Comics and the weekend
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So, yes. Perhaps I should talk about stuff. Thursday game went well; we made initial contact with the natives, and it turned out the big thing we killed was, in fact, someone's mother. We sojourned out to the village we were supposed to help out with, and there Paul's character, who was voted Most Likely To Go My Lai On The Place went native after tasting the local Vrithin nose powder. That was nice.
Upon returning to base camp, we discovered that the sentry drone had been reprogrammed by the evil Vrith, so my character, the team engineer, attempted to remove the explosive so we would examine the Vrith technology. I would have succeeded if I hadn't been so honest.
Point: When playing in a game system where success is determined by # of evens on the dice, remember that the 50 on a percentile die is actually an odd number. If you miss this, and the GM goes "Okay", do not correct yourself.
After we completed our information retrieval, we flashed back to the politcal half of the game. I'm contemplating actually doing something in this part this time, since we spend way too much time agreeing with one another.
As was mentioned previously, Dragon Lady did not have my X-Men Omnibus in. The manager browbeat me into getting Planetary #1, which was good (okay, not a surprise to the millions at home, but I'd been dragging my feet on getting it for a few years now). Comics wise I got some other stuff, which have once again ebbed from my brain.
Cynra & I made it to dinner with Uday on Friday. The weather was so very, very bad that I didn't actually go home first, but drove straight there from work to make the 7:30 reservation. I stopped off at the Streetsville comic store to get Planetary #2 (okay, I REALLY liked it), but they didn't have it. So I got Ex Machina #1 (about a superhero who runs for Mayor of NY after saving the South Tower of the WTC on 11/9) and Fables #3.
I enjoyed the first two Fables books![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
twillitts gave me, but that may be because I'm not noticing Willingham's right wing proclivities. The reason for that may be that I'm just a naive Canadian who doesn't look for that kind of subtext (or just considers them 'American'), or maybe because I’m just not educated enough to seek these things out with the necessary fervor.
Really, afternottheterritory got done with tearing me a new hole for liking Y, I'm starting to just nod and smile when someone gets righteous about political subtext in most GNs. Or TV shows, for that matter.
Dinner was good. Uday got me Bon Cop, Bad Cop for my B-day, which is still cool. The deleted scenes are neat. The trailers are amusing, as you see that the star of the Quebec one is Huard, and the one for the RoC seems to star Rick Mercer.
The next day, I grabbed the Green Lantern archive and Ex Machina Vol 2 from the MPL. The neat factor of EM fades a bit, as there's too much idiot plot in this collection. How dumb is the FBI in this book? Darn dumb. The gay marriage B plot is interesting, sure, but a bit of a cop out.
Maybe book 3 is better. MPL, help me!
Saturday was the Browncoat dinner. Man, the Elephant and Castle has lost any shine it ever had. The seating area is dark as the pit, they've pretty much decided one server can handle 25 people (Tell that to my empty beer glass, bitch!) and the food, well, sucks.
Seriously, I’m no connoisseur, no Epicurean, but chicken curry shouldn’t taste like Maple Leaf Chicken Slices warmed in spaghetti sauce. It was a horrid, horrid joke. Add that to the poor service, and I’m glad the group is now pursuing other options.
Sure, I’ll miss being able to scoot on over to 401 to pick up anything that does a fancy strike, but, hey, good food would be a plus.
So, yes. Perhaps I should talk about stuff. Thursday game went well; we made initial contact with the natives, and it turned out the big thing we killed was, in fact, someone's mother. We sojourned out to the village we were supposed to help out with, and there Paul's character, who was voted Most Likely To Go My Lai On The Place went native after tasting the local Vrithin nose powder. That was nice.
Upon returning to base camp, we discovered that the sentry drone had been reprogrammed by the evil Vrith, so my character, the team engineer, attempted to remove the explosive so we would examine the Vrith technology. I would have succeeded if I hadn't been so honest.
Point: When playing in a game system where success is determined by # of evens on the dice, remember that the 50 on a percentile die is actually an odd number. If you miss this, and the GM goes "Okay", do not correct yourself.
After we completed our information retrieval, we flashed back to the politcal half of the game. I'm contemplating actually doing something in this part this time, since we spend way too much time agreeing with one another.
