Michael Lee's Train of Thought

Well, probably not mine!

Felicia Day (perhaps best known from Dr Horrible) has a new video, in support of her other web series, The Guild. If you've spent some time in World of Warcraft, you probably already know about it.

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I haven't played D&D in quite a while -- but it would be tempting to play as Barack Obama.

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Brilliant.

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I decided that a Wii Fit looked like it was a good match to help me exercise more -- and just as much, track some progress -- so I managed to find one. I'm still trying to figure it all out, but I know that trading Wii Numbers isn't that unusual - and mine is 0681 6001 8342 6802.

I'm very limited on games to start with -- just Wii Fit and Wii Sports.

Amazingly, this is the first video game console I've ever purchased -- growing up, the preference was always towards getting computers instead of an Atari 2600. And despite a number of friends getting Wii consoles, it wasn't something I had succumbed to yet -- but the idea of a Wii Fit was really compelling to me and pushed me over the edge. I went into the total "It Must Be Mine!" phase.

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I recommend the New York Times tribute to Gary Gygax -- as many of these things are, it says what I wish I had said myself.

Very good stuff.

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Every now and then one will get into one of those late night convention or web forum discussion about the people that everyone on the slightly geeky side look up to.

In every one of those discussions, Gary Gygax would end up as one of those names on the list, no matter how much or how little role playing games you actually did. If you're in this sort of subculture -- Gary Gygax had an influence that reached beyond just the hard core gaming community.

So his legacy is there -- even if you, like me, haven't role played in a very long time.

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Jonathan Coulton performs "Still Alive" in Rock Band from Joy Stiq on Vimeo.

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Twin Cities geeks would find an article about local game company Fantasy Flight very interesting -- it's good to see how much success they've had, and it looks like they've got some interesting new game licenses, including Battlestar Galactica.

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This is cool:

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We were trying to play Apples To Apples with only three people today, and it wasn't as interesting judging with only two cards. And the box has a minimum of four players.

So we decided the best way to change it up is to draw additional cards as an additional "random player". At the very least, it was funny, and the additional player would occasionally win a turn. And while the winner was usually still one of the players, it was frequently difficult to determine which of the two losing cards came from the player and which one was added randomly.

Labels: games