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Mapp vs Gaming Waffle: Heroes of the Storm
It seems like most of my gaming time has been spent on MOBAs recently, with the semi-popular third-person god-'em-up Smite seeing my stare, dumbfounded at my screen every other evening. Then there's Dota 2, which has been tugging on my shirt recently with big, tear-filled puppy eyes, plaintively asking when I'm coming back to it. I think World of ( Read more... ) -
Mapp vs Waffle: Why I Don't Want To Vote
"What we maintain is that universal suffrage, considered in itself and applied in a society based on economic and social inequality, will be nothing but a swindle and snare for the people"
- Mikhail Bakunin
The prospect of waking up in May to living in a country where there are multiple elected MPs belonging to UKIP scares me a little. The idea ( Read more... ) -
Mapp vs Gaming Wafffle: Fate Core
We're probably around two thirds of the way through character creation for our Fate Core game: we may have managed to get a little bit further through it today if it wasn't for the timely intervention of fish and chips. Mmmm, fish and chips. This is the first time we've tried this particular roleplaying game but, after a brief flirt with Eclipse ( Read more... ) -
Mapp vs Gaming Waffle: Warhamster Fantasy
We're taking a bit of a break from Relic Knights, my brother and I, presumably because we're both thinking that we really shoulddo some painting and that we've got each other sussed out. I've not done a huge amount of painting as of late, what with good amounts of natural light being harder to come by and my deep, thoroughly entrenched loathing of ( Read more... ) -
Mapp vs MOBA Madness: Smite & Dota 2
According to information helpfully collected by Steam, I have spent a lot of time playing Dota 2, though I take some solace in the fact that it doesn't differentiate between time spent playing the game and time spent watching games via the client or those afternoons I forget I left it running while doing something else. Even if I were to be ( Read more... ) -
Mapp vs Relic Knights: Corsairs & Speed Circuit
The Lesser Spotted Sprog came over to visit this afternoon, armed with a handful of models and a burning desire to push them around a table while muttering "yarr" to himself. We're still kind of feeling our way through Relic Knights, which is an anime-inspired sort of skirmish game involving toy soldiers, and this is only the second time we've ( Read more... ) -
Mapp vs Dota 2: A Team Is Born, Then Promptly Dies
After a losing streak that went on and on, it was sort of inevitable that our team wasn't going to work. While I'm certain that everyone involved has their own explanation for what wrong, and that the truth is probably somewhere between all of our views, I'll say this - it's made me think about team play a fair bit in the game. I believe that the ( Read more... ) -
Mapp vs Relic Knights: Gotta Go Fast
Another weekend, another couple of games of Relic Knights - our games went a little more smoothly this time around as, with a couple of games under our belts already and some time spent devouring the rulebook. Our games today were thirty five points a side, with Cerci Speed Circuit (me) squaring off against the Noh Empire (Sprog). We weren't using ( Read more... ) -
Mapp vs Gaming Waffle: Relic Knights
So our Relic Knights pledge arrived this week - my brother and I are winners of the prestigious "Last Backer Award: EU Division", which came with some Ninja Division throwing stars, some headbands and a copy of the rulebook signed by the game designers. Neat. I'm sad that it took over two years from the Kickstarter funding to the stuff arriving on ( Read more... ) -
Mapp vs Gaming Waffle: Crusader Kings 2
Usual Disclaimer: Brain meats suck, computer games are awesome, why not focus on the latter?
I finally went back to Crusader Kings 2 yesterday, picking up my alternate history adventures with the island of Socotra. I'd tweaked the game a little to let me turn the island into it's own trade republic, as there's plenty of room for expansion down ( Read more... )