On Friday I watched Godzilla vs King Ghidora. This was the 1991 Godzilla movie, and I think was the first "Heisei era" film that I've sat down and watched. I thought I had seen some later movies that was a part of this era, but after watching this I am pretty sure I was wrong. For those that do not know, Godzilla has occurred in primarily 3 eras, and almost everyone knows about and has watched stuff from what is known as the Showa era of the 60's and 70's. Heisei was a little more serious, though not by much. Godzilla vs King Ghidora was dreadfully boring at the start, but most Godzilla movies are. It then went into full blown "wtf?" when white people from the future decide to come back and screw over Japan before it has a chance to become the rulers of the world. Technically there are 3 monsters that show up in this movie. Godzilla is like super charged but kind of chubby looking, and King Ghidora ends up looking like his usual self, but with a pissed off face. The 3rd monster is a surprise and is pretty freaking cool(cool in a sense that Godzilla movies are cool). I was mildly distracted by the fact that the voice actor for the main badguy is also the voice actor for Liquid Snake in Metal Gear Solid. For a Godzilla movie, 3 Godzillas out of 5. Miniature work was pretty good, including tiny little cars for traffic, but nothing as impressive as the temples and castles in the 1960's "Godzilla vs Mothra".
I have to preface this next one with, this is an ongoing series, meaning not all the parts are available. It is also rather expensive for a app store game($5). Sorcery is like a choose your own adventure book that is kick ass. You are a warrior chosen to hunt down a legendary crown, and how you do it is up to you. The story is presented with text pages that you have a hand in choosing, and cut outs of figures and illustrations on a beautiful map. After a few play throughs, you see that your choices change the entire thing, not only in which "branch" of the story you do, but in what "style" things are presented to you. If you go through being cautious, then the text will describe your choices as careful. If you go through brutish, then your character will start cussing more, and will have short patience when you interact with PC's. It is really incredible how much the text changes because of prior interactions. Instead of being warm and thankful for some stew, you could be insulting about it, and mean to the cook, all depending on how you treated the mayor previously. Its really neat and worth the money IMO. Part 2 is out and continues your journey though I do not have it, most say its easily double the time in game.
Sorcery has gotten me to want to play some old school Dungeons and Dragons style games. I am not a fan of going back to older rules because for players its "fun" for GM's its "work" to do that. I can, however, set up games with the feel of old D&D. The 5th edition "basic" rules are going to be free, and take the core classes to level 20. Seeing as how I generally never get my players to stick around past level 10(the game in 2nd and 3rd become stat-fests past that), I think those rules would suffice. I have an old "25th Anniverary" box set from TSR that has a lot of reprints of classic books with all the classic artwork. I'd like to take a group through some of those old modules.
Sunday I had home made southern BBQ eggrolls. I wanted to do slaw filled eggrolls that were sort of like springrolls. and while they did not turn out as springrolls, it was my favorite part of the meal. The worst part of the meal was the amount of grease that was able to penetrate the eggrolls. Typically the amount of outward pressure keeps fried foods from being super greasy if you balance the heat right... stove top, its hard to do that. For desert we had some no-sugar added salted caramel ice cream. I made some fried wontons like they serve for soups at Chinese restaurants, and used them as sort of nacho chips for the ice cream. It was all amazing, and amazingly unhealthy compared to my usual dinners.
Monday, while coming home, I swerved after a particularly dangerous curve because I saw something in the road. As I went by, i noticed that the thing had colorful markings. I looked in my review to see that it was a box turtle, a beautiful, hand-sized one. Last time I saw a turtle I did not stop to help(though someone else did), so I made sure to stop and help this one. Box turtle colors fade if they are in captivity, and this one was blazing yellow and beautiful. This was the 3rd turtle this year(the GIANT snapping turtle, and the smooth shell someone else helped across) that I've seen going across roads. I grabbed the turtle and took it in the direction it was going, but went further into the woodland area and released him. I really like turtles, and had an urge to take this one home, but there are captive bred turtles that need homes, this one was wild, beautiful, and hopefully will live a long while yet. Oh, here's a picture.The photo from my camera phone does not do the bright shell justice. Only wild box turtles keep their almost neon color markings. The dark eyes means that this was probably a male.
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