Saturday, May 17, 2003

Flocking Tips

Achron or Einrich: I'm having trouble getting the static grass to look nice on the bases... They keep flaking off. I tried elmers glue, bought the scenic woodland glue (which is elmers glue with water) and i even tried clear coating it. The clear coat makes the static grass stay on better, but it flattens it.
How do you do it, or that's pretty much the way to flock static grass for the bases?
Tribute to the Convention

I was just reading some emails that I saved from 1999 to 2001 and omg. Seriously, bad memories, bad g/f relationships, the memories came flooding back. I don't even know why I saved those emails but I guess I did. I was even reading some of our convention chats too (which is not much different today) except that we don't talk about having finals and stuff like that anymore.

Just for kicks, here's one from 3 years ago, think this was one of the last con JP went to... think this was the one we played pictionary with Mikeys new g/f (new back then), you guys just bought the warmaster minis... and the fucking grab bag?

Subj: PLAGUECON-NOFUNCON-ROUNDUP
Date: 5/30/00 4:38:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: jpmunro@hotmail.com (JP Munro)
To: JonnyRockt@aol.com, LilRudy@aol.com, biggdork@earthlink.net, enoto@earthlink.net, drstupid@mindspring.com, inpw@hotmail.com

Whoa- hold on. What's this about buying 200 dollars worth of miniaturized
figurines? Please elaborate.
All in all, that con was kind of fun, but also lots of no fun was to be had.
I found that the misery index decreased after the games of Pictionary and
Trivial Pursuit. A hardy "DE ICE AGE!" to whoever came up with the idea.
Werewolf update: I'm probably going to have dinner at my parent's house
sometime this week, and if I happen to rummage through my stuff and find my
werewolf books, who knows what's liable to happen. Maybe two weeks from now?
Rudy: Nice work with the song. Can I have a copy? I think maybe it can only
be truly appreciated in the comfort of my automobile.
Eric: call me if you or anyone else ever wants to play the WW!! little game.
I hear it's more than just a fucking grab-bag?!.
To All: I think the real deciding factor in making the con as fun as it was
were my flurries of emails beforehand. count on a 1000% increase before the
next one!

Jael
Yay sleep. Boo 4:45 wakeup.

I'm tired in advance. I'm off to NY tomorrow, but like a sucka I signed up for a 7:00 AM flight leaving out of the LBC... which means I gotta be there around 5:30 while you guys are sleeping like precious, precious angels... d'oh. NY is gonna be totally awesome, on top of which it will be shred-tacular. I get in sometime around 12:15 PST.

I'm bringing my computer, so hopefully I'll be able to get some bloggage in! Otherwise, have a great week.

PS Fun day of gaming today! Yay Battlecry/Crimson Skies/Dungeoneer/Halo.
PPS If I find any game stores in NY I'll be sure to Blog STRAIGHT AWAY!
PPPS R.I.P. Buffy the Vampire Slayer ttyl!
PPPPS I've seen that show like once. It's fine though, gonna miss it a lot!
good story- about the cop. i'm drunk and i still was able to follow it- i even laughed out loud sonce! anyways, yeah, thats a good one. nice yarn you spined! yeah, bendam like benckam was cool- did you see that one? i couldn;'t reaf all that, but i slimmed it. sweetness. loooolololol.

omy my god (omg) carson daly is SO offensive.

w.o.r.t.h.l.e.s..s. - what a waste of flesh ( i just watched the predator the other night- you know, it really aint that good.)!

Friday, May 16, 2003

An interesting event

So Wednesday morning I'm truckin' to work, going east on 190th, approching Flagler (where there's the four-way stop at the top of the hill). I pass by a motorcycle cop giving a guy a ticket. Then I stop at the intersection. It's busy traffic and I'm about third in line at the stop.

Whee-oo, whee-oo! The cop hits his lights and roars past. By the time his bike passes me he's built up enough speed so he's going 30, 35 maybe.

He pulls into the intersection. I can't see into the intersection because there's a car and a truck ahead of me, but...

