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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...

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: 

Ok then @lostinspacetv I just...

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...