Nothing but time

[zoatebix]

I watched The Girl Who Lept Through Time a few nights ago. It is perhaps the only work by Madhouse that I like without reservation -- excepting, of course, films directed by Kon Satoshi, though even that doesn't always save 'em. Sure, it starts with a textbook cliché... assuming your textbook is Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga, and the passage from

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[severefun]

I am interested in Burning Yet at least in concept. My only problem is first carving out the time to reacquaint myself with Continuum's original mechanics, and then having a look at Mouse Guard and seeing if it's more to my taste than OG BW. Continuum's ruleset ain't the greatest, but it's at least fairly uncomplicated (of course, I say this not having a Time Combat come up in the sessions I ran, nor having tried the Greatest Game). It's actually really easy to dislodge

[zoatebix]

The wikipedia article mentions Time Combat, but I am unfamiliar with the Greatest Game.

[severefun]

Ohhhh man. In brief, it's a four-dimensional game-within-a-game of empire-building. Here's the scoring sheet. I read it, but actively prevented myself from parsing the rules to ward off migraine. It's been over a decade, maybe it's time for another look (though the similarly abstracted rules in Weapons of the Gods leapt out at me more).

Progress continues on evaluating Burning Yet, by which I mean I borrowed Mouse Guard off Buddha. And put off reading it again, instead frying my brain with three hours of the marvelously, transcendently stupid Code Geass.

[zoatebix]

Hmmm... Bandai has Code Geass up on YouTube. I know this because they also posted the latest in pretty-boy-terrorist-from-outer-space entertainment, and I kind of got sucked in.

[severefun]

Geass starts out as just Regular Stupid, but about halfway through the first season they scratch right through the bottom of the barrel and start mining a ridiculous vein of comedy gold.

I haven't watched much Gundam 00.