"This next piece of material is real simple; it’s called free-floating hostility. Minor cultural items that I’m bored with, tired of, and pissed at. So I hope you’re ready for a little random anger." - George Carlin, 1937-2008

I was merrily traveling the aisles of my local grocery store the other day when I went down my favorite aisle; the cereal aisle. And it’s not because of the cereal, even though I love cereal. I could eat it for every meal of the day if my body didn’t require things like "protein" or "something other than fiber and carbohydrates". But I love the cereal aisle because never will you find so many different items repackaged into different shapes and sold for a different price. There are actually some people that swear up and down that the different shapes make the foodstuffs taste better.
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 in Free Floating Hostility, Kenzan by Kenzan

Up next, Minigames.  Minis playing games.  It’s what they do.  Read the rest of this entry »

Posted on July 25th, 2008 in Axel Night, Minigames, Video Games by Axel Night

The Dungeon Master, returning from his drinking binge we sent him into with the last campaign, slowly slumps into the dimly lit room.  The look on his face is that of a man resigned to his fate.  That and a massive hangover.  Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition has finally hit the shelves, and we somehow manage to talk him into returning to the throne of his sanity’s demise.  He sips slowly at his room temperature coffee and slings a barrage of character sheets, printed in patchy blue ink (due to his printer having been out of black ink for the past four months), slightly wrinkled, damp and smudged from the confines of his eight year old JanSport backpack.  I believe mine is special because it came pre-Cheetos-dusted.  It is time to create characters.  Mark has already decided on the savage, dragonborn, battle-axe wielding fighter: Meat-Hawk.  David begins twinking his stats for a tiefling wizard named Yurmomsaho.  Thus, it comes down to me to give this group a lesson in class and pwning.  

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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 in Axel Night, Tabletop Gaming by Axel Night

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Posted on July 20th, 2008 in Axel Night, Video Games by Axel Night

To paraphrase a wise man:  have you ever met a girl and you thought she was dope, and you wanted to buy her popcorn and a medium Coke? 

Not me, ‘cuz movie popcorn is fucking expensive, and if I’m dropping duckets on a lady then she deserves the BEST, not kooky kernels slathered in someone else’s butter.

That’s right- she gets a trip to Five Guys.  And afterwards?  I set up the dinner tray at the pad and cue up “Demons” so she can watch the exploits of Tony the Pimp.

I’m kidding … OR AM I?

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Posted on July 13th, 2008 in Boogity Boogity Boogity, Brick Prior by Brick Prior

Wizards of the Coast has been getting a lot of hate for their Fourth Edition (alright, it’s their third, but you know what I mean) of the infamous Dungeons & Dragons franchise of tabletop roleplaying since they first announced they might want to do it.  People hate change, and roleplayers are an extreme example of that in practice.  I finally got my three core books of the new system in the mail a few days ago, and after going over the books and watching some games in action, I’m ready to bust out my personal reactions.  Roll a jump check to see.

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Posted on July 7th, 2008 in Axel Night, Tabletop Gaming by Axel Night