Types of Board Game

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Of the many things I worry about, a big one is that Gen Z and Alpha are growing up in a world in which the overwhelming public message is that cheating and lying and being indifferent to consequences is wildly successful and in fact the only way to succeed, while all virtue is performative nonsense

Water button games

Water ring toss games. Unicorns? Put the rings on the pink dolphins. Dinosaurs? ...also put the rings on the pink dolphins.

AI view from Google maps

If you are in an aerial view in Google maps in your phone and tilt the image with 2 fingers, Google decides that means you *must* want to see a horrific blob AI version of the building.

Mustang with missing engine and hood, branches where the engine would be

Rusty car at an estate sale. Need to be able to drive "stick".

Luna is on the bottom-left. I'm pretty sure you arranged the coins on Crusaders and Chimera Station, I'm less sure who handled the Homesteaders metal coins.

Metal coins from various games. Not pictured: coins from Yokohama Duel Deluxified edition.

I was talking to coworkers about metal coins this week and realized that LA-1 is the first project I've done with Trick or Treat with a metal coin/badge, which is weird considering how many projects I handled with Tasty Minstrel Games that used them (see picture)

"The Wave" on a mug

Lemon, lime, and orange wedge cookies

Jen made cookies for cookbook club! (Everyone picks a different recipe from the book that week to make, and brings it to the meeting)

So for prototypes I could be using this to print on dice, meeples, tokens, acrylic standees, miniature bases, etc.

And then maybe I also print some tumblers and fridge magnets and stuff, and sell them on the side.

Disney Layoffs Hit Marvel Studios Hard The Academy Award-winning artists behind some of Marvel's biggest hits are among the casualties from company wide staff reductions.

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Here's posts of printing on some tumblers, which is probably a better display of print quality: bsky.app/profile/andy...

Also, the resin ink smells, so expect to need a well ventilated space. And you don't want to get the liquid ink on your skin (primarily only relevant when changing the cartridge)

The print quality is good- it literally uses an Epson inkjet print head. Flat side was like, 3 cents worth of ink. Raised side was more like 50 cents.

It'll print on anything, but for slick surfaces (plastic/metal), you may want to sand the surface a bit, or use extra gloss ink to prevent peeling.

This is a flat print on the flat side, no white under-layer, which would make the image stand out more, especially since this is red-on-red. Printing on light colored surfaces is even better.

On the side with the crown I did a textured print- it puts extra layers of ink to build up a raised image.

Picture of the flatbed pic taken with the printer software, with the rose image dropped on top for placement (has not printed yet)

Put the checker on the flatbed of the printer, and the printer takes a pic of the flatbed with the checker. Then I drop the rose image on top, crop and resize, move it where I want it to go on the checker and choose settings.

Flat

Crown

The one I have is the Eufymake E1. It is very cool, but I should stress that it's overkill for 99.9% of prototyping needs. Stickers on dice is totally fine.

With that said, here's an old checker with a flat side and a crown embossed on the other side. I grabbed a picture of a rose (public domain),

You can't remove the UV resin in a way that's a reasonable expenditure of effort if you print straight onto plastic or wood, but you can print over the top of a previous print.

I wouldn't mind putting stickers on top, but I just recently got a UV resin printer that can print straight on things and wanted more blanks.

Dice in water

Plastic ones get soaked. Wooden ones we wrapped in a heating pad and then peeled.

Printed tumbler

Trying with a wood background this time:

Cubes with stickers removed

De-stickering prototype dice.
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Testing out a UV print on a tumbler with some public domain art.

Theatre exterior

Stage

Nick Offerman

Went to see Nick Offerman do a show! There was both singing and woodworking.

A reminder that pseudo-entrepreneurs are churning out AI slop cookbooks with untested recipes, craft books, coloring books, etc - because they require less proofreading than things with a story.

I Spent 10 Years Calculating How Bored the Knights Were on the Quest for the Holy Grail One day, while reading The Quest for the Holy Grail, I came across a statement by Sir Gawain that made me chuckle: I have slain more than ten knights already, the worst of whom was more than adequa…

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We thought we were living in a cyberpunk dystopia but this is actually straight from Warhammer 40K. The machine spirit must be appeased using the proper rituals. Blessings affixed with purity seals will keep the cogitator functioning.

Ice cream truck

I guess maybe it's summer

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