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I’d write a blog here but I’m dead and I wouldn’t want to ruin the effect.
-Matt
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Who wants a goblin omelette?
Those of you that have been reading for awhile know I love me some board games. Everytime I think I have a nice rotation of board games someone brings over something new. This weekend I played Ghost Stories. There were no flash lights, no smores and no campfire. What we did have on our hands, was ghostbusting ninjas. And as the immortal Ray Parker Jr. tells us, busting makes one feel good. This is a players versus the everchanging board and ghosts, coming at the group with the mercilessness of space invaders. Assuming we were playing entirely correctly (the booklet’s instructions were one of the worst written we’ve delt with in our gaming group) this is a rough little pve game. We did not win, which as an avid gamer of course makes me want to play again all that much more. Go out and get a copy now, you know you want to ninja some ghosts to death (probably yours). However I recommend getting some supplemental rules from boardgamegeek.com they are awesome at this.
Are you glad this blog space isn’t about Conan and the NBC debacle? I am.
In other news, Apple officially announced their new product the iPad! Horray for people who don’t already have an iPhone or an iTouch and horray for anyone not interested in using a tablet for drawing or painting. This “new” gadget brings everything together from the iPhone/iTouch and makes it better on a larger screen! CHA-CHING! Thats the sound of innovation falling flat on its face. Yes, innovation has a bag of coins for a face.
In all fairness, its much cheaper than a “real” tablet pc and you can touch the screen for all the fun you get out of doing that. This new toy is basically for the general public, its key features being websurfing, reading ebooks, playing games, listening to music, watching movies and a touch screen. If you touch it too much, you may wear it out, be sure to wear goggles for extended periods of time you may go blind. I’m pretty sure thats in the fine print somewhere.
If Apple comes out with something close to a Wacom CintiQ 21UX for much cheaper than 2 grand, I’d be all over that. As it stands, I’m enjoying my reliable Intuos3 and some occasions I use my lenovo x200 tablet pc when traveling. In more cases I kick it oldschool with these classic tools – paper and pencil.
Are you more interested in an affordable tool like Wacom products or are you more interested in a toy such as the iPad/iTouch/iPhone? The alternative as the comic depicts, classic toys can be found at the local Goodwill or your closest pack rat.
Tried to save this one for shark week, but who can wait all year for shark week? Anyway here’s another Conan Blog.
I watched the last episode of Conan I wished he would have broken from the format a little more, done something a little crazy. When the day before he said, ‘We’re going to have some fun on television,’ my expectations were high. I don’t think that much would have met my expactations, Peewee Herman explaining the lawsuit on Thursday night was magical, and Conan rocking out with ZZ Top and Beck was pretty awesome. Conan’s final words, and his plea to for people to not be cynical, did surprise me. He’s a guy that tasted his dream for 7 months and had it taken away, primarily I’d have to guess by folks that don’t have dreams, certainly not creative aspirations. And here Conan is telling us to not be cynical. Well here’s to Conan who lived the dream for 7 months and put down some of the best Tonight Show’s we’ll ever see.
I don’t think NBC deserves the money, but I’d really like a best of Dvd including the last two weeks of episodes and as many of Conan’s best sketches (from Late Night and The Tonight Show) 10 Dvds can hold.
This brings an end to our Matt is Pregnant series if you missed it, it started here.
I played a new board game this weekend. Those of you that have been reading for awhile know how much I love things that roll dice and end friendships. Board games allow for an oppurtunity to do both, it’s so nice when I get to play a new “fuck your neighbor” board game. The game is called Playing Gods, it was delightfully sacreligious. The minatures/the art won me over before I started playing. Whether you play as Chaingun Wielding Buddah, Scimitar and Bomb wielding Allah, or Cross to Bear Down on Your Skull Jesus, this game is a good time to be had by all but grandma. It plays pretty fast pace, as Jesus I was smote quite quickly. Then Moses revived me by bringing more christians back into the world, Moses also had a card that allowed him to remove 3 Christian Sects as well, so when I came back into play, I was Moses’ hostage/mercenary. I was able to steal the Christian smiting card from Moses, bring Chaingun Buddah back into play as my hostage, but it was all for not in the end Allah beat us all by converting our respective flocks. My friend Travis, upon his victory, was gracious enough to remind us to bone up on our Quran as we would be praying five times a day from here on out.
Don wrapped up this comic in 5 minutes while driving Matt to the ER. Nothing says dedication than delivering a baby and doing it in a timely fashion.
If Matt gets bit by a vampire while in labor, does the baby become blade or does Matt become blade?
If missed Matt Getting knocked up, you can jump back to here.
A non-teen vampire flick is in our midst. I kind of want to see Day Breakers. I guess it may be a catch em all want, I mean I’ve seen Queen of the Damned for Christ Sakes. I’ll even watch New Moon when the Riff Trax come out for it (I hope they play vampire baseball again.) Day Breakers seems like so good a premiss it couldn’t possibly be carried out well. It seems to me that they’ll be hard pressed to set up the vampire society to leave the time for a blood shortage/hunting the humans. I think it’s the old fashioned ‘What If?’ sci fi angle of it all that really gets me. I love ‘What If’ some of the best Star Trek episodes were ‘What If.’ I’ll probably go see it, besides that Ethan Hawke is kind of a dream boat.
I didn’t read any of the Harry Potter books and I only watched the first movie, I didn’t really get into the hype. Most people enjoy it and some people even have kinky obsessions with it. We don’t judge, but we will definitely have fun with your lifestyle.
In terms of alternative lifestyles and living on the wild side, if you’ve ever been to the Jelly Belly Factory they have reject Jelly Beans for sale. They just didn’t fit the color or right size, but they’re still “edible” so drop a couple bucks on these tasty outcasts they’re cheaper than the “better quality” versions of course. Maybe you’ll find your acquired taste for rubbish will let you live through some other poisonous materials or helps your body build up some sort of natural immunities.
What are some questionable materials you’ve placed in your mouth or even ingested? Were you old enough to know better? I think the easiest part is eating the “stuff” its the repercussions that are going to be the real issue.
Its beginning to sound like Christmas! No wait, that was almost three weeks ago right after Thanksgiving. Has everyone been good or bad? Well it doesn’t really matter when you’re Don, because Cthulhu will find him. Running gags aside, my Christmas festivities did include gift surprises… I grew where Santa brought you exactly what you needed and not what you wanted. I remember writing a letter to Santa, but I don’t remember what I asked for but I certainly didn’t ask for a drawing pad and colored pencils. I’m pretty sure at some point I asked for GI Joes, various action figures, maybe even a Hulk pillow (not Incredible Hulk but THE HULK of WWF fame) the one shaped like the wrestler… I know I asked for a 10 speed bike as well, but I received books, karate manual (yes pictures on karate moves, really helpful if you want to draw fight scenes), I may even have received deodorant. Santa was ahead of his time, how could a 9 year old know about BO and why was a 9 year old still writing letters to Santa? Looking back now, I really would have liked a HULK pillow… and a 10 speed bike…
Did you have any weird presents from Santa or nothing at all? Or if you don’t believe in Santa and the whole satanic religion, do you get any gifts during this time of year? What was the best present you received or can remember the most?
I don’t have much of a blog for this morning, so I’ll put up a list of the board games I’ve been playing lately. I highly recommend all of these:
(If you’re new to nerdy board gaming I recommend reading some reviews here!)
- Arkham Horror
- Fury of Dracula
- Dominion (plus expansions)
- Wasabi
(listed from longest to shortest play-time duration, entirely on accident.)