comment by Derelicte on May 10
Sunday 2008-05-11 - Happy 16th Lazer!
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Written by Dragon
Today was Lazer's 16th birthday! I spent most of the day at my parent's place to celebrate Mother's Day and his birthday. Lazer requested ahead of time that I bring Doom so that we could play. I also brought a few other games because I had gone to visit my friend Rick and we played some games this morning before I went to my parent's.
At Rick's, we played Condottiere a couple times. Rick caught onto the strategies of the game pretty quickly and did very well the first game. At one point it looked like he could have won the game, but I came back strong with effective use of the Bishop.
Next we played Kingdoms, another game that I've been enjoying recently. It plays quickly and the game is simple enough that later on in the day we were able to play the game with my 8 year old niece. I'm pretty sure that I won that game against Rick and the game later on against Tim and his daughter, but I don't remember the details about the scores.
After my parents arrived home, almost 2 and a half hours after my brother and I got to their house (yes, they did know we were waiting for them), Mom and Lazer read cards and opened gifts before we got into one final game for the day.
Doom, deathmatch style, was the game of choice. After some initial delays the game got underway. In the first match, Dad and I had just worn each other down to just one hit point each, expecting to get the frag ourselves, but that backfired. Tim scored a win in the first of 2 matches by fragging me and Dad at the same time with his rocket launcher. In the second match, I got an Alert (?) ability which allowed me to take a Guard order whenever I did an "Advance." I grabbed a few good weapons and then proceeded to pound both Dad and Tim until I took the win.
After our games, we spent lots of time chatting about various current events and things, such as Lazer's art work, which I hope to see more of soon. Overall, I had an enjoyable weekend.
Friday 2008-05-09 - Dragons Hobbies Forum Reborn
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This week I've made the new forum official. In addition to changing the links in the site navigation, I've also decided to style the rest of Dragons Hobbies after the SMF YABB SE Classic Theme used on the forum. Doing so has pushed me to update some really old code, but unfortunately, I do not have time to completely redevelop the site, so functionality hasn't changed much even though the look may be different.
In any case, I hope that everyone reading this will take the time to register on the new forum and get the discussions going. I'm sorry that I cannot copy over the old accounts to the new forum, but that issue is related to some of the problems that I've had with the old forum in the first place.
Next week the summer semester starts and I have a full class load once again. Even though I'll be back to school, I hope I will have time in the upcoming week or so to update the Recent Forum Posts so that it links to the new forum.