I have at least five or six started blogs right now, some are harder to write than others apparently. And there is movie clips from different travels and events that need to be sorted out and edited, two dance nights and one karaoke night.
And on top of that I wanted to write a little piece about the CoC scenario Lighthouse and try and do a recap of sorts of yr events that transpired on that mist covered island. Another related project is to start chronology the longest Rolemaster camping I have Game-mastered and retelling the trials and tribulation of the characters, though much of the information still remains missing I will set up and map part on the role-playing part of the site and the people can if they want partake in the discussions surrounding the project, this project has borrowed from many published campaigns and grew out of my idea of expanding on the world engulfing Lore that exists in Shadow World and adding some new and exiting twists to the story. Too bad I don’t socialise with the people that where involved with that campaign so much any more. But the small notes I still have left is a suitable starter point and will be enough to get a skeleton together and I will have to flesh out the details that I don’t remember.
The HBK blog post I find the hardest to write because it has been such a big part of my life for so long, and nothing will ever come close to the emotional level I feel watching HBK preform.
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So I finally got around to watch Avatar and did so in 3D which I think was a wise choice. So I didn’t go into the cinema with high expectations, I kind of knew what to expect going in. The movie wasn’t going to be a riveting storytelling masterpiece and the plot would be childish and heavy-handed and that’s exactly what I got. The story has been ridiculed and dissected in length so I can’t be bothered with it in this post.
So the effects where great and probably the best that has been seen on the big screen so far, but the 3D took a while to get used too. The pictures where blurry at the edges and there were so instances when they used shaky cam effects giving you POV. This had me worried as I have trouble from shaky cam effects and similar effects they make me motion sick and I have walked out of movie theatres before when It became too much for me too handle.
The story was very predictable and all in all well-told, no obvious storytelling mistakes. The effects where good probably the best I have seen on the big screen. I’m curious to see where the reinvented 3D will go from here, as most of the new movies will be in 3D from now on. And I have read about the new computer monitors and TV’s that will use the new 3D technology for home use, but they are very expensive but are predicted to drop rapidly in price towards the end of the year.
So I give the movie a 3 out of 5 rating or at 7 out of 10, this due to it was a well told story and not many obvious mistakes. So this blog post I stared it 3 weeks ago but anyhow here it is just to finish up my drafts.
My next project is to do a little write-up on the scenario “Ghost Light” that I ran last Friday and finished it in one sitting, even though I dragged it out a little, could probably have finished it a bit earlier.
So almost all of the paperwork is complete and a couple of letters as been written, thanks for that guys, you know who you are.
And now I almost got all the SQL things worked out, hate using Ingres its so old and obsolete its not even funny! The only thing that’s doesn’t work at the moment is a integrity based on columns with the value of NULL, cant for the life of me get it to work. After that I need to get stared with the JAVA code for making changes and some other DB related commands. I think Ill just finish up the entity relationship diagrams instead, and maybe I come up with a way to solve the SQL problem.
I have all the PhP code and applications already done, and they should be working. So now just to get a teacher to look at them and grade it.
So there is some Call of Cthulhu planned for this weekend and hopefully we have enough people to run Ghost Lights tomorrow, and I really need to sit down and do the additional handouts that I’m planing on using and make the final corrections to the musical score for the scenario. The mood images and all that extra fluff had to go becuase there wasnt time to get it sorted this week, to much bureaucracy that needed to be sorted.
So Ghost Light is postponed until next week, so this gives me a little more time prepare. I haven’t managed to copy the handouts yet, and still need to do some setting up during this week.
In the next few months I’m going to finish up many unfinished courses that I have accumulated over the years, and hopefully get a part time job while I’m at it. So during these next few months I won’t have much time for hobbies, I will try and get some role-playing in and some more Battlefield BC2 BETA which I haven’t gotten around to this past week.
And this week has been hectic so I haven’t been willing or able to train this week, I can’t remember when I actually got around to the gym. Hopefully this will change in the future maybe even today.
Now on to something completely different; I have been catching up on some old wrestling shows both WWE and TNA, currently I’m two weeks out from Night of Champions in 2009. First off TNA is still really weird, the last TNA Impact! I watched was a few months before this episode. But It still starts the same way Main Event Mafia comes out and cuts the same promo as they always does, bitching about the TNA management and how they will take over the show, yet again. Then after they laid out Mick Foley and the former Main Event Mafia security, Double J runs in and hits Foley over the head with a guitar and actually busts himself open with the shrapnel from the guitar shot. More backstage segments, one thing that strikes me about TNA is the amount of segments and promos that don’t go any ware at all, they change from promos to backstage interviews and back again. There was at least 20 minutes of promos before the first match and that was Cody Deaner vs. someone think It was amazing red, what was the buildup for this match have they been feuding, the commentators didn’t mention it so I guess this was just filler before the next batch of promos. I almost forgot the loooong and tedious video montages just showing matches set to music that they keep putting together to waste even more time. Just remembered the short clips with one performer speaking some lame tagline that I can’t remember right now, and too lazy to look up.
OK enough of TNA and on to WWE the things I have the most problems with at the moment with the WWE product is the never ending Orton vs. HHH feud as its not interesting enough, but I really like the CM Punk segments that’s what keeps me watching. Actually there are many great feuds with good matches from the bigger stars. Can’t believe that mark Henry is getting a face pop, but that’s just funny but it won’t last for long. All the great Khali and Kane stuff needs to go it’s just stupid and will only lead to boring matches. Other than that I haven’t a problem with the WWE product there are good feuds and that outweighs the bad by a long shot at the moment. I’m only three weeks into the guest hosts so it has been good so far Batista and the million dollar man did a good job, Seth Green was ok, I was dreading that Orton would have to sell for Seth Shane O’mac style but that didn’t happen so that was a relief.
Next week I will probably run the Ghost Lights scenario with my regular gaming group, and there might be enough other people to run it a second time as well. I had plans to run this scenario earlier a few months ago, but peoples schedules weren’t compatible at all. So now I just need to copy all the handouts and set a definite date, all this after I get back from Luleå next week. But more on the trip to Luleå and the other things related to that trip in a later post.
So Ghost Lights check list reads as follows
- Handouts
- Go through the music selection again
- Prepare the different clues and rumours for the characters
- Find some nice images to set the mood for the scenario
- Book a time to run the scenario
Why does time go by this fast, It feels like it was yesterday the NFL season started and now its over. Stayed up all night Sunday and watched the Super Bowl maybe Ill do a quick write-up of my thoughts and feelings surrounding the actual pageantry that is the Super Bowl.
On Monday we also experienced a complete party wipe in Complete Masks of Nyarlahotep, so we are taking a 3-4 week break form the campaign while the GM finalizes his contingency plans for our continued investigations. We have played a year and a half so far, with 40 or 41 sessions so we all have had lots of great moments, I’m probably going to do a complete write-up about the actions from my characters perspective and how he viewed the events that lead up to his untimely demise and all the friends he made and lost during our adventure. The party wipe where semi planned as we had dug ourselves into a big hole which we couldn’t escape alive.
But this small break allows us to run a few one night scenarios, and first up is me running Ghost Lights which I have discussed here before. I just need to sort out all the handouts and book a date for the four players that the adventure demands.
I also have been accepted into the closed Beta for Battlefield: Bad Company II so I have to make some time to play that game as well and post my thoughts on the game barring that the NDA doesn’t forbid it.
