[unofficial Weekender] Lights out

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Wait? Monday? Where did my weekend go? Where am I? Why am I?

At least there is coffee.

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Monday? I just put my recycling out. I guess we can do the same with this thread?
Spent a few days  away visiting family so I’m really looking forward to getting a few nights in with my paintbrush to bring some Head over Heels minis to life!

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Paintbrush… I hardly knew you.

Seriously, I really feel it’s been months since I’ve painted anything.

And of course I will recycle this thread. I’m not coming up with a new question after just one page! Lazy people here in the forums 😉

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I often confuse lazy and busy, myself.
Painting? Sorry, nope. I’m too busy to have the time to do that…. 😉

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I feel called out!

Block! Report! Ban! XD

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Lazy people in the forums could lead to lazy question master and that leads to lazy people in forums…

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Pssssssttttt. That’s the sound of “quite the burn” right there!
I don’t think it’s as much to do with a “lazy question master” as the forums in general have just gone a bit quiet; @sundancer has done a fantastic job in keeping the interest going here and it’s us “busy folk” who have let it turn into a “response to the question of the week” thread (which I’m pretty sure isn’t what the Great Questioning One intended when he first starting asking us how we were all doing!)

That said, maybe we *do* need to make more of an effort to drop in from time to time, with some chit-chat and not just at the end of the week, in order to see what this week’s question is and where the link to the new thread takes us!

In that respect, I found some new gaming buddies this week.
Well – it was one of the guys I jam with at the weekly music nights; he asked online if anyone had a 3d printer and was a bit shy about revealing his “nerdy side” (his words). Needless to say, he’s not so shy now.
So I’m printing a load of DnD miniatures at 15mm – see @avernos some people *do* play RPGs with minis on the tabletop and it’s perfectly within the rules to do so 😉
So I’m less of a “gaming buddy” and more of a “hobby anxiety enabler”.
But once I’ve delivered this batch and he’s painted them all up, I’m sure we’ll become gaming buddi…….

…. we’re never going to be gaming buddies, are we?

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RPGs with miniatures! What is this the seventies, it’ll never catch on.

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Aaaahahahaha! Just you wait. They said that about covid at the start.

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Covid was popular for a while, but now it’s just another bad cold, or ‘flu symptoms’.

Fashions change. Wait long enough and that really old shirt becomes trendy.

Some people even look at a former prime minister with wild hair as ‘not being that bad’ compared to ‘that woman’ and the ‘skinny dwarf’ in power since.

Shit… sorry… broke the politics rule… forget I ever said anything 🙂

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If only my miniatures would look half as good as that third hobbit picture 😉

Isn’t it two weeks now since this thread started ?

Let’s kick it up a notch.

I remember seeing a youtube video about mixing ecoline inkts to achieve 96 colours with only the primary set.
Really wish I could find it again, but Google doesn’t like me.

Found it …

Oh … and we needs more music.
Y U lot no posting Tunes ?

’cause Hell’s coming with me if ya don’t

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You want music…

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@blinky465 and with “playing RPG with minis” you mean “they have a little painted mini sitting besides the character sheet and the table is filled with rule books, dice and snacks”? Also thank you.

Shit… sorry… broke the politics rule… forget I ever said anything

@pagan8th  just add the appropriate miniature XD (can’t remember the name of those sadly)

blue and yellow is green? *shock* XD Mixing colours to such a degree is beyond me. I haz a bottle of $colour and that is enough

It is Tuesday my friends and I actually did slap on some paint and wash on some minis. Deliberately avoiding the term “painting” because it bare resembles painting.  Putting black, red and silver on Darth Maul and washes on IG-88, IG-11, Baby Yoda 1 + 2 and The Mando

*insert It’s Something meme*

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@sundancer – good to hear you’re finally sloshing some paint around. Next, you might even start to enjoy it!

Today’s request is for you nerds to help resolve an argument.
Well, truth be told, it won’t resolve anything, because my wife won’t take your word on anything, but for my own satisfaction (because I value your opinions far more highly than she does, I guess)…. the perfect Wordle score, it’s four, right?

She insists it’s three.
I maintain that three still leaves too much room for it to be a lucky guess.

Like, if you get it in one, it’s clearly a lucky guess.
Same goes for two – you might have eliminated a couple of options with the first guess but there’s no way you can go from “no idea what this could be” to “it can only be this word, and no other” (and if you did, it would surely be because of a lucky guess on the first go).

Now we get to the contentious bit – I regularly complete in three. But each time I do, I have to admit to myself that the answer *could* have been one of a number of options. Therefore, to complete is three is still a lucky guess. My wife insists otherwise (she completes on three very, very often).

Four is the perfect score, simply because it allows you an extra guess to eliminate the possibilities and know that the final word you enter is that one word and can be no other. It’s a bit like guessing at, or someone telling you, which number to put into a Suduko grid: the fun isn’t in having a grid of completed numbers – it’s in the process of knowing that each number can be only that number and no other. Same for Wordle. Completion in four is perfect.

Five is still an acceptable score. For me, there’s more satisfaction in completing in five than there is in three.
My wife vehemently disagrees.
What do you lot think?

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