Checked out Alice in Wonderland last night. It was pretty lame, but I did highly enjoy this trailer for Tron 2 (the uppermost one). Looks cool... I guess I should probably see the first one at some point.

| How can you NOT let them die

is the question I ask. Seriously, they're one of the biggest groups of tools I've ever seen in a video game, and I've played Mac Playmate.

My council lived and there's some good little scenes from it. How can you let them die!? You bum.

yes, let's play some vassal games!

| Jerk Shepard

That jerk Shepard video is HILARIOUS. Good times. I did probably about 70% of those in my playthrough... Omar L. Shepard isn't ALWAYS a hater.

That dancing scene is HILARIOUS. The Paragon one is just as funny. It's something like

SHEPARD: I'm going to dance here. If you want, you can think I'm dancing with you.
ASARI: I do want to think that!

I actually started my 2nd playthrough last night (with my paragon, space lesbian Shepard). I'm a little disappointed: I guess I let the Council die on that playthrough too. I kinda want to see what happens when they make it.

| Yes

Yes, the board gaming was very fun and made up for the disappointment of not getting some WFRP in! I added the games to the Action Team Game Spreadsheet (plug). We should have another board game day sometime soon. (When Enron can come. And I bet Ja-el would have fun, too!)

I can see Small World being good over Vassal. Aeryk if you figure out the technical aspect I will play. I can absorb the role of explaining rules and be on point for explaining what power/race combinations do, etc.

I totally want to see Pacific! Can one of you guys record it to VHS for me?

The Pacific (Sunwear!) was good. In preperation for the series I bought couple of the books they're basing it off of and partially read through them. Kinda cool seeing their interpretations. I think the 3 main dudes the show is gonna follow all fought on different islands for the most part, so I think it's gonna be formatted differently from BoB. Maybe a little bit of pre-war character development each episode. Who knows? But it's good so far so I'm excited. Yay, war!

I won't. Be beat.

The Batman is an awesome game, hope you like it. The melee combat is super satisfying. I never beat it but I'll rent it again someday I'm sure.

| Day of Million Games, vol. II

Saturday was a successful day of gaming, bar none. To recap my joys:

- 2 games of 'The Adventurers', Mike technically won both but the real winners were everyone for having a lot of fun! Think of it as Incan Gold, but as a boardgame with a lot of press your luck attempts to get loot before escaping the collapsing tomb. Good, simple, times.

- 1 game of 'Chaos in the Old World', Jon won, but technically everyone lost because Jon was Khorne and we all know that winning with Khorne is like taking candy from a baby, so really Jon is actually a loser. Great game that actually had both Khorne and Slaneesh (mike) winning on the last turn by one VP condition and then needed a second as the tiebreaker. I was Nurgle and blew everyone out of the water on the last turn with raw victory points, but alas the Wheel Advancement VP condition trumps mine, so I LOSE! I love this game.

- A crapload of 'Warhammer: Invasion', the two player Living Card Game by Fantasy Flight. Plays like a CCG but with everyone working from the same set of cards, so no Mr. Suitcase FTW. Fast, fun, clever, simple, varied, interesting. Jon and I both liked it, as witnessed by the 8+ plays. (NOTE TO SELF: Read and understand what cards your opponent has on the field before directly attacking a card that clearly shows how it will crush your attack and then take you out of the game by hobbling you so badly there is no way to recover.)

- Closed the night out with some 'Smallworld' which is a Euro with cleverly disguised wargame mechanics and lots of variability from game to game which makes for an interesting experience. You try and score points by landgrabbing using different races of creatures, then scoring those grabbed lands for VP's. Eventually those races will run out of steam, then you need to put them in 'decline' (ie let em die) choose a new race and do it all over again. Quick, satisfying, and close! Jon won with 100 points, I lost with 99! In the past, every time I have seen Smallworld it totally flew under my radar and I didn't care to even look at the cover. I ended up really liking it! Hooray for games!

Then to cap it all off, I picked up Batman:Arkham Asylum from Steam for $20! Its a fun game and TOTALLY worth $20 if you got it laying around. Wheeeee!!!!

