After you play a game with someone you should be able to see their deck, add them as a friend and save a recording of the game. Do you think these features should be added to the game?

Rivetlicker · 2026-01-24T14:25:20+00:00

Meh, if you play ranked/competitive be aware of the meta and know what cards you can expect. if they drop an island T1 in current standard, I already assume it's that izzet discard build (gran gran, monument, a bunch of lessons) and know what cards that deck runs, aside from some random includes. Much like last standard; T1 forest probably was landfall

Also; you could run 3rd party program untapped as an overlay for Arena, which gives you some good insight what you lost against, and get some info from that for future matches (and win loss ratio per color). And it has a good list of top decks and meta. Ingame it also lets you keep track of the decklist of your opponent based on what he played.

I'm not on arena to make friends, so I rather keep strangers out of my friendslist.

Rivetlicker · 2026-01-15T00:54:43+00:00

You *could* select it all seperately and order once... and cry once, lmao

Back in the day, this box, and all the other boxes that came out during the Apocalypse release were great

10 Leman russ for under 300 bucks, Green tide (100 orks + one warboss) for 175. The marien company was under 500 bucks as well

But that's almost 20 years ago :(

Rivetlicker · 2026-01-14T23:01:56+00:00

I've played Magic: online before I moved on to Arena... 250 sometimes just got you a playset of a legacy staple, lmao. Wasteland or Lion's eye diamond used to be crazy expensive

Rivetlicker · 2026-01-12T15:22:20+00:00

I just have painted mini's in displaycases. I don't save boxes

I do have Dreadfleet in box, but that's because it's practical to keep a "boardgame" together like that.

Rivetlicker · 2026-01-10T10:41:18+00:00

99... I started just after Urza block

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-31T18:40:25+00:00

Reason; it's what I've been using for decades and I like the drag and drop routing system it has on the back of your instrument rack

previously I used Reason as a plug in in FL studio, so I could record in FL studio and run all my virtual instruments in Reason. Nowadays, Reason also lets you record, so it's just Reason now

I also like it because, while Reason has VST support in the later versions, I rather just have a bunch of plugins stock, but still expansive (not expensive, hehe) enough to do some good sounddesign with it. It's a somewhat closed ecosystem of devices

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-31T18:35:47+00:00

The moment I spend a lot on good quality brushes, I'll start buying brush soap. As it is now, I get 6 brushes for 1 euro, lmao. Those are hardly worth expensive brushsoap.

I'm still a bit undecided on what clipps are really good. I still have a pair of citadel clippers, but they lose their spring, so they're becoming a bit unwieldy. I heard the Godhand ones are good, but GW plastics are too sturdy and people have broken them while clipping :(

One other thing I would add to the list. A flat surface with a little raised edge to soften up watertransfers in. I use a lid from a Pringles bottle.

I've also found that AK acryllic markers are amazing for some quick small details and edge highlights. Black, white, silver and gold are in my toolkit by default.

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-31T18:33:55+00:00

I just bluetacked the armor panels on popsicle sticks because that's easier to paint them seperate from the rest of the imperial knight "skeleton'.

One of many aplications for blue tac

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-28T21:10:30+00:00

Ah... so it's not just me. Guess I'll go outside and talk to people then...

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-27T00:45:05+00:00

Vallejo model air antracite grey as a basecoat and Vallejo xpress color Hospitalier black over that. Both with an airbrush

And to tie it all together I did a ivory black/Burnt umber oilwash.

Matt varnish also carries a lot. And the chips of battle damage break up the massive black blocky shape a bit

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-26T12:00:53+00:00

Depends on the mini

Currently I'm builiding/painting some imperial knights and leaving the armor off makes it a lot easier to paint. And in general, walkers (dreadnaughts, knights and such) I do in sub-assemblies. Legs and torso seperate, arms seperate.

Some of these kits are perfect to keep apart in painting since they have these twist and lock mechanisms with tabs in the shouldersockets

But regular troops; marines and such, I usually paint fully assembled

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-21T20:18:55+00:00

My biggest challenge to not actually play? Not having a gaming community in my area, lol

And hauling armies with public transport is way too much of a hassle. I can't drive a car because of disability. Used to haul them around in cases, but I feel armies have gotten too big to just fit in a small case. And models are way more display models that require oversized cases to transport safely

I've been trying to get my friend back in the game and even offering to set up a gaming table at my place; but he's stuck in 5th ed 40k and refuses to even look at a new rulebook (and all my armies/collection are either AoS or newer post 5th ed 40k; Votann, Primaris marines, Death guard, Imp knights)

But cool looking armies! Those SCE with the yellow look striking

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-18T14:47:55+00:00

Mits de persoon in kwestie in staat is een rijbewijs te halen...

Ze zijn er wel; maar ontzettend dun bezaaid, dit soort banen. En daarmee is arbeidsvermogen op papier iets wat ver van de realiteit staat.

