lisamaria

 Man.

We just watched the most delicious and best movie out there.

  "Slumber Party Massacre 2."

  Basically, the broad from empty nest, or wings, or one of those shows that my mom watches, goes to a condo with her girl-band friends where there are  no parents. She keeps having dreams about this rock-n-roller guy who's like a cross between andrew dice clay, richard grieco, and elvis, and he has a red, ridiculous guitar with a giant drill on the arm. She dreams of him killing people, as well as plucked roaster chickens jumping out of the fridge at her, giant acne zits killing her friends, all sorts of stuff. Right as she's about to get banged, these dreams go from fake to real without really telling you why, and her lover is killed. everyone is killed, pretty much, and the killer shows up here and there spouting out semi-appropriate song title one liners. He has a solo. This movie has a lot of original music in it. I heard one song that i think was the lyrical equivalent to little red corvette (chinese convertible, i love the way you move.) and another song that was the sound-alike to stray cat strut. Oh yeah, the guy was also a little stray-cat-guy-ish.

Anyway, This was a totally awesome high-budget low-budget movie. I'm glad I watched it! Also, i was right. I knew that the first Ts we'd see would be the girl who showed her Ts first.

prester_scott

To say that we cannot have unconfessed sin when we die is problematic both Biblically and practically. Biblically, Paul is clear that once we have faith in Christ we have been saved. This salvation is primarily from the ultimate penalty of our sin: eternal death. If we cannot truly be saved until we die with all sins confessed, then we cannot ever say that we are saved as Paul does. The best we can do is say we might be saved (i.e. if I die without any unconfessed sin). Salvation would always have to be spoken of as a contingent possibility, not a present reality. Yet Paul says to the Ephesians "By grace you have been saved" (Eph. 2:8). Christ says in John 6:24 "Whoever believes in me has eternal life." There is no contingency here. The question becomes, Do you really believe?

The practical problem is this: If you do have to die without any unconfessed sin, how are you to be spiritually aware enough to remember all your sins? What if you forget one. What about the time you sped through the school zone? What about the time you pridefully thought about your promotion at work? What about the time you envied your neighbor’s new sprinkler system? What about the time you said you were sick, to avoid something, and you really weren’t? From a practical stand point, everyone will die with unconfessed sin. Most of these will include serious sins such as greed, pride, and envy. Therefore, we are all bound for hell? This trivializes the cross, forgiveness, and sin.

voltbang

• Friday-
  
  • Arkham horror- We just played the base set, which I have played many times. Still a fun game. I learned a few rules details, but nothing spectacular. 8 players, we won. Noisy room. Hard to hear. Gate bursts are needed to prevent a "wait it out till we win" condition, which we hit. I got lucky and ended up with all the gear I would want. I played the scientist girl, started out with a rifle and the luck skill, an elder sign. Got an ally almost right away that gave me +1 lore +1 fight. And it just got better from there.
    
    
  • Car wars- Played this last year as well, and came home itching to play more. Still good, but I should know better than to floor it. I was killed stone cold dead on turn 4. Rememer, no shooting at alluntil turn 3. It was tragic, mines ripped my wheels up, wrecked my handling and then I got rammed and blasted through. Oh how sad.
    
  
  
• Saturday
  Much dealers room time. GOod t-shirts galore. I liked "I'm so goth, I poop bats" but I'm not that goth.
  
  
  
  • Spycraft2.0- another good rpg, even if it was mostly combat oriented. We were cops sent out to take down a drug shipping house. It was a trap, duh, that we evaded and had to try to run away from, in a part of town that is way out of cop control. So we ended up running from the gangs and shooting for our lives. Escape from NY and Renagades and other movies of that sort. High body count. I was playing a lawman class character, and I made some complaints about being police officers, not assassins, but they fell on deaf ears. And they pointed out that I returned fire with the best of them, not to mention burning down the drug operation, and improvising up some dandy molotov cocktails. I showed them though. As the big climactic gunfight was hitting the big massacre stage, I drew my bade, pulled a massive intimidate check, and arrested the crime lord. THe other players looked at me like I was nuts, but the DM said "roll it", I did, and it wordked. He threw down his gun and surrendered. I had class skills and abilities that combined to really make that one thing my best synergy effect. So that was fun.
    
  
  Mayfair games librabry time
  
  
  
  • Horus- Remembered I had played it before while we were setting up. Not surprisingly, I won. Nice game but I'm not excited about it. Tile laying, claiming territory.
    
    
  • Something with towers in italy- very quick play. Nice little puzzle game, building towers. I won this one as well. Might pick it up for a quickie. Not terribly hard to teach, for a plus.
    
    
  • Toledo- Build swords and deliver them to his excellency, the king of spain. We played this one with a nice man from texas. Nice, but slow. It was like teaching George Bush to play a board game. Every time a new term came up "whuts that?" and when you explained, he would repeat the words you just said, and then ask a question indicating he didn't understand whut he had just repeated.
    "Deal each player five cards"
    "dee-ul each player, faave curds. Ok. Raht. So how many cards dew each of us get?"
    Sadly, he still won. I feel humilated. That said, I loved this game. Loved it to pieces. It has a very interesting flow and I want to figure it out. I screwed up the initial tile placement part of the game, and had to struggle for resources the whole game, while texas dropped two cards right in sweet spots, and never had to draw cards the whole game, as we were all forced to pay him, over and over.