VLOG: Explosions At Beasts Of War
March 1, 2017 by lancorz
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nice to hear about your health and safety in action lol if in doubt look at each other and wait for more booms, WTF glances and shaking. cant see it going mainstream but it sure is funny, glad it was something only minor 🙂
Wow, that really was a mighty clash of gods yesterday…
If BOW towers had vanished in a ball of fire we’d all be the poorer. There’s a former nuclear bunker for sale in Ballymena that might make a more secure and blast proof home for BOW if your interested?
Also @warzzan the kids have grown so much it’s scary, I did a double take seeing Max!
Glad to see everything’s alright guys. Maybe it was North Korea since you guys did do that whole Nuclear Weekender a while ago and he might be binge watching to cath up.
Happy Birthday to Max! It’s my Birthday Saturday as well so he’s in good company.
The Terrain for the Bootcamp is coming along very well and the tables will look stunning 🙂 And on to the more serious topic in this vlog: It’s just my opinion, but if you need some time without content to keep everything running, or improve things … heck or even to recharge your batteries that is something that shouldn’t be a problem. You guys are doing a phenomenal job with BoW and you’re putting out so much stuff … i feel a bit sad that you feel pressured if you have to stop for a day or two. But that’s… Read more »
I completely agree with @querion . The work you lot put in, you should never feel pressured about having any sort of break in content flow and just do it, there’s loads on site to go back and look through ( i’ve done it myself for SAGA research ). Nice work on the terrain, the Bootcampers will absolutely love it.
Now just to get @dignity to clean his escape trail up and jobs a good ‘un.
That is just for the safety of others that may be in the back of the group. It’s a bespoke health and safety feature like exit signs.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain calm and follow the brown line to safety.”
😀 lol.
You guys feel pressured for bringing out content. I feel pressured to try and follow it all up. So don’t mind take a brake if you want. You have plenty of content already that can be watched and then I can catch up.
You’re doing an extraordinary job with the people you have there, lots of kudos.
Back up all content in the can on a cloud site as well as portable storage which staff take home is one possible solution. I use to work for a company a few years back in which I and another use to take home a portable storage devices which contained all our graphic, photography and video projects on.
Yep those are the solutions, Time and Cost will have to be addressed now to make it happen
A lot of organisations are having to deal with this problem of ‘business continuity planning’ and I’m having to look into it with my own organisation as part of our ISO 17025 accreditation. Thankfully my industry / business is larger than 6 keen chaps with a few more on the side with multiple sites etc but still. I recommend a lot of thought is put into it before your spend money. Thankfully you do have Studio One to shoot stuff in the interim and so that can feature heavily but then all the other background stuff need to be accounted… Read more »
As with the chap above I used to work in a computing environment Where everything was backed up and a copy was put on site in a fire proof safe another copy would be placed off site and another site setup for use to continue if our main site burned down. I realize this is a little over the top for you at Beasts of War but it was always said how much would it cost if everything was lost. A cloud does sound like a good solution though.
those work … until the cloud itself goes down.
Or didn’t any of you run into sites that were hit by the Amazon S3 failure yesterday ?
There is no 100% safety, but a good backup strategy will get you very close to that.
(source : http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/28/amazon-cloud-storage-failure-causes-widespread-disruption/ )
Time for a Business Continuity Plan. Digital Files should be backed up to cloud storage. Hopefully your web servers are not in your office. Camera equipment and other expensive items like computers should have insurance for recovery. A phone contact plan such that you can contact everyone to check on their health and safety. Investigate a temporary location for the office — do not rent — be prepared to rent at a temporary location. The issue with any potential disaster is to be prepared and to eliminate a lot thinking and simply be ready to execute. Glad all is well… Read more »
Could have done a weekend’s drinking and board gaming instead of Boot camping…
Yup much Drinking 🙂
Board games would have mostly went up with the blast though lol
It is always something right before the boot camp, isn’t it? For Team Yankee we damned near had WW3 break out “on 1-1 scale” when Turkey shot down that Russian fighter like 2 days before the event. Kind of a problem for those of us flying in international and NATO being fired up with Article IV of their charter. 🙁
Now the BoW building almost blows up.
