World Domination

Serendipity Station has a crew now. I am pleased to be part of it. I am also pleased that gower and I shall be playing in the same game together. We run games together all the time, but very rarely are players at the same time.

Now begins the time to start figuring out how my character knows various others on the station. Since I am playing the local PI, I think I shall need to talk to shadowravyn as the local security to find out how well we get along with each other. There are numerous others to talk to as well, but that one seems key.

Otherwise, I am now part of Google Wave, thanks to elenuial, so I guess I'll start figuring out what that is all about. I also apparently have some invites I can dole out. If anyone has some advice about Google Wave and what one does with it, I will take some. It seems interesting, what little I've looked at so far.

What I have tried so far was to upload the photo I used for Facebook to use as an icon and Google Wave couldn't quite handle it. It would only display it sideways, so I used a photo of Syler instead.

That does remind me. If anyone is bringing a camera to the next Strange Boston game, I'd love to get a picture of myself dressed as Sebastian, one with claws and one without. I like the look and think I'd like to use it for my icon instead.

Today has been a fairly pleasant day off. My brother and I have started playing Borderlands, a co-op shooter/rpg set in a wasteland. So far, I'm enjoying it. I'm playing the hunter class, so I'm focusing on sniper rifles, upgrading the skills that give me more damage and less rifle sway after shots.

By brother and I ended up playing some Left 4 Dead last night.  He tragically died at one point.  The characters you play often make their own comments about things like bemoaning the loss if their friend or stuff they see.    In this case, my character made the comment of "Oh God, not - hey first aid kit!"  Finding her dead friend's first aid kit was obviously much more important than his death.

It kind of stopped the game cold at that point as he swallowed his soda down the wrong tube and had to gurgle all the rest onto the floor as he tried to laugh and drink at the same time.  It was tragic.  It was hilarious.  It was tragically hilarious.

Otherwise, computer controlled characters often produce wacky hijinks. This time, our favorite drug addict, Luis, whom we often hear finding pills and immediately swallowing them to the words of "popping pills," - he got extra twitchy and started pointing guns at us, while in the safe room.  He even started firing random bullets for no apparent reason.  He's the worst computer controlled teammate we ever had and I'm going to miss him in the sequel.  We could always count on him to make the game more fun.

I saw Pirates! at the Huntington tonight.  It was a lot of fun, a cool show.  It was mostly Pirates of Penzance with bits of Pirates of the Carribean thrown in, as well as some other stuff.  Overall, it was done very well.  The guy playing the Pirate King was very good.  The Major General and Ruth also stood out to me.  The others were good, but those three stood out the most to me.  It was also cool to see the show with people I know.  I derive enjoyment from seeing the reactions on the faces of those I'm with as well.

I think this might have been the first time I've ever gone into Boston to see a show.  I definitely enjoyed the show.  Whether I would do it again, I don't know.  It's the getting in and out of Boston part I don't care for as much.  If there was a better and less expensive way of getting in and out, I'd be more inclined to try it again.  I've driven to MIT a lot in the past for larps, but that is easier to find parking around.  In the past, you could find free parking on the street and I recall often parking in the ninja lot, though I don't think they allow that anymore.  I'm not sure.  It's been a while since I've been there.

Overall, I consider it a fun night.  I'm still not sure what I'll be doing with my Saturday.  Sunday is my normal day off, so I actually have the entire weekend off.

Otherwise, I have started rewatching Veronica Mars.  With my brother, I'm almost done with watching season one of the Big Bang Theory.  I have found it to be a surprisingly funny show.  I mean, I thought I would find it funny, but it has hit the right spot more than I thought it would.  I think I'm going to pick Jack of All Trades to watch next.  It's fairly cheesy, but almost anything with Bruce Campbell is.