Month: March 2014

Beer Reviews!

Well, since I’m already doing comic book reviews, I figured I’d add other reviews, too. Special thanks to my roommate, who got me a Craft Brew Alliance 12 pack featuring three awesome beers. I’m not going to use a rating system, partially because I don’t like a numerical judgement system for subjective views, partially because I’m shit at assigning numbers to things. Those of you who are actual beer nerds will immediately recognize my amateur status as a beer nerd, but I at least have enthusiasm.

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Thrilling, engaging news!

That’s a lie.

I’ve been doing editing on my comic scripts. Important, but hardly thrilling. Cleaning up dialogue, plot loopholes, trying to reduce panel counts (especially in the earlier issue), ensuring continuity is stable: bleh.

Otherwise, I’ve about finished the second draft of Siegebeast’s rules. I just have some final tinkering to do, then it is time to prepare another prototype for this version. I’ve reduced the complexity a bit by getting rid of a number of unnecessary features,  including level restrictions on ability cards, and I’ve evened out the stat bonuses given by ability cards as well. (There are four stats: Armor, Speed, Attack, and Range. Armor and Range both start out at 0, Speed starts at 4, Attack starts at 1. Previously cards would give all sorts of bonuses to them, ranging from +1 or +2 to a single stat to giving bonuses to multiple stats. I’ve replaced this with having each card give +1 to each of two stats, along with whatever ability it grants normally.) I’m still having trouble with abilities for two of the factions, but I’m narrowing down the problems.

Mountain tries to cook real person food.

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Sorry for the low picture quality, thank my crappy iPhone. Anyhow, this three-egg omelette has avocado, tomato, shittake mushrooms, cheddar, parmesan, and black pepper. And… this is how it turned out:

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So remarkably better than usual. It only broke into five or so pieces. I think I’ve only made a successful omelette twice in my life. I’m really bad with eggs, but I keep trying.