Fake Edit: Got Blood Bowl to work on my new machine without any deauthorizing. I had copied the entire BB folder from the old machine on to an external drive and then copied it to my new machine. Then just had to re-enter the serial # jive when I opened it the first time. Seems to work and updated it to the newest version. Maybe they allow for a certain number of installs or some bs.

Renegade Shepard is such a space-asshole, I can never really play it that way. :) But I have fun watching the compilation videos of his expoits, like THIS and the newer THIS. Funny shit, best moment in the 2nd video is the dance scene at around 7 mins.

Yeah, it's a rad game. Totally about "recruit this team" and then it's basically over. I'm proud to say I ended it without any crew members dying because I'm not a dick.

Final Fantasy 13 on the other hand is pretty bad so far. I'm gonna give it a little more time, but it is super boring and extremely linear. Mass Effect 2 is basically super linear too, but it hides it better and the cities you explore have some brancing pathes. So far FF13 is straight corridors with monsters along the way, that's it. Combat is getting more interesting, but still not very exciting.

Can't wait for the con! Hurry up and pre-reg jon!

Renegade Shepard is such a space-asshole, I can never really play it that way. :) But I have fun watching the compilation videos of his expoits, like THIS.

Yeah, it's a rad game. Totally about "recruit these people" and then it's basically over. I'm proud to say I ended it without any crew members dying because I'm not a dick.

Final Fantasy 13 on the other hand is pretty friggen horrible. I'm gonna give it a little more time, but it is super boring and seemingly from a time that land forgot.

Nice post, Denis!

Notes:
- Despite posting about the registration deadline for Kubla, missing it, then being reminded that the deadline was extended, then verifying that fact with my own eyes, I still have not pre-registered for Kubla.
- I'm on a 30-day trial! Holy shit! My snap judgment of America's legal system based on three days of jury selection: justice is tedious.
- Some people will say some absurd shit to weasel out of jury duty. That said, the woman whose cousin had been sentenced to 80 to life by the presiding judge probably had a legitimate gripe.
- I predict the trial will be an interesting and fun break from work for about three hours.
- Lately I have become obsessed with playing the Savage Worlds Showdown game using Warhammer 40k models. I picked up the 40k starter set which comes with a bunch of space marines and orks. I don't know what's wrong with me. I think basically what I want is to put together one of the cool tanks and this is my weird way of building up to it.
- Just finished Mass Effect 2 tonight. (Mild spoilers, I guess.) Man, that was a great game! It definitely was more about the journey than the destination, in that the plot never really seemed that important compared to just going around the galaxy doing random shit. A very enjoyable 40 hours and I'm looking forward to playing it again with my paragon character. Playing it right on the heels of replaying the first game really helped. Omar L Shepard did save the galaxy, but the Normandy feels a little empty now that the crew is dead. I really enjoyed the last fight against the "boss." It was ridiculously metal, in a good way.
- I also enjoyed playing as a total asshole.
- The DLC is fun Rude. If you ever get a used copy of the game or something it might be worth paying for Cerberus Network. There's at least one more upcoming free piece too which gets you a vehicle you can drive and a few missions to play it in.

| Khaaaaaan...

Sorry for the lateness in responding. Herr Blackheart and I will be attending the Khan. We're flying in Thursday night and staying until Monday.

By the by, this one's for you boardgame/linguistics geeks. I believe a certain someone will appreciate/shake fist angrily at #31 and #114

Geek

This one's for Jorn. Oh you'll like it. You'll like it gooooooood.

Goggles

That's good to hear Jael. I have a brand new computer and since I bought BB as a digital download, I have to see if I can recover it to this new system :( - Hopefully it will be a painless process. If it works, I can't wait to challenge you :)

fyi blood bowl has several new patches. 1 adds the nightelves (new team) and the other adds a cool new matchmaking system. Instead of having to manually challenge people, it's entirely automatic over the server. Also the problem with the port seems to be resolved. Kinda cool.

They finally got some good programmers in there to fix the problems.