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Our school librarians are the copyright police, and you don't wanna mess with them! This is not because they are corporate shills, but because they don't want us to get sued.

I general, I pay about 40% of what I do for physical books, so no, I have not shared your experience. Discworld is an incredibly best selling series, so there are a lot of copies available out there; that probably keeps prices very low on physical copies. I mostly read new books, and they are...

Depends. I've repainted many Wizkids PPM. For some, it's better to just prime them again and start from scratch. These guys, for example: And for others you can use the existing paint job as a base and fix it up: The level of challenge kind of depends on your experience and how much time you...

I'm not sure what you mean by "a more realistic price." I assure you that I track what I pay for miniatures and 1$ per miniature is my benchmark for whether or not to back a Kickstarter. And that is irregardless of size. For example, I am paying just under that for the recently closed D&L...

This is obviously a question of subjective tastes and standards. My main criticism of Hero Forge is that, given the very high price tag by miniature collector standards, there is a huge disparity between what the customer designs and orders, and what they receive. I consider the miniature shown...

There are as many approaches to doing TTRPG battles as there are GMs, and there is no right way or wrong way. I'm certainly not going to criticize folks who love and collect pre-painted miniatures (PPM). They are not well painted by the standards of hobbyists like me who enjoy painting...

Finally reading Atonement. I kinda thought I had already read it because it was all over the place a few decades ago. But I have a student starting their extended essay on it so I decided to re-read and…nope. Hadn’t read it previously. I’m pretty far into it and it’s really leaning into a very...

Pretty much agree. I use Maps for "away" games, but miniatures and terrain for home games. For me, miniatures need to be paired with terrain for maximum impact both aesthetically and in terms of working together to change the game experience, tactics, etc. Otherwise, I'd rather use just Maps...

I make liberal use of the ignore feature so I am less likely to stank up forums arguing with folks with whom I am unlikely to create productive discourse. Most folks have something more interesting to contribute than arguing with me!

I've been very unimpressed by the price and quality offered by Heroforge. I think it's a dead end and will be a niche for the forseeable future. 3d printed miniatures are either brittle, low resolution or, as in the case of those examples, both. I love the customization options that HF offers...

Our general consensus points from yesterday, as teachers who’ve been grappling with AI for a few years now: A) as a content generator it mostly produces palatable BS. From a teaching perspective, it’s worse than just skipping the assignment. Bad writing, I can work with. LLM writing is...

I'll automatically engage with a Snarff thread.

I think it has some elements of my style, like the way I tend to structure forum posts journalistically, with fairly short paragraphs intersperced with one sentence paragraphs to sum up a key point. I probably overuse italics; this piece certainly does, but not in the same way I would. I don't...

I agree - I hope they don't Walking Dead this thing.

I agree that he's not omniscient. Narratively, though, writers have traditionally treated him as morally infallible - even when his actions have led to bad consequences, it's because the world is wrong, rather than him. Though, his actions almost never lead to bad consequences in the end. So I...

In Canada, it's set by each province. But it's broadly similar between the US and Canada. Point is, TSR was not paying him much!

Yeah...frankly, these don't seem much lower quality than the Wizkids norm. Which is objectively poor - these are factory painted in batches, not lovingly painted by a hobbyist with hours to spend on each. I have a hundreds of Wizkids pre-painted miniatures in my collection, and the first thing...

Loving it so far, though last episode did repeat the tired action trope of unexpected help arriving at the last possible second...what are the odds? But as character-driven action-horror, this show has few equals. Post-apocalytpic Seattle is jaw-dropping and haunting, given how well I know that...