Quick Internet Hobby Fix....Aaaaaah. Good.

Hey, folks, SinSynn here.

A buncha stuffs has happened over the last couple of months that has led me to get significantly LESS hobby time than I'm used to.

*Writing a murder/suicide pact and going to find Lucy*

 
Here's a list:

- A gentleman driving his car down the Ultimate Rival's street has a seizure, and crashes into the gaming garage, wrecking it.
Insurance companies are still bickering about it. Estimated time until repairs begin: two months.
Seriously, this happened.

-The weather has gotten good, and the lure of 'hanging out on the block' has been too great. 
Shaking out the winter doldrums is a time honored SinSynn tradition. Combine this with the above, and not a lotta 'hobbying' is getting done.

-I had three FoW tournaments scheduled for this month, but two of them were mid-war. 
After spending some time reviewing the books, potential lists, etc, I came to the conclusion that mid-war doesn't really interest me, and bowed out.
Late war tournament on the 28th...Let's see if I can stop flitting about the neighborhood long enough to paint stuffs.

-The Crazy Lady I Live With is on her 'spring cleaning' trip, and I pretty much hafta follow her around and rescue my stuffs from disposal. 
Should I leave for any extended period of time, I'm pretty sure everything I friggin' own would be 'cleaned.'
-_-

Despite all of this, and some other annoyances like having to re-format my computer after a meltdown (all my tentacle porn! Noooooooooooo!), I'm a hobbyist, and I have an addiction.
...Good thing there's the Internet, where I can grab a quick fix.

The thing is, I don't have a hobby store to bum around in. Also, I don't have a single friend that games other than the Ultimate Rival. Not tabletop games, not video games, nuthin.'
Over the last couple of years, I've gotten more social, and I've made many friendly acquaintances via the Hobby. They all live an hour or more away, by car.
How can people live where there are no subways? I cannot unnerstan' dis.
0_o

*231st and Broadway in da Bronx, NYC. My stop <3*

The lack of proper 'gaming' in my city, considered by many (especially myself), to be the greatest city in the world (and it is), saddens me. I can walk twenty steps in any direction and get literally whatever I want (legal or otherwise), but I can't play a friggin' wargame.
Excuse me while I make this face:
-_-
Really, New York?
....really?

I buy my hobby stuffs offa da internet, too. I probably spend almost as much of my internet time on the WarStore as I do watching porn or obsessively stalking Megan Fox.
DON'T YOU JUDGE ME!
The porn is free, at least. Nyah.

I suppose we all go through lil' phases, where life grabs us by the boo-boo, and we drift away from our models a bit. Waddayagonnado, amirite? Stuff happens.
Right now, I'm enjoying a bit of quiet time, since the Crazy Lady is out on dog walkies. Maybe if my hobby desk hadn't been 'cleaned,' I would be working on something.
Blah.

So here I am, typing a post (and yes, riffing and sharing my woes), and grabbing a quick Internet hobby fix.
Mmmmm....Dust Tactics unboxing at BoLS....
Delicious.
:D


Dammit, she's back...gotta go.


Until next time, folks- Exit with catchphrase!

-SinSynn

[Weekly Whimsy] Sucker Punch

[Welcome to Weekly Whimsy! Changing it up a little this week and just rambling.]

Sweet dreams are made of these
Everybody's looking for something - Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams

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I saw SuckerPunch on Thursday at midnight with my family and a bunch of friends. I didn't write about it right away because I wanted to think it over, and consider my opinion more closely.

At first glance, the movie was a polished cherry of all the stuff I like: explosions, action, something to cheer for, and an iconic "hero". That first impression was gained from a 22 second trailer. It was only after I saw the movie in its entirety that I could gather anything like a considered perspective.

I am the kind of movie-goer that studios dream of; I like everything (at least at first). It's only after a lot of thought that I can come away from something and say, no that really was not good. But while I am IN the movie: I love it. 

While watching the movie, I saw myself being drawn into the emotional context of the plot: cheering for the girls as they go through all their tribulations in an effort to be freed from their prison. I felt myself believing it might be possible for them to achieve their goal, and feeling saddened when one of their own tripped them up. I felt the "sucker punch" of going through all that just to see the self-sacrifice at the end, and emboldened by the consequences of that action.


Then I got to thinking about it more, and examining not just how I liked it, but how it effected me.

As a gamer, and especially as a roleplayer, the movie struck very close to home. I had actually written (and scheduled) the post chronicling the WOD game on Thursday; so Eile's decision was fresh in my mind as I watched the movie. I walked out of SuckerPunch being very reminded of Eile's "last stand" very clearly, and at least one other person said something similar.