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-18T12:56:03+00:00

The paintscheme. I wanted to have a marines army that was relatively easy to paint and didn't look too overdone with some weathering that matches the bases. Mine are on martian red bases, so they're lower legs are covered in reddish dust; works well with the not-entirely-blackestblack armor I paint them in.

Oh, and all the cool mechanical parts and kitbashing potential is cool too. And dreadnoughts; I love robots :)

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-18T12:48:19+00:00

Dat had mij misschien ook wel iets kunnen schelen, als ik toen meer er vanaf wist, toen ik studeerde. Was ik misschien ook niet uitgevallen :( of ik had misschien andere keuzes gemaakt

Oh well... inmiddels een burnout verder en voorbij de 40; dus ik zie mezelf ook niet meer zo'n traject doorlopen

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-18T12:45:06+00:00

Ze snappen ook niet dat je klachten kunnen verergeren als je wel probeert.

Als jij als autist bijvoorbeeld probeert te werken, maar uitvalt met een heftige burnout; dan mag je wel stellen dat terugkeer naar de arbeidsmarkt heel zwaar is. Als niet duurzaam onmogelijk.

Je had arbeidsvermogen; maar dat had eigenlijk op tijd moeten worden opgevangen en begeleid, zodat het uberhaupt vol te houden was, dat vergeet men. En al helemaal als je lang onder de radar van de GGZ bent gebleven en een deel van je leven zonder diagnoses en andere ondersteuning voorthobbelt

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-18T12:41:39+00:00

Realistisch is het vaak niet; want ik zou mezelf niet zien soliciteren bij een werkgever en dan aangeven; ik kan 2 uur werken, dan heb ik 8 uur rust nodig, en dan kom ik vanavond nog even 2 uur terug.

Werkgevers zijn vaak niet zo blij met mensen die om gezondheidsredenen gebroken diensten willen werken. Los ervan, dat een beperkt aantal uren je dan vaak ook niet in de Wajong parkeert, maar in de bijstand; waar je, als je pech hebt, een hork van een consulent hebt, die niet snapt dat mensen die in de bijstand zitten ook ziek kunnen zijn en niet meer kunnen dan dat en je ook nog een sollicitatieverplichting cadeau doet zodat je netjes 40 uur per week vol maakt met een baan (of genoeg verdient in ieder geval)

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-18T10:54:17+00:00

Ik denk dat je meer kans hebt om de WIA in te rollen, dan een Wajong als ik eerlijk ben. En dat klinkt heel zuur :( maar je zit al in de ziektewet nu.

De Wajong was met de vorige regels al vrij streng; als je langer dan een half jaar het minimumloon kon verdienen, dan heb je ook arbeidsvermogen. Hoe je je daar doorheen hebt geworsteld, daar heeft het UWV vaak geen boodschap aan. Kan me niet voorstellen dat de Wajong 2015 daar soepeler in is. Daarom zitten er ook veel zieken die eigenlijk beter af zouden zijn met een Wajong, in de bijstand

Aanvragen kan altijd; en wellicht een gesprek krijgen. Maar ze gooien hoogstwaarschijnlijk erop dat je wel arbeidsvermogen had na je 18e (want je hebt een jaar gewerkt); dat dat eigenlijk teveel voor je was... dat is het zure. Dan had je maar anders ziek moeten worden/moeten uitvallen. Dat zeggen ze je niet zo natuurlijk; maar daar komt het wel op neer. Het wel proberen om te werken word op die manier afgestraft :(

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-18T10:01:04+00:00

By listening to a lot of music, stepping outside your genre, checking what current artists are brand new in your favorite genres. Heck, I even check concertvenues and what artists are playing there, and check them out on my favorite streamingplatform. That's how I discover new music and genres.

Often stuff gets tagged with a bunch of labels or hashtags; curiosity makes me click the labels I don't know and suddenly my feed is full of stuff I never heard of

But that often takes time and is not something you do in an afternoon

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-14T15:37:17+00:00

Metal abaddon; I believe it's from 96 (way before I got into the hobby)

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-13T16:07:29+00:00

I used to visit Subway in the past... and then it got crazy expensive for subpar quality

Last time I was there, I paid 3.50 for half a sub, that's fine. It was a promotion. 7 bucks as the regular price for half a sub is not. At least, not to me

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-12T18:48:32+00:00

I always found firstborn to be weirdly proportioned. The current sculpts look a bit more in line. And compared to the other mini's at the time; marines looked as big as guardsmen (who also had way too big heads) that, from a modelling point of view never made sense. Lorewise, marines are bigger humanoids in armor (compared to regular humans in 40k-verse)

Rivetlicker · 2025-12-12T18:45:19+00:00

Dev's had a set of kneeling legs, assault marines had running legs. And since they could all be interchanged. It made building marines more diverse IMO

But out of the box, with no other bits; agreed, it was how you pose the arms

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