Can't wait for my Bonez! They're coming on the 1st. Did you get any of the big guys? I didn't get that dragon, but I've seen pics of it and it's frickin MASSIVE. I couldn't resist picking up Cthulhu though!

Syntax error.  Hah!  Good stuff.

I just got my Reaper Bones.  So much bendy plastic (about 9 pounds).  Quality-wise I like some, others are meh (from a mini snob's perspective...  bendy sword...).  They can certainly be useful for canon fodder in gaming though.  As to when any get painted...

I ended up passing on the Call of Cthulhu kickstarter.  True to theme their pledging system was so confusing and arcane that I lost a couple of sanity points trying to figure out the final prices.

Those made me laugh!

Lately I've been getting intrigued by Savage Worlds Deadlands, but I want to play it, so I think Aeryk should run it!

| Couldn't resist reposting a couple nerd jokes:

"A programmer's wife tells him: ‘Run to the store and pick up a loaf of bread. If they have eggs, get a dozen.’ The programmer comes home with 12 loaves of bread."

"A biologist, a chemist, and a statistician are out hunting. The biologist shoots at a deer and misses 5ft to the left, the chemist takes a shot and misses 5ft to the right, and the statistician yells, 'We got 'im!' "

D>M>

Hope the memorial goes well - sorry for your loss!

I've always wanted to go to that arcade convention. I don't see it in the cards for me this year either, but someday we'll make it happen.

| Takey-Backy

While I still think everyone else should go to the awesome video game show, I will instead be attending a weekend long memorial service.

Topple the MCP for me!

Tron?  Burger Time?  Haunted House?!  Oh, if only I could go...  July is going to be soulcrushingly busy.  With weekend work.  Yay.

| California Extreme - July 13 - 14

http://caextreme.com/

The old school video game expo in Santa Clara is just around the corner!  11am - 2am on Saturday of all you can eat free-play game cabinets and pinball!

I went last year with Wylie and vowed to go it sans 6 year old this year because all I wanted to do was play and soak up the old arcade atmosphere. It was a lot of fun, and The Action Team should represent!

I'd be down for a night in the hotel, gaming, and drinking - anyone else?  Pre-reg ends on the 30th and is $40 bucks for Saturday.  Could use my place as a hotel for the weekend and drive over the hill for the event?

Let's doo eet!

| I hope everyone is oK!

I thought these Wikipedia Brown stories were funny. I hope the Action Team hasn't fallen apart.

| Man of Steel, Glass, Blood, Cum, and Particulate

The new superman was alright. It's biggest flaw by far is that is had like ZERO jokes. Way too friggen serious. With a super man like that, it's hard to relate when everything is so dire and joyless. There were a couple of super fights against his fellow vulcans and those scenes were great. The main bad guy was also really good . His name escapes me but he's in a ton of movies and is always entertaining. Holy shit though, the movie was a never ending parade of particulate. The transformer movies are really bad with that too, but this might set some new record for endless amount of broken metal and glass and bullshit flying all around. Seriously guys, it starts to lose its luster after the trillionth office building is scraped and flown through and tossed.

We've got a developer who is just waiting out the clock until he retires, and he is a total hack who constantly breaks shit, who is basically forbidden from checking anything into the trunk in the last two weeks before release.

Isn't that sad?

| That's Some Esoteric Sheet, Right Thurr

Posted on Slashdot:

"I hate this version of work......I have some coworkers who always do it. They occasionally forget to merge something back into head, which means they have to revisit the same problem in a few months. If you'r
e going to miss a merge, it's better to miss the merge back into the branch, rather than into head; because as long as it's merged into head, it'll be fixed eventually."

This is one of those times where my usual ability to sort of 'get' what software developers are talking about by leveraging my remedial understanding of software development (and a general greater understanding of Development) and then filling in the blanks (a la Jurassic Park) was REALLY stretched.

Taken out of context, it just reads like gibberish.

In Soviet Russia, head merge BRANCH!

I agree with you about the UI. I'm constantly hiting the ? mark to just get the "cards" instead of the pics. I'm sure if I played enough I wouldn't have to do that, but there's so much going on, it's a bit much. Challenge "rudyriot" sometime, we can play a game over 6 weeks.

Last of Us looks great! Been a long while since I used the PS3 for anything but Blu-ray, but am tempted!

I like Agricola too but yes, it is a little on the brain-burning side to just play casually -- kind of similar to Le Havre in that way (which is a similarly intensive brain exercise in Not Fucking Up).

With Agricola, I wish they had a "barebones UI" version where you could get all of the action cards confined to a single screen without scrolling around. The existing UI is really pretty but I don't like swooping around.

Aeryk have you bought Agricola yet and if so, does that mean you'll be selling your iPad next Kubla? :)

| Last of Us

I'm totally out of the non-iOS game loop, but have any of you video gamers checked out "The Last of Us"? I just happened to look it up and noticed it's scored really well on all the game sites. I guess it's PS3 exclusive and just came out last week, but I don't follow these things anymore so didn't know if any of yous knew about it.

The Agricola app is good. I've got a few games going with my usual Lost Cities/Ascension internet friends, and they did a great job of porting it over. The game itself is still kinda brain burny, but you can't go wrong with how it keeps score for you and other little details that pile on in real life.

Not a game, but my creative writing class is going really well. So far she's given us 1000 word writing assignments each week, and then the following week in class we critique everyone's stories. The two I've written so far have been well received, so I'm digging it.