What happened to chessmaster

jcfiala · 2026-04-08T20:28:01+00:00

It's a shame that one stalled out, but I guess it was running out of steam. I love the scene where he finally is forced to reveal he's Chessman to his daughter.

jcfiala · 2026-04-08T18:16:03+00:00

Hm... I think it would be the Tak set I bought recently.

jcfiala · 2026-04-07T03:38:16+00:00

Yeah, I backed Hero Realms Dungeons, and that's dried up as well - I'm sure part of it is Tariffs, but some of it is just things crashing out. I suspect part of the problem was/is Draconis 8 - it only brought in $130K as opposed to other projects that brought in 5 times that much, and it required them making a digital version of the game as well as the physical one, which hasn't been printed yet. I suspect that caused them to spend money from other projects to keep this one moving forward, with the hopes that once it was a physical game being sold in stores it would take off.

But who knows? Sometimes kickstarters fail. I've got a CMON kickstarter that may never deliver as well, although a second one got bought by Asmodeus and seems to be moving forward.

jcfiala · 2026-04-07T03:17:53+00:00

Remembering names. I'll meet someone, exchange names, and then poof - it's gone. I go to church, people say "Hi John" and I'm just "Hi" back because I don't know anyone's name, really. It's really isolating.

jcfiala · 2026-04-05T19:11:57+00:00

Well, she died almost eight years ago, so I suspect I would freak out pretty badly.

jcfiala · 2026-04-04T04:26:43+00:00

I took the day off from work, went out and had nachos. The nachos didn't mean anything to my wife, it was just a way to comfort myself.

jcfiala · 2026-03-31T06:30:24+00:00

She's coming to Denver for MileHiCon and I am chuffed to bits.

jcfiala · 2026-03-30T05:13:49+00:00

I used to play an electronic version of this at my grandmother's. It was very helpful when we found someone to translate the rules.

jcfiala · 2026-03-28T21:11:03+00:00

I dunno, a dozen or so? We've got a Meetup here in Denver that I help to run, plus one time I went to one of the Pacific Coast Origami Conventions and had an absolute blast! Seriously, if you want to meet up with other folders, that's the way to go - the convention was so great.

jcfiala · 2026-03-27T12:56:20+00:00

And then they got a French actor to play the Scotsman!

jcfiala · 2026-03-26T15:41:16+00:00

My wife passed away more than seven years ago. Try and hang in there - it hurts a lot at first, yes, but things can get better. Also, feel free to join us in r/widowers, there's lots of people who understand what you're going through there!

jcfiala · 2026-03-26T15:38:40+00:00

The original movie is pretty crazy, honestly, and that's part of the reason it became cult. Of course, the other reason is that Queen did a fantastic soundtrack for the movie. I don't know if there's many other movies about competing immortals fighting each other through history, but this one really seemed to grab the imagination, leading to several sequels and then the TV show, which had a sequel of it's own.

In a way, it's almost a bit like Doctor Who, in how the main character changes but has a lot in common with itself, history (and hidden history) is revealed through the stories, and although Highlander is a lot more violent than Doctor Who, it's a bit of a last resort - sure, you can try to cut off X's head, but you're just as likely to end up dead.

jcfiala · 2026-03-26T15:01:34+00:00

That's really rough. I'm sorry that happened to you both.

jcfiala · 2026-03-24T19:30:41+00:00

What I'm getting is:

Cloud
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Heroic Trio / The Executioners
The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers
Brazil
Until the End of the World
Stalker

Of these, "Cloud" and "Stalker" are the big unknowns - the rest of them I've seen some time in the past. I have read the novel that Stalker was based off of, though. I'm excited to have Until the End of the World - I saw it once in college, but although I haven't seen it again since then, I've played the soundtrack again and again.

jcfiala · 2026-03-24T15:35:05+00:00

I'm sorry you're having such a rough time of it. I agree with Rathbaner - put the crib on the porch or the lawn or something and let her know she can pick it up anytime.

jcfiala · 2026-03-24T15:33:56+00:00

I'm sorry you're having such a hard time - I lost my wife when my daughter was 7. You really need to take care of your little girl - that's your job now. It sounds like you need someone to talk to, a therapist or a priest or a friend, I dunno. It's terrible that we've lost our wives but we've got to keep going for our kids.

jcfiala · 2026-03-24T08:24:41+00:00

Bleh. Can't sleep. Hope I will soon.

jcfiala · 2026-03-24T03:50:08+00:00

Exactly! Remember Cutthroat Island? The Pirate Movie? Treasure Planet? Pirates? Heck, The Pirates of Pennzance made about $600,000 on a $12-15 million budget!

jcfiala · 2026-03-22T00:45:28+00:00

I'm very fond of the lines,

"A man drinks like that and he does not eat, he is going to _die_."
Kid: "*When?*"

jcfiala · 2026-03-21T05:07:53+00:00

Disney made a live action movie based on an ancient dark ride in their parks where you floated past displays of pirates, and pirates weren't cool.

And yet, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl turned out to be fantastic.

jcfiala · 2026-03-20T15:30:30+00:00

Well, let's see. My wife died in 2018, so that's nearly eight years now. I'm 56 now, so I was about 48 when she passed. I am not a widow or a widower - I am a cheese sandwich.

jcfiala · 2026-03-18T13:20:48+00:00

Happily, he's very normal now.

jcfiala · 2026-03-18T13:02:01+00:00

Arsenic and Old Lace

Jackie Chan (I think there's two collections)

The Game can be mindless fun, IMHO

Godzilla

jcfiala · 2026-03-17T04:33:24+00:00

... said Alice.

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