It’s not a measuring contest

Think about it. A starship captained by Janeway, with co-pilot Leia Organa. The Blockade Voyager will be fast, small, and immensely in need of upgrade and repairs as Engineer Kaylee Frye tapes back together what the Borg and Empire just tried to blast apart.  Heading up the rest of the onboard crew is [...]

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

I am a bit of a fanboy tragic about the My Little Pony series.  Given that I once said “Can I have a pony?” and received a flotilla of My Little Ponies from my friends and students, I have history with the franchise.

Specifically though, the new series is hysterically funny in parts – I [...]

A tale of two evenings in animated cats

@jennifergearing is having an evening with her Keating: The Musical soundtrack.

 

 

Meanwhile, I’m having this sort of evening with my collection of Pendulum albums.

It’s rather epic being us.

Red Dead Redemption: Notes from the field

Summary:

Gameplay, game environment, open world, music and visuals: Excellent Storyline and connected creator controlled elements: Moderate to Problematic.

The Good Part: Aka the reason I own the game: The Sandbox World

The open world sandbox is much more fun than the storyline. Seriously, the only reason I bought RDR was for the [...]

Gen-Con Day 1 – Day 2, LARP short report

Short version. Zombie Apocalypse LARP: Started human, ended human, participated in six of the game’s major explosions. Good times.

Steampunk LARP: Started the game as a Gentleman Boxer nicknamed “The Doctor” (for a boxer, I had disturbingly high medical knowledge), and the bodyguard/meat shield for The Patron. Over the course of the game, I was [...]