[unofficial weekender] GUARDS! GUARDS!

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@limburger – do you still feel like you’re only visiting your new place? When we first bought this house, I would be up ’til 2am washing up and putting things away and keeping it looking new and spangly just because it felt like I was visiting someone else’s house and didn’t want them to come down in the morning and be disappointed I’d left the place a mess!
(sadly this doesn’t last).

Would love to see your 1:1 terrain project updates!

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Tuesday!

Just been made aware of the 2024 new release of “The Crow”. Wish I didn’t.

In other media news: I do enjoy the Shogun series. It’s different from the old series but also the same. The visuals are great. Might start reading the books.

Also new Star Wars Legions minis being announced! Yeah!

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Hollywood should be called Hollyremake. Seems that’s all they do right now… and often they do it badly.

Seems to be a trend to remake films with dead stars in them.

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I remember watching The Crow when it first came out and thinking it was a brilliant film.
I watched it again about 30 years later and it’s ok. Younger me was obviously more easily impressed with loud bangs and strobe lights (I did go to the cinema to watch it). This trailer just looks a bit…. meh.

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I think maybe it’s because the 90s version was very much of its time. A time when it was ok to be a bit goth, to not-be-too-alpha; think of the pop culture at the time (at least here in the UK) and we had lots of “hippy bands” and groups like Blur and Pulp (and, to some degree, Neds Atomic Dustbin – yay!)

It was ok to be a bit of a wimp. Everyone was comfortable in themselves. 90s Eric is violent and exciting – but he’s also not overly macho. This trailer just looks like a snore-fest; a Vin Diesel-wannabe (I know, that’s how relevant my cultural references are) snarling and shouting and being macho-angry instead of emotionally-turbulently frustrated. I dunno. Maybe I’ve moved on and just don’t get it any more. But 2024 Crow looks like a film for angry young men wanting to look macho, about an angry young man, going about trying to look macho. 90s Crow oozed emotion.

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Been a long time since I saw the crow and I don’t remember much of it, so I watched the trailer for both.

Won’t be watching the remake. I try to avoid remakes, especially for films that I like. Seems insulting to think that a nobody actor can do a better job than an old star.

Didn’t Brandon Lee die from a gun mishap on the set of movie?

History repeats itself decades later on the film Rust.

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He died in the film Rust as well?!

(yes, apparently the Crow had to be completed using early CGI to finish some of the scenes)

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Didn’t Brandon Lee die from a gun mishap on the set of movie?

Jupp.

I think maybe it’s because the 90s version was very much of its time.

Guess you’re not wrong there. It just hit a nerve back then. Same as the Batman with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. Still it feels like they try to “market something old to a new audience” and maybe don’t do that? There is so much pop culture going on let current gen have their own icons.

Today is Wednesday! 10th wedding anniversary. We’re going out for dinner and I’m off work. Huzzah! (So is my wife and our daughter is off school because Easter holidays)

I just watched a video by Goobertown Hobbies and it’s about “getting good” at games and how certain games are not for casual players. I really feel many of his arguments.

See you lot tomorrow!

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I found some of Goobertown comments rather dumb to be honest.

First he complained about getting killed because he refused to use the cover and put his troops in the open. However this is a combat game if you dont make use of defense cover you will die easy. That is true of most games, flames of war, bolt action, infinity cover is very important. You have to be aware of the ranges and ability of the enemy units and take that into account when playing the game.

No game I can think of is going to support you dumb choice to put you units in the middle of battlefield without any thought about using covering and terrain.

He talks about the its being difficult for the casual player to pick up the rules because GW change it every 4 years. If you are playing the game once every 4 years that is not even casual. No way would I recall how to play any ruleset if my time between games was measured in the years. Heck if I go a few months between games I have refresh how to play the game again let alone years between. Again that is not 40K issue that is true for any game you play. You need to play typically monthly to keep your knowledge fresh about the game.

He also complained 9th edition could not be used because 10th had come out and he had to learn a new rule set. This is not true nothing is stopping him using the 9th edition to carry on playing. We have people still playing 3rd edition because they choose to. Additionally the basic rules from 9th to 10th are not that different the core elements of the turns, units, etc. You dont have to learn a whole new rules set.

The odd aspect he said that their was zero intraction with the board, dice and the person he was playing. This is the one aspect i found very odd because all the games I have played the intraction is constant. We are always talking through what we are doing, we are checking rules and confirming if units are in range, and talking about the bad dice rolls, checking with other players if our understanding of the rules are correct. We are talking about general stuff about the hobby and what we are doing.

I watched the video and I think the title should have been Goobertown does not like playing tabletop games. He says in the video in only plays 2-3 times a year any game. That to me is not casual at the point you not playing games at all.

 

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I can play most RPG’s I have GM’d over the last 30 years from memory. Not all the spells obviously, but the core rules. Then again, mosty RPG’s core rules are less than 30 pages. The rest is fluff, spells and setting.

But most RPG’s you can just make a judgement call and fix it next week if necessary instead of reading the rules at the table.

Skirmish and board games are a different matter. Need to refresh myself if I haven’t played for a month, especially if I played other games in between. Skirmish and board games can’t be fixed next session as the battle is over.

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What I took away from the video was mostly what I already had decided for myself: if you have to buy extra books and rules for every new release in a game just to know all the rules and be aware of certain “traps” or synergies then it’s not for me as a casual player. Example: Blood Bowl has so many “extra rules” that are only in White Dwarf or the supplements that you’re shit out of luck playing someone who has enough time and money to buy all of it and read it. Battletech on the other hand you buy one big tome of all the rules and that’s it. All rules are in there. And everything works the same.

I get his frustration that wanting to play but lacking the time to get a grasp of the rules before the new shiny version is pushed.

G’Wullu games more and more feel like “buy to win”. And that’s just meh.

Other than that: if there are rules for cover and you choose to ignore those for the sake of cinematic gaming and you don’t mind loosing (which he doesn’t) than that’s a choice I can support. It’s a Waaagh after all.

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Thursday, G’Wullu is showing of the “new” shiny.

Tonight no Battletech so I might have time to go and visit @warbossd stream. And have a beer.

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Didn’t have a beer. Painted some old man Boba Fett.

And just like that it’s Friday. Even better: I’m off work until Eastern after today’s shift! Huzzah!

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@blinky465 it’s not a “just visiting”-feel … it’s been more like “I can’t believe I own this house and it’s mine”.
Spending time there has been helping a lot. Now I feel like I only have to return to my ‘old’ place because that’s where my computer and internet lives at the moment.

I replaced a couple of light switches today with a bit of mild cursing, but also an odd sense of accomplishment once the things were back in place. Curses were mostly aimed at whoever just assumed folk knew how to disassemble the switch without a manual. Oh … and the *beep* who decided that both wires for a switch had to be brown, when the only the ‘live’ one should be that colour and the wire to the light fixture should be black. I suspect there’s another switch I need to rewire to fix a similar abuse of colour coded wires. OTOH … the entire house is older than me and I think the previous owners have done a few things themselves (or without the help of a licensed sparky).

In other news : a bucket with 10 liter wall paint requires 2 or 3 people to lift. That is … if said people are me.
I think I shall haul smaller buckets, even though the big one may be less expensive per liter.

I hope to have proper internet in a little over a week.

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[unofficial weekender] Second Wind – breathing new life into old IPs

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