Twitter didn't care for this

Come on. Do away with limits already

Star Trek & Batman in one tweet!

I win the Dork Olympics!

I was all this vanity plate is cool.

Then I was "What if there was a physicist with a plate saying 'quark'?"

Now I'm like, "What if there is a multi-doctorate professor with a plate that says 'HB PRCLE'?"

Nice Try Death Star PR

While I'm jealous of your concept, your production value and your accents, I just could not get into your web series. I wish you best of luck in your endevers.

Cheers!

Matt Manic

I'm a liar

Hugs to anyone who sang the title of this like Henry Rollins.

So I said in a previous post that I was done with HeroClix. Turns out that its not true. My addiction actually flared up worse. Because of this video.

I took it the last tournament I played. I edited it and threw it on the old internet. Then Hunter, the star of the video, told some pretty important game and toy shops and they spread the word. It blew up. Not viral big, but way more successful than any of my other projects. More successful than my Weird News public access show.

More successful than my Movie Review Videos

Even more successful that my "hit" project, which is rated G and I cannot have associated with my pretty nasty Twitter feed. 

I was super-jealous of how quickly the HeroClix Video blew up. But I loved the success. I quickly made more. 

While I was in the fever of my first HeroClix addiction, I watched about 10 videos of HeroClix online. Ten was all I could take. The videomakers were knowledgable but not interesting. I love films {why I have 3 projects and open to make more} and thought I could make some videos that were more entertaining. That spawned a concept for a full on show about HeroClix along the line of a sports show or news show. 

I'm not there yet. I realize the videos are only interesting to Clix fans right now. But they are more visually appealing than what else it out there. With the right host {I nominate myself because I'm boisterous and pretty hot for a nerd} and more practice, these Heroic Tactics videos could be the YouTube bible of HeroClix.

After I get really good at these, I'd like to branch of into the Holy Grail of gaming, Magic The Gathering videos. I haven't checked yet, but I can only assume {insert assume truism here} that due to the game's popularity, there are some great videos to watch. I'd love to do other games too, I still like X-Wing, even if I can't find someone else to play against.

Anyway, working on the videos put me back in the middle of HeroClix playing again. So I've been buying clix again. At least I can rationalize its for the show. 

Some #Batman Tweets

Sorry, my home Internet is all jacked up. Here are some Batman tweets I made.

Did I really spend $800?

I wanted to game again. But not Magic The Gathering or the like. While those games require a degree of skill, they really come down to whoever can spend the most money on the power cards.

Batman

When walking around my local gaming shop, I came across HeroClix. I hadn’t seen those for ten years or so. HeroClix is a game of collectable miniatures based on comic book characters. I had tried playing them when they first came out, but no one would play against me. They’re more popular now, the shop owner assured me. And they were in the middle of a Batman themed set. So I picked up a pack.

HeroClix are collectable in that the pieces have degrees of rarity randomly in blind packs. Like Magic and other card games, you get a mix of rare, uncommon and common pieces, as well as a chance for super-rare and chase figures. The appeal of HeroClix is that they made versions of each of the main characters. So there were common and uncommon Batman figures as well as rare and chase figures. The appeal was that the common and uncommon, while not as awesome as the chases, were still powerful. You could play with the popular characters without breaking the bank. And there are dice rolls, so luck would be a factor as well as skill.

Mr. Freeze

But it became clear very early on that, like Magic, whoever spent the most money would end up being the winner. Instead of being discouraged, I started buying more and more in hopes of getting better pieces. I’d open pack after pack and get disappointed when I wouldn’t get piece I wanted. And if I managed to get that piece, I’d get beat by a certain piece at the next tournament and have to chase that piece too.

I quickly spent way too much money. The randomness of the pieces is essentially gambling and I was addicted to trying. Like every gambler, I convinced myself I had a system. There is a way to tell, by weight, some of the larger figures. I convinced  this pack had one of the most sought after figures, a oversized vehicle. But to get it, I had to buy that $100 pack. I had the rest of the set, so everything else in that pack would be a duplicate. I put the stupid thing on my credit card and took it home.

It was, of course, not that piece. I was cursing myself for not walking away like my brain told me to. That’s really when I realized I had a problem. I made a vow to stop collecting HeroClix. I gave away most of my set, including some fancy, expensive pieces to keep for causal play.

I still needed a game to play though. The same day I saw the HeroClix, I also saw a game of X-Wing miniatures. I didn’t get it because I wasn’t sure of its popularity. But talking to the other HeroClix players, I found out more than a few were picking it up. So I got a set. And really enjoyed it. It has the strategy element I was looking for and, while expandable, it is not collectable. Every box has the exact same pieces. You cannot outspend, you can only outplay. I’m looking forward to going to my first tournament.