Tag: Life in the Tampa Bay area
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Old Gamers Never Die, or: Comedy, Drama, & Lots of Sex are at the Heart of ‘FreshWomen – Season 1’
My College Experience was NOTHING Like This…. If you read yesterday’s post, On Books & Reading, or: Reading Habits, the TBR Stack Got Bigger, and a Quick Life Update, you probably noticed that not only did I mention (and tag) “adults-only games” and “Fresh Women – Season 1” in the categories, but I also included…
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About Blu-rays: First Looks at ‘Star Trek: Picard’ and ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’
Last night I finished my three-night “binge watch” of Star Trek: Picard’s second season, which was released on Blu-ray by Paramount on Tuesday. The series, which was created as a three-season-long story for the streaming service Paramount+, is a sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) and the four feature films that followed it.…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Getting Better at Playing the ‘Attack’ Skirmish Mission in ‘Regiments’
“In case of doubt, attack.” – Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. USA I’m getting better at playing Regiments. I’m not yet as good a commander of armored forces as George Patton, one of America’s best-known generals from the World War II era and the namesake of the U.S, Army’s Patton series of main battle tanks.…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, September 13, 2022, or: Odds & Ends
Keep on Trekkin’ As I wrote in today’s first post for A Certain Point of View, Too, the U.S. Post Office came through and delivered my package with Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection, the new 15-disc (seven 4K UHD Blu-ray discs and eight 2K HD Blu-ray discs) box set that presents (for…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Fighting Near a Nuclear Power Plant in ‘Regiments’ Poses New Twists, New Challenges
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in 4K UHD Blu-rays, Amazon, Bird's Eye Games, Blogging, Blu-ray Collection, Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Computer and Video Games, Gaming, Life in Florida, MicroProse Software, Movies, Online Shopping, Personal Thoughts, Regiments (2022), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection, Star Trek: The Original SeriesRegiments: The Battle for a ‘Hot’ Zone Last night, after trying – and failing – to choose a movie or TV show to watch, I decided to play Regiments again. Once more I selected the Skirmish titled Raw Power, which depicts a fictional 1989 battle near what looks like a nuclear plant in what was…
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On Movies & Movie Collecting: Red Alert! Red Alert! A Quick Update on My ‘Star Trek’ 6-Movie Box Set
James T. Kirk: Mr. Sulu, ahead warp one. Hikaru Sulu: Warp one, sir. Chief DiFalco: Heading, sir? James T. Kirk: Out there. Thataway – Star Trek: The Motion Picture (final lines) Before I log off from my computer for the night, I just want to give you a quick update regarding my Star Trek: The…
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Old Gamers Never Die: My First Total Victory in ‘Regiments’ (Oh, and This is Blog Post #1,000!)
V-Day in Grasleben! “The fight isn’t over until you win.” ― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin Last night, while refighting the Battle of Grasleben for – I think – the 10th time since I purchased Regiments (Bird’s Eye Games/MicroProse, 2022) on August 16, I earned my first Total Victory as the Blue force (American) commander against…
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Old Gamers Never Die: ‘Regiments’ – Lessons from the Battles of Grasleben: There is NO Shame in Tactical Retreats!
Lessons Learned from the Battles of Grasleben: There’s No Shame in Retreating “Retreat? Hell, we just got here!” – Captain Lloyd Williams, USMC One of the most important lessons I’ve learned from playing Regiments’ Grasleben Attack scenario multiple times is that even though the objective of the mission is to capture and successfully defend as…
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Old Gamers Never Die: ‘Regiments’ – It Wasn’t a Decisive Victory, But I’ll Still Take the Win
“It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side, then this is a valuable bonus.” ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo Well, it took a while. A longer while that I would have liked, honestly. After almost 10 days without…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, August 28, 2022, or: Saturday Night Was a Mix of Thunderstorms, Wargames, and Loneliness
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in Amazon, Amazon Music, Bird's Eye Games, Blogging, Books, Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Computer and Video Games, Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West, Gaming, Life in Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Love, Sex, & Relationships, MicroProse Software, Personal History, Personal Thoughts, Peter Caddick-Adams, Regiments (2022), SexWell, here I am at my desk on a quiet, mostly sunny Sunday morning in August. Not quite silent, mind you, I’m listening to the digital copy of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Expanded Edition), which I have because I bought the CD album earlier this morning. (Amazon often…
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