So maybe one or two of you noticed that I haven’t really been around much lately. I finally started my student teaching a few weeks ago and have been totally balls out busy since. Of course, even though I’m working full time as a teacher (plus doing extensively fancy complicated lesson plans and other associated paperwork), student teaching doesn’t pay anything! So, I need to continue working other jobs to pay the bills. I’ve still got weddings every week and am teaching fighting and climbing most other nights. Generally speaking, most days I’m home and awake for about 3-4 hours, most of which is spent doing work or eating. I of course work on the weekends too. Needless to say, my gaming time and free fun time in general has greatly diminished. But I’m not writing this to whine about it. (more…)
. If you’re not a 40k fan, you might still find the interview interesting as we talk about the creative process involved in dealing with an existing franchise and how the transition from writing for the page to writing for the screen plays out.
I dunno why, but lately I’ve been seeing a lot more fun hipster mocking all over the webs. I must say, lately I have been mildly taken aback by how “hipster” has become the new “emo”. Dudes need to step up their insult game; if you hate on “hipsters” you’re either just as much of one and into slightly different shit or you’re just a total L7 hater with no taste in anything.
Leaping Lemmings is adorable. It’s got cute art and a silly, though sort of morbid, theme where you are attempting to get your family of genetically engineered lemmings to leap to their death in the most spectacular way. Mechanically, one of the big selling points of the game is that it’s an easy way to get your wife, kids and non-gaming pals to step into the world of war gaming since it has that silly theme and straight forward game play while simultaneously introducing basic concepts like hex to hex movement, zones of control and chit stacking limits. However, Leaping Lemmings is not really a game for wives and children; it is a brutal murderfest of in your face pugnacity that will have you reaching across the table to slap someone while threatening to choke the next bald eagle you see. Seriously, Steven Jr., watch your fucking back. 
In my never ending quest to try and figure out exactly how I want to format the site, I’ve decided to start a new feature – Miscellaneous Mondays. I don’t want TA to become some kind of link aggregator, but there is so much fun stuff on the webs that I want to share with all six people who read the site. So now you can look forward to a single weekly post of all the dumb stuff online that makes me smile… 
