🗺️ I Can See For Miles and Miles... A message from an entity known as "The Traveler" has lured you to an uncharted planet. While orbiting, your spaceship suddenly malfunctions. The crew jump into their individual escape pods and are sent scattering down to the corners of the planet's surface. While you're unlikely to find each other, you have radio contact and can share information and skills in order to help each other out. Gather items, vehicles, quests, and what-have-you in order to complete your mission and/or fulfill your destiny. Vantage is a cooperative exploration game for 1-6 players from Stonemeier, creators of Wingspan and Scythe . It just released and I happened to get a copy very quickly after orders went live, so while many people are waiting on theirs, I've managed to get a few plays in, and I wanted to share my thoughts. I want to be clear that this is not a review. I've played it twice at two players and only feel like I've scratched t...
⛈️ Are You Telling This Story or Am I... [SPOILER ALERT] Over the holiday weekend we took the kids to see Thunderbolts* at the theater. It was my second time seeing it, and I have to say that it really resonated with me. I'm still enjoying the MCU, even if the bloom has come off the rose in the public perception. And I freely admit that a lot of the recent content has been not great ( Eternals ) and occasionally quite bad ( Secret Invasion ). At the end of the day, I'm fine with sitting through a so-so movie if I get to spend it hanging out with characters I like. But Thunderbolts* is actually pretty good, and it manages to tell a compelling story about something that you don't see represented well in mainstream blockbuster action flicks. Thunderbolts* is a movie about depression. Which is something I've struggled with off-and-on for my entire life. Let's take a step back, shall we? One of the things that I love about speculative fiction is the way it externalize...