And since the Holy Grail in my case seems to be Kenzerco's HackMaster Basic game, it has been quite a quest indeed.

There are no game stores in town. I live in Buffalo, NY. A city. No game stores. Not one. Zero. Zip. I gotta drive 100 miles to Rochester where there are TWO. Nice.

I have been trying Borders and Barnes n Noble for a while now and no dice. And no HackMaster either. They just aren't getting them through distributers. So today I launched my quest to the gamestore that I always went to Millenium.

I was not only surprised to find that they had no Hackmaster, but they were lacking in games as a whole. It had been about a year since I ventured there and the role-playing section is down to only three bookcases. Crap. 4E as far as the eye could see, some GURPS and a smattering of Trued20 and some anime related stuff, but lacking in much of anything else. I don't even remember spotting a lot of White Wolf there. Finally spotted Aces and Eights, but I'm not dropping an obscene amount of money on a special edition leather cover for a game we won't play. Probably. Hard to get folks interested in cowboys, unless spaceships are involved.

They are all too happy to special order me HM since they are seemingly perpetually sold out of it, but I told them that wasn't going to fly.

Out to Crazy Egors.

Why is there seemingly always a Crazy Egor? Meh. Nice guy though, even if his office is a cubicle made out of tall bookcases that he can peerover and watch you like a GOD.

He is crazy. ;)

I walk in the door, he says "Lookin' for somethin?"

Yea, please tell me you have HackMaster Basic.

"Yes, Maam! Latest shipment came in yesterday."

Yay! I love you, you crazy freaky gamer guy.

Holy Grail attained.

Also went to Anime shop. Thankfully they moved to a LARGER location, since you could barely turn around in their last place without hitting something. The clerk was actually complaining about the buisness they were getting. Not the bad kind of buisness either.

"It's so busy today!"

That's because some of us want to buy import gifts for X-Mas, thank you very much. My sister-in-law wanted Pocky and Pocky she shall have. Pity I can't drop the $15 for a tub of Giant Pocky.

There's also a flat screen in front when you walk in and a sectional to watch assorted anime on. When I came in there was a group of boys watching it, who scattered upon my entering.

Oh, come on! You have seen girls before! Granted, not many dressed up for International Lolita Day, but still...

This cocoa better not have artificial sweetener in it. It tastes funky. Damnit all to Hades!

An open letter to all food manufacturers:

STOP PUTTING CHEMICAL SWEETENERS IN MY FOOD! IT MAKES ME SICK! I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO READ THE INGREDIENT LABELS ON EVERYTHING JUST BECAUSE SOME SKINNY BITCH DECIDES THAT SUGAR IS TEH EVIL!!!!1111!!!one!!!

Thank you.

*looks back over post*

Wow. I think that's the most I've sworn on this journal, EVER.

Dollhouse is cancelled. Saw that coming. You don't advertise upcoming plot and storylines and new actresses and then suddenly instead air old episodes of House.

Hulu has all the episodes all nice and shiny and new for viewing. Eeee!

On the plus side, Joss says he'll either drown his sorrows in chronic alcoholism or make new Dr. Horrible shorts.

I'm betting the pony on the latter.

GLEE!!

I have lots of stuff to post, and yet I never seem to post it.

Huh. I should do that.

I finally, FINALLY, got Six-Shooters and Spaceships.

Now. NOW the game can begin...

Pairing the new Patton Oswald stand-up special with Futurama: Bender's Game. I didn't get it. What do the two of these have in common? Other than the high probability that Oswald is a gamer. Or at least was a gamer.

Gamers all tend to look alike. Not nessesarily because many of them are of a larger body size, but they just happen to look alike. Gamers all seem to dress and carry themselves in a certain way. Look around your local game store when there's a few people in there. You'll see what I mean.

But the last five minutes of the special were killer. He went on about this story of when he did a gig at a bar as an opening act for a magician-comedian. It is hysterical funny! To paraphrase: "Seriously. What does it take to piss off a warlock? Slaughter his whole village? KIll his familiar? NO!"

It all made sense to me. As I was holding my gut from the laughter while trying to drink a cup of tea.

Must finish formatting d20 Feats and post them...

I managed to get ahold of two DVD packages this past week. One was the Doctor Who Easter Special. The other was Torchwood: Children of Earth.

( There be spoilers within, ye have been warned... )

Serenity d20 character professions (classes) are up and running for anyone to steal use for your game.

Next up is feats, then skills!

YAY!

x-posted at mlppeace
SDCC Super Hero/Villian pony is MINE! Muahaha ha ha ha haaaaa!!!!

Many thanks to Hasbro for making available to purchase on their website.

Many more thanks to Hasbro for adhiring to their number limitation per buyer.

I don't want to hear one person, NOT ONE, complain that Hasbro cancelled their multiple orders. So you can't buy a billion to resell on eBay at an inflated price. WAH! Shut up. Shut the frell up! I couldn't buy the last SDCC pony because of you people.

Thankfully I was lucky enough to win one at a custom contest.

But that's not important.

Lots of things are being said and over heard.

Don't you ruin Futurama, Fox! I mean it! Don't you DARE ruin it!!! I'm watching you.

Rumor has the Twilight encampment outside a particular hotel is numbered at 2,500 people. O_o'  Geeze. Y'all realize that all of you are NOT getting into that panel discussion, right? RIGHT?!

And I want me a Captain Jack Harkness exclusive figure. Mmmmm....

I also has new comics to post. I should do that tonight.

As long as Paint Shop doesn't crash on me again. *sigh*

Seriously, what the FRELL is up with Livejournal?!?! I try to start posting my Serenity d20 stuff and the post goes all wonky past the first couple of paragraphs. Whole descriptions dissapear and everything near the bottom gets mangled together. I may have to save what I have as HTML and then try to copy and paste that.

And why isn't www.margaretweiss.com working? Seems like all the links to the site AND ones to supporting serenity RPG sites are down for the count. What gives?

Must go buy equipment suppliment for Serenity RPG. I need stuff for my d20 version. Mmmmm... shinies!

Speaking of which... since that game is practically finished I really should post it...

Okay. I don't mind occasionally talking about personal real-life stuff from time to time on a public message board that is really suppose to be about gaming. Especially since it's specifically for women. There are few enough women voicing opinions in gaming circles as it is.

But honestly... If you really don't want someone to give advice WHY ARE YOU POSTING IT ON A MESSAGE BOARD?!?!?!?!

I posted a response that someone 'didn't want to hear right now'.

Well, you know what? Tough.

I am sorry that I upset her even more, but the simple fact is- don't expect everyone to just respond with 'oh, I'm sorry about your troubles' and 'I'll be praying extra hard for you.' because it isn't going to happen. Not all the time.

My point was we all have issues. With ourselves, with loved ones. We all deal with it differently. I just said how I deal with it. She didn't want to hear how I deal with 'stuff'. Bascially I said 'hope for the best but expect the worst'. She really couldn't deal with that.

Oh. Well.

Is it cold? Yea. It is a bit chilly. But it's not like she said HOW she wanted responders to respond. She just vented. Then apologized for it. I'm okay with that. But seriously, if you don't want opinions then don't publicly post something.

That's what journals are for. You can opt to have comments or not. You can delete comments or not. You can make your journal public or not.

*sigh*