| Sokay, salright

Yeah, I don't mind the lack of BB and SH. SH has sort of run it's course for me. I mean if there was a new edition that included all sorts of new minis and rules, I would probably pick it up, but as it stands I think I have all I need to enjoy the game. Plus, it allows me hope that GW will perhaps tease for a few more years another release of SH....

As far as BB, I have no one to play with, no one to ever play with, so what does it matter? :)

Although, there is an xbox version of BB scheduled to come out in the not TOO distant future.... makes me think that there might be a SH version to follow, so GW wants to hold on to those properties just in case there is some interest generated.

Can't wait to see what new games FF comes up with that exist in the GW universes. In a manner of speaking, it is a dream come true. All the teenage joy of the GW universes but given a proper boardgame treatment that GW never did. Not to mention the back catalog of games they could reprint, which they already started to do with Britannia, Fury of Dracula, etc.

Good stuff.

It says that deal doesn't include games that were miniature heavy such as Blood Bowl and Space Hulk...

| For once GW does something smart

Well doesn't this just take the cake.

Fantasy Flight Games is officially the 800lb Gorilla in the room. I could not be happier to hear this because if FFG knows anything, it's making boardgames. I might not like them all, or even many of them, but holy shit - this has the possibility of being HUGE!!!

Whoooopeeeee!!!!

Pictures...

I really should take some photos of the places i'm going...


Day 4 diary cont...

Went to Mong Kok district (rudies favorite place)
ate dim sum at Fung shing restarant. They had some delicious fried Shrimp rolls, steamed Beef Balls, barbeque buns, and dumplings.
Why do all asians look alike?
So the point of this trip is just to eat, shop, drink, and sleep. I'm lovin it!
Discussed my business idea with Melanie who seemed of little interest (she doesn't use said product though so it's fair)
I have come up with a business name already, and the store concept. It will be big!
pumped iron at the gym
sleep.
I have a simple life as of now.

Dude, I wanna go to fuckin HONG KONG! Holy shit, that sounds cool as hell. I might be a little scared though... I mean, I seen that Michael Douglas movie Black rain and I don't wanna cross paths with any ornery Koreans on motorbikes!

I got Rock Band a few days ago. Pretty fucking sweet. I was surprised that the drumming part of it REALLY makes you fuckin drum on hard/expert level. Like you have to have independence between arms and feet. It was kinda fuckin' me up! I'm getting better now. It's SO fucking loud though, I'm going to look into ways to mod the kit into being not so fucking noisy. Daytime I mess with drums, nighttime the guitar. If you cheap cocksuckers ever sign up for a gold live membership we can play songs together :(

How'd GDC conference go? Sell any games? I was reading about microFUCKINGROCKSTARsofts XNA thing where you can make shitty games for xbox live (i would like to design a game called Man Pac and it will be retro feeling.) Put yours there, I will buy it.

| yes, a blast indeed

more so than paintball, luckily it's a one man game, one man one flightcontroller, one pellet.

Diary Day 4

Came up with a great business idea... ! will start working on it when i get back to the philippines
My friend Melanie showed up
Walked to the bank
Check up Edison chen (famous asian actor) - If you do this: video tape all the girls you sleep with. What not to do: Leave all the videos on your hardrive on your laptop and then send it to the repair shop
Waiting for my brother for lunch...
(to be cont)...

| An Great Vacation!

Sounds like, er, um, you are having a BLAST with your family!

"Mister bates came over to see Mr. Jimmy Johnson
Mom came back from shopping"

I assume Mr. Bates had left the building before Mom came home?

Diary Day 3

Had a vivid dream but quickly forgotten
Mcdonalds Big Breakfast for breakfast, shortened lifespan by .5 years
Passed by a jewelry store called lukfook jewelry. (I suppose either you get lucky or get fucked buying their jewelry. Same?)
More shopping
Ate at a place called 98 degrees (uh.. food taste like they shouldn't have quit theyre day job), basically they served me squiggly noodles in hot water with tidbits of corn and peas.
Went back to the hotel for a breather
Watched porn previews for 20 minutes until the previews ran out
Mister bates came over to see Mr. Jimmy Johnson
Mom came back from shopping
Went to dinner at Mei Yuan (a popular hong kong quick eats franchise), had some chiiccken rice
back to the room.
rest and watch TV.
Might go to the gym for old times sake and dust off the bones
Sleep.


P.S You should totally get out here jon!

| Jebuz

Do not turn Jebuz on

Ja -El, that was a sweet journal. Especially, "Thought about some Thai hookers and some fantasy orgies with several women (unknown and known from the past)". Brilliant.

ElZar: I had seen that bit on GenCon. I guess it is a function of their licensing arm and not the convention arm. Apparently it is at least partially due to a civil suit brought to bear onto GenCon by none other than Mr. Lucas himself. Go figure.

D>M>

Love those journals man! Keep 'em coming!

By the way, I have to thank you for the book recommendation you made ten years ago. I was at the library, and saw this book A Canticle for Leibowitz. I remembered you recommended it a loooong time ago (I think when you were living in the house in MB) and so I picked it up. It's really good!

