Eloise's Thoughts and Fancies

There were only two matches this weekend, as most northern hemisphere countries were gathering players into training camps still. England used one of their agreed training weekends to pull their squad from the premiership a week early, and faced the All Blacks, Scotland used their home-based players (so were basically Glasgow) against Fiji, who were also missing their overseas players and were basically the Drua. England v New Zealand This was an odd, but compelling game, in part because of the way it played out. In the end there were two points between the sides, with England pulling out an eight point lead with about 20 to go, but New Zealand scoring the last ten points to win. The All Blacks scored three tries and butchered four more, England only scored one - that from an interception - and didn’t really ever look like scoring any more. Even when they had a 5m scrum in the last minute it didn’t feel like they were going to score. As it was, the AB scrum shunted the English pack b

Somehow I didn’t review LOVM seasons 1 or 2 so I’m going to do all three seasons at once. The Legend of Vox Machina is an adaptation of campaign one of Critical Role, an Actual Play streamed D&D game with a bunch of self-proclaimed nerdy-assed voice actors that started as a birthday present for one of them, grew into a regular home game, then a steamed AP, then a creative and gaming giant in its own right. Next March will be their tenth anniversary as a streamed game. By the end of season three we’ve had 36 episodes and a bit under 18 hours of animation. We’re also, depending on how you look at it, either at episode 85 or 100 of the show. That’s over 350-400 hours of content compressed into <18 hours. There is an amount of content that’s relatively easy to put aside - shopping episodes and so forth can be rapidly discarded - but even allowing for that, there are a lot of things that are going to changed. I prefer to look at this as the history book version whereas the AP is t