Ryujin
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Wofano Wotanto
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It's really the patience bit that matters most there. My stuff in the 80s looked awful just like most folks' does when it started, but if you can force yourself to try to get better everything else comes in time. Best minis painter and modeler I ever knew was 100% colorblind but you'd never have known it from his figs. Tended to to lose his car in the parking lot regularly, mostly.
That's not an uncommon thing IME, although I don't grok it personally. Back when I was a mercenary hobbyist I used to love getting commissions for assembly and conversion work from folks who felt the way you do - for me sticking the stuff together and kitbashing variants is at least half the fun.
Wofano Wotanto
Hero
Inspired off site, but I just want to say "zownt!" is my second-favorite comic sound effect, right after "ominous hummmm..."
Why none of the Foglios' many comics have never had animated adaptations is beyond me, and a crime against all of human culture.
Why none of the Foglios' many comics have never had animated adaptations is beyond me, and a crime against all of human culture.
Ryujin
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Wofano Wotanto
Hero
Accurate.
Speaking of nostalgia, imagine an alternate timeline where Dave Trampier didn't just quit the hobby in the 80s and we got a Wormy animated series.
Ryujin
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Makes you wonder what sort of crap would make someone completely walk away from their life.
Wofano Wotanto
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I don't like to speculate based on the extremely limited info we have. Whatever the reasons, it was a tragic loss of talent for the hobby going forward. All we can do is hope Dave felt he was better off with the new trajectory of his life.
Personally, I found Howard "Metagaming" Thompson's sudden business shutdown and total withdrawal from the industry earlier that decade equally baffling. Never seen anything suggesting the company wasn't still profitable, so perhaps it was personal problems - but boy, did it come out of nowhere for most people and in those pre-internet days it was a lot easier to really vanish from a scene and stay vanished.
J.Quondam
CR 1/8
It might not have been any crap at all; some people just feel the need to move on and sever from what's now and past in favor of something different. Sometimes it's healthy, often times not. You never know. People are weird.
Thomas Shey
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Depending on what they mean by "break", probably. I got a hairline fracture of my left ulna back in October, and other than keeping weight off it, nothing really much was done and it was healed in about six weeks. And I'm not exactly young.
RealAlHazred
Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
In another group set up to discuss a specific game system, some people seem to be very concerned that everyone in the group properly "honor" a particular contributor. I mean, I like the guy and all, but I don't put any of the creators of my media on a pedestal. If I'm in a group about a particular game system, I'm there to talk about the game system; spending pages of posts and comments talking about how much you respect a particular creator seems... I don't know, unhealthy, maybe? Like, people are people -- with flaws and merits and all that. These posts smack of some weird virtue signaling that I don't understand.
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