Neoscream's Life: 1st to 7th April 2013

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Welcome to the all new Neoscream's Life post. This is a weekly post of some of the things I did last week and news on stuff like Crooked Dice Games, DreadBall and AJ Lee. The painting section and the Cosplay Deviants section now have their own posts so they will not be appearing these posts anymore.

Though the whole of week last week I was suffering from a nasty sore throat which I had to work with. In fact if it was not for work it would have had healed by now.

On Saturday evening I went over to Richard's to play a couple of games of Dreadball with him and Darren H. The first game was between Richard and Darren using basic rules. Richard had only played one game and watched one in the past, but Darren had not ever played a game or watched one before. So I decided to have Richard be the Home player so that Darren H could see how a turn is played. Darren H played Marauders while Richard used a Forge Fathers team. I stated that the winner of this game will play me in a full rules game. The game was close, but Darren H won by one or two points.  So it was me verses Darren. I was using my Cyber-Tech Primers team, while Darren H continue to use the Marauders.  He was the Home player due to a random draw. By the start of the final rush I was six points up. Did I try to score the seventh point for a white wash? No way.  I tried to take out as much of his team I could.

Now for this week’s DreadBall news. The PDF version of Season Two was sent out to all the KickStarters during the week so I have been reading up on the new rules. It has pictures of most of the Season Two stuff apart from Coach Orky and seven out of the nine MVPs. The rules are looking great, cannot wait to try out the Robot team when I finally get them. Lastly I managed to re-find a Season Two release plan. Mantic planned on sending out the KickStarter stuff, then the retail stuff and then a sale release at Salute. However the way things are going from reading the posts from the forums things and the changes of release dates on the Mantic store (from April to May), it looks like thing are being pushed back. From the sound of things there will be only the Robot team, female Corporation team and maybe the Cheerleaders (or a Cheerleader cosplayers) will be at Salute. The stuff well at Salute will be release in the market at the beginning of May and the rest will be out around about mid to late May. Still no word on when the KickStarter stuff will be sent. With the first shipment they gave notice that the warehouse would be closed for one day and delays for the rest of the week all due to packing the KickStarter stuff and they took two weeks to ship the stuff. Ok, I cannot see it taking that much time to pack and ship, but by the way it is going, I cannot us KickStarters getting it before Salute, maybe not even this month due to postage. On what maybe good news, Mantic has hired someone to run Facebook and Twitter for them now so maybe things will be made clear on what is going on.

Next is the Crooked Dice Games news. First off is that the five new Future Freedom Fighters have been released. Then the Heroes Programme Guide book and cards was put out for pre-orders, however the PDF version are been given out straight away. There is nothing new in the Heroes Programme Guide compared to three individual guides. I have pre-order the hard copy of the book to pick up at Salute with the Minion Starter deal. Lastly they have announced that they will be selling Grandville Miniatures. The first two figures will be at Salute and pre-orders should be up sometime this week. Foul if needed. I managed to take out the Orxs. It was a good night with a good curry cooked by Richard. Oh and Darren gave me a spear mother board for messing about with for my A+ studies.

Now for what AJ Lee has been up to this past week. The first time was when she was supporting Dolph Ziggler with Big E Langston in Dolph's match against Daniel Bryan. Kane was out supporting Daniel. Dolph won and then Big E took out both members of the tag team champions. AJ then handed both Dolph and Big E the tag team championships. Could this be a sign of what will happen on Wrestlemania 29.

Sadly AJ did not participate in the WWE ’13 Axxess Superstar Challenge this year. This may be due to AJ having a busy time table this Wrestlemania. However Big E did enter it. He got second place, which is good, but he lost to Hornswoggle of all people. However by the sound of things the match (computer game one for thus who do not know) was an epic one.

Wrestlemania 29 was on Sunday, but as I will not be seeing it until sometime this week I will not be talking about it. However I have learnt that the AJ verses Kaitlyn match never happened. Bad move from the WWE.

We now move on to the Watch, Listen and Read section of the blog post:

Monday

Watched: The Bank Holiday Gadget Show Special.

Listened: Episode 357 of Anime Pulse.

Brought: I ordered a bunch of stuff from Crooked Dice Games and Amera Plastic Mouldings to be picked up at Salute.

Received: The PDF version of Heroes Programme Guide.

Tuesday

Watched: Episode 5 of InuYasha.

Wednesday

Watched: Kiki’s Delivery Service, seven Gadget Show web clips (“SAMSUNG @ CES 2011”, “Blackberry Playbook @ CES 2011”, “OnLive @ CES 2011”, “Top 5 Tech @ CES 2011”, “Hungry Shark and Shark Remote App”, “xtranormal.com” and “Nintendo 3DS Launch”) and episode 1036 WWE Raw.

Listened: Episode 117 of the Unofficial One Piece.

Thursday

Received: The PDF copy of the Season Two DreadBall rules.

Friday

Watched: Episode 1 of season three of Game of Thrones.

Saturday

Watched: Episode 689 of WWE Smackdown.

Brought and Received: A box set of eight plastic British Troops to use as British Soldiers for my Bond team for £10.

Received: A mother board.

Sunday

Watched: This week’s episode of Doctor Who, two Gadget Show web clips (“Nexus S” and “Gadget News 21.01.2011”) and this week’s episode of WWE Superstars.

Until next time, armour up.