Terrible movies are a dime a dozen, but very few ever achieve the levels of inept, brilliance that 2003′s “The Room” does. Writer, director, star, genius, and demi-god, Tommy Wiseau made what is one of the most fantastically awful, and simultaneously entertaining movies I’ve ever seen. “The Room” focuses on relationships, love, trust, and betrayal among a group of people who can’t act. If you can somehow manage to maintain bladder control through the entirety of this hilarious roller coaster ride of the human condition, clearly, you have a problem.

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There are games like Dominant Species or Conquest of Nerath that require a dedicated group of people getting together for the expressed reason of playing that particular game. The rules are a bit dense, and you need to concentrate on what you’re doing. Then there are the middle of the road games like 7 Wonders and Small World Underground where the rules are definitely there and you kinda need to concentrate but there’s more of a social “hang-out” thing going on.

Then there’s the 3rd group of games, where there’s only a few simple rules and are better played while socializing. Zombie Dice (and to a much much lesser extent Cthulhu Dice) is the epitome of this game. You take your turn, pass the cup to the next person and go back to socializing and ignoring the game in general until it comes back around to you. We’ve done this with large groups at the bar and at PAX and it’s perfect. Ice Dice isn’t quite as simple as Zombie Dice, but I’d still put it in the same category and will definitely be packing it the next time we’re at PAX or another con.

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Personally, I don’t understand the sport of boxing. It’s not that I can’t follow what’s going on in the ring or why people enjoy watching it. No, it’s more that I don’t understand why people would want to participate in a sport where the goal is to limit the amount you get beat up. Getting punched in the head at work is not something I’ll ever find myself interested in doing. All that said I really like boxing videogames and LOVE movies about the punch-happy sport. Hell, I’ve lived all my life across the river from where Rocky was filmed. I’ve run up the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I’ve ate lightning and crapped thunder!

To say that I’ve never played a tabletop game based on boxing is a lie, I owned Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots like any other child of my era worth their salt in having good toy taste. It’s definitely suffice to say that I’ve never played a tabletop card game based on boxing. Let alone one that’s played in real time. Hit the jump and I’ll explain some more.

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Speaking strictly for us here at Perpetual Geek Machine, this whole DC New 52 thing has been a rousing success. While each of us enjoys comic books in an abstract way we just don’t tend to read them month to month, and as such have only dabbled. We’re more fans of the few times a year trade paperbacks. So a reboot has been just what the doctored for us, and we’ve jumped in with both feet to try out some of the new books. Hot on the heels of last week’s look at Detective Comics #1 we’re back with a title that focuses on another Gotham City resident in Catwoman #1.

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More often than not, movies will be released that are hardly discernible from one another. Hollywood pumps out movies and practically beats a genre to death before finding out what else will sell. I, for one, am sick of seeing trailers for movies about vampires, superheroes, and pretty much anything Michael Bay puts out. It takes a lot of guts to make something different and unconventional and this is something that “Drive” does well. That last sentence is exactly where my appreciation for “Drive” ends.

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