Author: Halfling13
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Star Wars Armada
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We attempted a Star Wars: Armada game as part of our bi-weekly TableTop group (Huber Tabletop), which met with mixed success. Since there was a lot of interest, I had decided to up the typical fleet size from 400 pts to 800 pts, so that we could easily handle multiple players per side. What I…
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Fun with Plugins
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Spent some more time tinkering with plugins on my OctoPrint environment for the 3d Printer, and ended up loading a new plugin or two. In particular, I added one called OctoLapse, which provides a much more consistent and stable timelapse for the printing. Basically it enforces a standard location for each snapshot, and allows a…
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Zombicide: Black Plague token holder
As I tinker with 3d printing, I have been coming up with a few miscellaneous designs. One of my more useful ones is a token holder for Zombicide: Black Plague, which I created a few days ago. Zombicide, like many games these days, has a lot of miscellaneous cardboard tokens. They are challenging to organize…
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Farewell, Gwenivere
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Yesterday the time came for my long lasting best friend and pet Gwenivere to pass away. She was my first “on my own” dog, and a steady companion since she was just a puppy some 17 years ago. For a Labrador, she had a very long and filled life, she never gained weight that is…
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Painting Aid
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Spent some time working with the 3d Printer, and building some tools for hopefully helping with the miniature painting. In this case, it is a handle system, which should make it easier to hold unpainted figures, maneuver them around for better angles, and still be easy to swap out for bulk painting of several figures. …
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Rise of the Runelords
Unfortunately, we had a faulty start to Chapter 5, and had to cancel the scheduled game this weekend. Our player group, although very large at 10 players, was missing half of the group do to scheduling challenges. Admittedly this would have brought the group down to a “reasonable” size – a 5 player group is…
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Updated Email functionality
As part of my recent work on the website, I have also overhauled the email functionality of the site. WordPress is deployed with a default php based email, which is functional, but (from my digging) unreliable. In my case, I suspect it has failed entirely, since I rarely receive emails from the website any longer. …
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SEO optimization
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I have been attempting to work my way thru the confusing world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Basically, when you have a website, Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines use scripts, programs, and robots to scan the site and catalog the content. Based on their results, your site may or may not show up…