Matthew Supert

So, over the Thanksgiving weekend, Megan and I went to our new favorite small business, the Wandering Dragon over in Plainfield to support small business Saturday. I think we are going to start a tradition of buying a game or two every small business saturday there. Browsing around the store I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to pick up. Then I saw sitting on the shelf the Pathfinder RPG starter kit. 

This is an RPG I have heard a lot of people talking about over the past year. For those who don't know, it is an RPG just like Dungeons and Dragons. There is a dungeon master who leads several adventurers on a quest to go and do something. Paizo created the RPG back in 2009 after Wizards of the Coast decided to change their publishing rules. Forbes of all sites actually has a really good review on the box and an interesting insight on how the whole thing got started. 

So I picked up the starter kit and spent the weekend going over the box and I really found the whole system interesting. Call it luck or call it good planning, but I noticed that the Wandering Dragon that very next Thursday was having a Pathfinder Society night. The Pathfinder Society is Paizo's world wide sort of story following the RPG. Players around the world in the society all play the same modules and stories together and then report their stats and details online to the site for tracking. It is sort of like and MMORPG but on paper. 

Suffice to say I had an absolutely blast last Thursday playing the game. I just loved every minute of it and everyone else who was playing was really cool with me and made my play time really fun. I have to say I am hooked. 

It is really a shame that I didn't get into this stuff more when I was growing up or even in college.

So the past couple of weeks saw the advent of the next generation of gaming consoles. I went out and decided to buy a Wii U with the new Zelda Wind Waker HD remake. Ohh, I want one of the new consoles, but I cannot decide quite yet what to get. Anyways, I will get to that next week in another post. 

This week I am going to post though my favorite games of this last generation. These are in no particular order, but simply the games that left me with the best impression. 

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So Guns………… So I was initially going to prepare a whole long discussion on the whole aftermath of the shooting, but instead of espousing a lot of text, I am just going to bullet point my thoughts.

• Children Died.
• It was horrible and I cried.
• Journalists interviewing the children are in poor taste.
• Journalists still have every right to do it.
• The parents need to say no.
• Let’s stop pretending journalists are some sort of bastion of integrity. Journalism has always been a slimy business in America.
• Your prayers aren’t doing shit to help anyone. Take real action.
• Don’t treat children like idiots. Talk to them and let them process this event. Don’t hide it from them.
• God and schools have nothing to do with anything.
• The gun was the mechanism, not the cause of this problem.
• Don’t erode civil liberties in the name of protection.  
• Mental Health is ONE OF the root problems.
• Assault rifles are not what the media is telling you they are, and they are not what you think they are.
• Stricter gun control does need to happen in this country.
• That said people should be able to own any gun they want for whatever reason they want.
• Self-defense for gun ownership is mostly bull shit in my opinion.No one I have ever known or talked to has known anyone who has ever been involved in an incident needing a gun for self-defense.
• Stop with the hyperbole.
• People are upset and want answers.
• Don’t let emotions rule your judgment.
• Sometimes there are no answers.
• Sometimes there is no solution.
• Sometimes there is nothing that could possibly have been done to prevent something.
• This is the real world and bad stuff happens all the time. Face it. Accept it. Learn from it. Grow from it.