Rulebooks and Reviews
I have another gaming credit now, from a different company, no less. The rulebook for WizKids’ “MechWarrior: Age of Destruction” has been posted in PDF format, and Rain and I sit comfortably on page 47 as playtesters.
Rain and I watched “The Thomas Crown Affair” and “All The Queen’s Men” this weekend. ATQM was only worth watching for Eddie Izzard’s lines – it didn’t seem to know whether it was a comedy, a romance, or an espionage caper, so it failed at all three. And while I wouldn’t suggest that years of experience playing Shadowrun qualifies Rain and me as intelligence agents, that experience did reveal several big plot issues to us long before the trained secret agents noticed them. “Thomas Crown” opened and closed with better capers – the ending had us going, “Ohhhhhh…” – but the hour in the middle was tedious and irritating.
We’ve noticed in movies like “Ocean’s Eleven”, “National Treasure”, and these two that we’re often a little ahead of the film’s twist; this adds to the fun if the movie’s good anyway, and makes a weak movie weaker.
In the spirit of the breakdancing Soundwave, here’s another transforming mech that wants to boogie While I’m linking, southernsinger should find the premise behind this comic strip strangely familiar.
Happy belated birthday to jazzfish 🙂
Which versions of Thomas Crown and Ocean’s Eleven? I watched the older version of the latter and HATED it. I’ve never been a Rat Pack fan, but this was baaaad.
Sorry I didn’t get in touch before our visit down south – I just didn’t have time to do much other than what we managed while in Norfolk. I thought of you…
This was the “Thomas Crown” with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, and the George Clooney “Ocean’s Eleven”. We enjoyed OE quite a bit, but I have heard that the original is mostly irritating.
We’d have loved to see you, but I sure understand how tight schedules can get. Let us know next time 🙂
Hopefully within the next month!
My Mrs. and I stayed through the credits of “The Incredibles”, and I got all excited when I saw a Michael K. O’Brien in one of the computer graphics credits. 🙂
Belated Congrats
BTW, CONGRATULATIONS on the writing credit to both you and Rain. That’s pretty awesome.
I’ve been designated semi-official proof-reader for the college, and I see SO many of those errors. Sometimes they don’t accept my corrections, but at least I tried.
My two favorites for today (in already published documents):
“Accuracey is a must.”
“This program provides learning opportunities which introduce, develop and reinforce academic and occupational knowledge, skills and attitudes required for job acquisition, retention and advancement.”
Aw, thanks. And since I’m reading through my since-Thanksgiving LJ backlog in reverse, that’s actually the first one I’ve seen. 🙂
Also, I had almost exactly the same reaction to the new Thomas Crown. Although seeing Faye Dunaway in a cameo was kind of cool.