This is just a bullshit catch-all blog, so take that for what it's worth. I'm not sure if it is acceptable to use this blog for non-game related content, but I'm going to anyway. If there is a problem, just delete the blog or tell me to.  So today I finished my History thesis, completing a BA in History. Monumental I suppose, but a strange feeling. I still have next quarter to finish my Scandinavian Studies degree, but I'm just in shock from actually having completed something so involved. I was fairly restricted in my choice of topics...

This is sort of a reply to Bullwinkle’s excellent post regarding my previous installment. You guys with me? First: regarding kinds of conspiracies, I think JFK might be fun as a conspiracy thread, but are there whacky enough ideas around? The templar/illuminati thread is has been done to death, and besides, don’t Steve Jackson & Dan Brown own the rights to the whole conspiracy?  My back-up conspiracy has been the more general “whacky shit” plots. What the police here call the “tin-foil  lunatics” and whatever they are up to at the moment. (While we are at it:...

“This looks like the place , sir,” Green said, pointing to a rough trough of tracks heading into a large cave opening. McBride sighed. Caves, again. He hated caves, as well as any other enclosed space; places where the Dark Legion enjoyed to hide. But, if the Cardinal damned bureaucrats were in there, they were tasked by Her Serenity to get as many as they could out alive. “All right, let's do this like they taught us,” McBride said to his squad of five men. “Green, ye have...

  So my brother and I bust out Wiz-War today over lunch--yeah, the copy so graciously sent to me by MR. MOTO (trader of the highest calibre) as a result of our FIRST EVER SLAM BANGIN' F:AT MATH TRADE.  We seriously need to do another one o' dem. Anyway. We have an unwritten rule, my brother and I, and it is thus:  "First games don't count."  Hey, we like to talk shit just like...

I'd been looking for a while for a "Video Game Geek" type site that would let me track my video game collection as well as my board game one is managed at BGG . Say what you will about the forums there--Lord knows we say plenty--but there's no denying the utility of the database they maintain. I think I've found what I'm after--low effort game tracking, with room for comments and condition, and Have/Want lists to allow for easy trade searches.  Moby Games  Here's an image of the Have List page, with me adding a game...