[unofficial weekender] Don not call me a quitter!

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First time visitor to OTT? Then please introduce yourself in the New Member Thread and look around in the Project System. Then come back and read on…

https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/introduce-yourselves-new-member-thread/

https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/

Read all of this before you start as it will save you any trouble later.

First thing you must do is make your “pledge”. It can be anything gaming related, big or small, and you don’t even have to finish it. No, in here, happiness is the road. Have fun doing whatever it is, but it is not a race. Accompany your work with pictures or we might think you are do something sinister and just using us for cover.

You are also presented with a few questions. It is to get the conversation started. Try and keep your answers ‘conversational’, no text speak, and certainly no “basically”. This is how we all get to know each other better. While you are here feel free to tell us a story, show a picture, joke, tales of love or woe, or just add your own little bit. This is the whole point…in here it is just us.

If you have never taken part before we may bark and bite, but we also like a cuddle! It is all done in the best possible taste and it is character building. feel free to give as good as you get.

A few other things to note: NO RELIGION & NO POLITICS! Glasgow pub rules are in effect. If you need to make a better point then it is fine, but don’t take the piss. And always keep it civil.

Play plenty of music to go with your work. Loud and through proper speakers. Write us a playlist of things we might not have heard before.

Now, after all of that there is only one ‘real’ rule in here and it cannot be broken: NO DICKS! (Exceptions may be made for little fighting men with little plastic/resin/metal wieners)

And don’t forget the highlights of the weekend: The Weekender on Friday and XLBS on Sunday. And the little show that is the unofficial Hobby Hangout over at twitch.tv

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Questions:

• Friday evening, you’re at home with time on your hands. What is your favourite drink?
• Have you ever considered/vowed certain things regarding our hobby? Like “no new army until this is done” or “won’t post negative things on stuff I don’t like” and “will. not. flip.. table.”?
• Why do I always to three questions?

And now back to the show.

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third try at 23:38 just after having posted successfully in another thread]

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Now if I can post this answer to my own question, than this will be a hattrick. Hold your breath!

Pledge: paint more minis!

my answers:

• usually just some cola or something. sometimes a coffee but tonight I have a large beer. And the way the forum made me angry that really was needed!
• I really (really, honestly) try not to post negative things. When it’s a game that I don’t play or don’t care for that usually works. But when it’s a game I like and play… oh boy…. SW:L Terrain or HeroQuest anybody? ARGH!
• Becauuuuse….. reasons? Flock do I know?!

Some relaxing music for the evening, if the post gets through:

(Start with that and then hear the rest of the OST)

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> Have you ever considered/vowed certain things regarding our hobby? Like “no new army until this is done” or “won’t post negative things on stuff I don’t like” and “will. not. flip.. table.”?

Yeah, but I paint anyway. 😛

> Why do I always to three questions?

What… is the capital of Assyria?

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Questions:

Friday evening, you’re at home with time on your hands. What is your favourite drink?

I think it’s a cup of tea. When I go to the pub or one of the jam nights, maybe coffee. But if I’m at home with time to kill, before The Hit List comes on the telly, the kettle is going on and I’m having a brew!

Have you ever considered/vowed certain things regarding our hobby? Like “no new army until this is done” or “won’t post negative things on stuff I don’t like” and “will. not. flip.. table.”?

Don’t we all constantly fight with the “no more x til y is done”?
Each time I print a few new minis, I promise myself “no more minis ’til you’ve painted these”. Then I got myself some Speed Paints (and a few more Contrast Paints) in order to trick myself into believing this would mean the minis got painted quicker (spoiler alert – it doesn’t).
But then I decided that speed-painting only works if you paint in batches, not on one or two models at a time (then it’s just like “traditional” painting, but with slow-drying water-y paints). So I told myself that the only way to see all my unpainted minis painted – using speed painting techniques – is to have lots of similar models and paint them, 8 or 10 at a time.

So I just printed the new human Blood Bowl team from UGNI miniatures

and I promised myself not to print any more minis until these were painted and based.
Naturally, I’ve already prepped and supported and sliced my next printer plateful of minis (some support staff and cheerleaders etc.) so I’m ready to hit the ground running. But I’ve not actually pressed the print button yet….

Why do I always to three questions?

For completeness? It just feels right. Like, if you left it at two, it’d be like when you put down your cup of tea with a single, remaining mouthful in it. As you hunt around the house, trying to remember where you put it down, it’s not because you’re thirsty, or even to put the cup with the rest of the washing up – it’s for completeness; it just doesn’t feel right – your mouth knows something remains unfinished, even as your rational brain tries to tell you it doesn’t matter.

Pledge?
Get these bad boys “blocked in” before next weekend.
Speed paints (ok, and Contrast) make this stage of mini painting fun. I love edge highlighting and painting tiny details (yes, always start with the eyes!) but I find blocking in so tedious. I’ve been “speed painting” all wrong so far – just doing one or two minis at a time, then getting frustrated at the drying time between colours. So I’m going to go for it – I’ve got half-a-team (eight players) prepped, the other half primed and ready to paint. If I’m ready to paint details on at least eight of them by next weekend, I’ll be pretty pleased.

What… is the capital of Assyria?
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And since we’re adding our own questions these days, here’s mine:
Whatever happened to @warzan ‘s card-based trick-taking-and-bidding game mechanics/rules? I don’t remember which game it was, but he invented some game mechanic a few weeks back and I’m frustrated I’m not already playing such a great-sounding game.