WHAM! That horrible, nerve-freezing sound of one vehicle hitting another.

Over the roof of the truck ahead of me I see the cop flying into the air, laid out horizontally. He then drops below my line of sight.

I pull over and get out. Everybody else is doing the same. "Don't move him!" etc.. He's lying in the intersection on his back, the Acura that hit him is stopped and its front is all crumpled-up with the bumper hanging off. The bike is on its side way on the opposite corner, gas leaking out, still going "Whee-oo, whee-oo." The cop's paperwork is scattered all over the intersection.

I'm shaky and sick. I kind of walk up to the cop, but there's lots of people around him already, so I just kind of hang out for a while. After a couple minutes a fire truck, several cop cars, and an ambulance come up. Eventually, the cop manages to get up. I don't see if he gets into the ambulance or what. People are standing around talking about the accident and I think about passing on my advice I learned from NYPD Blue, that witnesses shouldn't talk with each other before giving their statements.

A cop tells me to stick around, so I do. Eventually another cop walks up and starts taking statements. At this point, a heavily-bearded homeless guy dressed in camouflage comes up. He's walking some kind of teeny mixed-breed chihuahua which has longer fur than usual. It has a huge, half-erect cock. As he approaches us, I notice the dog is making a buzzing sound very similar to those "cow" cans that you turn upside-down and they buzz at you.

"He starts chokin' on the leash sometimes," says the guy.
"You should carry him," I say.
"Bzzzz," goes the dog.
"Yeah, I do carry him sometimes," the guy says.
"Bzzzz."
"Well, come on," the guy says to the dog. "Come 'ere, Froggy. Let's go, Froggy."
I ask the cop, "I was third in line. Did you need my statement?"
The homeless guy walks off with his dog.
"Nah, not really," says the cop. "We've got plenty of other witnesses."
"Oh, okay," I say.

So then I went to work.

Anyway, that's what happened.
Matrix: Reloaded

Pretty fuckin' cool.

The movie starts, happens, and ends in the Matrix, where a young Indian girl named Jesminder ("Call me Jess") Bhamra has rewritten herself into a World Cup game, scoring England's winning goal next to her idol, David Beckham. Is this a new Neo? As we soon learn, she is not that powerful. Her wish-fulfillment abruptly goes awry during a section in which several British sportcasters dish about Jess with her upset mother, who wants her daughter to marry well and become a solicitor. Then, of course, the Matrix is rewritten further and Jess is no longer playing football at all, merely engrossed in a game on the telly.

Is Jess' mother actually an Agent, capable of rewriting reality to her own will? The movie deals with Jess' continual efforts to subvert the will of her parents (by running off to football games when she's supposed to be at her sister's gloriously-rendered Indian wedding, for example).

The Wachowskis really play with the idea that Jess may be as or more powerful than The One (Keanu Reeves). In fact, in what must be one of the best-kept secrets in film history, this second film of the trilogy doesn't even refer to the Matrix or acknowledge the existence of Neo, Morpheus, Zion, or any of the other elements from the first film. They trust the viewers to follow along with Jess' adventures in good faith. The wire fu is more subtle, more cunning in this film; when Jess proves that she truly can "bend" the ball by scoring the winning goal in the final match, we know that she has mastered the Matrix, but she still has to learn of its nature. Only when Jess and her friend Jules, flying off to live their dream of playing football professionally, freeze-frame in the last moments of the film do we realize that having mastered Reality, they will now be shown "the way" in the Matrix: Revolutions.

By focusing the second film of their trilogy on completely different elements, the brothers W. have laid the groundwork for an amazing meeting of minds in the third film, due in November. Sure, Jess has subverted the programming of her Agent parents, but what will happen when they, Agent Smith, and the entire Arsenal football squad lay ambush to Neo and his team?

I'm excited to find out.
Dirty Underwear

Keep putting off doing the laundry. D'oh! Now I have to wear used underwear. And it is not the boxer kind. High Five to Johnny. The tighty whities will live on! Yeah what ever.

