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So. Let's just get into it.

I just recently saw Solo after being kept away from it for far too long. The movie came out when I was WAY over my head with work, life and emergencies and I wasn't able to go see it in theaters. I was stuck waiting for the movie to come out on blu-ray (yes, I still buy hard copies), so I waited. Then things got busy again and I finally, at long last was able to watch the movie. 

I had heard about all of the controversy about the film. The fact...

So let's talk Battletech! It's brand new. Just dropped last week. And I've been a huge Battletech nerd since I snagged the boxed set from Barnes & Nobles when I was a teenager and made my sister play the first game with me so I could figure out the rules.

I just fired up the game last night and I haven't gotten very far into it yet but I have opinions and thoughts that I feel people thinking about snagging the game should hear.

I played the...

Author and Novelist Blaine L. Pardoe just published a set of images on his blog of some of the very first Inner Sphere maps from Battletech and I can't help but geek out about it.  

He writes:

"I have been a BattleTech writer since the first Tech Readout (3025).  I saw the unseen before they were, well, unseen.  Some of my FASA-era background material over the years has just plain been lost or discarded decades ago when I deemed it hopelessly obsolete.

Some, not all.

I have unearthed a treasure trove of old material.  I...