Never Let You Get Between Me and My Guitar

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Nov 272017
 

Greeting Programs! Time for another blog!

I won my first Star Wars Destiny tournament on Saturday! Granted there were only five players and one was a beginner, but it still counts! I rolled out a Sabine/Rebel Commando deck that was able to generate huge damage rolls. The first game was pretty decisive. The second was tighter and I barely squeaked out the third against the beginner (which is why my tournament win counts). He was using one of the extra decks I brought with me which featured Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos. Ironically, it was the deck I thought was the weakest, but it’s the one he wanted to play. The most important is he had fun and wants to get into the game. So yeah bay-bee!

I went from the tournament to an evening of gaming with some friends from work. We played until past two in the morning and had a really good time. Surprisingly in all that time, we only managed to play three games: Sheriff of Nottingham, Tournament at Camelot and Pina Pirata. It was my first time playing Tournament at Camelot and I don’t think I did a great job of explaining and I know I got things wrong, but I know enough to say that it’s an interesting game that I’ll need to try again, playing correctly.

Sunday was Imperial Assault day. I won the first mission and lost the second by a pretty slim margin. That’s two losses now, which I’m okay with. I’ve been waiting for it to happen and now it’s happened. I’m actually really surprised by how well I’ve done. The day continued with some Hero Realms before moving to Lords of Waterdeep and Dragonfire, so all in all another charged weekend of gaming.

On the heels of a weekend with little sleep, I was paying for it today at work. But I regret nothing!

Whoops! Got distracted by a notification of the Sesame Street Stranger Things parody and now it’s time for Raw. I’ll probably feel asleep before the main event as usual. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.

I Wanna Feel the Night Around the Stars

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Nov 212017
 

Hey there! Feels like just this morning I was posting a flashback and now it’s already time for a blog. Weird huh?

Yeah I can’t believe I went through the whole weekend before remembering to post the flashback. Whoops! I can only promise to try to do better next time.

On top of being lax in my posting duties, I also was slack when it comes to drawing over the weekend. I only finished my second strip a half hour ago. You will note that no part of Monday is encapsulated in the weekend, so yeah.

What was I doing instead of drawing? Funny you should ask. On Saturday, I was watching Justice League. As a DC fan, I was really hoping for a good movie. They set the bar so low with Batman v Superman and I haven’t even been able to bring myself to watch Suicide Squad. Wonder Woman gave me hope though and I’m happy to say Justice League is a fun ride. It’s far from a perfect movie, but it’s way better than I was fearing. I could definitely sense Joss Whedon’s influence on the dialogue even through the dub. I’m sad about the circumstances which led Zack Snyder from being unable to finish the movie, but what he did with his previous outings in the DC universe left me with little hope that I would have enjoyed the movie as much as I did if he had.

On Sunday I got to bring Star Wars Rebellion to the table for only the second time and it was epic. I played the Empire and managed to destroy the Rebel base about a turn before my opponent was able to complete the objectives that would have won him the game. Dantooine. They were on Dantooine. I sent an excursion there first so as not to commit the entire fleet stationed in the sector to that system. I also had Ilum has a possibility to check out on if Dantooine didn’t pan out. But it did and so I was able to send the rest of the fleet in to mop up the remains. Combat remains the weakest part of the game. I’m looking forward to trying the game out with the expansion (even if it means I have to include Rogue One content).

I also tried Dragonfire and wow is it a tough nut to crack. The quick-start scenario walloped me hard twice. I’d heard that difficulty balance could be an issue with less than four players. I’m hoping that it’s limited to the quick-start scenario though since I don’t know that I’ll consistently be able to get four players to the table (including me) very often.

That’s it for this week. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.

Something the Kids Can Sing

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Nov 132017
 

Hello Top Men and Top Women. Time for a little bloggin’ on this Monday.

As I have this Monday after Remembrance Day off I will offer a word of thanks to all the brave men and women who have fought and who continue to fight to keep us safe. Thank you.

