tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192269262024-03-07T02:29:30.627-05:00The Guy With Not Enough Time On His Hands!Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.comBlogger1485125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-27632882666699309702023-06-21T07:30:00.003-04:002023-06-21T07:30:46.829-04:00Chapters 31-32 - The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Also: The Painted Man) Finally the battle of Cutter's Hollow begins. People have seen the Warded Man beat the living piss out of the corelings outside of the wards. Now some of the villagers have warded weapons to fight with. It was smart of Leesha and the Warded Man to work together in order to get the villagers to act. By drugging the corelings it is easy to show that they can be defeated. It also shows us thatRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-70161015514581709642023-05-12T00:00:00.001-04:002023-05-12T00:00:00.171-04:00Chapters 28-30 - The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Also: The Painted Man) The Warded Man and Rojer set out to get the horse and their gear back. Finding the men and the gear, they both take back the horse, most of the gear and the portable warding circle. The men are left to the mercy of the wild now. The Warded Man did kill the majority of corelings in the area, but you never know what might be stalking about. The bandits are knocked out anyways. They don't knowRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-20910309270423012982023-05-11T00:00:00.001-04:002023-05-11T00:00:00.155-04:00Chapters 25-27 - The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Also: The Painted Man) Skipping to the near future, we read that Rojer messed around with a farmer's wife, being the jongleur and all. He is running from his wrath and can not blame the man. He thinks about his life's choices and wonders about settling in one of the hamlets, or returning to Angiers. He decides to visit the guild charity house in Angiers to meet a retired jongleur named Jaycob who could become hisRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-44345801268883653272023-05-10T00:00:00.001-04:002023-05-10T00:00:00.152-04:00Chapters 22-24 - The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Also: The Painted Man)With Angiers pretty much off limits, Rojer and his master head for the Hamlets, the tiny villages far outside the main cities- to play and grow a reputation. Rojer finds a much more receptive audience among the country folk while his master is displeased that they are not raking in much money, if anything.Arrick drank one too many bottles one evening on the road and began laying into Rojer. Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-39899911976004742932023-05-09T00:00:00.001-04:002023-05-09T00:00:00.184-04:00Chapters 19-21 - The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Also: The Painted Man) We learn more about Krasian society and find a parallel to our world's Indian caste system and Saudi Arabia's culture. Warriors are valued above all else except for holy men. Arlen seeks help from his Krasian merchant friend, one of the few individuals in the city that can speak what we perceive as 'English', called Thesan. Based on Arlen's interactions, calling his language 'Thesan', the Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-6496052651774529732023-05-08T00:00:00.001-04:002023-05-08T00:00:00.180-04:00Chapters 16-18 - The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Also: The Painted Man) We return to Arlen who is making a treck from the edge of Fort Rizon to Krasia. Many are tempted to brave the trip to bring back a fortune in Krasian goods, but many also meet their doom in the desert. Arlen has made the trip many times. Upon his entrance into Krasia he is respected by the guards and many of the people in their city. He earned that respect by showing desire to fight the Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-88141864343586794282023-05-07T00:00:00.001-04:002023-05-07T00:00:00.170-04:00Chapters 10-15 - The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Also: The Painted Man) As I was typing my review of Section 2 in Wordpad or Notepad- whatever the program is called now a days, the program crashed and deleted 20 minutes worth of typing. I am not amused by it and should have used Word as a word processor to begin with.I blew through Section 2 and got carried away with reading it. It is half the length of Section 1 which introduced us to the three main charactersRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-31865730867011296472023-05-06T00:00:00.001-04:002023-05-06T00:00:00.155-04:00Chapters 7-9 - The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Also: The Painted Man)The third character the series will follow gets the least amount of 'air time' here. Rojer is very young, where I thought, for some reason he would be older. The Jongleur is a coward; but I suppose Rojer is too young to understand what happened. Perhaps he does. It will be interesting to see how music will be used as a weapon- and how Rojer will intend to play it with two fingers missing.When theRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-42483835544177330212023-05-05T00:00:00.001-04:002023-05-05T00:00:00.145-04:00Chapters 4-6 - The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Also: The Painted Man) It looks like we pause on Arlen and go to another main character in the book, Leesha. This is a common storytelling format that authors will use in the genre. Some readers like it and some do not. We're invested into one or more characters in one story, and then that story abruptly breaks and we go to another one. Fortunately the story is good thusfar, so continue on I shall. Leesha is the Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-28679260100295580202023-05-04T18:00:00.001-04:002023-05-04T18:00:32.707-04:00Chapters 1-3 - The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Also: