How's everyone holding out with COVID stuff?
Posted Mar 16, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC
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A lot of time for painting, which is great!
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Has anyone tried to make vassal usable for lambda user? Maybe with tutorials or something. Now is maybe the right time to try... http://www.vassalengine.org/index.php
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Fine. Kinda bored.
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Yeah, I'm not backing the kickstarter thanks to medical bills (non virus related). May pick it up later. Unfortunately I don't feel compelled to assemble or paint right now either.
As for the virus there's a non-zero chance my family has been exposed, but I believe we're good. Just gotta maintain precautions.
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Every single time I hear this I get more and more confused about how a system that cripples people with medical bills is still allowed to exist
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Basically enough of us are fine or think we're fine such that public pressure to remedy the situation is insufficient to overcome the influence of freely flowing money.
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Crippled might be a strong word for my situation but I definitely agree with you
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I don't trust the government with healthcare
I mean I don't trust private insurance either, but at least my private insurer cannot hide behind sovereign immunity.
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Works in every other country. At the very least works better than what you have in every other country
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I mean we kind of have it already (on a small scale) in the VA. And ask anyone who has ever dealt with the VA. It's even worse than the private alternative.
And of course, nobody went to jail. The government run healthcare system falsified records leading to the death of dozens of our veterans. And not a single person saw jail time.
Maybe your government runs things better. I don't know. But I can not trust ours. They've proven to not just be incompetent, but malicious, on far too many occasions. A government which will rubber stamp expansions of the Patriot Act is not to be trusted.
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Well I am getting to work from home. Which will certainly help me out with learning this game since I just got into the game. I got lucky and was able to get ahold of a Proterate of Menoth lot to use.
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My local meta died completely, pretty much ending the hobby for me.
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That's rough man.
I don't know if you've ever played Rangers of Shadowdeep, but a friend of mine is doing a fan mod/hack of it for Iron Kingdoms. If you aren't familiar, it's a coop miniatures game from the Frostgrave setting. You set up the scenario and play it out while drawing normal playing cards that generate events - so each game becomes it's own unique adventure. It's a great reason to set up a terrain table, paint up minis, etc...and the ruleset is specifically made so that it can played alone for the times when someone just can't get together with other players.(many frostgrave playerbases only have people meeting up a couple of times a year)
Anyway, he's wrapping up getting a CoI fan campaign done and should be working a bunch on it after. I'll be sure to share it when it's ready. Also...frostgrave/shadowdeep are miniatures agnostic, so if people play either around you it might be something to look in to while waiting for IK related opportunities to pop up.
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Might start my galleons and blockader for Bart. our local scene is still doing pickup games every week though, and I'm still at work so nothing is really changing
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Started working on my painting backlog. Finally getting my Circle models painted up.
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Just bought a flame in the darkness list so I'll be painting up that after shifts at work. #fuckretail
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I have plenty of models to work on...but it'll never happen with the kids also being at home.
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Hobby time! Lucky to work from home. Actually came around on Warcaster rewatching the battlereports and backed the kickstarter. My son really likes the ISA so theres that if nothing else.
Also realized i might need more stuff come summer with all this lockdown time.
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Finished painting the entirety of my MonPoc line. It's nice to have a game 100% complete. Well until I get Mecha Maxim...
Not sure if I'll go do some Khador or Infinity next.
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They are talking about quarantine in my city but the virus isn't even here yet. I work in a restaurant (major chain) and they will probably close up shop soon, but they started to give us pot for the time we dont work. If that happens, I will be painting all my models and I'm looking forward to it! Lol
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No work for two weeks, no wm/h league for two weeks. Time for paint.
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Working on my Yellows before Wacaster drops
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I am moving mid April so all my minis are packed. My job is one where I work from home and have done so for the past 7 years so my income is fine, my work is fine, I just worry about the sale of my home and my upcoming move
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Getting caught up on my painting, and mostly playing games at people's homes. Most of my group are still willing to brave the virus-ridden wasteland, so mostly just smaller congregations in different locations.
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Getting tons of painting done. For sure.
We had a winter rampage. We agreed to postpone it and hype the crap out of it until we can finally do it.
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I was worried stuff I ordered wouldn't arrive in a timely manner but it did and I've been spending a lot of time painting - so I guess that's also good.
Trying to find out where I can get tested on the other hand has been a real pain.
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I lined up my painting backlog for non work hours. Thankfully in a position where I can work from home.
Game shops with attached restaurants seem in a weird spot.
Bad Luck Brian PP: Kickstarter ends up during once a generation occurrence that causes backer base to lose sources of income and have to cancel orders.
I wonder how much that would of effected it, a ton of other kickstarter seems to be doing alright.
I think the kickstarter has done better then expected.
It has done worse than it should have. It looks like an amateur Kickstarter which is why it hasn't broken out much among non-PP fans.
Not sure why you were downvoted. You're right. At this time Warcaster sits at $367k for what is supposed to be a new tabletop game.
Meanwhile a few months ago Corvus Belli (A smaller company) completed their Defiance kickstarter (Space hulk style dungeon crawler board game with cross-compatible minis), and that ended at $1.276 Million, when converted from €1.142.
Warcaster from what I have seen has just failed to really grab anybody, and the kickstarter isn't generating any kind of hype or attention. At least not compared to Defiance. And PP being bigger than CB I would expect PPs to be bigger.
Both kickstarters are coming from mini gaming companies. Both launched with similar goals (100k USD/EUR). Both rely on an established IP and playerbase. But one is at nearly 4x the total.
And I know the last day usually brings in a lot more backers, but I don't see warcaster topping $1.2 Million
That's why PP did a kickstarter. If they invested $1.5 million and the level of interest was the same, it would be a failure. As it is, it's funded, but they are not going to go ham on it.
Because of the amature kickstarter I am surprised it has managed this, they might reach 400k with the bump at the end. Would of never guessed that it would do that well.
Not to mention that delivery of the kickstarter will almost certainly be delayed as well.