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Continued to work on the website and mastodon server but managed some breakthroughs late last week. My challenge was self-hosting both sites, but from a single internal internet connection. This is much more challenging than it would appear, since there are two such services and only a single connection. The solution, after a bit of research was to configure a reverse proxy, which itself was relatively easy to do. However, these days sites need SSL certificates, and all the tutorials and documentation references either how to secure a specific site, or the proxy server, but not how to blend them…
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While reviewing the recent Patreon adjustments, I realized that we probably have been overly restrictive on our Discord server. This is intended as an open forum for gaming related discussions, and visibility at the schedules and behind the scenes activities. There have always been a few links available for open invitations, but none really openly published. Going to make a change with that, and push the public invites a bit more. This doesn’t give a lot of rights, except to join the server, view messages, and participate in some of the conversations. You will automatically come in as a Guest…
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Related to the ongoing website changes, I have made a few fundamental changes to the website itself. Over the last many years, while this site has operated, I have only had myself as a registered member, which is fine, there really isn’t much benefit to anyone to actually register. However, I have had several hundred spam accounts created (and likely many thousands blocked from creation). As a result, to avoid that overhead, I have purged all the excess accounts and disabled registration. That should prevent the spam and keep the site running cleaner. The obvious question is how does someone…
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Making a change on my postings to Patreon, to take advantage of some new features. Specifically, I am going to start posting our video previews as Video links rather than Text articles. In the past, I would create the post, then provide a link to the unlisted YouTube video, with a screenshot from the video. It worked but was really a poor match. Halfling13 Patreon Support Patreon added in 2023 the ability to upload videos instead, so there is an option to do a Video posting instead. Originally, I planned to upload separately to Patreon, but it also provides the…
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Over the last couple of years, our YouTube presence has steadily grown, and our various social media platforms have received some traction. As always, growth is good, and I am very much appreciative of all of our audience. However, over the last month or two, the slope has decreased, and we seem to have stalled out. Not sure what the reasons are, could be a lack of interest in Star Wars Legion, a problem with our content, or just over saturation of the content. Regardless, we are close to the magical numbers needed to start to self-sustain, and I am…
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Another round of cosmetic changes to the site, I was still not satified with the prior layout. This is now using the standard “2024” template that comes with WordPress, and my ability to learn/adapt to the new Block-styling format is improving. If you notice anything that looks strange, let me know, it might be stable now for the time being. In the meantime, I am turning my attention to our ongoing gaming activities. Star Wars Legion continues strong, we wrapped up the Battle for the Golden Vader tournament and now we are returning to more standard battles. New format being…
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Last Friday, the new Geonosian expansions for Star Wars Legion were released, and as a challenge, the family inspired me to acquire and paint the figures before the end of the weekend. Challenge accepted, the painting wasn’t really that difficult, though I admittedly cut several corners. The harder part was assembly, the models are multiple parts, and are about as difficult and detailed as the B1 Battle Droid kits. Overall, I am satisfied with the results – they won’t win any competitions, but they are very much table-ready which is all that our group really cares about. Specific paints and…
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A lot of new content publishing to YouTube tomorrow, with the first part of our Legion tournament finale (Empire vs Rebels). This ended up being a 3v3 1800 point mega-battle, so we are breaking it into multiple sessions due to the length. Rounds 1 and 2 will be available tomorrow. New sessions of both Warhammer and Pathfinder will be available as well, as we resume both campaigns. In Pathfinder, the group is rapidly approaching the conclusion of the Carrion Crown campaign, if they can survive the last few challenges. In Warhammer, the group plots within Middenheim are reaching their climax,…
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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