In other news The Pat-Tato is doing okay. He is resting at home and is going to get an Angiogram on monday. They think it may be a blockage. Suck ballz. Keep ya'll updated. Gotta Run.

"Dude we're all guys here"
Extremus Studius Maximus

This weekend will be study weekend. nothing but studying. Then next week it's Parteee! 7 days till convenshun time.

Have you ever wondered why convenshun weekends are only 3 days long? Don't you wish that the convention weekends was 5 days long? Why can't we have a 5 day weekend? Why is it always only a 3 day weekend? Did someone just decide 3 as the number on the calendar? Imagine a 5 day weekend.... ohhhh... doh... 5 day convention...mmmmmmm

Seriously. It doesn't make sense. 3 days is just too short.

Jael
Bummerus Maximus

Hope everything turns out ok with your pops enron! It probably IS stress, so maybe they'll get him to relax and give him lots of drugs and what have you. Good luck!

-Was diggin' around CafePress, and if you order anything in bulk (15 or more pieces) you get a nice 35% discount- so those new shirts, instead of being 13.99, it'd be like 9.99. Ok, still kind of expensive, but between us and all our old friends, we could sell them to 15 people! Plus, you can order different sizes in that same bulk order. Whatever. Stickers! They'd be 1.29 each instead of 1.99! YAR.

Oh, and they're also selling CDs now (pretty cheap too- you send them the master cd and artwork and they put a base price at like $5 bucks- you sell it for $10 bucks, you make 5 bucks! And they're gonna do books soon- maybe Oon can publish his OWN zombie adventure chronicalz! mug.

-Jerkules
Bortz is in the house

How does the Crimson sky clicky base work? How do they represent altitude? Remember Mustangs and Messershmits (sp?)? Damn we played the shit out of that game at he Con. The golden era of conventioneering. Speaking of which, when are you going to be in our lovely city Elroy? Johnny, when are you going to get over to the peninsula on the friday o' games? What is the word on Denish?

In less pleasent scary news my Father had to go to the hospital because of chest pains yesterday. They ran an EKG and didnt like what they saw so they are going to nuclear dye him and tread mill him today to take a look at things. He has been super stressed lately. Hopefully it is just that. More news on that later. Gotta run to work.

Blah...

Thursday, May 15, 2003

So no Matrix

That's okay because I just recieved word that the Crimson Skies clicky-bases game is in at Third Planet. Gotta go get it!!!!!
Orifice Space

When I was working at the studio, one of the techs there was supposedly writing a script for a sitcom based in a recording studio. It's funny cuz, you'd think the stuff in Office Space would mostly apply to just those kinda jobs, but that exact kinda shit happened at my work too. Down to the weekly birthday cakes and the unenthusiastic singing of "happy birthday." There was also a pretty funny episode of Seinfeld that dealt with the b-day issue.
Random thought

Want to make videos of Office Space: Reality show?

Or we can go the franchise route and make Office Space 2..

I think that'd be really funny
No Job, No Money, and No Friends, equals

No Matrix. I bet Jon saw it though. HOW WAS IT? He went with Lee and Bruce.
HA-HA... Jon's brainwashed

You know, come to think of it, that would make sense. TSR may have innocently released the power of satanic rituals, magic and demons and such. What possessed me to light my ninja on fire and then in a ritualistic suicide to burn my companions, who by the way unexplicably conspired to slay me without provocation? TSR although may not have intentionally tried to do so, but in creating a game based on true rituals, may have inadvertently unleashed an unknown power. Wow... That explains jons conpulsion to sell role playing books by the pound and then only to purchase more later.
There may yet be a link to Mission Chips and Mexican salsa, as the amount of chips and dips we consume WHILE in the frenzied trance is unparralelled.

Ms. Frost is one hot DM. I be glad to show her my 8th level spells.

J.



The Matrix Redeux

I'm waiting with baited breath to hear Rudy's review of the Matrix. I'm sure that Rael either went to the midnight showing last night or the first showing of the day today, so I'm waiting to hear how rippin', hecka, hella awesome it was! Ah, to be unemployed when new kickass movies come out!