Why does this only happen before historical-themed book camps? The gods never seem to interfere with sci-fi ones.
It adds to the tension, for realism’s sake.
I am glad to hear it was a minor thing and all is well.
Yes, now its time for backup planning.
Holy crap, glad everyone’s okay. Back in the day before we pushed all our backups online we used to have a pair of massive USB drives, one would be backing up and the other would be sitting in storage at a bank; we’d swap them each week. Size could be an issue for you guys but maybe a good middle ground would be storing finished but not posted content, everything else is online anyhow I’d assume. On the other topic, holy cow that terrain is looking fantastic. If I had the space I’d be loading up on that foam right… Read more »
Well as long as everyone is ok… Life has lots of challenges!
Boot camps and explosions are not on my list of challenges though.
Looks like we need to do some cloning of these guys…..Just in case….!!!
For all the bootcampers: I have done 4 turds in one day in that building, if it survived that, a wee oil heater going up won’t be a problem.
As for content safety and production might it be an idea to put a second location (studio one is still in your shed right @warzan ?) on older(cheaper) equipment or audio only for a few days a month for “bonus” content, offsite storage and a stopgap in case of a total embugerance?
was it not John and Justins still in the basement blowing up?
so @Lloyd was the expression on everyone face the same as when we heard the drums on the 12th last july during the Sunday gaming club?
Love the rocks Lloyd.
Glad to hear that everyone is fine. Maybe one of the boards should get an honourary streak of brown weathering spray. Also they are looking nicer and nicer with all the scatter terrain, can’t wait to see the finished job with all the buildings and armies on them as well. As for the security side, I think from memory the ideal data redundancy method is the rule of three, being one hard copy onsite, on hard copy offsite, and a digital copy in a cloud or somewhere. That can get very expensive but you could try seeing how much a… Read more »
“Or just strap hard disks to Justin”
Lol
I’ll second the portable Justin storage facility 🙂 Maybe if you rig him up right, he’ll produce enough energy running around, you won’t even have to go offline. Just make sure to stick some kind of wifi antenna on his head. But thank goodness nothing happened to you guys or BoW. Some shock it must have been. I can’t really add to anything people have said, other than support the rule of three. However, storing anything in the cloud should take some consideration into what’s getting stored there. I don’t think you guys have any sensitive data, but in case… Read more »
Explosions in norn iron, that’s a phrase that’s never been used before eh?
Explosions? That was Thors hammer I tell you he’s still not happy with Justin
“Don’t Panic!” – Best advice ever given. We should make a book about it and print it on the cover. Inside could be the BCM-Plan on how BoW would continue after WW3.
No seriously, glad that everything is alright and you guys are ok. Looking forward to see the spunge rocks in action.
As the Continuity of Business line has been well trod, I’ll just stick to saying that I’m glad everyone is safe and that you should feel comfortable in taking the time off that you need.
After all, I think that burn-out would be even more dangerous to BoW than boiler explosions.
NO Lloyd we need more biscuit!
As a Steam Engineer I often forget that you guys in England still use hot oil heating system, lol!
Those can be very dangerous, of course from the video it sounds like they might have been just hot water boilers? Got to keep those flues and chimney’s clear. If it was a hot water boiler, those ‘modern’ ones tend to have the insulation fall into or rather, onto the burners. After some flame impingement has occurred over time on the insulation.
Get to da chopper! BoW has a rooftop helipad, right?
I’m not sure if a rooftop exit would work considering the force of an exploding boiler.
Just watch this :
https://youtu.be/9bU-I2ZiML0
Of course the Mythbusters had to rig it to explode … so it looks like that whatever safety features were present did work.
Not that it wasn’t any less scary.
For that reason always make sure the relief valve on you hot water heater is clear and not capped. Half the darn things are just piped to the ground or carpet! Better than plugged, but a bit messy. My mother’s hot water heater still had the factory plug in the safety valve… the tank got a little bulgy once.