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Where I'm headed
Jul. 28th, 2012 11:07 amSo, I know that other than my usual Twitter-spam I've been quiet. Not really a whole lot I want to share or make a big deal out of.
Gearing up for Gencon. Schedule in a nutshell: I'll be getting in Wednesday afternoon and staying at the Sheraton. I'll be doing some tabletop gaming on Thursday afternoon followed up by the Mantis Clan Dinner with maybe an appearance at this L5R RPG event they're holding. Friday will be taken up by a qualifier for the North American L5R Championships and Saturday I'm planning on doing a couple of non-CCG tourneys (basically, something I can afford to miss/cancel on the unlikely chance I qualify for the L5R championships) and then an L5R-related party Saturday evening. Sunday's gonna be a couple of panels and relaxation. I usually head home kind of early-ish on Sundays so I've got time to hang out in Morgantown before heading home but honestly I'm getting a little tired of "Wake up grab suitcase bye" on Sundays so now I'm leaving a little later.
If it doesn't sound like it, I'm going to have a good bit of free time if folks want to meet up and hang out or whatever.
Also, I don't have a lot of specific details lined up yet, paperwork still needs to be done, etc, but I'm making arrangements to move to Morgantown later this year. It's something that should have been done a long time ago but honestly this last year's just been rough on me in ways I don't feel like getting into here.
I also recently saw Dark Knight Rises. Long story short, I enjoyed it although pretty much nothing about the character design for Bane worked for me. He looked silly and he sounded silly. Honestly, it made me think that it'd be interesting what it would be like for a comic book movie to actually try to introduce an entirely new villain rather than do a hatchet job on a canon character. I mean, the lunatic fringe nerds will spend the whole movie wondering where the real villain is, but I think it would be an interesting experiment. As an aside, I actually briefly lost track of one of the action sequences towards the end of the movie not because it was hard to follow but because it was filmed in downtown Pittsburgh and I've been in that area so many times (for Anthrocon and other reasons) that I kept spotting familiar landmarks and was trying to place the action. But in the end, I was glad I went out of my way to check it out in theaters but I didn't regret skipping the midnight premiere.
And I'm not usually a reviewer-type guy, but I've been playing the video game Quantum Conundrum a good bit and it's gotten such mixed reviews I feel an urge to share my thoughts. It's a fun game, if you like Portal-esque 'physics porn' puzzle games. But the game's two biggest weaknesses are a heavy reliance on precision jumps and such that just don't work in a first-person perspective. The other weakness is John de Lancie's dialogue. I understand that it's apparently written for a younger crowd (random example: There's a joke about how the mad scientist in whose mansion you're stuck built a digging machine that he nicknamed "Everyday I'm Shovelin'") but it just tries a little too hard at times. But that said, if you can tolerate weak comedic writing, it's a fun (but challenging) puzzle game.
In other news, the writing plate's been crowded and I've been trying to clear stuff off but more's piled up. Not gonna get too much into the specifics here for a variety of reasons (in other words, not sure if I can do so), but all will be revealed in time.
So what's up with all you?
Gearing up for Gencon. Schedule in a nutshell: I'll be getting in Wednesday afternoon and staying at the Sheraton. I'll be doing some tabletop gaming on Thursday afternoon followed up by the Mantis Clan Dinner with maybe an appearance at this L5R RPG event they're holding. Friday will be taken up by a qualifier for the North American L5R Championships and Saturday I'm planning on doing a couple of non-CCG tourneys (basically, something I can afford to miss/cancel on the unlikely chance I qualify for the L5R championships) and then an L5R-related party Saturday evening. Sunday's gonna be a couple of panels and relaxation. I usually head home kind of early-ish on Sundays so I've got time to hang out in Morgantown before heading home but honestly I'm getting a little tired of "Wake up grab suitcase bye" on Sundays so now I'm leaving a little later.
If it doesn't sound like it, I'm going to have a good bit of free time if folks want to meet up and hang out or whatever.
Also, I don't have a lot of specific details lined up yet, paperwork still needs to be done, etc, but I'm making arrangements to move to Morgantown later this year. It's something that should have been done a long time ago but honestly this last year's just been rough on me in ways I don't feel like getting into here.
I also recently saw Dark Knight Rises. Long story short, I enjoyed it although pretty much nothing about the character design for Bane worked for me. He looked silly and he sounded silly. Honestly, it made me think that it'd be interesting what it would be like for a comic book movie to actually try to introduce an entirely new villain rather than do a hatchet job on a canon character. I mean, the lunatic fringe nerds will spend the whole movie wondering where the real villain is, but I think it would be an interesting experiment. As an aside, I actually briefly lost track of one of the action sequences towards the end of the movie not because it was hard to follow but because it was filmed in downtown Pittsburgh and I've been in that area so many times (for Anthrocon and other reasons) that I kept spotting familiar landmarks and was trying to place the action. But in the end, I was glad I went out of my way to check it out in theaters but I didn't regret skipping the midnight premiere.
And I'm not usually a reviewer-type guy, but I've been playing the video game Quantum Conundrum a good bit and it's gotten such mixed reviews I feel an urge to share my thoughts. It's a fun game, if you like Portal-esque 'physics porn' puzzle games. But the game's two biggest weaknesses are a heavy reliance on precision jumps and such that just don't work in a first-person perspective. The other weakness is John de Lancie's dialogue. I understand that it's apparently written for a younger crowd (random example: There's a joke about how the mad scientist in whose mansion you're stuck built a digging machine that he nicknamed "Everyday I'm Shovelin'") but it just tries a little too hard at times. But that said, if you can tolerate weak comedic writing, it's a fun (but challenging) puzzle game.
In other news, the writing plate's been crowded and I've been trying to clear stuff off but more's piled up. Not gonna get too much into the specifics here for a variety of reasons (in other words, not sure if I can do so), but all will be revealed in time.
So what's up with all you?
