Hi folks,
As most of you know, one of my hobbies is gaming and writing games.
The big obstable that I'm running into right now in getting games written well is that I have
no bloody time to play them. This also is causing me issues with, say, remembering how to play things like Attack Vector, which I last played at about this time last year (and which I will need to know backwards again in a couple months so I can demo it to unsuspecting GenCon victims).
Which brings me to the point of this carefully crafted spam: on Thursday evenings at my place, I will be hosting a games night.
Board games, role-playing games, 3D space miniatures games, Brick Battles scenario testing, all kinds of stuff like that.
Anyone who comes out to help me test this stuff gets credit in the book, should it be one I wrote and am taking through to publishing. If it isn't, you get to learn a new game. Or play a game you already know.
I will be doing this every Thursday that I'm in town, for the forseeable future. Yes, I know Thursday is the LARP geek night, but ya know what? It will get along just fine without you every once in a while. It's been rolling along quite happily without me for the last five years.
Come after 8, as before that kids aren't in bed. Comment on this if you're interested AND think you might actually come out sometimes. Let me know if you need to know where I live.
thanks,
James
So, Episode III. I'll keep away from the spoilers as best I can, but I will bring up a few things that interested me.
This was a very dark movie, with an ending that was clearly "the bad guys win." Obviously, playing the what if game is the essence of futility, but I find myself wondering: Would Hollywood have let a film maker - even one with Lucas' credentials - make a major release movie where the bad guys win if we didn't already have the sequel where the good guys win in place? I'm not sure the industry would have let him get away with it.
I felt like Annikin's fall felt a bit rushed to me. Not forced - I'll give Lucas and Hayden the credit for that - it was a believable fall, but it did feel like he flipped pretty darn quick. Probably due to constraints of the media, but I think he could have kept the sequence of events the same and stretched the scale of the movie by a few years without sacrificing anything. And it would have had the added bonus of not needing to explain why all the healthy young people at the end of Ep. III are all old and creaky at the start of Ep IV. Like Aunt Beru. I mean sure, living on Tatooine can't be good for the complexion, but she goes from like, 17 to 60. Damn, that's gotta suck.
Ah well. I'm sure that I'm not the only guy in the peanut gallery who knows "exactly what would have fixed" Episode III. It doesn't really matter, anyway.
Joss Whedon is my master now.
James
