Comments | zoatebix: Nothing but time

zoatebix

Nothing but time

Apr 28, 2009 23:53

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 ( Read more... )

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severefun April 30 2009, 04:32:58 UTC

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 May 27 2009, 03:43:01 UTC

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

severefun May 27 2009, 04:03:27 UTC

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 May 27 2009, 05:42:42 UTC

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.

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zoatebix May 27 2009, 03:44:02 UTC

I would gladly watch it again with you.

severefun May 27 2009, 04:07:15 UTC

Hmm. That's not a bad idea on the face of it, but my take was always that spanner PCs basically resolved most of their yet offscreen to begin with. It's only the stuff involving Frag that basically demands it be gamed out.

I also need to see Tokikake, as the cool weeaboos call it.