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Well before this Covid-19 pandemic, this weekend was scheduled to be a bit of a break from work. The wife and older son were going to be in Florida at Disney, and my younger son had our own plans. I had planned for next week to be a vacation from work, to get several projects around the house completed and just have some downtime. Then the pandemic struck, and all plans went out the window. Now, everyone is sticking around (which is good too), but I still have my original plans. Starting Friday, I no longer will be paying attention…
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Working hard to complete the last session’s video editing, now that (hopefully) work is starting to quiet down. Stayed up late last night to complete the first pass, working on the second pass today for graphics and audio, then rending tonight. Some quick art work for the thumbnails, and should be able to start publishing on schedule this week. Notably, the session is turned out rather short this time. In our 5 session, I trimmed it down to only about 1 hour of content. normally we are closer to 2 hours or more. I attribute that mainly to explanations, tutorials,…
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Times have been rather crazy the last few weeks, between a world-wide pandemic, kids at home 24/7, and a new contract negotiation at work. Fortunately, I have still managed to squeeze some gaming in, but my website content has been suffering. More of an impact is my video editing – it is rather time consuming – which is time I simply have not had recently. My latest Age of Ashes session is as a result behind schedule, and I am at risk of falling behind and/or having to drop the latest record. Fingers crossed I can get caught up tonight…
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Trying to stay entertained, and expanding my movie night theme into a marathon this weekend with the Aliens franchise. Also, switching away from Discord streaming and into an unlisted YouTube stream instead. I don’t believe many people both have Discord and really use it to watch a stream (at least from my minimal experience), and YouTube is much more available on multiple platforms. This also gives me a bit finer control over the stream, and hopefully will allow for better participation. Saturday, 3/28 (start times approximate) 8 AM – Monsters vs Aliens 9:35 AM – Alien 11:30 AM – Aliens…
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With our latest session of Age of Ashes, we adjusted to our Covid-19 process – meaning we suspended the face to face session, in favor of an online format using Fantasy Grounds Unity and Discord. Despite the large group of 10 players, the tools worked rather well – we were successful in holding a regular game. Admittedly, there were some issues, but most were a simple matter of learning the new applications, or some basic technical challenges (had some audio echo). Going forward, it is not the preferred method, but it will work for the time being until the pandemic…
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With the excitement of Covid, I am working to provide a small distraction, and decided to start streaming movies thru Discord each night. The Discord instance is open for anyone who cares to join in, though I make no claims about the age-appropriateness of any movies. Each day, I will post the planned movie for that night, and the next day will be dependent either on my random preference, or any feedback I receive. Movies start at 8 PM EST, and run until the credits are done. https://discord.gg/HNYSba9 March 23, the movie was the classic Star Wars March 24, we…
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Expanding my Star Wars: Legion terrain with several models in progress. First completed is a scale model of an X-Wing, complete with movable wings, landing gear, and a removable R2 druid. Ideally, yes, I would paint the model, but realistically it is not a high priority. The model is available on Thingiverse, and scaled specifically at 1/64. I upsized it to 133% to approximately Legion scale figures (not sure of the exact math, but several forum postings indicated the scaling). The detail on the model is impressive, and I was particularly impressed by the creativity in the moving parts. Everything…
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No idea if it will work, be stable, or even worthwhile – but with our conversion to social-distancing gaming, I am going to attempt to live stream out Age of Ashes campaign. This of course will be the raw session – likely rather technically challenging, and slow moving. This will be the first time we have tried to use Fantasy Grounds remotely, so there will be a lot of tutorial and likely less game. If you have interest, feel free to join us. Live chat will be enabled, though I doubt I will be paying any attention to it. This…
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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