Mike Vasta

Nero finally got to be a major artistic influencer

One of my seven year old's best friends passed away this morning, fucking 7. To read all of this today was the right amount of crying and laughing that I needed. Thank you, you guys, you were there when I needed y'all.

Were this a prestige drama, it'd all be amazingly fascinating

If I told high school me that MGS2 was an entirely correct prediction of the future, he'd think I'd gone mad

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Fisto was my He-Man before I had He-Man and remained his top buddy. The best thing about MOTU is "here's a single gimmick godspeed"

Batman Returns with Big Naturals

First mission out in Hinterlands, killed on first turn lol. Second went better though, it's such a speedy lil guy

I had to sticky tack him together to get it all lined up - then force myself not to touch it for a long time until the glue dried!

Five painted BattleMechs of the Fox Patrol - a Kit Fox, Ion Sparrow, Stormcrow, Marauder, and Locust

Solo shot of the Iron Wind Metals Ion Sparrow Prime painted in Fox Patrol livery

Updated Fox Patrol as of the end of @swankmotron.com's Outfoxed (in mostly the right variants). Gotta say, the IWM Ion Sparrow is a very very nice model.

Now time to run the next stage of our Fox Patrol campaign!

Had my phone autocorrect me the one time I actually wanted to say "ducking"

War never changes

Justified, Rome, and Cowboy Bebop were all fully satisfying to me

Justified had a heck of an ending too

I mean, a small thing, but at bare minimum, you have incredible design sense. I basically ripped off your Indigos for my Aces Mercenary force, just the slickest scheme

Best Christmas ever is when my mom braved a mob to get the Dick Tracy police car and my grandma cut out a little trenchcoat from a yellow dish towel

I do wish the rows were a little wider at NOW. I almost died like four times trying to sidle past people

Sub in the Mortal Kombat theme for Carol of the Bells and nobody bats an eye

Over and over, I wish they could just adapt Eric Shanower's Age of Bronze. What an adaptation, what art - I'd use it when teaching all the time.

The HolyDex

Oh I still had the stuttering and slowdown, but I've just learned to live with it haha

Oh I just meant how nice it felt to go from a slow prodding Kodiak to the speed of lights and mediums again! It was like I had been in mud and then was ice skating lol

I wrapped up Ghost Bear right before, and to go from a Kodiak to an Ice Ferret was like my PS5 was glitching and running triple time.

The third Protomen album AND a new game all coming out? It's a great time for Blue

Oh my that's amazing

At end of the saga, the writing gets a bit more experimental too. Not what I was expecting but I ended up really liking them.

I just finally finished Ghost Bear a day ago and to go from the Kodiak to the Ice Ferret is like I was playing the game on hyper speed. I think I need to get an Ice Ferret on my table top again.

I'm 100% in the "just another adventure" over the long epic, too. At this point, I want random side quests forever, I've already experienced the single arc

Reminder that Spartans are most famous historically for losing

Hahaha, the rationale I've gotten to is that "would we have time to play before then", but the counter argument is "we're getting so many other things then, would we have time THEN?"