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Battletech - Initial Reactions


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...


The Lost In Space Reboot Offers a Fun CW Style Story.

I sat down this weekend with some time on my hands, mostly because I was so exhausted from the week prior that I didn't want to do anything else, and noticed the recently released Netflix Original Series: Lost In Space. A reboot after a reboot that I was hesitant to even consider until I watched the trailer Netflix pushed as I scrolled over the title. Ok, I'm listening. 

Fast forward an hour or two later and I had finished the first episode and immediately got on social: 


Battletech's Original Inner Sphere Maps Were Just Released and They're Awesome.

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...


Dave Bautista is just a big nerd like the rest of us.

Dave Bautista is just a big nerd like the rest of us.

He's fallen firmly into the category of 'awesome person being awesome' especially with this latest video from his Instagram account where he shows off his nerd room collection and his latest acquisition...