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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · Feb 14

Battletech goes synthwave with this Vapor Eagle for my newest merc band, Malibu Overdrive. This was such a departure from my comfort zone but I'm so happy I tried it now that it's done.

A front view of the Vapor Eagle mini painted in a gradient from left to right transitioning from blue to pink with some accent lights picked out in neon green, blue, and orange. The base is painted to look like the mech is stepping onto a highway.

A side view of the mini, showing the glowing heat vent for the large pulse laser.

A rear view of the mech, showing the base in better detail and alo showing the jump jets painted with the same heat glow look.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 13h

"So what's The Expanse like?"

"Oh, well I mean its a big, sweeping, complex story but a lot of it can be summed up as 'a lot of stuff happens that makes James Holden make this face."

Steven Strait as James Holden making a face that looks simultaneously surprised, applied, exhausted, and confused.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 1d

My ceramic keycaps arrived today! (Aside from the numpad keys, have to wait for those to come back in stock in the color I wanted).

A keyboard backlit with purple and blue led lights. The keys are in two tones, white with indigo symbols and indigo with white symbols. Some of the keys have art inspired by traditional Japanese engravings and ceramic motifs in place of legends, such as koi fish, bridges, mountain skylines, and birds.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 1d

This game seems really interesting! I've seen you post about it before. I too would probably enjoy being a medieval homesteader.

Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 1d

I felt kind of the same way. No shade to the devs, I like reading the rulebook and they clearly care a lot abojt the setting, but I bounced in a different direction and landed on Traveller if I ever wanted to run an Expanse game.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

Doesn't do it justice, but I brought myself a little joy tonight playing some of the main theme.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

Doesn't do it justice, but I brought myself a little joy tonight playing some of the main theme.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

100% agree. It captured a feeling I didn't know I craved and I feel myself close to playing it again. Its been too long.

Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

I get very attached to game soundtracks and to this day the Outer Wilds soundtrack can bring me to the brink of tears with very little effort.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite stupid character bits that has ever evolved at my ttprg tables is that my Starfinder character, Xactet, an insectoid guy we all lovingly called the "garbage bug wizard," drank hot Tang because it came in the same sort of powder as instant coffee and he assumed it needed brewing.

Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

I mean they probably have the most comfortably restrained captives in the business, and that's gotta be good for reputation.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

I was mildly interested in Arc Raiders prior to learning it uses AI voice acting and learning that just killed all of that interest.

Kit HORROR-son 🎙️💪🏳️‍🌈 🎃🎃🎃 @kitharrison.com · 2d

Beyond disappointed to learn that Arc Raiders, like The Finals before it, uses AI voice acting.

So many iconic game voice work is little vendor greetings, and to farm that out to a machine is a hollow admission of a lack of care.

I know a thousand actors who would have done better for buttons.

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love2pronk.bsky.social @love2pronk.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hi, I'm Tommy and I like to paint minis! #warhammercommunity #paintingminiatures #paintingwarhammer #warhammer40k

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

The kicker though is games that don't have *enough* rules for what they want to do. Sometimes this is because the concept is too complrd for the simplicity that's been chosen to replicate it, other times it's because the authors leave most of the labor of things that are not playing PCs to the GM.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

Personally I gravitate to games that maybe have too much rules *cough* Shadowrun *cough* because I like knowing that there has been thought put into situations that may arise and I have a little bit of a simulationist in me.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

A game can be very simple and have enough rules for what it is trying to do. Fiasco, for example, is extremely light on actual rules but has enough for what it is, which is more or less an improv game structured as an RPG. I like Fiasco for this reason even if its not my favorite game.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

I recognize that I am almost certainly in the minority among ttrpg players (and that's a-ok by me, people like what they like!) but I get bored very quickly with games that don't have enough rules. And I don't necessarily mean "aren't complex enough," specifically mean they don't have enough rules

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

Replaying* not replacing

Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

The world and story of Wolfenstein may be fiction, but most of what makes it horrifying is all too real and all too accurate. I've had to pause and take breaks even re-playing it because I feel so many emotions about it.

Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

Started replacing Wolfenstein: The New Order over the weekend and I genuinely think it qualifies as a horror game despite mostly being a high octane fps. Most horror games don't leave me with such a visceral reaction as the brutal, unstinting, un-sanitized depictions of evil in that game.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 4d

Also I'd like to make sure @radokely.bsky.social is credited for the amazing art 👏

Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 4d

This is the sort of stuff that sends me down Wikipedia holes lol

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sure I'm explaining this badly but it fascinated me. Evolutionary biologists feel free to take me to school.

Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 4d

Like, cows have to spend s lot of their time and energy processing low nutrient density grass, whereas humans can access and process very nutrient dense food like fruits, meat, vegetables, etc without needing as complicated or energy intensive digestive tracts.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes I learn stuff that just blows my mind. Apparently there's a theory that the invention of cooking food was a significant development in why human brains were able to evolve to be as intelligent as they are, since our digestive system doesn't have to be as robust.

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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone actually use the phrase "streets ahead" in the wild. So I'm forced to conclude that maybe it is actually verbal wildfire and maybe I am actually streets behind.