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Been pondering options for a sci-fi campaign, now that our Starfinder game has been closed down. Admittedly, I was not a big fan of the Starfinder system (it felt a bit forced for the intent), but I am always a fan of science fiction. The general setting was solid enough, though perhaps a bit too similar to traditional fantasy Pathfinder (which I know is intentional). But it got me thinking of other alternatives that would work well, which ended up with me landing on Shadowrun. As a cyberpunk game, Shadowrun is one I have always liked – it has the…
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I haven’t posted in a while about our ongoing (and still active) Pathfinder campaigns, primarily due to our move and the discontinuing of the video archive. Both adventure paths are still active and alive, despite being entirely virtual these days – a state we are hoping to change once the new house is done. For our Sunday Age of Ashes campaign, the group has moved on to Chapter 3, and are fighting slavers in the service of the Scarlet Triad. The group has fought several running battles with the enemy forces which have besieged the town of Cypress Point. At…
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Continuing the Star Wars Legion theme, I have the first of several future Stormtroopers, assembled and painted by my son and newest adept. He has done some painting here and there over the last couple of years, but only recently has really had a lot of desire. With our current home transition, I opted to get him a starter set, some brushes, and turn him loose on the Empire. For a first attempt, these turned out pretty good, and certainly will work well for gaming. The paint options are fairly limited, but these are of course white with some black…
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Second of my recent painting spurt, this time Rebel Taun Tauns. Again, the painting color options were rather limited to just a starter set, so the details got a bit muddy. I was also going for less of a wintry design, with a basic concept that Taun Tauns might be transplanted to a non-Hoth world. The final colors worked well, I was happy with the beasts themselves, though the riders became a bit rough and one-tone. It isnt really noticeable unless you look closely, but apparently one of the Taun Taun’s arms came loose during the gluing, leaving the shoulders…
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Been doing some painting with my son, assembling and applying some paint to various Star Wars Legion figures. This is made easy given our temporary freedom between homes, though my gear options are limited. At the start, we picked up a basic painting starter set for George, so that he could dive in and start the painting hobby himself. Then I decided to contribute as well, and my own model sets. First up is a Dewback, equipped with two stormtrooper options. The final trooper body is loose, so that they can be assembled a bit at the start of a…
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Brief update on the house build – holes have been dug. The construction did apparently encounter some sort of soil concern, which required an additional review by the engineer and a bit deeper of a dig for the footing, but as of yesterday that has been cleared. As shown, the form of the basement is laid out, with the start of the foundation framing. In addition, the utility box which was incorrectly placed in the middle of our planned driveway has now been moved by the vendor, and is no longer a concern. Next step is the concrete pour for…
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a new tool I had added to my network in order to actively block and eliminate adds. Pi-Hole in my case is running on an Ubuntu VM located on our FreeNAS media server, though it will likely eventually live on my 3d printer Raspberry Pi. However, as frequently as the advertising space seems to evolve, I wanted a way to automatically update the block lists, and stay current with the standard settings. Enter Cron, the job scheduler on Linux. The cronjob itself is trivial, just run the “pi-hole -up” command once a…
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As planned, my upgrade of the FreeNAS media server was completed, successfully upgrading our 10 TB of storage to a new total of 48 TB. The data migration only ran about 12 hours, much shorter than I had feared, and overall the upgrade was fairly painless. In the process, I also upgraded to the latest version of FreeNAS (11.3-U4.1), and replaced the aging USB drive with small mirrored set of SSDs. To my surprise, this dramatically improved the boot up time of the system. Not that I am surprised about the speed of SSD drives, but I really had not…
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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