Chris Pramas

Same!

I watched it a few years ago and enjoyed it. It's one of the reasons I thought Yamato merch would be easier to find.

Pic of the two Gamila ship models I got in Tokyo last year.

Not the Yamato but cool nonetheless.

Star Blazers, as the series was called in America, was essential afternoon viewing for young Chris in the early 80s. When I was in Tokyo last year, I figured it'd be easy to find Yamato merch, but not so. Finally found a shop in Akihabara with two ship models from the 80s and scooped those up.

Himmler liked to recruit a certain type of person into the SS: losers. He looked for men who had achieved little on their own merits, but felt they'd been cheated in some way. Give such mediocrities power and a legal way to enact cruelty and they'll do anything for you. ICE is full of these people.

Cover shot of the game America in Flames: Democracy vs Darkness.

The title of this old Australian wargame is really on the nose for America 2025.

That would never work. :)

Last night I played Lion Rampant, a historical minis game from Osprey. It was touch and go for a while but my Normans pulled out a win. The new edition of the fantasy version, Dragon Rampant, comes out later this month.

I understand why they decided to work psionics into the existing magic framework of 5E, but it's never felt right to me. What was cool about D&D psionics is that it was different.

The biggest bank in America is trying to steal thousands of our books. The richest man in the world destroyed one of our main marketing venues by turning it into a Nazi site. The rapist-in-chief is shitting on small businesses and wrecking the economy with stupid tariffs and fascism. Fuck the 1%.

Moving Targets was another great Boston band that my friend Jay would later join as drummer. The Lemonheads opened and they were just coming on the scene. Their first show had only been the month before. I saw them open for a lot of bands in ‘86 and ‘87.

This is what I was doing on this day in 1986. The show was at TT the Bear's Place in Cambridge, MA, where I saw many great shows in that era. Jerry’s Kids had been broken up when I got into punk, so I was psyched to see them. This was their first show after reforming and they killed.

Donald Trump hates the UN because it’s more welcome in New York City than he is.

The cultural evolution of monsters:
It’s scary, kill it!
It’s misunderstood, protect it!
It’s adorable, befriend it!
It’s sexy, fuck it!

I say this in all seriousness: the world needs to tell Donald Trump to fuck off. I'm sure the MAGA dopes believe the US is respected like never before but that's because they don't know anyone who lives in another country. Trump and his fascists are turning the US into a pariah state.

Fuck. This. Shit.

Two time Republican president Dwight Eisenhower was such an anti-fascist that he was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force that comprehensively defeated the Nazis in the West. You think he'd have stood for Nazi flags at Republican rallies or quislings like Stephen Miller? Please.

I sent GRRM some sample's of Green Ronin's work circa 2006. I went heavy on Mutants & Masterminds b/c I knew he was an old school comic fan. He liked the books and we made a deal to do a Wild Cards setting book for M&M. That helped us get the Game of Thrones the following year.

I'll "perfect our interest" with my boot in your ass.

How I'm feeling today about thieving sleazebags.

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Yeah, it's not as robust as previous C&C games. Tariffs, I'm sure, are not helping.

I wish it used a standard sized board and had bigger AT-ATs, but that, of course, would have increased the cost of goods so I understand why they did it this way.

Production note: experienced C&C players will notice right away that the board is smaller than standard. It's still got the same number of hexes, so game play isn't affected, but it's more compact.

Across the three games, I must have made 40-50 dice worth of attacks on them. Only on the very last shot did I actually blow up an AT-AT. The shot came from one of my artillery towers and it won the game for me, so that was dramatic at least.

When you attack, only two faces of the special d6s hit, then you have to roll again and try to get the single blast face on the dice to destroy it. You can see my roll of three complete misses (Xs) in this pic.

Each named character, like Han or Leia, adds three special cards and that makes the decks a little more robust. The scenarios played quickly and we got in three games last night. AT-ATs are suitably hard to kill, especially for me and my dice curse.