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Ready Player One

I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

It’s been a while since I read the book (which I loved) but having been raised in the 1980s, this was a joy to watch.

Can’t say much more without spoiling.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cinemark Movie Club

Something I didn’t know it did: while buying advanced tickets for Ready Player One, I ended up paying the add-on ticket price of $8.99 per ticket instead of $11.50 per ticket.  And without a convenience fee.

So a pair of tickets from Fandango that would have been $26 came out to $17.98.

MoviePass wouldn’t have allowed purchase from that screening, since it’s in the recliner seat theatre, and even if I  could, it would be for one ticket, bought that day.

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Wasted Day

I woke up this morning to some very familiar feelings of nausea.

Food poisoning.

I immediately went back to bed.

I woke up about 4 hours later to email work that I’d be out before I went straight back to bed.

Another 3 hours later, I got up and  took a shower since I was sweating a lot while I was sleeping.  I made some tea, but only drank half of it and went back to bed.

I woke up again about 4 hours later and made some toast and finished my tea.  Back to bed.

Got up again 2 hours later and seem to have shaken off most of the effects, though I do have a bit of a headache.

I tossed the foods that I ate the night before, though I suspect it was the milk, which expires tomorrow, but it had a faint odd smell, but tasted okay with cereal.  Never again.

Currently eating dry toast and tea.

As a result of this, I got a ticket on my car for street cleaning violation, and 3 packages (game stuff, camera accessory, Kickstarter reward) that I was expecting at work have been delivered, but I’ll wait until Monday to get them.

Wasted day.  Though in my semi-sleepy state I had the TV on to the Giants game, though I missed Bumgarner breaking his hand, and there’s a James Bond marathon on MGMHD channel.