Last one – 30-minute challenge: was that only for October?

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Nearly forgot music.
Here’s a video that my 10-year-old nephew loves. We played it a lot when he was visiting over Xmas. He was still playing it when I went to visit family in Sicily last week. The song got stuck in my ear, but something tells me he was more interested in the Weird-Science visuals than the actual tune.

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@ced1106  not answering that until you told us about your drink! 😉

@blinky465  so…. any more printing done? XD (that’s one of the many reasons why I stay away from 3D printing…)

Re: Warrens card mechanic – I doubt he remembers XD

I like your Idea of “three is right”. Makes sense.

Young kids will not get that that video is a 1:1 copy of a movie… I really need to rewatch Weird Science.

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Note: This is my second attempt at a post here as my first one was eaten by the site.

Happy (late) Saturday.

My pledge is to finished my mdf dungeon tiles I got from TTCombat for use with Five Leagues From The Borderlands. Then I’ve got a Mantic torture chamber terrain crate to prep and paint.

 

Friday evening, you’re at home with time on your hands. What is your favourite drink?

Tea, most I drink tea.

Have you ever considered/vowed certain things regarding our hobby? Like “no new army until this is done” or “won’t post negative things on stuff I don’t like” and “will. not. flip.. table.”?

Last year for the first three months I didn’t buy any new miniatures in an attempt to catch up with my backlog. Today I’ve got more miniatures than ever to paint.

Why do I always to three questions?

If we knew that then we’d know how your mind works, scary.

 

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I currently have – what’s the metric equivalent of – a crap-ton? of (freshly printed) minis to paint.
I’m trying to work on churning them out rather than spending a day or longer per mini. I painted up some elf football players before holidays and didn’t like them. So threw them away. It was pretty liberating. So I printed some more (and posted their progress in the 30 minute challenge forum post).
This is why I love 3d printing!

Re-watching old 80s movies – especially those you remember fondly – isn’t a great idea. Firstly, you’ll see that they’re awful; the dialogue is stilted, the action set pieces just don’t make sense, and some of the set-pieces are just down-right creepy. Ferris Bueller may have been the coolest school-kid in the 80s, but today he’s just a spoilt rich-kid jerk with a massive sense of ego and entitlement. Likewise John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Bill Murray in Groundhog Day? All great films (at the time) but they really don’t survive a modern re-watching.
And let’s not even “go there” with everything that’s wrong with massive-at-the-time films like Dirty Dancing.

If you have fond memories of movies you last watched nearly forty years ago, the best thing to do is just recall the best bits you loved. You really do not need to rewatch Weird Science!

 

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I disagree. I have rewatched Breakfast Club, Labyrinth and The Last Starfighter and I still love them. Things I have a hard time rewatching are things that went “let’s 3D all the movies” where at any point in the movie stuff is moving just to keep the 3D effect working for the shutter glasses.

But I guess it’s a “case to case” thing. I know I have watched a movie “recently” which I really liked but the rewatch wasn’t that great. I can’t  recall which one it was.

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Same, I disagree with Blinky. I love many older films and give them a wider acceptance with effects. I love the Hammer horror The Devil Rides Out and although the effects are very dodgy the writing is great.
Planes Trains and Automobiles is one of my favourite movies, along with See No Evil Hear No Evil, and I love to watch them time and again.

Labyrinth and Dark Crystal are both amazing films and need to be watched in a regular basis.

 

Also I have a completed set of dungeon tiles now and I’m really happy with it. I’m looking forward to using it in games.

I’ll add more photos later to my Five Leagues From The Borderlands project (to avoid triggering the anti spam settings on the forums) but my Frostgrave scatter terrain works very nicely with this.

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Are those tiles DIY or something commercial?

[demonsub 12746xp 0]

Are those tiles DIY or something commercial?

(The system wouldn’t let me post just the reply below, saying  – *** Forbidden. Message seems to be spam. *** so I’m having to bulk this post out. …And we are wondering why people are leaving the forums, rant, rant).

They are from TTCombat – Dungeon Set A – https://ttcombat.com/collections/fantasy-realms/products/modular-dungeon-tiles

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yeah, recently the forum is making it really hard to use it as a forum. I’ve had it more then once that it locked me out “using form to often”

 

Thanks for the link though 🙂

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sundancer wrote:
yeah, recently the forum is making it really hard to use it as a forum. I’ve had it more then once that it locked me out “using form to often”

Thanks for the link though 🙂

I got this reply via email – but it doesn’t appear in the forum thread.
It looks like something is fundamentally broken with the forum(s) @warzan @tgu3 – and it feels like we’re trapped in a vicious circle now; forum activity has dropped off a cliff and I get that lots of people have moved over to Discord, but if the forum isn’t working, people will just abandon it, so there’s no incentive to fix things for the handful of people still hanging on in here. Do we just accept that we’re done here and things will never get better/fixed?
(I really hope not – these forums are the only way I consistently keep in touch with my fellow tabletop nerds).

@demonsub – that’s a lovely looking dungeon crawler you’ve got going on there!

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…and now, 29 minutes after receiving the email, @sundancer ‘s reply appears in the forum, above my post saying “your reply isn’t here” (though it wasn’t there when my initial reply was posted). Things look pretty broken on the forum!

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