Friday, March 17, 2006

Action Team Podcast!

Been listening to cool podcasts lately, so I thought I'd get the ball rolling with a little sample of what our podcast might sound like: at_podcast1.mp3

Comments/Suggestions welcome!

-S?IS!

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

quick re: ASL. Was in the Rookie Help Channel of Eve-Online when I was doing the trial, and someone oh-so hilariously did the "a/s/l? LOLZ" . Then a min later some guy responded "Advanced Squad Leader?" Haha. Thought you'd like that one.

PS: WOW. One of the best ytmnd's i heard yet - very hard very fast lolz. Jesus, really makes me want to play wow again and do endgame /emowristslit

Last Edit: I CAN ONLY PRAY SHE WAS EATING BIRTHCONTROLS - haven't been to SA in a loooogtime, but ran into this: Love in Warcraft Oh man, dude leads these guys on, gets their gold, just hilarious shit. Bunch more shit at the site, will have to check it out.
Musings

- Played two raucous games of ASL last weekend with Glenn, one of the guys I met at the ASL con. He drove down from Pasadena and we got 2 great, great games in on Saturday. As the mostly conscripted Russians, I successfully defended my buildings from his Elite German Warmachine in the first game. And in the second game, my awesome firepowered, yet TERRIBLY motivated Americans failed to even claim one victory point (out of 25!!!) before I called the game for reasons of frustration (I rolled all 11's and 12's, thereby breaking all my MG's as well as removing my flamethrower in the first turn, which was vital to taking VP's) and lack of focus. For some reason we thought playing a larger, two board game second, after a 5 hour one board game, was a good idea. Anyway, it was awesome!

- Played a WWII themed cardgame with Peter this weekend too. I threw in the towel the first game when Peter had an untouchable battleship, as well as at least 5 to 10 times more forces than I had in every battle, and when the great "equalizer" card event was drawn, which is Bitter Cold, and makes all units suffer attacks from cold, I, as the Russians, lost 75% of my forces and Peter maybe lost 5%. Not quite historical, and a bitter pill to swallow. The next game was a landslide, or so it seemed, in my favor as I had superior forces the whole game, but this time, the Bitter Cold card destroyed the Russians again (historical my ass!) but at least I was in the lead, so it let him back in the game. We quit when Denis arrived, but it looked like the game has promise, though it may be landslide at one point, it seems to perhaps balance after some time. With balances, I could see it being a LONG ass game too. For cards anyway.

- Played Runebound with Denis and Peter this weekend too! Fun, mindless, Talisman Ripoff game, and much better without Laurie around! Eventually, we fizzled out and moved straight to "Tired of This Game, Endgame Phase" where we just started drawing the final encounter cards to see who would survive longest! Eventually Peter prevailed!

- ALSO(!!!!) picked up Dungeon Twister and played that with Peter. VERY interesting game. There is no luck involved at all however, so it plays a little like Chess, if you know what I mean. The only luck is the randomness of the board setup, but beyond that, you use action points to interact with the board, and use cards for combat. Like LotR:Confrontation, you have a finite set of combat cards so you can count which cards have been played by your opponent, and inturn make attacks where you are certain of the outcome because your opponent has no more 6 or 5 power attack cards, for example. Peter was slow as molasses, so it took FOREVER to actually meet each other on the board, but when we did, combat was clever, interesting, and Peter won with a super tricky-dick move, which is sort of the way the game is meant to be played: Use your custom teams special skills to create crazy moves and be super tricky. It's a fun game, I would like to play again!

- I will be a dad in less than a month, no two ways about it! Go time!

- Playing Might and Magic II again. Man. What mindless fun. Way better than WoW, which I have again stopped playing!

Monday, March 13, 2006

She turned me into a Newt,... A newt? I got bettur'

I'm 95% again woop! it was wierd, Anyhow, I had great japanese food last night. The teriyaki fish was crunchy on the grilled side and the meat was tender and juicy and not fishy at all. The steak was medium rare, japanese style, and some other great tasting fish stuff. Evne the California roll was good, not coated with unwanted mayo. You just don't get good jap-ass-fish (that's a porno reference for all, not racist) food in california anymore, really. It's all owned and operated by koreans, chinese, or mexicans, who either worked previously as a sous-jap chef or less, and is more interested in just making money by fast-food franchising the bento box meals and california rolls and fried katsu. Due to manufacturing, there is a large congregation of japanese people here and of course japanese restaraunts! Try peepeeing in their coke and they'll slash your ass in half with their ninja swords and make you into sushi.

I still can't find a decent car. still huntin for a ride. Also realized, if you find a decent car, decent meaning, a good engine, good paint, works smoothly, expect to pay a little more for it. I passed up a pretty good car cuz I wouldn't pay 20,000 extra for it, or eqv, 400 bucks.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

It's cuz you left us Johnny!! ;P

Yeah, just cold as all fuck down here, but snowy n shit all over I guess.

WELL. Just watched the last 2 episodes of this season of BSG, and OMG. SO frikken good. No spoilers, but they just took the show to a whole new level. (God, I hate the whole "next level" "new level" terminology or whatever its called, but I couldn't think of a better way to say it.) Fuck! So crazy! OK! One spoiler, but don't read too much into it if you watch the show and haven't seen the season finale. "One Year Later." Haha, so sick. Ok, that's vague and uninteresting enough for peeps who don't watch the show. Sorry!
I feel like shit

I hope i didn't contract anything terminal or serious. You never know what kind of crap is out here. My head has been pounding and i have felt hot and cold, at the same time, throughout the day. I haven't really eaten today and i think a fever i have a fever. Since I've been here I don't think i've felt like this before.

Anyhow, Jon, you want some "cream of sum yung guy?" 80's but still funny!

Fremont in Hail

Never thought it would ever happen.