I made a quick trip to Target this morning, hoping to find the Funko Pop! 10″ Porg. Nope.
Instead, I got sucked into the hype for Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Behold!
The Funkos I did manage to find…
Han and Chewie
Hey, how they get in here?
Moments
There was a brief moment, shortly after I took this picture, as I sat in my seat, alone, at the ball park, with an eerie almost silence around me, when I felt something.
Joy.
Bliss.
Happiness.
More so than I’d felt in quite a long time.
I almost started to cry.
And then we all stood for the National Anthem.
Solo Trailer
MoviePass: The End?
We’ll see.
On Wednesday I saw that they had charged me for another month, even though I had cancelled my account last month. I sent them a note via their ‘contact us’ link on their site through the phone app.
A while later there was a canned reply in my email explaining how to cancel my account. Arrgh.
Today I saw that they had charged me a SECOND time, so I left another note via their chat option on their app.
I also checked their Facebook account, and found a not-toll free number for their customer service line.
I called, and immediately I was speaking to a real live person. I explained that I had been charged twice and had cancelled my account in March.
After about 18 minutes of being on hold, and without and hold music, the person came back on the line three times, twice to say that they were working on my refund, and a final time to tell me that the refund had been processed, and that my account had been cancelled.
I guess we’ll find out how true that is next month.
I have nothing against MoviePass, I just find that I get more out of Cinemark’s Movie Club. I can’t see a movie every day, but 20% off concessions is a good perk.
Easter 2018
Happy Easter 2018
Ready Player One
Baseball Opening Day 2018
I started my day off by running to the grocery store to pick up hot dogs and buns, the only food you need for Opening Day.
I also picked up chips and soda.
At home I steamed the dogs and ate a couple as the first game of the day started (Cubs @ Marlins).
A half hour later I switched over to the Cards @ Mets game, and began playing my table top baseball games. One game turned out bad, the other good.
And the Mets beat the Cards.
Now waiting for the Giants @ Dodgers game in a couple of hours.
Welcome back, baseball. I missed you.
Games Overload, Again
So Monday I acquired, through various means:
- Necromunda Underhive
- Leaving Earth
- Top Secret New World Order
- the 1987 MLB season for Payoff Pitch Baseball
Aside from sorting the 1987 season, opening the Necromunda box, and printing out character sheets for Top Secret NWO, I haven’t had a chance to start looking at the rules for the three new games.
And I want to learn them all immediately.
Ack.
Mighty Protectors a.k.a. V&V 3.0
Today our gaming group tried the Mighty Protectors Super-Hero Role-Playing Game.
We created characters (all except me) and ran through a combat session.
Four of the players chose to make random roles for everything, while one had a concept already in mind. We ended up with an interesting group of heroes, all with different power sets, with only a couple of overlapping powers.
The five heroes attacked each other individually, with varying levels of success, mostly due to an occasional bad die roll.
A car was tossed around by a pair of Magneto-type characters, while another pair of heroes squared off, alternately punching and shooting each other with a devitalization (power draining) ray.
All-in-all, I think we’ve found our super hero RPG, choosing this one over Mutants and Masterminds, which all of us had trouble understanding.
Even when we were stumped with a combat situation, we were able to work our way to a solution that made sense.
I look forward to running a full adventure for this, even without playing a character, though I did create a couple on my own.
And they’ll have a butler NPC named Alvis (Jarfred sounded dumb) to attend to their needs. I just have to figure out how/where to introduce him.