Gears of War the Board Game. Seriously. Kind of takes away the whole draw of the super-action-filled first-person shoot-em-up, doesn’t it?

Weird.

…and I’m more excited than I should be…

Beautiful Bill Hicks print by Ken Taylor, via mondo. Tried to get one of these, failed miserably. Don’t know why I even bother with mondo anymore. I’m about 1 for 9.

On a related not, saw American: The Bill Hicks Story this weekend. Really good documentary, focusing primarily on his youth and early days. Didn’t really teach me anything I didn’t already know, but it was interesting hearing things straight from his parents and closest friends. I need to Netflix disc 2, because that supposedly has some performances and other cool stuff on it…

The Yahoo! Auctions Japan website is hosting an auction by the user “katsudouka” for a moped customized after the MS-06S Zaku II from the Mobile Suit Gundam anime. The MS-06S Zaku II robot with the distinctive red color scheme served as the personal unit for Mobile Suit Gundam character Char Aznable, the nemesis of the Gundam protagonist and pilot Amuro Ray.

Awesome!

Dubbed the Retro Lancer during the Lambent Invasion, the Pendulum Wars Lancer Assault Rifle was the preceding model to the Lancer Assault Rift. Used primarily in the Pendulum Wars as the COG soldier’s primary choice weapon, it was abandoned about a year after Emergence Day because the weapon was ineffective to the Locust Horde’s fighting tactics. However, following the Sinking of Jacinto when supplies started becoming sparse, the Retro Lancer started cropping up in fighting forces once again

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