welcome to the compound
Oh, Happy Harry. You are awesome.
I had a crappy day, and contrary to the usual way-too-personal nature of blogs, I’m not going to go on about that. Instead, I’m going to go on about the ‘background music’ of my crap day, because I’ve kept silent for far too long about it, and I think it’s high time the Internet knew my feelings on the matter.
I have never been so sick of a movie I haven’t seen as Avatar.
If anyone wants to add me, my PSN ID is revolver-knight. Though about the only thing I play online is BlazBlue, some people just gotta compulsively add as many people as possible to their people-lists.
The Short Version: A pretty clever design for a 2-D fighter. Do people still play those?
The Long Version: First off, I’d like to thank the site’s backend for making me think that my draft of this had been deleted, then restoring it as I was about to copy paste another draft I started from scratch. TECHNOLOGY!!Continue reading BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
Nostalgia is a damn powerful thing, especially for 80’s spawn like myself. The opiates of ‘toys’ and ‘cartoons’ were allowed to intermingle and form some sort of new, more potent form of marketing methamphetamine. That’s probably why our generation has the same problem resisting the urge to banter about My Little Pony and Etch-A-Sketch that the last few generations had with recounting how many Nazis they could kill with only their scrotums and moxie.
But, again, since I’m not part of that generation, all you people are going to have to make do with me regaling you with the story of how, while re-watching a cartoon I grew up with, just how batshit the original source material for the sprawling merchandising machine was.
But where to begin? The Giant Purple Griffin? An episode that basically tells kids gambling is ok, and the only thing better is cheating at it? How about one revolving around a hypnotic superdisco?
No… No, we can do even better than that. We’re going to dive right in and see how the hell mermaids fit in with the Transformers universe!
I haven’t GM’d a game other than Heroscape in a long time, so running a Silhouette game was a nice change of pace at the con here. The game’s name was Leave The Blue Earth To Me! (Nadesico Ref, Go!) and had an ensemble of multinational super robot pilots fighting for the glory of defeating the evil giant monster Gigazardo. And… it was awesome. Neo-Japan’s “Samurai Blue” kicked things off by picking up the fallen Neo-France robot and ramming it into the monster to knock it on its ass. From there, Neo-America’s GunHawk knocked the Eiffel Tower down on the monster, pinning it, and R-66 of Neo-Russia beheaded it with a gravitic axe. And that wasn’t the good part.
From there, Japan attacked Russia, and the Russian pilot activated his nuclear self destruct. Neo-America tried to beat it, but Samurai Blue drove its sword into the nuke to detonate it prematurely and the entire city and all players went up in thermonuclear smoke.
Doesn’t that beat casting magic missile at dragons or whatever?