Wednesday, May 14, 2003

ooooh shit!

Ok, I totally remember the Dark Dungeon tract book now. That makes the shirt even cooler. Maybe on the back of the shirt you could put an inverted cross in the top. Ok, maybe thats too gnarly-

Cool idea- That sounds kind cool putting the icons where you said- i'll try it out. (ADDED: I tried it out and i couldn't get it to look cool- i was having trouble aligning the text so it look even - i'll fiddle some more- it is a good idea though.)

How's the Matrix? I havent seen it yet but I'm sure some of you have. No SPOOLERS!
The Greastest Comic Evar

Here it is. Read it and see the light.

Dark Dungeons

Also, your site is looking great! My only suggestion is that next to your update information (ex. on the action team site it says Weblog | ) you should put the little graphics you made, instead of inside the update information. That way it won't scroll when you scroll the text. Just a thought. Rockin'!
Shweet

That's a cool design Erizwyq! You should throw something on the back of the shirt too- it wont cost anymore, will it? I don't think I've ever seen that comic- must check it out! Also cool that its bigger than the last one, right? I remember Jael saying his shirts design was smallish. My AT ver 1 mug rules- use it everytime! All day, everyday!
Another piece of shit, er, I mean merch

I added another T-Shirt design to the cafepress site. It's a page from the famous Dark Dungeons comic. What a great comic. Tell me what you think and what I should change or add. I want to use the front cover for the next shirt, or sweatshirt or something and instead of it saying Dark Dungeons, it will of course say Action Team. Great.

Go Check It!

Prime Minister or Bodage Dungeon Master?

Sorry Jael- Since I've been unemployable for a few months now, I couldn't figure out what you meant by PM or BDM. Either way, sounds like your kinda gettin' a raw deal. Death of a Salesman dude! You gotta read that one (I think we did in HighSchool.) Anyways, do what you thinks gonna make you happier bro- its a rough job-world out there right now all around. Hold on to what you got for now!

Review: The Big Sleep
The movie, not that book. From 1945 - Bogart and Bacal - Based on a Raymond Chandler book. It was alright! What was totally rad was how in the first 10 minutes, theres some major Big Lebowski influence stuff- theres this rich dude in a wheelchair who offers this dude (phillip marlowe) a job and the guy has this crazy daughter who just like Julian Moore's character- it was pretty sweet. Well, a lot of that stuff is just probably typical cliched stuff from a ton of those movies, so who knows how much the Coens used because of this one, but it was pretty close.

Keep your ugly fuckin' goldbrickin' ass out of my beach community! Fuck PV- what a bunch of fuckers. Thats like one of the most beautiful creatures EVER.

I've been messing with my site more, Check It.

-Private Dick

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

More Work Bullshit

Ok... I know you guys are almost sick of my work rants, but I just need someone to hear me out.... =/

So I got my (predicted, tiny) raise and review. So I did fairly well, according to my boss, Woopidy Doo, YaY. So since I was inquiring about PM jobs, he tells me that he plans to create 1, possibly 2 more soon and that he encourages me to apply but he thinks they might be looking for people with more experience yada yada.
So great, fuckin jackass, 1st) I'm supposed to be next in line for the PM job since I'm a PC. From the sound of his comments I'm not guaranteed despite the fact i'm doing decent work according to my good reveiw. 2) It doesn't even sound certain PM job is going to be created... and what the fuck is soon? How soon? month, year decade? 3) It sounds like I don't even have leverage in this whole thing and that I need more experience.

So I'm thinking of pursuing the BDM job, which 1) would pay more 2) i get to travel 3) I get to be sales 4) i work with a bunch of really professional guys (serious).

Here's the BUT. I think the only reason I'm not 100% down with the BDM role is that I really want to be PM and If in 2 months the job DOES open up and chances are I will have a good chance of getting it.

I don't know what to do... fuck...

jael
Palos Verdes Bullshit

So, the fine people of Palos Verdes have decided to kill off and destroy all the wild Peacocks that live in PV. They are too loud and are a nuisance. So buy some million dollar earplugs and live with the nature that surrounds you. This makes me so mad! FUCK PV FUCKERS.