The Painted Man)The pacing starts off well with this chapter. I am a fan of longer chapters because it forces you to read more, especially if the story is good. So far the author has dropped some appealing looking nuggets to introduce the world. Already I think there are some puns being introduced. The evil force, and antagonists for this book are the corelings, demons who materialize from the ground to Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-37097033684879718582023-05-04T17:58:00.004-04:002023-05-06T15:26:21.811-04:00Book Review: The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Also: The Painted Man)This is an independent review of The Warded Man (also called 'The Painted Man) by Peter V. Brett. The words used in this review are my own unless I am quoting material. This review will contain spoilers, and it is suggested that if you want to learn about the book, but not spoil too much of it- read the review on a couple of early chapters and then pick up the book. Series: The Demon Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-41345653863632640232023-05-04T07:15:00.002-04:002023-05-04T07:15:58.667-04:00Blog Update: May 2023 It's been so long since I have made a post that the last registered one was in 2017. So... six years ago? yikes. Even the post interface looks different. The title of the blog is still true. I am still a guy with not enough time on his hands. Growing up is INDEED a trap kids- you get more money sure, but you also get less time. A lot has changed. Some things have not changed, as explained Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-44158525350423783212017-08-24T00:00:00.000-04:002017-08-24T00:00:28.151-04:00Purposely Gimped GamesRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-23877346753007168882017-08-23T00:00:00.000-04:002017-08-23T00:00:04.674-04:00Age of Empires IV
Oh baby. I will be following this one. I would expect it to take a couple of years to finish. I'm not sure if I want to get the definitive edition though. I would ex.pect a steam release for it though. Check it out.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-51174665598121538662017-08-21T00:00:00.000-04:002017-08-21T00:00:14.926-04:00Eyeglasses Scratched? "Pros" Want Nothing To Do With YouOne night I sat my glasses on a little sill below my car's radio as I went into work. The next day when I picked up my glasses I noticed a 'smudge' on one of the lenses. Upon closer inspection the right lens was scratched.
Fuck me.
I figured that it could be buffed out really easily. I went to an eye-care place up the road and they wanted nothing to do with me. 'Sorry, can't help you. We do notRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-78578883439688602162017-08-15T23:19:00.000-04:002017-08-15T23:19:15.055-04:00I say to you today, my friendsBut there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We mustRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-31544043909527930872017-08-15T00:00:00.000-04:002017-08-15T00:00:05.325-04:00Dokapania- A Review (Transylvania: Curses and Traitors)
This review is being written independent of other sources. I have not looked at any other published reviews for the game. Therefore the opinion offered is my own and developed as my own.
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So let's talk about this hybrid board/card game: Transylvania- Curses and Traitors. The objective of the game is to discover knowledge cards and return to the Church in order to Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-65577917284843482022017-08-08T18:29:00.007-04:002017-08-08T18:32:44.240-04:00Funny Review Quotes for Fifty Shades of Grey: Part 1
Fifty Shades of No
Before I found these gems I knew that 'Fifty Shades of Grey' was a poorly written piece of erotica. I wouldn't recommend it- and it isn't my genre. Can I say "it doesn't suit my tastes" in the same post? whatever. Here for your amusement:
Wigs says "Thank you E.L. James, for proving to me there was something worth waiting for. Something that truly exemplifies the Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-9727115211738822592017-08-08T00:03:00.003-04:002017-08-08T00:06:54.169-04:00The Way of Kings - Part 1
This would be an update on my reading progress for Brandon Sanderson's 'The Way of Kings'. [323/1007]
I like this book. You can definitely tell that Sanderson has spent quite some time developing it. There is a lot going on in a very focused point of view between about a half dozen characters. The story thus far has been moving along kind of slowly- but with a book of this size and epicness Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-45245836533996406882017-08-01T00:00:00.000-04:002017-08-01T00:00:20.785-04:00Bang bang bang bang! squeak squeak thud thud!Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-37292510152159001212017-07-31T12:44:00.000-04:002017-07-31T12:44:10.132-04:00Top 50 Shitty Shark MoviesVia James Rolfe.
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-29538195135191937132017-07-30T00:00:00.000-04:002017-07-30T00:00:03.135-04:00This Week in Skyrim... (#1)
I felt like hanging out on Belethor's counter. Might rot there eventually.
Mjoll the Lioness
A dragon got a hold of me and flung me into the sign post. One in a million shot.
Where's Waldo/Where's Dragonborn?
Alduin v. 100 Imperial Archers. The archers were annihilated.
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-64671024394352642862017-07-27T00:00:00.000-04:002017-07-27T00:00:02.091-04:00The Essence of Ashes by EluveitieRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-20672389959581949112017-07-26T00:00:00.000-04:002017-07-26T00:00:00.238-04:00'Home' by EluveitieRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19226926.post-38975061466277503772017-07-25T00:00:00.000-04:002017-07-25T00:00:23.899-04:00'Apotheosis' by Holy GrailRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979230906299509590noreply@blogger.com0