Nerds

The other night my friend Ryan and I got together to watch the Pistons vs the Cavaliers. The game was a blowout and we were looking for something else to do halfway through the third quarter. Ryan is a big fan of Star Wars and has been collecting the new line of attactkix battle figures. He invited me downstairs to see his collection and it is quite impressive. The new figures are much better than the old one's that we grew up with. What is especially cool, is that they are designed to be used in a game and each piece has a certain number of moves they can make or powers and weapons they can use. So we get out our favorite characters and decide to play against each other. Ryan's wife is happy that I am there so he has someone to play with.

I choose Jabba the Hutt and Boba Fett and I go against Anikan Skywalker and the rebel soldiers. It was a well fought battle but in the end Jabba prevailed. Then we tried out other characters including the tuscan raiders, the jedi nights, Darth Vader and his storm troopers and the droid army. All in all it was a fun night considering that I won a few times. Usually I lose when we play xbox.

Afterwards I got to thinking of how funny it is that two thirty-something men who used to play star wars when we were kids still enjoy playing star wars as adults. I guess once a nerd, always a nerd.