{"id":406,"date":"2004-11-29T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2004\/11\/29\/rulebooks-and-reviews\/"},"modified":"2004-11-29T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T13:43:00","slug":"rulebooks-and-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2004\/11\/29\/rulebooks-and-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Rulebooks and Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have another gaming credit now, from a different company, no less. The rulebook<\/a> for WizKids’ “MechWarrior: Age of Destruction<\/a>” has been posted in PDF format, and Rain and I sit comfortably on page 47 as playtesters.<\/p>\n

Rain and I watched “The Thomas Crown Affair<\/a>” and “All The Queen’s Men<\/a>” 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<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of the breakdancing Soundwave, here’s another transforming mech that wants to boogie<\/a> While I’m linking, southernsinger<\/a> should find the premise behind this comic strip<\/a> strangely familiar.<\/p>\n

Happy belated birthday to jazzfish<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,49,30],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-comics","tag-gaming","tag-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-6y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}