Have you guys tried the optional rules in the Quarriors app yet? They definitely add a little more strategy. I'm interested in playing the game again in a "hey, enr0n, bring it to Kubla" kinda way.

I do find it infuriating that "choose" is misspelled in the defend prompt and intend to write the company a letter (not an email).

In other news, AEG accidentally let a Doomtown reboot site go live for a little while today! There were only a few temp copy and art assets there, and it's back behind a password wall now, but it sure looks like they're planning to rerelease Doomtown in LCG format this year! That is fan-fucking-tastic news.

* fires six-shooters wildly in air, is eaten by crazed, zombie Abraham Lincoln *

And here's the dance remix of Jeff Goldblum's laugh in Jurassic Park.

| Brothers

Play it. Everyone.

Not in a "Hearthstone" or "come on guys, let's all play a rad game" way, in a "play it because its short, amazing, clever, incredibly well done, and you might not have had an experience with a game like you will with this one" way.

I just finished it and am honestly surprised it had such an emotional impact on me.

The Quarriors iOS app is free right now.

I've been meaning to play that! It was one of the free games on PS+ last month (along with the new Bioshock, it was quite a month!).

But you know how it is man, all these games and no time to play them. If only I could send them back in time to my teens or twenties!

If you guys have xbo type controllers for your PC, I gotta highly recommend the game Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons. It's on sale right now for $5 bucks and so far it's really impressive. It's an adventure game (and I think action too? Can't tell yet) where you control a big and little brother at the same time. The analog sticks and triggers are mapped to the two brothers, so it's almost like playing a co-op game solo. Great art style and story the tiny bit I've played.

I think I totally saw that church at one point, but it was nighttime and I was scared to investigate. I never have a good supply of guns/ammo, just knives and bullshit which always get me killed. I'll try to go visit and leave you an phallic sculpture.

Kubla - I'm in.  Thursday through Monday.

7 Days - So I found this church to hole up. I forget the name.  It's near two bridges.  Been digging up trenches in the graveyard.  Yeah, kinda disrespectful.  But man, those coffins have two compartments with loot.  Sorry Mor Mor, I need more scrap iron for shovels.

They added a Police Station! I say we find it and make it the base.

Anoother crucial thing this patch brings is:

Added basic character sickness and gassiness from eating raw meat and eggs

EDUTAINMENT:

We started watching ORPHAN BLACK on Amazon Prime Instant fake-netflix thingy, and it's pretty excellent. It's a BBC America show that I didn't get to catch when it first aired, but it just showed up on Amazon and is a lot of fun. I don't want to give away it's main "twist" but it's like a thriller with some sci-fi and even laughs thrown in.

Netflix on the other hand has the french tv show "The Returned" which is supposed to be awesome - haven't gotten around to it yet, but just noticed it showed up recently.

| 7 Days Map Reset!

D'oh.

7.3 resets the map and adds a few more locations to explore.

I seriously JUST finished walling, trenching, and spiking the Husker House... on to another base I guess... :)

| Items of Interest

As we move around some stuff in the office to make room for another desk, etc. I found two items that I would offer up:

 - A typewriter written review of Fellowship of the Ring.  In addition to a  summary I wrote, I also included some choice quotes, and a reference page with information about some of the different races in Middle Earth.  The review is less than a page long.  In the end, I left the reader with these strong words of warning: "...I must warn you, unless you really like fantasy and very deep involved novels, this may not be the book for you."

 - The Winter 1989 Video Archives catalog.  Please note, I did highlight the movies that I had apparently seen at the time.  Here are some that are highlighted - Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Parents, Dial M for Murder, Midway, Johnny Got His Gun, Pumpkinhead, Hardware Wars, and Blue Thunder.  This is not a complete list, but a smattering that apparently was representative of my 14 year old viewing habits.

My wife bought me an awesome pith helmet at the zoo today. I'm pumped to colonize some savages.

I'll be back to work and unable to attend :( roll the dice for your pal, me.

| KUBLA

5/23-5/26. Who's in?

I'm in fo sho. TBD whether I start Thursday or Friday, but Fri-Sat-Sun definitely, and Monday is not out of the question.

Just so you know: that was an hilarious post.