Tom Brady Casts Magic Missle for 1d4+1 of Damage

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Of course Tom Brady gets extra dice
because of stats bonuses.

Fall is finally upon us, and that means all of the major American sports that aren't baseball (or currently striking, I'm looking at you basketball) are finally starting once more.  As a nerd with an inclination toward the sporting world, this also means it's time to get my fantasy sports teams in order. This, of course, led me to an interesting realization. Fantasy Football, and indeed, fantasy sports in general are possibly the greatest trick ever pulled on society.

Suppose I told you that I spent the week looking at the stats of my team (party) in order to choose the best combination to defeat my opponent. There's skill involved on the player's part to be sure, but a large amount of luck also goes into being successful (a roll of the dice you might say).  I'm either talking about Dungeons & Dragons or Fantasy Sports.

Blu-ray Blues: A Star Wars Tale

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The release of Star Wars on Blu-ray is practically upon us and it has created some mixed feelings.  This should be a joyous event. This is my very favorite fictional property of all time, being released in the very best quality available to home viewing audiences up to this point. I should be thrilled. Instead, George Lucas has gone all Special Edition on us again and forced new changes to the movies I love.

I think they're stupid, but that's not really the point.  My greatest displeasure from this whole ordeal is that there is quite simply -nothing- that I can do about it.  I want to watch Star Wars in high definition. If I want to do so, I must give George my money.  Every time this happens I run into this problem.  And this is why George doesn't care. There's tremendous fan outrage every time he tinkers with the Original movies or makes a new movie that people don't like, but guess what? Everyone (including me) still fills his pockets with infinity billion dollars and the cycle continues on.  There's no alternative to Star Wars. This isn't a, "computer manufacturer A has upset me for the last time, so I'm switching to computer manufacturer B" sort of situation.

Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly?

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The Doctor hates linear time.

I've said it before. I'm rarely on time when it comes to being interested in things. I am not a nerd hipster. Try as I might, it's just impossible to catch everything when as it comes out.

This, of course, has some pretty serious benefits that may not be readily apparent. If said interest is in serial form, then there is zero wait time between new installments. Reading a comic series while it's current? Hope you're cool with the month-long gap before the next issue. Watching a show? Have a good week. Hope the show isn't on hiatus.

I read the entirety of Y: the Last Man years after it's run. Yes, I am horribly late on a fantastic series, but I read all 60 issues at my leisure. No publisher-enforced delays.

I watched all ten years of Stargate: SG-1 after it had finished. Those silly cliffhangers that SG-1 loved for it's last 5 years? Yeah, I've got the next episode right here. Let's just keep going.

Nuka Colas For Everyone

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Awhile back, A tremendously well done fan film called Fallout: Nuka Break hit the internet.  For the uninitiated, it was based on the video game series Fallout.  It was phenomenally well done, and if we're being honest, likely the closest we'll ever come to seeing good live-action Fallout.

A lot of people said a lot of really nice things about it. The people behind it, Wayside Creations, immediately started taking donations in the hopes that they would be able to make a series of it. It would appear that they were successful, because low and behold the first episode of the spankin' new Fallout: Nuka Break series has hit the internet.