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    Video Games You Wish Existed

    I almost picked up Valheim recently, but the visual style put me off. Games I'd like to see... An rpg based on either The Black Company or The Malazan Book of the Fallen, especially if they could do something that would let you run solo or small-party missions and then switch to...
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    That was roughly six hours of work right there, factoring in the learning curve. If you do decide to build yours, I'd recommend picking up a ring mandrel at a craft store to help with the curved bits. I used a lot of different round objects to bend the metal over: the mandrel, my pin vise, some...
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    Not an actual miniature, but close enough scale-wise - I recently finished assembling the Metal Earth model of the Millenium Falcon... The ship is about 3 inches long front to aft. My miniatures skills (and my magnifier) have been invaluable in this endeavor, lol. Currently in-progress on the...
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    Today I learned +

    Jim Steinman originally wrote Total Eclipse as part of working on a musical adaptation of the film Nosferatu that never happened, then Bonnie Tyler recorded it, and then later Steinman recycled it again when he wrote the music for Dance of the Vampires, a musical based on The Fearless Vampire...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I need to do that again one of these days - it's been a while. My general procedure is that, if I haven't clicked it in the last two years or more, or can't remember what the hell the link was for, I delete it... Although... I do have a bunch of links in my favorites list to long-gone pages and...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I went in for about $175 on the Fairy Tales Battle Royale miniatures KS, and after all the crap that went on with that, they apparently didn't even have a record of my pledge... :rolleyes:
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I've lived by this quote most of my adult life, but that's actually the first time I've ever heard it, lol. The cap in my avatar pic is the one I wear every day. Well, he is a lawyer or something like that, right? :p
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    JURASSIC WORLD 4: Rebirth Trailer 2

    Wake me up when we get to Jurassic Universe, and the dinos are fighting with Aliens and Predators...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Cool Story: The company that manufactured the miniatures for Macho Women with Guns* - a small outfit called Simtac - was fairly local to me and, through a friend, I once found myself at the house of the guy who ran the company, playing some WWII tank battle on a big table in his garage... *And...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Never played TSL, but I've always been fond of Macho Women with Guns... :p (And it has its own miniatures, too...)
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    Today I learned +

    I can't do a backflip, but I'm awesome at doing backflops.
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    Well, it's not really a mini, but I just finished the Metal Earth model of the Millenium Falcon... Ye gods, those things take forever, lol. It has a tendency to tip over forward, so I packed the hollow base with greenstuff to give it some weight and stability. I'm now on to the tie fighter...
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    Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

    I've seen some truly sick freehand on cloaks over the years...
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    How long before you tire of a thread here?

    Really depends a lot on the subject, and often the particular people involved. For example, creative stuff like helping people brainstorm for their campaigns usually keeps my interest for quite a while but rules discussions mostly only last a couple or a handful of pages - I generally clock out...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Bring a decent amount of some generic taco stuff, then bring a smaller amount of something authentic and don't really tell anyone about it but share it with them if they ask.
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