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Figured I'd update with the requisite "I saw Sin City" post. I was actually getting terrified I wasn't going to like the movie early on. Madsen, for whatever reason, overplayed the fuck out of his role way early. I understand the genre was cheesy to an extent, and I dig on that, but Christ he needed to rein it in some - maybe spring for a little "emotion". Anyway, besides that minute of gamer identity crisis, the movie was fan-fucking tastic. In the hormone department, Rosario Dawson and Carla Gugino are pretty much the top of my hot fantasy chick list and well.. sk0r3. Beyond that, all of the threads were well done and I think someone peered into my head when they cast Elijah Wood. There were times during LotR that I just thought "You know, Frodo looks like he's just gonna snap and start making a harp out of everyone's sinew" because Wood had that crazy look instead of a "weird, hopeless" look from time to time.
Colson was down for the weekend, and it was good to see the man. My world feels alot smaller than it used to, back when I was roadtrippin for L5R tournaments left, right and center. Mike seemed to be pretty much out of the habit, as well, but for his own reasons. I was talking to him and Kat about working with AEG and I went off on a jag about how the Third Edition book was the first time I was really irritated I don't get royalties from the company. The thoughts just sort've formed in my head as I talked, and hopefully everyone will agree with me in about a month - Third Ed was the perfect high point to leave on. The book is phenomenal (I got the PDFs several weeks ago). It's going to make alot of old fans happy and draw in alot of people who met Rokugan through d20. On top of that, I think it stands the best chance since First Edition was printed of pulling new fans in by the bucket. It seems like a cheesy comparison, but I was watching a documentary on Dre and Suge Knight awhile back and someone mentioned that the Chronic was something everyone just kinda came in and worked on and in the end it was light years beyond the sum of its parts. It's something you can look back and think to yourself, you never knew it at the time, but you were making a masterpiece. I know it's dumb to compare a friggin RPG book to the gold fucking standard of modern rap, but it's a similar feeling, I think. Decades from now I'll still be grateful to have had the chance to work on it.
Anyway, Blackhand's back up. Later.
Anjin-san off.
Colson was down for the weekend, and it was good to see the man. My world feels alot smaller than it used to, back when I was roadtrippin for L5R tournaments left, right and center. Mike seemed to be pretty much out of the habit, as well, but for his own reasons. I was talking to him and Kat about working with AEG and I went off on a jag about how the Third Edition book was the first time I was really irritated I don't get royalties from the company. The thoughts just sort've formed in my head as I talked, and hopefully everyone will agree with me in about a month - Third Ed was the perfect high point to leave on. The book is phenomenal (I got the PDFs several weeks ago). It's going to make alot of old fans happy and draw in alot of people who met Rokugan through d20. On top of that, I think it stands the best chance since First Edition was printed of pulling new fans in by the bucket. It seems like a cheesy comparison, but I was watching a documentary on Dre and Suge Knight awhile back and someone mentioned that the Chronic was something everyone just kinda came in and worked on and in the end it was light years beyond the sum of its parts. It's something you can look back and think to yourself, you never knew it at the time, but you were making a masterpiece. I know it's dumb to compare a friggin RPG book to the gold fucking standard of modern rap, but it's a similar feeling, I think. Decades from now I'll still be grateful to have had the chance to work on it.
Anyway, Blackhand's back up. Later.
Anjin-san off.