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For about a year now I have been playing what we have started to call "Nerd Games". The group of people has pretty much consisted regularly of myself, Ryan, Katie, George and sometimes Trista. Recently Andy has joined in since he moved here. Munchkin is the game that started it all. Basically Munchkin is a card game in which the object is to kill monsters and "level up" to level 10. Sound nerdy? Well… it is. What we love about it is that the game is designed in a way that forces you to sabotage and backstab your opponents as well as making alliances with them. It’s pretty despicable. And wonderful.

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We still play Munchkin to this day but have mixed in a few other Nerd Games as well. Risk 2210A.D. for one. It’s just like the old fashioned Risk but set in the future and there are cards that you can play to enhance your armies.

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A couple of other Nerd Games we play are Ninja Burger & Zombies!!!

But the nerdiest game of them all has got to be the newest one to enter the scene.

[Heroscape]

Heroscape is my latest obsession. If you have ever played the old Playstation game Final Fantasy Tactics then you’ll know how this game is played. Each player starts off with armies that consist of little action figures played on a 3D board that you build sort of like Legos.

[Yeah, we play with little action figures. So what.]

Each character has his own statistics that tell you how many spaces he can move or attack. Battles are decided by rolling dice in a "Risk-esque" manner. They also have tons of expansion sets available so you can add more terrain and figures. I have lots now. Put simply, I LOVE this game.

This game is more than merely a game, it’s more like a hobby in itself. There are whole communities built around the game. Nerdfests, conventions and gatherings all center around this silly Nerd Game.

Heroscape.com - Official web site

HScodex.com - This is an online magazine delivered quarterly in PDF format.

Heroscapers.com - An ultra detailed Heroscape community with news articles and extensive forums.

BoardGameGeek.com has a rather humongous collection of photos to browse through.

I’ll stop there, the list goes on and on. There’s even a huge article on Wikipedia. Read everything you absolutely don’t want to know about this silly game.

[This is a game with many MANY extra expansion packs]

[Yep there are castles too]
[But more importantly, look at how awesome the guys that play this are]

[It can get down right ridiculous]

I really love this game, I know I already said it but it’s true. My only problem is that it takes a while to set up and choose your armies and such before you can actually start playing. We have added rules and crap to speed things up but when I really think about it, this is one of those "unproductive hobbies" that I preach against so often.

Oh well.

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I just came across a few songs I recorded years ago and threw them in thd downloads section.

King of the World THIS IS TERRIBLE. It’s a horrible rendition of one of my favorite songs I wrote.

Old With You The song from “The Wedding Singer”

I’m Sorry (chorus) This is just as far as I got on a song I was writing in 2000

I Could Not Ask For More I think it’s Edwin McCain. A long time ago, a certain girl out there wanted me to record this song for her so I did.

Nicknotronic Move This My crappy old keyboard and an electric guitar sporting a WHAH peddle make up this little ditty based on a song from 1992.

You’re a God This is me playing bass to Mark Dusseau singing lead AND harmony to the Vertical Horizon song.

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I am starting a new catagory on this site. It’s called “Mashups”. If you don’t know, a mashup is a remix of 2 or more songs put together to make a new one. I love mashups. Everytime I stumble across one I will post it here.

The first one is called The Quiet Screaming Dashboard.

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I can’t get enough of these types of remixes because I have always tried to put together 2 songs in my head like this.

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This past weekend I spent 12 hours sitting in my computer room with headphones on, watching my new video tutorials on Macromedia Flash Professional 8. I watched the movies on the laptop and would work along side the lesson on the desktop. Now I have a basic understanding of how it works. Next I have to learn the programming language associated with Flah which is called Actionscript 2.0 and that’s no peice of cake.

After I finished the videos, I needed something to practice on so I asked Trista what I should make. We popped open Flash and started tooling around. We came up with this funny little cartoon that’s about 20 seconds long. It’s nothing special but it took me forever (3 hours) to make. Most of which was trial and error along with my relentless perfectionism which will not allow me to pass a certain point until everything is EXACTLY as I MUST have it.

While I’m talking about Flash I will now take the time to point you in the direction of the latest Flash Player. You, no doubt, already have a Flash Player plugin for your browser because everyone in the world does. But what you probably don’t have is the latest one. Some people’s browser automatically tells you when there’s a new one but others’ don’t. So here’s a link to it.

Download it and love it. You won’t see any difference in the Flash movies you watch, it will only allow you to view the newest movies made in the newest version of Flash blah blah blah just do it.

Check out my cute li’l Flash movie HERE.