Rael: There are plenty of cgi driven counters out there. I think the perk to the cookie counter is that the counter will only count unique visitors, where these other cgi counters count everyone that checks the site, including yourself and every refresh, etc.

Monday, May 12, 2003

Der Prisonar

Went to the library today and checked out some dvds, one of them being The Prisoner Vol. 1 . I've been really wanting to see this for a long time, but they've always only had like vols 2-4 available. I know elrock has it, so yeah. What the fuck was I even posting for? Jeebus.

Review: Ah, it was pretty cool! Just watched "Arrival" and tried watching the second one which was "alternate version of big ben's chimes" or something- the sound was SO crappy, i had to turn it off. I had the volume ALL the way up, still couldn't make out the dialoge, then the music would kick in all crazy. Anyways, looks like its gonna be cool. I was looking on Amazon, and he had a show before Prisoner called DANGER MAN which sounds cool- u got that e-cock? :D

Question: You guys know of any website counters that dont use cookies? I was looking around for some cool free counters (and ones that I could have invisible) and I found some, but it seems like the way they work is by using cookies. Is that just the way its gotta be if you want a counter? Thanks for the tips.
Tghe Pciture

I'm talking about that pic you always had on your wall where it was a bunch of you guys on a camping trip or something, and hes shirtless flexing his muscles i think- i dunno- it was always a funny picture.
It's a Sickness, Really

So I'm sitting here at work trying to figure out a way to make a run to a site we have in Orange County JUST so I can also take a lunch break, forgo lunch, and instead head over the the Block and check the new Tuesday shipment of 70% off merchandise at the Game Keeper.... Sheesh... I'm starting to read some more of my guilty of guilty pleasure books again, the "slayer" series (Trollslayer, Daemonslayer, Skavenslayer, etc.). I feel like such a 4th grader reading fantasy novels with blood and guts for the first time again. So lowbrow, so fun, so easy to read. It makes me want to run a Warhammer Roleplay game again. Any takers?

Rael: Which picture of "Andy" were you talking about with the muscles? Also, no photoshop required, man! Those eyes are all yours, I got the originals to prove it!

Enoto and RDub: HOIST! and Brandon is pretty dope for making the Iron Maiden reference, I guess if you force enough of a good thing on a young and impressionable youth, she'll remember some of it, no?
Koobla Kountdown 14 days!!! baby!

Forget the lakers man... watch the Dallas Mavs and the Sacremento Kings. There's no chance in hell, the lakers are going to beat either of these teams in the west. At least not the way theyre playing... which is poor. But then there is a conspiracy theory that the refs will give foul calls to the lakers just because they are favored and well liked. That's why often times they'll have amazing comeback victories. Then again, the Sac kings always choke against the lakers. It's like a pitted curse. But the Dallas wins, there's no saying. Dirk nowitki hardly chokes!! Go dallas cheerleaders!

A-pinskiviniavich - Hey we should go watch the New Matrix movie DOiiiiiitttt!!!

Jon OOOEEtersen - "Handsome"... hardly! I don't think I evar got laid with any chicks from high school a sure sign of prowess... The closest I got was maybe at the French trip, in which I ended up not anyways.... ah dammit! I coulda though... I blame my failure at studliness today because I didn't get laid in High school!

EYE-RICK - hee hee... I couldn't even recognize you in your younger picture. So... I think you'll need to bring the PBI boards because I haven't finished making mine yet, unless by some miracle that i'll get it done this weekend. i doubt it.

Roody: There is a Jlo restaurant that opened up around here. One of my co-workers was telling me about it. I'll have to checkit up and get in on some of the action.

Michael Anderson: Where in the world is...