As was mentioned previously, Dragon Lady did not have my X-Men Omnibus in. The manager browbeat me into getting Planetary #1, which was good (okay, not a surprise to the millions at home, but I'd been dragging my feet on getting it for a few years now). Comics wise I got some other stuff, which have once again ebbed from my brain.
Cynra & I made it to dinner with Uday on Friday. The weather was so very, very bad that I didn't actually go home first, but drove straight there from work to make the 7:30 reservation. I stopped off at the Streetsville comic store to get Planetary #2 (okay, I REALLY liked it), but they didn't have it. So I got Ex Machina #1 (about a superhero who runs for Mayor of NY after saving the South Tower of the WTC on 11/9) and Fables #3.
I enjoyed the first two Fables books
twillitts gave me, but that may be because I'm not noticing Willingham's right wing proclivities. The reason for that may be that I'm just a naive Canadian who doesn't look for that kind of subtext (or just considers them 'American'), or maybe because I’m just not educated enough to seek these things out with the necessary fervor. Really, after
nottheterritory got done with tearing me a new hole for liking Y, I'm starting to just nod and smile when someone gets righteous about political subtext in most GNs. Or TV shows, for that matter. Dinner was good. Uday got me Bon Cop, Bad Cop for my B-day, which is still cool. The deleted scenes are neat. The trailers are amusing, as you see that the star of the Quebec one is Huard, and the one for the RoC seems to star Rick Mercer.
The next day, I grabbed the Green Lantern archive and Ex Machina Vol 2 from the MPL. The neat factor of EM fades a bit, as there's too much idiot plot in this collection. How dumb is the FBI in this book? Darn dumb. The gay marriage B plot is interesting, sure, but a bit of a cop out.
Maybe book 3 is better. MPL, help me!
Saturday was the Browncoat dinner. Man, the Elephant and Castle has lost any shine it ever had. The seating area is dark as the pit, they've pretty much decided one server can handle 25 people (Tell that to my empty beer glass, bitch!) and the food, well, sucks.
Seriously, I’m no connoisseur, no Epicurean, but chicken curry shouldn’t taste like Maple Leaf Chicken Slices warmed in spaghetti sauce. It was a horrid, horrid joke. Add that to the poor service, and I’m glad the group is now pursuing other options.
Sure, I’ll miss being able to scoot on over to 401 to pick up anything that does a fancy strike, but, hey, good food would be a plus.
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Date: 2007-01-30 05:52 pm (UTC)I enjoyed the first two Fables books twillitts gave me, but that may be because I'm not noticing Willingham's right wing proclivities. The reason for that may be that I'm just a naive Canadian who doesn't look for that kind of subtext (or just considers them 'American'), or maybe because I’m just not educated enough to seek these things out with the necessary fervor.
Willingham has right-wing proclivities?
Seriously. I never noticed. I don't recall anything like that from Elementals, nor anything else...
Then again, I don't look for stuff like that in my escapist fiction. Methinks some people look too hard sometimes, and the rest of the time, who wants to worry about political subtext when there's a good fun silly romp of a fantasy story?
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Date: 2007-01-30 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-30 06:17 pm (UTC)It's most likely that, because you don't know me, that you like me. ;)
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Date: 2007-01-30 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-30 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-30 06:27 pm (UTC)I do not profess to have intimate knowledge of Our Lord Creator's intents and plans, but it certainly seems to be the case.
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Date: 2007-01-30 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-30 06:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-30 10:23 pm (UTC)From the Acknowledgments page of SM Stirling's Conquistador (http://www.amazon.com/Conquistador-Alternate-History-S-M-Stirling/dp/0451459334/sr=11-1/qid=1170195507/ref=sr_11_1/104-7946158-0976764)
And a special acknowledgement to the author of Niven's Law:
"There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author.
The term is "idiot".
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Date: 2007-01-30 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-31 12:57 am (UTC)As it is, it's just retarded. An author's views show through in their work. For fuck's sake, who else's will?
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Date: 2007-01-31 01:04 am (UTC)There's a world of difference between "an author's views show[ing] through in their work" and mistaking the views of a character for those of the author.