So I have this campaign of Imperial Assault going. I’m running the Empire against my friends who are playing the Rebel heroes. We’re eight games in and I’ve only lost once. It’s crazy as each game has come down pretty close to the wire. The campaign goes to the winner of the last scenario so these wins might not mean all that much. They are giving me more advantages though so I’m hoping to pull it out in the end as well.

I got to try the new Justice League trading card game by Panini. It makes me think of a cross between Pokemon and Magic with a superhero theme. I don’t like the blind starters (there are four different starter decks and you don’t know which one you’ll get when you buy one. I understand the rationale behind it (they didn’t want everybody to buy the Batman starter and stores be left with a bunch of Cyborg starters that nobody wants), but I still don’t like the idea of not being able to get the starter you actually want. The game is fun though so I’ve bought in for some starters and a few boosters. I don’t expect to go as crazy as I have for Destiny (my wallet can’t take it) but I’ll buy some more boosters here and there.

There was another great FCL wrestling show on Saturday. One of my childhood friends used to wrestle for them over a decade ago. He’s retired from the wrestling game but he and his brother came out of retirement for a match against a current heel team. They’re a great team with a lot of energy and the crowd still remembers and loves them. The Reno Brothers still have it.

That’s all I got for this week. Have a good seven y’all and we’ll do this again next Monday. Carja V.

Roll the Bones!

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Nov 062017
 

Hello and how are ya, all you Top Men and Top Women out there? I’m doing fine and ready to post a short blog this week.

I finally got to break out my copy of Too Many Bones yesterday and it was pretty great. They call it a Dice-building RPG. Let me be clear, there is no roleplaying in this game. I think a more accurate description would be a Dice-building Adventure Game. Each player has a neoprene (think mousepad) character sheet with cut-outs to put the skill dice they earn and a reference sheet to help them figure out what all those dice do. Even though the core of the game is simple, there’s a lot of information to assimilate. We played the shortest adventure scenario and it still took us somewhere upwards of four hours to get through it. With repeated plays, I’d say the play time could easily be cut down to as much as half. Those other scenarios promise to be beasts. I look forward to getting to get it to the table again, which is the sign of a good game.

That about covers what I wanted to talk about this week (I told you this would be short). Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.

And Said “Whatever Happened to My Transylvania Twist?”

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Oct 312017
 

Hey there Top Men and Top Women! Time to blog.

Today I told myself I wouldn’t wait until fifteen minutes before Raw to write my blog. This way, in theory, I can take the time to write something worthwhile. This by no means guarantees a post of any significant quality, just that the lack of quality SHOULDN’T be because it’s rushed.

I went to a Hallowe’en party at Les Dés Truqués on Saturday night. To save five dollars on the entry ticket, I dug my Flint costume out. It’d been a few years since I’d worn it so I was happy to see it still fit. Considering that it was baggy back then I would have been REALLY disappointed to see it didn’t fit anymore. I also didn’t want to be the only person without a costume. It turns out I wouldn’t have been. There was one person out of the 28 who attended who decided to forego wearing one. Oh well, five bucks is five bucks. 🙂

One of the activities was a horror movie quiz. Even though I don’t like horror movies and don’t generally watch them (I have seen a couple) I was able to be a significant contributor to our team’s success. Out of maybe eight or nine teams, we finished third with a score of 21 out of 32 (the winning score was 23). Yay to absorbing (mostly) useless bits of pop culture!

Prior to Saturday I think it’d been…what twenty years since I heard The Monster Mash? I wonder how many of the younger (and mostly francophone) folk had ever heard it before…

Tomorrow they’re holding a special ceremony at work to highlight the change from a tax centre to a verification and collection centre. There will be distinguished guests. I wonder how many of them will be wearing Hallowe’en costumes or silly props? As employees we’ve been invited to do so if we want. I might break out the ol’ Ted vest but that will pretty much be it.

A new Asterix BD came out this month. I found out last week by accident when I was at Wal-Mart. Just before leaving, I glanced through their small book section and saw it on the bottom shelf. Not only that, but apparently I missed the one that came out in 2015. I haven’t read them yet, but they’re on the docket. I have to say that Didier Conrad does a good job of replicating Uderzo’s drawing style.

I think that’s about all I have to say for this week. Have a good seven all and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.

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