| *Taps Mic*

Is this thing on? lol

So Sunless Sea! I've been playing it a bit.. pretty fun. It's very text-story heavy, with a semi-random map.. lots of exploration and really the heart of the game is resource management. Making sure you have enough fuel and supplies to make it from point A to B to C and back home to port without running out of gas is pretty much the core of what you do.. and along the way try to work through the various story lines, deliver X cargo to Y location for a Z% chance of what you need to further the story. I'm no where near the end of it (it's pretty rouge-ishly brutal).. the story pretty much tells you right off the bat your first few captains are going to probably die a horrible death, and they'd be right. Heh. I find myself starting to keep hand written journal/notes about places visited, which shops offer which supplies.. who wants certain goods/services and will pay a premium (or offer a discount).. so in that regard it sort of combines old school RPG gaming with the video game experience. Dig it.

Darkest Dungeon! Did I already pump this one enough? I can't get over how much fun it is. A very differently packaged dungeon crawler / character building system. I love how the prevailing theme is how fear and dungeon crawling will slowly break even the sturdiest of adventurers without enough care/mental health maintenance back at home. The voice overs are just absolutely perfect. The combat is compelling and interesting, and the dev's are still cranking out tons of free updates. I think it's technically still an 'early access' game but it plays like a polished, finished product. Highly recommend.

Otherwise, hope all is well with you and yours. :) I'm coming up on my summer vacation at work... yay 17 days off! Very much looking forward to some respite and mental health recovery myself. Hard to believe I'll be there a year and a half soon. Crazy! It's never boring, that's for sure. And getting paid hourly is something I am now getting very accustomed to. lol. Yay for overtime and double time pay!

On that note, time to get ready for my swing shift today. Lates!

| Zombo Apocalypse & Comic Con LV 2015

Went to this place called Zombie Apocalyse the other day and thought you guys might enjoy it if you are here in town with the kids.  They converted a paintball field on the weekdays, and made it into a Zombie infested city.  Then you have to run from safe-point to safe-point away from all the zombies armed with a shotgun with 12 paintball shells.  It was creepy!

It's totally awesome dawesome for little kids I would imagine.  But afterawhile you comprehend that the zombies can't "touch you" so then it takes a lot of the fear out.

It reminded me a lot like "true dungeon" except TD was probably more interactive and challenging for adults and less frightening.

Also went to comic con, but other than the Street fighter II machine that was free to play, it was okay.  There wasn't a load of people, it looked really empty and not as many scantily clad heroine costumes as would have hoped for.

| Sunless Sea ?

Anyone else play this? I see it on sale in STEAMZZZZ for the next while and it looks intriguing.

SUNLESS SEA TRAILER VID

Semi-related, saw the X-COM "The Bureau" expansion on sale for $3 so I grabbed that... pretty excited to have a new environment/new toys/mechanics to play with in the X-COM game-verse... but.. instead of being a turn-based tactical strategy game.. they turned it into just another FPS clone? Whaaaaat. I don't hate it, but it's just so.. uninspiring. It FEELS like a knock off of other uber-linear shooters, but without the pinache of, say, Mass Effect.

It was awesome.

It's nothing like Borderlands. There are real stakes.

So Mad Max Fury Road is getting crazy good reviews (99% on rotten tomatoes right now), so maybe I'll eat my hat and go see it.  The preview made it look absolutely over-the-top awful (yea, I've played that video game with the midgets too...) but hey.  Maybe I'm just a grouchy old man that just needs a good action flick to calm me down?

NERRRRRD!

Heh heh, Grand Moff Tarkin is playing Battle Masters.  Awresome.

This is so good!

It is a lot weirder and more operatic for sure, but... have you seen Road Warrior lately? It is pretty bonkers.

Plus it's mostly practical effects! I'm in for that alone!

I hate to be that guy.  Maybe old age makes you jaded, but I think I played this in Borderlands 2.  I was seriously expecting the midget psychos with hockey masks to come out.

| I mean, seriously

What the fuck is this shit?

| World War Great: The Great War

Interesting  Kickstarter out of UK for a new Command & Colors game (Memoir 44, etc). If you buy a retailer 6-pack, it works out to $56 bucks a person. iJawn is seeing if there's enough people interested!

Kickstarter Page
BGG Page

| Dungeon!

So there I was, at my local mexican place (the only legit mexican food I've found up here so far), and I see a Tacoma Games store has opened next door! While they were making our delicious take out food, I took the kiddos over there and went to see what was what... tons of table top games! Yay! Found a copy of Dungeon! on the shelf and was surprised to find it was exactly the same game, just with different box art. Brought it home and the kiddos and I have been playing every night the last three nights. So far, Bennett, Haylee and I have all won a game. It feels awesome to share some of the love of gaming with the kiddos and pass that on, even more so with a game that I loved as a wee lad. Glad to see that my remembrance wasn't overly romanticized... still a very fun game! 3 down, 97 to go? :D

| AHHHHHHHH GAMING

So wish I could have been there. Had the wifey permission and money to do it, but as the new guy at work, was shat upon when I put in my request for time off. :(

In happier news... check this awesome article/blog out.. Elrockenstein, I'm looking at you. BTW.. I take a terrible and great pleasure in passing on the Bob Marley bottlecap ear-herpes. It's the gift that keeps on giving, and one can never get rid of.

Isolated Drum Tracks - very cool!

| Skull

Got to try out a really fun bluffing game called Skull & Roses last night. I've known about it for a while but never bothered hunting it down. I think it would have done great at Mancon! I'll pick it up before the next big gathering.

Everyone gets 4 coasters in their color, 3 of which have a rose on it, 1 which has a skull. Everyone plops one face down in front of them, then people can start raising the bid or someone can issue a challenge. "I can do it in 3." It goes around the table till people have bet higher or passed. Then, whoever had the final bet, has to flip over X number of coasters around the table. If he can do it without showing a skull, he wins 1 of the 2 points you need to win. If you flip over a skull, you randomly lose 1 of your 4 coasters. Sounds simple, but a big caveat is that you must always flip over ALL of your own coasters first, before dipping around the rest of the table to hit the number you bid.

It was goofy fun and would have fit perfectly in that drunken haze sweet spot we were in most of this past weekend.