[unofficial weekender] 1 week until Christmas 2020

[blinky465 17027xp 1]

@sundancer – I think it’s the immediacy of Discord that puts me off; I like visiting a forum in my own time, reading through to catch up, leaving a post then getting on with the rest of my life. When I get some downtime, I’ll check in and see what other people have to say.

Discord (and similar almost-real-time-chat) seems like such a time drain to me – everything is *so* immediate; you have to give it your full attention all the time – leave a post or a question and it’s drowned out within minutes and everyone has moved on to something else.

@limburger – I think the word blog came from contracting “web logs” (though I may have just made that up).

 

[sundancer 42900xp 0]

Very much possible… like IRC back in the day it’s only really fun if you can spend time dedicated to it. “Reading up” is barely possible…

[mageParticipant 20596xp 0]

@blinky465 I googled it ages back; you are indeed correct about web logs.

[limburger 21668xp 0]

@mage it’s good to see you are still alive and kicking 😀

@blinky465 discord is nice to say ‘hello’ and talk about all sorts of nonsense I don’t mind forgetting about. I usually check in to say ‘hi’ in the morning and in the evening. I don’t even attempt to read or understand what was written in the channel before my arrival. I suppose that is the trick with these chat-like things. Heck, I doubt you try to follow all conversations in a pub, right ?
That is … I assume you don’t do that, but I’ve never been to one so not sure if that is how it is.

Anyways … ’tis the season for kickstarters to arrive it seems, because I also got notified that my Early war Germans & Dutch from May’40 got shipped. With local posties getting flooded with packages (both the standard Christmas stuff and the additional load thanks to The Event) I don’t know when it will arrive.

Mel’s Terrain book is also on its way as is the artbook from the artist who also did the art that inspired ‘Tales from the Loop’.
I’ve also got a few additional add-ons for my Soviets incoming from the OTT Store. 😀
I may have missed some, but that’s because most tracking mails don’t reveal the actual origin or the package contents … I guess  I will know what’s what when it arrives.

[crazyredcoatParticipant 13642xp 1]

Loving those Highland Colonels, @scribbs !

I actually have to have Discord on mute for pretty much everything; getting bombarded with notifications kind of infuriates me, and I am technically one of these ‘youths’… I never understood the desire to know everything immediately, but paradoxically seem to know nothing because of it. I mean what happened to reading a paper for the news? Or getting it at 9 o’clock every evening on the TV? I’m almost 30…and I’m already ‘out of touch’…

 

[mageParticipant 20596xp 0]

@limburger thanks dude, appreciate. Kicking mainly

[danlee 22433xp 0]

My pledge is to paint up one of my one-off models, probably a cyber-fairy.

 

1. Are your devices up to date? (Software patches and updates) – Most are. I don’t let my motherboard update after the last time it broke my PC.
2. Do you have a working backup? – I don’t have anything I’d be that concerned about loosing. My last backup was about 2010. They were all on to DVD’s. My latest PC doesn’t even have an option to install a DVD drive.
3. When did you last check your backups? – 2011?

[limburger 21668xp 0]

I think I got my groove (back), ’cause I did another assembly and update on my project.
And because I noticed that updating my own project helped me do this more consistently I’ve made it public too :

Za Rodinu! Za Stalina! Ura!!

Yay for me … at this pace I can get the contents of the box assembled before the Christmas.

I do need to get myself a better header image for my project though, but it is a start. The project system is soo slow when it needs to save stuff it makes fixing minor issues a bit of a bore. Looking forward to more assembly tonight 😀

Now I just have to find a way to prime and paint the stuff that I have assembled.

 

[sundancer 42900xp 1]

I just did a little thing… but you lot have to wait until the 24th to see it 😉

[danlee 22433xp 1]

Blue Belle is painted. I’ll transfer her to a clear base once her sister Yellow Belle is done. Project entry here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1467945/#snav

[limburger 21668xp 0]

@sundancer it is the 24 … where is it ?
Ve demand ze answers ! 😉

I got almost all of the plastic done. Only 4 guns and a bit of infantry left.
Once that’s done I’ll update the project as well.

[sundancer 42900xp 2]

Here it is 😉

[danlee 22433xp 0]

I got another cyber fairy finished. This completes the set of three. https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1467945/#snav

 

[sundancer 42900xp 1]

Nice work @danlee

I’m still doing pretty much nothing but playing the Outer Worlds video game…. it’s relaxing. Minis and models are postponed until 2021… I think.

I survived the last grocery shopping of 2020 yesterday and now am awaiting the big bang at the end of the world year.

Hope you all are fine. Remain indoors. Stay safe.

[danlee 22433xp 0]

@sundancer Thanks. I didn’t have the time to get stuck into Outer Worlds but I watched a youtube playthrough while painting and thought the game looked very good. The interactions with the ship crew, and the computer personality in particular, were well done.

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