In life or in gaming, making those kinds of choices effects you in strange ways. If you chose to offer a sacrifice, a true piece of personal gifting, it can change you in ways you might never expect. If you do it for the wrong reasons, it can have incredibly negative results. Those results can be immediate, or long reaching.  If you make those choices because you believe it is expected of you, or because it's easier than fighting for something important, or because you just don't know what else to do, that choice can come back on you in unexpected and often painful ways. Having personally made choices that gave up essential parts of myself for reasons that weren't truly voluntary, I have seen the damage and fallout of recovering from bad sacrifices.

I've truly recovered from those choices, and now any sacrifices I make are completely thought out and understood; and completely of my own making rather than built out of false expectations or considerations that aren't: "is this worth it?".

I had made a very tough choice Wednesday, and by Thursday I was at peace with it, and watching the movie simply made the reasoning and considerations behind that choice all the stronger. When I was walking out of the movie early Friday morning,  I was reminded of the choices we make every day, and the ways we decide how to balance decisions against each other. Not every deliberation gets the weight, time and consideration that a true sacrifice does- but when you go to those lengths, you know it, and feel it.

Like a SuckerPunch.

[Random] I miss...

Old school web pages- with tables and frames and buttons and links and so on- that I could code myself. I love Blogger, but I hate arguing with formatting and creating pages with no content just so I can have links to put on the Beginner's Project.

Glass soda bottles delivered to the house.

Dark Conspiracy

Sleeping (yupe, I am awake due to work. I'll go back to bed when my shift is over and then I'll crank out some good stuff for ya guys)

Creative outbursts (coming up with WW is giving me a headache but maybe that's due to being sick)

21 Jump Street (sorry, folks)

My ork army (sometimes).

A General Musing of the Random sort

[This is sort of filler due to not having an RPG session to write up this week. It's also on my mind.]

So I am fairly well known for misreading things on a pretty regular basis. Sometimes, I SEE things "wrong" too.

The FTW logo? I did not "get it" for MONTHS.

Wanna know what I saw?

I saw an Egyptian Mummy (with the wrapped beard and everything) facing to the right; with a really -really-really WEIRD hat.


I just didn't see a Space Marine in profile facing LEFT, spewing bullets. Just... didn't.

Friday Fancy, Facts & Food

This is a somewhat random post, not as awesome as I'd like, but I have things on my mind.

Important fact: I'm a terrible letch and in addition, a pretty incorrigible flirt. I'm pretty equal opportunity in my leering. I have a type for guys, girls are hit or miss. I'm also well and truly married and beyond disgustingly in love with TheDude. [It's a little gross how much I adore him.]

I have a lot on my plate this weekend, with much of it gaming related in one way or another.

Tonight I'm making some great eats for our Saturday WOD game, which happens to be on my daughter's birthday. TheGirl, who is fabulous & fun, turns 14 tomorrow. I'm preparing some extra special goodies in her honor. The oven will be ON at my house...

When I'm not baking, I'll be painting- I got the jet/jump packs on all of the Mexi-Marines done last night and need to move onto the chest eagles.

I'll be scouring my massive music collection for quotes- I'm always on the lookout for quotes to use in conjunction with my RPG or Weekly Whimsy posts.

Got a great quote you can never find a use for? Want to expose a fabulous band? Have a TV show or movie with excellent dialogue or witty quotes? Send 'em my way. I have a quote file I'm filling with good stuff to use, but I'll always take suggestions and ideas.

Random Game (Mostly Changeling) thoughts

Adam Lambert is a Fairest. Unearthly beautiful, overly dramatic, intoxicating voice, absolutely heartless (I mean, flaunting something I can't have), relentlessly ambitious.

Lilo & Stitch as a Changeling story- A world full of strange, weird creatures with unfathomable reasons and rationale for their actions, set about to torture and punish an inhabitant for some farce of an infraction. Said inhabitant escapes- and due to the monstrous treatment received in the other realm, acts like a selfish abomination. A chase ensues to bring the escaped inhabitant home- a dangerous, dramatic and overdone chase, too. The escapee encounters new beings on the new "home" and slowly learns how to be less of a monster - and those the escapee loves now become endangered. The escapee risks everything to rescue those loved ones to protect them from the same abuse received by the captors prior to the escape.

Depth vs Humor- each has a place and has value, but which do I prefer, and why? Does it depend on the group? Do I determine my preference after I enter the game, or before? All thoughts to ponder.