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Happy 4th of July holiday to all my America visitors. I hope your celebrations are safe with any fireworks or outdoor activities. I will be staying home myself, and keeping the dogs comfortable with the sounds of explosions going on outside, and perhaps doing some grilling of burgers or hotdogs for the family.
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In preparation for our upcoming Age of Ashes campaign, I am revising our camera and recording setup. Keep in mind, this is being done at as low of budget as possible, with a bit of creativity, luck, and inexpensive gear. To that end, during our last session, I attempted to test our process, and record the full session – mainly to identify gaps I needed to address, but also to test and see just how well the lavaliere microphones I have would work. In general, with a single microphone (suspended above the table), the audio is workable, but not very…
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In lighter news, and as an update for our Kingmaker campaign, we managed to continue the clearing of the Kamelands this past weekend. The group, starting from Oleg’s outpost again, had managed some successes in the prior session, and now had some spare cash. As a result, they re-supplied, and opted for horses for the group in order to speed their searching and traveling of the region. Unfortunately, during the prior session, the Sorcerer had been slain during the battle with the bandits, resulting in the player requiring a new character. Fortunately, a traveler had recently arrived at Oleg’s, a…
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Last week was a challenging week for my routine schedule for several factors. Intentionally, and planned for a long time, was that I was attending Scouting Camp with my son’s, with limited access to a computer or the internet. Less intentional and definitely not planned, was that I was laid off (aka, made redundant, work force reduced, position eliminated) on that Friday morning. This came as a surprise, since not only do I have 25+ years of service with the company, but our particular client contract has my name explicitly in the service definition – without me, the company is…
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A second Father’s Day acquisition, the family supplied me with the Princess Leia mini for Star Wars: Legion. This is good, since the collection has been heavily favoring the Empire recently and the Rebels really needed some reinforcements. Leia is of course a welcome addition, though admittedly the model is not the best. The face just doesn’t feel accurate, and the joints for the arms don’t match up completely. Some of the assembly may be my challenges with such small pieces, but other Fantasy Flight figures were far cleaner. Perhaps with a bit of green stuff, it could be cleaned…
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Finally managed to get the trophy for this year’s Magic: The Gathering tournament to print properly. Previously, I had broken the model into 4 separate pieces, in order to minimize the printing challenge. Although it printed well, this also meant there were several very noticeable seams in the final assembly. This year, with some more experience and some fine tuning of the printer, I opted to re-slice the model and print as a pair of pieces instead. If you look very carefully, you can see the seam where the two pieces mate, but it is rather well hidden. More importantly,…
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With the recent Father’s Day, my kids and family helped me expand the slowly growing Star Wars: Legion collection with a few of the heroes and villains. The first one is Boba Fett, feared bounty hunter, and addon for the Empire’s side. The model is nice, though perhaps a bit finicky – there are a lot of very tiny pieces for my large fingers to have to glue together. The figure is in an action pose, mid-leap with the jet pack flaring. Of course, I am not sure when I will paint him, but I am considering this as a…
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Over this last weekend, there was a bit of a world-shattering event on the Atlas game server we play on – due to a previously unknown bug, all player data was corrupted and lost. Despite a long weekend of troubleshooting with Grapeshot and G-Portal, the admins who ran the server set were forced to give up and perform a full world reset and wipe. This was painful, since it was not only the second time in a couple of months (the first time shortly after we started, so not a big impact to us), but it was immediately after we…
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