beard off.

 

I liked that beard.
Hope it can grow back somehow.

*goes off to google*

*returns from google*

Apparently you can "grow" it back. So the beard will return next time.

I quickly grew my hair and beard back to hairily go on a little side quest to rescue some guy. He was being held captive by an alarming number of baddies and was so injured by this ordeal that I had to carry him out of there while simultaneously avoiding/killing all those numerous bad guy, so he was a bit of an inconvenience on my shoulders.
But I successfully got him out of the place, put him down and after a short chat... he miraculously recovered and walked off leaving me brooding beardily in the background!

 

Why couldn't you walk before?!
Would have saved me a lot of trouble.