So yeah, soon I'll check out all the stuff you recommended a long time ago... next up -- playing through Autoduel!

| One Minute Journal

Day 1
Arrival in Hong Kong
Away from the bullshit from work!!!! sooo happy.
Ate some squiggly thin noodles for dinner with a geletinous beef tendon stew topping... delicious!
Helped a young attractive female with her luggages on the train towards City central.
Staying at the Renassance New world - whopping friggin 150 bucks a night! ouch
Met up with my brother.
Met up with my mom.
Sleep.

Day 2
No nightmares again.
Feb 15 is Chinese New years day!
Had to explain to mom and brother as to why i'm still in the philippines and did not become a doctor or a lawyer
Lunch at the Sports Garden, - no sports, no garden, just dimsum
Bought a rechargeable battery pack
shopped around for some clothes
Back in the hotel.
Napped.
Thought about some thai hookers and some fantasy orgies with several women (unknown and known from the past) for around 5 minutes
woke up.
Gonna eat dinner


More to come later::

| Rok Machine

I see that over here in the Arcades, pretty fuckin awesome when you someone actually play it in IRL. I saw someone jamming and i watched him play the drums for at least 10 minutes. Mesmerizing. Althought seems you gotta be a *drummer* to actually play (there's no other way! i say), I don't see how they can make money in the arcade on this game, since people who don't know how to play generally won't go near the game. Aesthetically, the whole set looks as real as it can get.

fuuuuck I might just go out and buy Rock Band tonight. This video is so fucking sweet!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyZ0hgsI19c

Not even a super good song but those drums looks SO fun and look how awesome that drum pedal mod that dude is sportin looks. MAN.

| Stuff

- GenCon files Chapter 11! Lot's of reasons I have not researched nor really care to know about, but bottom line, it is happening and if they make it out clean a whistle, all the better. If not, dark days for gamin.

- Played my first ACW mini's game with my new wargamin' buddy, Frank. We played Fire and Fury, and it was totally fun! He seriously has 1000's of minis of varying scale, theater, etc. in his house. 100's of military books, an 8 x 15 dedicated wargame table. It is my retirement dream come true. There were 4 of us there, so I only marginally learned the rules, but it was cool none the less. I am thinking very heavily about trying to get him into PBI, as I really wouldn't need to buy an army for two people, as is the norm, and in fact, I might not even need to buy/paint an army at all, because he has SO MANY MINIATURES. Good times.

- Drumming is so fun. I love it.

- Rome on HBO was a good show for the two seasons it was on. Leslie and I watched it over the last few weeks. Good stuff. Sorry it was canceled early, but it lets me see what could be in store for Game of Thrones....

- Not sure if it is better than Nip/Tuck... Apples and oranges I suppose. For those of you judging me for liking Nip/Tuck and have not seen it, I humbly request that you watch the first season, or even the first few episodes, and see if your opinions change. It is a ridiculous show, absurd to the nines, and definitely is not pro pretty people or plastic surgery.

| 45 Minute Video Game Reviews!

I joined the rental service GameFly recently (similar to Netflix which I also rejoined and is super awesome) so I'm getting a chance to try out a fuck-ton of video games for my XBox 360. These will be in the order that I've rented them:

Assassin's Creed: Horrible. You play an assassin in Medieval Times, but I've yet to see any jousting. And where the hell is the Rope Girl!? Really pretty game (kinda) but just boring as shit and very little "game" to it. It's just tons of fucking running around and really boring fighting. I did I think 3 missions before sending that pile of poop back.

Beautiful Katamari: Pretty horrible too. I know, it's a nichey weird japanese game, but it just seems SO dated and I just couldn't get into it. You roll a ball around picking up things in the environment until your ball is huge and picking up houses n' shit. The demo was sorta fun, but the actual game was really fucking hard and I hated the interface and stupid load times. I blame that on it being an old game, but meh, didn't dig it.

Mass Effect: Pretty alright. I'll rent it again once I burn through some of the games I'm itching to try. I stopped half-way through the Noveria story-line planet. I liked the combat after awhile - pretty cool mixture of FPS with the awesome biotic abilities and strategy. I played a Vanguard. There was plenty that was annoying about it too, but overall I think it's pretty solid.

Devil May Cry 4: I still have this rented out. I think it's really fun. I never played DMC 1-3 but a quick read of the wiki articles on them caught me up on the story, and really, this is an action game, so even though the cutscenes are super awesome and bad-ass, it's not like you need to know what the hell happened in the other games. I hated the demo for this too, so it's weird that I like the actual game so much. It just makes you feel like such a tough guy just kicking ass left n right. And the boss fights are fun.

Culdcept SAGA: Really fucking fun. It is a boardgame/card game hybrid. So the card element really comes off Magic the Gathering-y, while it mixes in a sort of Monopoly element in that you roll a die and race around a board, placing monsters where you land. I guess it's an update of an old PS2 game so there's a lot of people who were familiar with it. The cutscenes are probably the WORST I've ever seen in a video game (pretty much laughably bad - PATHETICALLY bad even) but fuck all that shit. The actual GAME is really fun and addictive. And as you play and win/lose you get cards after every match that you add to your stash so you can build different decks. Just go rent it, it really is rad.

That's about it! 45 minutes later, I warned ya!

4 second review of games I own:

skate. : Perfect.

Burnout Paradise: Fun then boring.