I watched the quicklook for DeathSpank and it looks fun - sort of a Diablo/Torchlight-lite. I might get it if it goes on sale, but I'm buried in those damn Steam games.

Might go see Inception tonight, glad you said it's good!

Played a bunch of games of Lost Cities with my mom last night and she loved it, ha. I love how some of these board/card games are SO simple, but don't make you feel like you're playing a kids game or something.

Last night I picked up DeathSpank for XBLA and I'm totally hooked. Normally I'd hold off since I just got all those games on Steam, but this is Ron Gilbert's first game since he did Monkey Island I and II back in the day, so this was sort of a no-brainer. Much different type of game (hack n' slash) but the writing is so good.

Tonight I caught Inception. Really good. A little long, but in more of an epic way than a bad way.

| MAN

-con.

Yes -- maybe it's just the stress of the current days talking, but I would strongly like to do a Man-Con this year. Probably shortly after Labor Day, when hotel rates are a bit cheaper, but the weather is still decent.

What I'd actually like to do if we do this is continue the 4th ed D&D game we played at the last two Man-Cons. Not to spoil anything, but I think the idea is sort of cool, and one that would keep us going with our episodic play style for at least 25 more years of Man-Con, so right after everybody's kids have graduated college, right before Mike and Aaron die of old age.

As of tomorrow, I've got 11 business days left before my "layoff"/departmental transfer, and 16 days until the wedding. Aieee!

Check this site out:
http://www.thegamecrafter.com/
It's sorta like Cafe Press, but instead of making shirts, you make your own board games. Kinda ridiculous but kinda cool too. I'm roughly trying to work out an idea I have (it's about Mystery Cults in Rome!) so if it comes together I'm gonna make it through these guys and force you all to play it.

Edit: For Jael's birthday next year, I propose we colab on the rules to Drug Wars 2011 and then present it to him as a group gift. THAT would be hot.

| Awww :(

I was searching the itunes store for podcasts about boardgaming and ours comes up :( the memories!

| ManCon

Good to hear from you Myke. I have gone ahead and fertilized all of your potted plants. The place kind of smells, but that's because I ate Indian food the night before fertilizing. Also, you will be happy to know your water bill will be real low since I have been bringing all of my own body fluids for watering your plants.

We definitely need a ManCon this summer/fall. I suspect it would have to be at least after jr0n's wedding, situated outside of the Honeymoon and after Myke's successful return from fingering Mt. Vesuvius. jr0n, I forget, when are you and the special lady friend going on the Honey Moon?

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"...And Blankets"

Glad the murder-clans haven't gotten you yet, Mike! Beware the Black Hand. I got a bunch of my family into euro-games recently and they love it. I just bought a weird one called DiXit, so interested in seeing how it plays out - unfortunately all my extended play-worthy family have left for the summer :( Any cons, man- or otherwise coming up?

| Greetings from Pompeii

Hello Action Team! I've always wanted to post a message from Pompeii, and now I finally get the chance. The season is going well, we have spent much time processing and analysing our results from last year in the hopes of getting the material ready for publication before we leave. I keep trying to write another line, but it all sounds uninteresting... so maybe I'll just have to tell you all in person. One of the team sayings is "aaand blankets..." which I thought might amuse at least some of you. Oh, and we're playing Incan gold, and some other Euro-type games that Eric would hate.
See you soon.
M

I looked up you guyses names in BGG and was reading a bunch of your old game reviews, too cute ~`~!

| ProbeSorley

ZOMG the McSorley (Pens) v. Probert (Wings) nearly 2 minute fight (94?) was epic. No official wanted to get near those brutes. Ahh the good old days of, let'um wear themselves out before intervening. While I think Probert was a bit of a punk and had quite a bit of a struggle with the controlled substances, he was really way too young to die. Boo...

Pump, at least you didn't pay for the games you can't play... I paid for a grip of games and stupid steam seems to have conveniently "forgotten" that I may play any of the games I downloaded. Oh, and no phone support for steam. Online support only. It only took them 20 hours to respond. Suck. Gotta try their fix when I get home. Chopper, suck balls.

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Epic battles with Probert on NHL 93. Man. :(

Sorry your CC's didn't work on Steam - I have that same issue with Sony's playstation network - no matter what I do, they won't take my cards. I think it has something to do with entering your billing address stuff exactly how it is on your bill, but who knows.

Well, you saved money at least :)

Rude - Thanks for the music link. I downloaded several albums. It looks like they disabled the 4AD sampler though. No biggie, I'm really digging the Merge Records sampler.

Steam, you basterd! All this talk of Steam made me look around. So I order a fistful of games (and I do mean a manly two-handed fistful), but at checkout, my credit card kept getting rejected. I tried a couple of cards and they were all rejected... Booo! I really don't feel like contacting customer service. Man, I really wanted to play that Minesweeper game too.

At least I have a Steam account... (pumpkinvespa)

Is it bad that I went out last night, got drunk, was hung over this morning and now I am back at the same bar drinking the same drink? Not getting drunk tonight though.

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| Steam

R-Dog: Borderlands plus the DLC is $10 + 10. My steamPile name is drstupid. I just added you. I think I may also pick up the Introversion pack too. Looks fun.

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