As can sometimes happen, news to me may be a couple of years late. That's true in this case, but I couldn't help not sharing this video.

Sunstroke Project & Olia Tira (Moldova) - Run Away (Eurovision Song Contest 2010)

It's like a slice of the 80s in my living room.

I've been thinking about it for quite some time, but I recently made the jump to start a new army, this time in the world of HORDES. It took me a while to figure out precisely which faction I wanted to play, and I finally settled on Circle Orboros.

We got siding! We went down and took these pictures just today after returning from vacation, so they are hot off the press.

Last weekend, I got in a couple of Warmachine games, and I wanted to take a moment to document how they went here. The first was Harkevich vs. Reznik (against Cody) and the second was The Butcher vs. Supreme Aptimus Zaal (Ian). Details follow.

This week, we got a lot of progress as our house now has its second level. More pictures below

I’ve been reading The World’s Best Science Fiction 28 when I get the chance, and the latest story I read, “The Emperor of Mars” was quite a treat. Sure, the plot was a bit predictable (I’m not sure that it wasn’t supposed to be), but it was a real treat for me, as someone who has a soft spot for the Golden Era of Sci-Fi. Spoilers and a short review after the jump.

I'm sure there will be a lot of blogs like this this week, but I wanted to give a quick look at my first impressions of Guild Wars 2. This weekend was the first open beta event, and Jessa and I had one account between us, so I played a Charr Elementalist (Dalgren Crow) and she played a Norn Ranger (Carolina Lee). A couple of pictures and my main likes and dislikes below.

We got our lumber drop on Wednesday, so we officially have quite a bit of the frame this week. Pictures after the jump.

In anticipation of the Guild Wars 2 beta weekend, I spent some time taking some screen captures of my current Guild Wars main: Kae Listre.

Enjoy!

If you've been reading the rest of these entries, this part really boils down to getting the physical cards built. In all the prior entries, I talked about how to gather the artwork together, create a template, and finalize the digital copies of the decks. Now, I get down to actually printing and assembling the cards.

Not much progress on the house this week, I suspect primarily due to weather. However, they did get the lot backfilled, so there's not as much of a hole there as before. This week we also got window wells, and it is a lot easier to tell where the garage is. As always, pictures after the jump.

When I started my previous post on fantasy gaming in the 80s and 90s, I realized part way through that I had much more to say than anyone would want to read in one sitting. In that post, I talked about the various board games that I grew up playing, why I liked them, and what I still had left of them. Here, I'd like to talk a little bit about why I miss those games, and what is different about more recent games.

This is the third in a short series of posts about putting together a custom deck of cards from scratch. Step 1 was all about organizing the artwork in a meaningful way, and step 2 was about putting together a template to make the actual physical work easier. In this step, I'm going to talk a bit about how I put those two pieces together to make everything work.

Last week, it looks like they poured most of the foundation and got everything set. There is concrete in the ground, and we were able to tell where our porch, garage, and various basement spaces were. Pictures after the jump.

I recently received a copy of HeroQuest from a friend of mine, and it made me feel quite a bit of nostalgia for what it was like to be a young gamer. When I look back at the things that really got me in to gaming, aside from the fact that my parents role-played, I think of four games in particular: HeroQuest, Dragon Strike, Talisman, and Key to the Kingdom.