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LeviKornelsen

@LeviKornelsen@dice.camp

Canadian maker of tabletop RPG bits and assorted weirdness.

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Successfully fired and glazed chess dude.

Quality level: Weird stuff found at an import store (And, to be clear, I am perfectly fine with this. Will seek improvements, but this clears "I would not be ashamed to sell this".)

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Levi and Junior have just left the house to play in the backyard.

Junior reverses course and sprints houseward. Levi watches in confusion.

J: I forgot! I forgot! I forgot to put sunscreen on my Barbies!

L: That's not....

Slam of back door

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Wicked Movie:

I have read the full run of Baum Oz books (and have them all in glorious hardcover), most of the other-author books of the "famous forty" canon, the full set of the Maguire takes, and have seen the musical and a PILE of film and series stuff.

Not an expert, but I do know the material.

The new upcoming movie might or might not be particularly good!

But the objections at this point REALLY sound like "I don't know what I'm talking about, but want to make noise to cover my racism".

LeviKornelsen,
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@fdouglaswall - The musical is Extremely A Musical, and very very good as it's own thing while very bad if you want "direct adaptation."

LeviKornelsen, to random
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In the race for "Boringest assholes alive", I've got $50 on "Dudes who are still posting mad about Brie Larson". To place, not to win; the competition IS fierce.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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Ended up just pouring more molds today, ending up with enough that I will theoretically be able to slipcast one side of a chessboard, plus some bonus pieces, as a single batch, just bam.

Which is a fun ability to have.

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I'm not generally annoyed by discussion of D&D, and can even often participate, but the period of ramp-up to new books is tiring.

I don't have judgment for anyone; I've got my list of crap companies I buy from - but I'm just.... not going to be giving Wizards any money.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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Got proper plaster for moldmaking yesterday and started in on printing off a batch of new masters for the chess-type dudes (with arms on).

Spent my free time today pouring new molds; still need to cure, dry, and get the edges finished, but that's for tomorrow.

Thursday or Friday, I should be testing glazes on pieces out of the old molds, and starting pouring in the new molds.

Been picking my way through this project for about three years now, but satisfyingly finished bits are now in sight!

LeviKornelsen, to random
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Test firing #1; picture sadly does not capture the fading orange glow these had.

Given that these are made of generic cheapo air-dry clay that I made into a just barely passable pouring slip and cast in molds that were a plaster-sand-concrete mix, I don't know if they'll ultimately fire at all properly; gotta wait for them to cool.

But they didn't fall to bits upon getting properly hot, so that's a winning first attempt in my books.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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And now I have a tiny craft kiln....

elvenwizardking, to random

Is anyone as excited about Heavy Gear as me? I love this series, and am excited to run a game soon.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/457450/heavy-gear-fourth-edition-roleplaying-game-rulebook?affiliate_id=2298

LeviKornelsen,
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@elvenwizardking - I DID NOT REALIZE THIS WAS OUT.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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Well this is fucking great. Or terrible.

One of those, anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLLQFLXz6VE

LeviKornelsen, to random
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Jester piece, maybe? Not sure about it.

LeviKornelsen,
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@Sablebadger - Victory!

LeviKornelsen, to random
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Apple being perhaps a little tiny bit tasteless. Just a smidge. Barely at all, really.

https://youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc?si=37brvHJejnJr9UdA

thebrand, to random
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I'm seeing a lot of my fellow Gen-Xers saying "When did we start thinking the police were the bad guys?"

Did you not come up on Fuck the Police? On Killing in the Name?

Or is this only because now that you have your little bit of shit and feel entitled that you want to remake it? To be safe for you, instead of strong for them? To become the generation we hated for not protecting us?

These kids are doing what we did. Being who we wanted to be. Help them, don't shit on them. Fucking cowards.

LeviKornelsen,
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@thebrand - I'm at the "young" end of Gen X, and really didn't come up on any of that; conservative parents banned all of that hard for my entire peer group. So when I read stuff like that, I assume it's partly the gen X'ers who never got out of that driving it.

(I'm perfectly well aware of when I myself started thinking the cops were bad guys, though; it was just late in the game.)

LeviKornelsen, to random
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Well, these are just vastly better than the previous versions.

Kith features leading to cultural underpinnings as open questions, rather than dicta.

mvu, to retrogaming
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I don't know if it's the dpad or just frustrating design decisions, but wants me to do things that the controls are absolutely not tight enough to achieve.

LeviKornelsen,
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@mvu - On the devices I've played it on, there are bits that made me go "This is a hell of a trick", but it was doable, if only just, so I'm going with "Bit of both".

LeviKornelsen, to random
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Awen revisions:

In playtest, the "Place markers on ticky boxes" option was irritating, so for Kiths at least, I'm revising that to one open-ended question per Kith.

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deinol, to books
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I have finished reading Chapterhouse Dune. My fools errand is finished. It’s not good, and of course ends with loose ends.

I think my personal recommendation is reading the first two books. Although just one or even zero are solid choices. Three is alright, except it’s a trap if it makes you curious and want to read more.

I’m tempted to revisit Heinlein who I haven’t read in at least twenty years, but I’m also afraid he’ll be disappointing.

LeviKornelsen,
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@deinol - Even as a Dune fanboy, there's definitively no actual point past God Emperor. It's "here's more of this, because you liked it".

LeviKornelsen, to random
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Comparing arms and no-arms pawns...

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LeviKornelsen, to random
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Awen (with cards) live playtest went extremely well. Nailed every design objective I had.

Some parts sing perfectly, while others are merely functional,and a couple things got skipped intuitively with no damage done (and will therefore be dropped for the next iteration).

And, with feedback, I now have a whole list of ways to make the dry parts engaging and the fun parts notably better.

Big win.

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miriamrobern, to random
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Beekeeper. Fun movie. Close to the apotheosis of Jason Statham movies. The Stathingularity.

LeviKornelsen,
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@miriamrobern - Ooooh, excellent. I enjoy a good Statham now and again; they're just different enough to hold attention, but you generally know what you're getting (and it's fun!)

yora, to random
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I always liked to think of myself of "as big a Star Wars fan as you can get before it becomes embarrassing".

But I have come to the conclusion that I really only care about "90s Star Wars".
That is, the Expanded Universe as it existed up to 1999. Before there was a second Darth, a Jedi council, clone troopers, and separatists.

Episode 1 is pretty and Episode 3 is super fun. But the only Star Wars works after 1999 that feel right are the KotOR game from 2003 and the comic series from 2006.

LeviKornelsen,
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@yora - I find almost all of the Star Wars stuff entertaining, but very little of it goes past that into where I'll watch it over and over. So I get this.

(Not the same list as you, but the sentiment of "My section is over here", very much).

LeviKornelsen, to random
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The amount of chemistry that shows up as soon as you ask the internet "Can I mix my own pottery glaze?" shouldn't be a shocker, but it was to me anyway.

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