Stu
03-01-2007, 08:06 PM
OK. So I've deleted the bookmark to the old site. I'm committed and happy to be here. Apparently, our beta-test introductions are gone, so I'll try to reintroduce myself.
Mostly, I play rpgs. I've been playing them for just over thirty years and I've enjoyed almost every one I've ever played.
I like some boardgames. Current favorites are Arkham Horror, Heroscape, Risk and its varients, Wings of War. A couple I'm looking forward to trying out are Ticket to Ride and Battle Lore.
I have pushed a few WarMachine minis around, but I haven't really dug in. Same with Warhammer. I've learned the basic rules to help my son, Jake, figure it out, but I never really went crazy with it. I'm really enjoying AT-43, and I don't see it getting old anytime soon. The Savage Worlds rpg has a huge miniature component built into it, and I'd enjoy getting more into that. I seem to prefer fleet-level games. I like Iron Stars. I need to finish my Aeronef fleets. I would still love to play Sky Galleons of Mars, even though it's been out of fashion for a while.
I don't like all the clicky games, but I've had fun playing the Crimson Skies one and the Scary Clix.
I played Magic for about six months after a pre-premiere party and demonstration at the old Miniature World store, but I burned out on it and never developed much collectable card-love. I will play Yu-Gi-Oh with my son and his friends. And if Shadowfist ever comes back out, I'm all in, baby. Or On the Edge. Those games were fun and tied in with the Feng Shui and Over the Edge rpgs, respectively.
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Movies: Maltese Falcon, Big Trouble in Little China, Buckaroo Banzai, Avenging Angel, Wages of Fear, Wizards, Island of Lost Souls
TV: Millenium, Have Gun Will Travel, Briscoe County Jr, Wild Wild West, Kolchak, Cleopatra 2525, The Avengers, The New Avengers, The Prisoner,
Pulps: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, The Executioner, The Destroyer, The Shadow, The Spider, Commando Cody, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Jules DeGranden, Conan, Solomon Kane, Tarzan, John Carter, Longarm, Casca, Gor, Richard Blade, The Outlanders
Funny Book favorites: Jack Kirby, Vaughn Bode, Tim Truman, Alan Moore, Joe R Lansdale, R Crumb
Authors: Mark Twain, James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Mickey Spillane, Robert E Howard, H P Lovecraft--OK--I can't sort out the pulp overlap. Whatever.
I love: alternatve Victoriana, Todd Browning movies, juvenile delinquent movies, Bette Page and Mamie, by god, Van Doren--all that wierd, dark, kitchy stuff that can't decide if it's horrifying or campy. Drive-in movies, breakfast buffets, midnite lasertorium, comics from the seventies, punk bands from the 80s. Zombies creep me out.
In the world, I'm a schoolteacher at a psychiatric hospital. I'm right at 40. I work hard and go back to school sometimes. I game and write trashy screenplays for fun. I play music when I feel like it. When called upon by friends, I'm available to share my two areas of outstanding expertise: sitting very still and drinking beer.
I'm not into the whole linear-time trip. I know stuff most people hven't even made up yet. I may be the only other person on the planet that knows George Takei's master plan. My foam rubber shirt protects me from all harm. I'm one good deed away from the sweet, sweet release of death.
The squids may not ascend.
Mostly, I play rpgs. I've been playing them for just over thirty years and I've enjoyed almost every one I've ever played.
I like some boardgames. Current favorites are Arkham Horror, Heroscape, Risk and its varients, Wings of War. A couple I'm looking forward to trying out are Ticket to Ride and Battle Lore.
I have pushed a few WarMachine minis around, but I haven't really dug in. Same with Warhammer. I've learned the basic rules to help my son, Jake, figure it out, but I never really went crazy with it. I'm really enjoying AT-43, and I don't see it getting old anytime soon. The Savage Worlds rpg has a huge miniature component built into it, and I'd enjoy getting more into that. I seem to prefer fleet-level games. I like Iron Stars. I need to finish my Aeronef fleets. I would still love to play Sky Galleons of Mars, even though it's been out of fashion for a while.
I don't like all the clicky games, but I've had fun playing the Crimson Skies one and the Scary Clix.
I played Magic for about six months after a pre-premiere party and demonstration at the old Miniature World store, but I burned out on it and never developed much collectable card-love. I will play Yu-Gi-Oh with my son and his friends. And if Shadowfist ever comes back out, I'm all in, baby. Or On the Edge. Those games were fun and tied in with the Feng Shui and Over the Edge rpgs, respectively.
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Movies: Maltese Falcon, Big Trouble in Little China, Buckaroo Banzai, Avenging Angel, Wages of Fear, Wizards, Island of Lost Souls
TV: Millenium, Have Gun Will Travel, Briscoe County Jr, Wild Wild West, Kolchak, Cleopatra 2525, The Avengers, The New Avengers, The Prisoner,
Pulps: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, The Executioner, The Destroyer, The Shadow, The Spider, Commando Cody, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Jules DeGranden, Conan, Solomon Kane, Tarzan, John Carter, Longarm, Casca, Gor, Richard Blade, The Outlanders
Funny Book favorites: Jack Kirby, Vaughn Bode, Tim Truman, Alan Moore, Joe R Lansdale, R Crumb
Authors: Mark Twain, James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Mickey Spillane, Robert E Howard, H P Lovecraft--OK--I can't sort out the pulp overlap. Whatever.
I love: alternatve Victoriana, Todd Browning movies, juvenile delinquent movies, Bette Page and Mamie, by god, Van Doren--all that wierd, dark, kitchy stuff that can't decide if it's horrifying or campy. Drive-in movies, breakfast buffets, midnite lasertorium, comics from the seventies, punk bands from the 80s. Zombies creep me out.
In the world, I'm a schoolteacher at a psychiatric hospital. I'm right at 40. I work hard and go back to school sometimes. I game and write trashy screenplays for fun. I play music when I feel like it. When called upon by friends, I'm available to share my two areas of outstanding expertise: sitting very still and drinking beer.
I'm not into the whole linear-time trip. I know stuff most people hven't even made up yet. I may be the only other person on the planet that knows George Takei's master plan. My foam rubber shirt protects me from all harm. I'm one good deed away from the sweet, sweet release of death.
The squids may not ascend.