I am typing this at Disney World. They have invented a kind of magnet that works on money, here, and it works really, really well. They have a kind of watch you wear that doesn't tell time, but does allow you to spend money in an almost frictionless way and I have. I'm glad that I came down right after the C Team but came home before our Warmachine show we do with Privateer Press, because it provided a kind of upper bound on my losses. Also, they have a root beer float you can get by the…
It's quite true: in the near future, Mike Krahulik will be running Acquisitions Incorporated: The "C" Team for an unforgettable one shot tabletop experience to remember dot com. I know what he's planning on doing, and it is not dumb but is in fact super rad. I knew shit had gotten real when he said that he had to go to Michaels. And I don't mean his house. I mean like this Michaels. When he starts loading up on foam and shit, fuckin' make room. I'm looking forward to his game on there. …
After Gabriel tried Arms during the Global Test Punch and bounced completely off the experience, I did my best to advocate for the game. There's something here, I said. Discrete, particular hands are an illusion, I said - the hand is a mutable concept. There's a way to mash buttons playing the game but that's not where it tops out. It looks goofy as hell, but don't be fooled. I advocated so hard and for so long that I neglected to buy the game when it came out. Maybe I was busy…
I would have thought that Escape Rooms would be the kind of nerd shit that wouldn't catch. Brenna is a nerd, Theatre Division, but if I start talking about how Commander Farsight can declare Mont'ka once per game even if Kauyan or Mont'ka has already been declared, her eyes roll back into her head. Not as a joke. I think it is actually killing her when I get into wargame shit. I think Escape Rooms lie at a strange crossroads, which may have something to do with their apparently seismic…
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Reading Gaol
I love Professor Layton and I love Ace Attorney. Gabriel does not. And it turns out that if you put both of those games together he likes them even less. We have a bunch…
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Hard Mode
I'm not even interested in peeling the Exclusivity onion. The only medicine for these Goddamn maneuvers is to tend a fucking menagerie of consoles so that you can never be…
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Invisibilia
Brenna went out and saw Wonder Woman last night, and was enraptured; I am given to understand that evil did not endure. Gabreel only had single problem with the film that I…
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