The strange thing is I've always been strictly a Marvel/DC clix guy. So for me to actually be moving toward a "tertiary license" is kind of a big move. Especially since I'm way more into Marvel than DC. I'm just seeing a lot of uninspired dial design thus far in Hulk. Some neat things, but nothing that stands out in the grand scheme of things.

As far as new clix go, I feel the good aren't as good, the bad aren't as bad, and everything is becoming more or less the same. I think I should start drinking Jameson in the morning.

You know, that may actually be the cause of my lack of excitement toward Heroclix lately. Things are getting boring for me and it could be because the last few sets have all been very very similar within themselves. It could explain why I'm more interested in Galactic Guardians and Mighty Avengers. Theoretically, we should get move variety in those two sets.

Theoretically

Something a little less depressing, today I got to do a "Billy Mayes" style sales pitch to my class in Speech today for "balls." They're fuzzy, they're bouncy, and they always entertain! They're balls!

Hmmm. Given the drunken debauchery that goes on during Vieshea out there, your "balls" speach has an added dimension of humor for me.

Edit: After seeing what happened to the festival since I was there for the '94 riot, I guess my debauchery comment no longer applies. What do you guys do now? Have tea parties?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEISHEA

I ASKED you before and you said you don't ski!

Wasn't that you?

I laughed my ### off.

I would have turned my child toward the lady (while the child was possibly still sleeping) with my hands under his armpits and used him as a puppet to start talking animatedly with a PBS voice about the upsides and downsides of the character, the game, and the inherent problems in brining such an important piece of US mythos into a video game that finally does justice to the character.

Hopefully the little blighter would drool one of those two-foot drools or spit up during the process.

So what else is coming from the Hulk set that isn't in the units section?

We sit around and discuss the history of cornmeal.

Are satanic cults really all that controversial? I've always thought that they were pretty harmless. I mean, whenever you hear about some compound where a guy has dozens of wives and a bunch of machine guns, the feds generally don't uncover a nest of Anton LaVey look-alikes dancing around a pentagram of goats' heads.

They're not harmless, they just know how to stay under the radar.

Agreed. Where I grew up we had a small farm house on the far end of town about a mile from any other home. Pretty much always dark and no one knew anyone who lived there. Throughout junior high people would tell stories of the satanic cult rituals that would go on there. When we got to high school (read: mobile since some of us got our licenses) we would drive by occasionally, and definately near Halloween. We saw some odd lights, reflective eyes in the dark and had a car full of girls freak out one year when a campfire was spotted behind the house. The rumors were so bad that the "activities" at the house made the local town paper and rumors of missing pets were widely circulated. I even remember them being mentioned in our Sunday sermon at church.

Years later when I was home from college I was drinking with some buddies at a bar in town and met a guy who said he grew up in that house. Because the house was so far away from the center of town the district had him bussed to another school so none of us knew him. His parents were pissed that for almost 2 decades they had to deal with pranks from high school kids who thought they were cultists. He said that he and his brother were members of the boy scouts and they held campouts at their place in the fall (explains campfires) and the reflective eyes were probably their dog.

Pretty scary how kids rumors can build up to a point where adults believe them. Bought the kid a few beers as I told him that I was probably one of long list of kids who put his parents through all that.

None of the boyscouts knew him?!.....

I DON'T ski. Wouldn't mind having a getaway to a cabin and playing games, though.

Heh heh, there was a lot to read between my logging in early today and my getting back to my PC at the end of the day. Ogres thread are back on the fast track, it seems.


There's more than alcohol, weed or LSD when it comes to him.

I guess it all depends on what you mean by "satanic cult". "Lavey-ists" (if I may say so) do seem pretty harmeless, I agree.