Who makes the blue shieldmaiden command group in the second picture?

Have you considered that what you want already exists and is called... a Library?

A 24hr open library?

What are some of your favorite books you've read?

Where are the toad models from?

The "Imperial Radch" series (starting with "Ancillary Justice") is an excellent scifi series if you like LeGuin. I also read the original Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind graphic novel and it's good but... very weird.

I love him in Muppet Treasure Island, but my actual favorite is his Cardinal Richelieu in Disney's somewhat goofy 3 Musketeers.

(Sorry Rocky Horror fans)

This is a good overview of what tariffs are going to do to gaming as a hobby and basically it is all bad news. Some of it very bad news, as some genres - boardgames especially - are going to get brutally hammered.

It can! Although I've found I like Gorilla Glue superglue gel better. For some reason the Loctite super glue gets brittle and snaps very easily

You know, there used to be this thing called the Civilian Conservation Corps that went around giving unemployed dudes jobs planting trees and making park trails and bridges. To say nothing of other programs getting artists to make public art etc.

Maybe we just need to do the New Deal again?

WIP (but almost done) of some fellows for a modified version of Silver Bayonet (including everyone's favorite fictional napoleonic rifleman)
#miniatures #miniaturespainting #napoleonics #silverbayonet

Show me how you paint women!

#miniaturepainting #wargaming #ttrpg #nerdlings #wepaintminis

Beautiful, where is the model from?

The biggest barrier to entry to making a board game is the components. This may already be a thing but I’m not into the #boardgames community to know it, but there seems like a big opportunity for a DIY board game renaissance: write board games using lingua franca components

100% - I loved the odyssey so much that I chose to do a required research paper on the historicity of the Trojan war. Fantastic introduction to archeology (and how messed up it was in the 20s/30s).

Following the original thread, not sure how much it helped my civics education though

The good work must continue, even if everything seems to be falling apart around it.

I will want to read that book

For a lighter, sillier game its hard to go wrong with Camel Up. Incan Gold fits large crowds very nicely too.

What problems does playing a lot of modern games cause in a co-designer? In other words, what have you noticed designers like that say or do that you've found detrimental?

Could you say more? What is it that you look for in a co-designer and how might playing lots of games impact those qualities in a person?

Hold your own State of the Union. Describe what is happening in the federal government. Have a series of fired government workers on the podium to describe what they do and what will happen now that they're gone

Do this with anyone willing to join you, regardless of the opinion of party leadership

You could argue that each match in a jigsaw puzzle changes the state of the puzzle, but ultimately the sequence of matches doesn't matter and no truly new information is revealed

In an interactive game, even if it is a puzzle to solve, you have to contend with new information and 'reactions' to you

Compare a jigsaw to a game like Match 4 - in both, your task is essentially to match pieces together based on shape/color/etc.

But, in Match 4, each match changes the state of the puzzle dynamically to offer a different challenge - in many games, an increasing challenge.

I think for me the thing that makes a jigsaw puzzle not a game is that it is not *reactive* to the player's decisions

I love 'puzzle games,' but the thing that makes a puzzle game a game is that it is *interactive* - it provides feedback and changes with the player's actions.

Gonna take a wild guess and say the cage free birds are not dying of the bird flu anywhere near as fast as the clucking hordes shoved together in the factory farms

In 150 Characters or Lesss Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things and trying to make life worth living, and I know I don't have to believe in everything, but I believe in that.

Nikita Gill.

It is difficult to take you seriously if you think that elections in representative democracies by default permit people to have their voices heard. We live, right now, in a place full of people who are fundamentally disenfranchised because they cannot vote for their actual desires.

What defines a state in your mind? Is it the existence of structured organizations? Is it laws? Is it bureaucracy?

Model shot: skeleton warriors attacking bronze Age adventurers in a ruined temple by a flooded altar.

Hello new Bskies and fresh followers! Just a reminder that we small Indie creators and artists don't have shareholders to satisfy, just bills to pay. And that while Likes are lovely, Reposting stuff is the best way to help with visibility for us. If you see models or art you love, please share!

This is one reason it is so hard to break in to a policy career without having money or the ivy/Georgetown credentials - where else can you get your in?

I am none of those, but was lucky to be interested in professional wargaming, a field small enough to network your way somewhere

I have to admit, what I find particularly gross here are the fake bios they have. They're simply lies, claims to a past these algorithms cannot have.

If your product needs to lie about itself as the very first thing it does, its probably not a very good product.