World Domination

My hands are horribly shakey right now. I did some weed whacking today. My dog came out with me and thought I was playing. She just kept running over and away, over and away, thinking "You sway that thing back and forth. I'll do the same thing, but with all of me."

Now to play some more Prince or Persia or something and hope my shakey hands don't get me killed too much.

Gaming tonight was fun. Tried a game called Thunderstone. It is a deck building game, somewhat similar to Dominion. The difference is you are putting together an adventuring party to slay monsters. I did very well, winning with thirty points.

Also, I played a game called Encore, a music game in which you try to remember a line from a song that uses a particular word. I am not that good at this game. My music knowledge (for remembering lines) mostly consists of Weird Al, Jonathan Coulton, They Might be Giants (mostly the Flood album), Disney movies, Buffy and Dr. Horrible ... and songs from Tis No Deceit if that counts. I am not sure this makes for a good selection to remember from.

It was fun and I'd probably play again, but I do prefer a game where I feel like I have a better chance to be part of it. I also apparently have a bit of a stagefright thing when it comes to singing. I wasn't sure if I did, but I seem to. When I tried to sing, I mostly just trailed off. I should probably try playing again to overcome that, but there's probably a better way to do that than to be the only one singing in a room full of people staring at you.

Overall, Apples to Apples is my prefered social game out of ones I have played. I have fun with that game every time I play, and now want to play again having put the thought into my head.

Extra random note: Liz Lemon makes a great muppet.

Well, that was either the worst or the best secret message container I've ever seen. I can't decide which.

Heavy Rain is a game that makes me wish I had a PS3. It is being created by the same people that did Indigo Prophecy, which I greatly enjoyed.

The game follows four people as they try to track down the origami killer and stop whoever it is. The developers take a fairly cinematic approach to it, giving you varied emotional response type dialog choices along the way. If one of the four main characters is killed, the story actually continues without them. You just play the parts of those who are left at that point.

I know I won't get a PS3 just for this game, but one day, if I ever do decide to break down and buy one, it is a game I will get, along with Uncharted, Infamous, God of War, and a few others that are only on PS3.

These days, I am playing both Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2, alternately. Both are enjoyable. I was very happy when I recruited Archangel. He gets a spot on the team, no matter what. I keep flip-flopping on whether to take Dr. Mordin or Miranda for the other spot. I usually choose my party based on how cool or amusing they are, as opposed to how useful they are. Miranda hasn't impressed me much yet, but she seems like the person to take as a renegade. I'll probably just take the scientist, Dr. Mordin, because he's more amusing.

For Dragon Age, I filled out my team with Morrigan (the witch of the wild voiced by Claudia Black) and Zevran (the assassin who sounds like Antonio Banderas, but isn't). They form team evil, along with Alistair, the token good guy. Dialog between the characters is much more interesting when one of them is constantly complaining about how evil we act. You have to take the token good guy for that reason alone.

Twas fun gaming and hanging out tonight. I played more social and ridiculous type games this time. Another session of Betrayal. There was a hand or two of We Didn't Playtest This Game.

Most enjoyable was a game of Apples to Apples. I hadn't played that game for years. I had forgotten how much fun it is. In the end, I had acquired the traits of Saintly, Industrious and Hopeless. Yeah, it's a sad set of traits to get. I'm still not sure how I got Saintly with Fidel Castro. I had expected to get Boring with Worms, because they bore through the ground, but it somehow went to Handcuffs. It would have increased the sadness of my traits if I had.

witticaster acquired a hoard of traits, but still came in second to Kat from Rage (I don't know if she has an lj name).

I already want to play it again.

Season 8 of Scrubs has been watched. I checked out part of an episode of Green Wing, enough to know I like it and would prefer to watch it in a manner other than on my computer. At some point, going to hook up computer to large tv and watch it that way. It's probably something I should have done a while ago to watch other streaming stuff that way. It's a 52" tv whose primary purpose is to make the zombies on Left 4 Dead look really good. Or to make games like Dead Space or Bioshock even creepier.

Currently watching season 2 of Big Bang Theory. It's a hilarious show, assuming you don't mind a show that makes fun of geeks. It amuses the hell out of me.

Next up, I'll be introducing my brother to season 2 of Chuck. I've seen it before, but I always enjoy the chance to rewatch something with someone who hasn't seen it. It's like seeing it again through their eyes. The shared experience makes it just as enjoyable.

Otherwise, I'm generally feeling in a really good place these days. While I am kind of burnt out on work and would like more days off in a row, like maybe just four, it's not stressful anymore. Gaming is fun. I'm enjoying Dragon Age immensely and I always enjoy killing me some zombies now and then.

I feel like there was something I wanted to pontificate about. You know, sound all pompous and important, because I know you like to hang on my every .......


.... word. But I think it has slipped my mind. Damn shame too. It was probably something brilliant. Or about soup. Or brilliant soup, the soup that thinks for you. Coming soon to a dream near you.

Yeah, whatever it was, it's gone now. I should have started writing when I thought of it. Oh well.

The God of email hated me again. When I tried logging in to retrieve messages, it would just spend five minutes thinking about it and retrieve maybe one message. For all I know, there are maybe other messages it just won't retrieve. If you sent something to me today, I might not have gotten. Or maybe I did, but just slower. I sure as hell can't tell.

Retail holiday season is winding down and it is January now. My free time for the future should be on Sundays, as well as another day in the middle of the week, likely Wednesday or Thursday, but not always the same day each week. In the upcoming week, it is Thursday.

I would like to do some kind of board game thing sometime vaguely during the month, possibly even more than once if there is more than one group of people that want to do this. Or whatever.

Or if there is anything else someone would like to do, well, you know vaguely what my free time is now. Contact me if you want to do something. I am also open to trying new things, just to see if I like them.

I'm also considering the idea of running a table-top game of some kind, maybe one Sunday a month kind of thing. Where it would run would probably be dependent on who played in it, because I would want a location to run it at. I live conveniently to no one, whereas most people I know live conveniently near each other in some respect.

I'm not sure what kind of game yet. I just kind of feel like doing one, assuming there is interest.