Category: Gaming

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Repost: Friday Randomness

This is the longest I’ve gone without a calendar hanging up in my office, or at home. That’s what I get for ordering them online, instead of picking them up from the calendar shop at the mall.

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Still trying to figure out what to do with the microphones.

Yes, plural.

Podcasting is the leading choice, I just have to figure out what the content will be. It would probably be something monthly, as I don’t think I’d have time to do a weekly thing.

Or I can just use them to talk to people online.

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At lunch I thought about how often and for whom I would post another of those “The 50s” entries like the one from yesterday. First of I want to say that you shouldn’t feel offended/insulted if I don’t have enough material to write something on your 50th. I may simply had forgotten, or hadn’t had time to come up with something interesting. That’s on me, not you.

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Vlogging.

Never did keep up with that. I should, in case I never get the podcast thing off the ground.

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Not sure why I’m so jazzed about wanting to play role-playing games again, as in pencil-and-paper, face-to-face, not online.

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6 days into the new year, and no table top sports games played. I need to fix that. Soon. Tonight.

I also need to get off my butt and start up the lunchtime D&D campaign again. It’s ONLY been a YEAR since I was supposed to come up with something. Ah well.

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And then there’s my camera and photography. I bought a new lens to experiment with static close up shots of stuff, and I haven’t really done anything in regards to that.

Gotta change that.

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For the first time in years, neither football team that I follow are in the playoffs.

My weekends are free and clear. Though I’ll probably end up watching the Super Bowl.

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Pizza and cupcakes. Those are my only requirements so far for my birthday.

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Repost: Day 2

Not that I plan on posting something every day on this blog, though I should.

Nah.

I spend the better part of the day out an about, browsing aisles at Fry’s and Game Kastle. I needed a replacement charging cable for my phone, so I ended up getting 2 of those (one was found to be too short when I got home), a Hot Wheels car, and some gummi candy from Fry’s. I also almost walked out of there with a USB microphone, the kind used for things like podcasts. I stopped myself when I realized that I don’t podcast.

At Game Kastle, I must have spent over an hour there, browsing and almost starting a trip down the rabbit hole/money suck that is the Batman Miniatures game. The rulebook alone, along with just 3 minis, was a bit too high to start investing in a game that I probably would end up not playing, much like Warhammer 40K had become over the years. At least I may be playing 40K again.

I also looked at supplements for a couple of other games, including Zombicide: Black Plague and a couple of RPGs: Mutants and Masterminds and Traveller.

I found that I could get the Black plague supplement cheaper online.

I was reminded that I purchased a mega bundle of M&M PDFs, including most of the printed items that I saw today.

As for Traveller, I’ve been itching to play some sort of space-themed role-playing game since watching Rogue One. I dug out the original Star Frontiers rules, and browsed the Traveller PDFs that I had picked up in another online sale sometime last year. Again I found that I either had the printed materials in PDF, or I could get them cheaper online.

My monthly group may or may not be starting a new RPG campaign with Mutants and Masterminds. I’d love to start a space RPG campaign.

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Oh, ho…

I have discovered that epub documents from the Black Library are quite readable through Google Play Books.

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I purchased the Cadia Codex supplement for Warhammer 40K as a test, to see if these were worth buying, and if they didn’t work on my tablet, I was actually considering getting a new or refurbished iPad in order for me to read these things.

Before trying Play Books, I had downloaded a few ‘free’ epub3-format readers, and all of them failed processing the text in the document, in one way or another.

I may purchase digital copies of existing rules.

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Bigger Fleet?

Last month I had ordered a few miniature space ships during a sale at Ravenstar Studios.

The owner emailed me this week to tell me that the order shipped, and due to the delay, he ‘added’ some stuff to my order.

I was expecting 7 ships, I ended up with 10.

I ordered some additional flight stands from another vendor.

I still don’t know what I’m naming this fleet, or the individual ships.

However, I did come up with names for the original fleet of ships that I bought last year.

I’ll post an update soon with all of this information.  Right now I’m just trying to keep up with my self-imposed ‘post a day’ streak.

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The Value of Hard Copy

If there was one thing that I’m learning from shutting down my previous blogs, it’s that there needs to be a backup, possibly printed, copy of anything that I’ve posted, especially regarding gaming and the like.

Case in point: remember those spaceship miniatures that I had picked up and painted and named ‘Task Force Guardian’?  Aside from the fact that I made them part of the Philippine Space Navy, I have no record anywhere about the names of those ships.

Which simply means that I’ll end up renaming them, hopefully with the original names or something close, unless I decide on some other governing body for this fleet.  Unlikely, though.  I liked the names that I picked, and will probably remember them once I look them up again.

Comm officer, send friendship message to unknown fleet: Mabuhay!