I put the metal to the pedal
I’ve been playing a lot of world of Warcraft recently which is why there has been a lack of posts or any other activity.
My brother was here for a week. That was loads of fun.
I’ll have some pictures up later. We played a lot of games, computer games, board games, war games you name it.
Also, there be tweets.
Time for a gaming post. Don’t get those much even though the name of the blog is Gamerism. Last night I went to a friends house to play some Rock Band, Arkham Horror and some more Rock Band.
Arkham horror is a board game based on the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. It is set in H.P. Lovecrafts New England town of Arkham. The player takes the role of an investigator who try to stop a massive alien being from invading our place of existence and destroying life as we know it. It’s an interesting game in that even though everybody is on the same team, there is some competition except between the investigators for loot, special abilities and weapons. It’s also a long game, it takes a little while to set up. The game last night took about 4 hours play, partly because there was a bit of a learning curve for the new players. But once we got into it The turns just flew by and it wasn’t long before we had all the gates closed. It was a fun game and I look forward to playing it again in the future.
The game of Arkham Horror was bracketed with Rock Band. Rock Band is amazing. When playing with other people you genuinely feel like your in a band. One of the things that really surprised me was the easiness of the singing. Everybody had a go willingly. A lot more and a lot better has been written about it. All I’ll say is that after finishing up last night at 3 in the morning, I decided to call in to a local 24 hour Walmart and pick up my own copy. I played until 6 in the morning and all day to day. Lots of fun.
I went it to a draft tonight with one thing on my mind. Where’s the beef? I wanted beefy fatties. Of the fat kind.
FNM here is wierd. First of all it wasn’t really FNM. That was a little dissapointing but I didn’t get worked up about it. Second of all and here is the wierd part, People didn’t know each other. There was 10 people there at the most. I don’t know if they weren’t regular or not but it was all cliquey which I found strange for such a small group. Also these guys weren’t Spikes. The highest tech at the time of writing was sacking a Sakura Tribe Elder to stop a Jitte. This was probably because it had been in a recent Magic Online article.
The tournament itself was a single elimination sealed deck. I could have built a better deck but I kind of panicked. I won the first round by continuosly pecking away at my opponents life, but I lost it in the second round. For my troubles I got a deck box.
I won’t be going next week. It’s extended and I don’t have the cards but I’m sure that I will be back.
Update: I forgot to mention that it wasn’t sanctioned either.
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