Go Lakers

Yeah, it was a sweet game this afternoon! Things were looking pretty hairy for the big fella and his crew going into the half, but with the butt-power of J-Lo and Ben Affleck, Penny Marshall and her fat kid, Jack Nicholson and his house-to-rape-13-year-olds, and David Hasselhawf "Mr. Baywatch" himself, the Lakes were able to pull it together in the last half and route the San Antonio menace by a fantabulous 5 points! Yeah, I know you guys are mad that they don't ICE SKATE while they play ("Kobe pulls off a triple-lux!") but it was an exciting game.

Look at my fucking avatar! Did you photoshop the eyes or something!?!? So, lets go to the Matrix opening night or something! DO IT.

PS- you gotta scan that picture where that Andy guy was faking he had a muscle in his arm. BAHAHAHAHA.

-Sidney Katzenblumenbergenstahlenthal

Sunday, May 11, 2003

New Avatars

I think everybody's new pic is pretty grody, except for that of "Handsome" Johnny Lee... personally, I think Eric's psychological issues with his adolescence is making him overexaggerate the grossness of his own picture. But it you can't obsess about the past, what's it good for?

I wish you could see mine a little bigger too. In addition to the angle making my glasses appear to be of double-or-treble-Coke-Bottle-thickness, my chin is swollen down to just about the start of my neck.

TV ANNOUNCER: With all respect to The Matrix, The Lakers are the real blockbuster right now!
JON: FUCK YOU, TV!!!

...Sorry. Anyway, 3 cheers for the past.

(By the way, originally I titled this post "Avatards," but then I started feeling super duper guilty, so I went back and changed it!)

(Hey Eric, remember that guy we saw running down the street by Big Wok?)

(Boo. Humanity points++.)
I was showing my sister the action team web site and she asked, "Why do the words look like Iron Maiden?" Go Brandi! How rad.

I don't know what I am looking at in that picture with us at the pool. I did realize a couple of things from that photo, though. (1) I look pretty buff there for some reason, and (2) My profile is hideous.

The "Chug!" dice game for drinkin' made me laugh SOOOO hard last night. It carried over today. When I was taking an order this afternoon, I thought of when Jon, Eric and I were playing last night and I started laughing. The customer must have thought I was retarded.
Zero Charisma

ET is on tv right now, and there was just a scene where Elliot kept calling this bully "zero charisma!" Thought it was pretty sweeeeet.

Klingon Speaker needed for hospital

Heh. This isnt a joke either! "there are some cases where we've had mental health patients where this was all they would speak" holy shit, thats funny. Mental illness isnt funny, but Klingon as a second language? HA.

If Only You Could See Mine...

If you could see a full size images of my avatar, you would be convinced that I, infact, have the most hideous one of the bunch. It is a lovely pic of me in either 8th or 9th grade and my face has just begun to realize it's future dream of being a pock-marked landscape for the rest of my life. There are enormous volcanoes of blood and pus errupting all over... I think Enron is the only one who might remember me at that lovely stage in my life. Of course I have a Metallica T-Shirt on too! Rockin'!

Have no fear Jael, all of my PBI guys are just base painted too. Just a dollop of peach for their faces, a strip of brown and metal for their guns, basecoat (black) for their boots, and a whole lotta grey or green for their uniforms. The bases are a bit cooler, and were a pain to do. Hang tight though MoFo, they will pay your hard work back in full when you finally get to use them at Kubla!!!!! Hooray!!!!

Roodie: Of course thats me surfin' cause I rip like none other, and I think we can deduce that Ryan is looking at one fo three things a) Enrons penis, cause it actually looks like Enron is showing him, b) A drowned child still in the pool, or c) the 13 year old hooker in the jaccuzzi.

For Jon and Ryan: HHHHHHOIST.

Enron: mail.theactionteam.org. Same SqWebMail that 10d6 uses. Check it.
The New Pictures

These new pics you guys put up are pretty hilarious... Of course, i get the out-right grossest new avatar, but thats fine. Cool photos up top too- whos surfin in that pic, and what is ryan staring at in that other one? those were some fun times...

painting sucks

I just realized how much I hate painting. This is the last miniature game which requires painting a million miniatures, that I will buy for a long long long long time. tchu kno sucka?

jael