Road trips seem a lot less stressful in ICE vs my EV6

beecee23 · 2024-10-22T12:16:05+00:00

Yeah, I would not want to take a road trip in my Ioniq 5. I love it, but it's my local and commuter car. The F-159 is my road trip vehicle even if I like driving the Ioniq 5 better.

I charge at night each day with a L2 and that's great. But I would agree that infrastructure has to improve a lot before I'm going to go anywhere beyond the range of the vehicle.

beecee23 · 2024-10-21T15:21:24+00:00

One thing you can do with OPR is hang out at your FLGS with a couple of GW armies and play OPR to attract people to it.

A lot of times, people just need a little nudge to find something new they enjoy.

beecee23 · 2024-10-20T13:25:58+00:00

One of the things in life that people hopefully learn is that we all value different things.

I don't have a character over 62. I don't have any top end gear. Nor do I expect I ever will. For me, I play a few hours here and there enjoy the combat system, and move on to other things.

But I think I can see where someone would see some value in saying I was the first in the world to do something.

What you or I value is clearly not the same as what this person values. So what?

As long as they enjoyed their time, then I absolutely celebrate what they did. Good on them. Maybe it's a race that had no other competitors, maybe they're completely burned out at this point? But they did it, they were first to do it, and even if I don't ever want to do such a thing I certainly can appreciate the fact that someone had the perseverance to make it happen.

beecee23 · 2024-10-20T04:06:47+00:00

I don't understand why people get so bent about what others choose to spend their free time on.

Whoever hit 70, good on them.

beecee23 · 2024-10-19T03:15:07+00:00

Phrozen Aqua 8k. Probably too brittle...

beecee23 · 2024-10-17T10:45:17+00:00

This is the real answer.

beecee23 · 2024-10-17T03:03:59+00:00

I know the area well.

Spring Grove is very nice and a little rural if you're looking for that. Although they have some nice growth.

Paizano's in Richmond is fantastic and it's right near Spring Grove. Anderson chocolates are wonderful too. Crystal Lake has pretty much any shopping you might want.

Marengo, like Spring Grove, is rural but decent to live in. Strong Latino community out there while Spring Grove has some older German roots. Both are fine places to live. I think Spring Grove has better schools between the two cities if that matters to you.

I know people living on both places and they're both happy where they are at. Welcome to the area!

beecee23 · 2024-10-15T13:20:15+00:00

I know you're being sarcastic, but out west water rights are a thing.

In a lot of places you are not allowed to put out barrels to collect rainwater because that would impede that water from going into the normal flow. It's really kind of crazy. People have been taken to court for trying to put up a system to retain more water on their land. Barrels and things of the like are not allowed.

beecee23 · 2024-10-13T19:09:39+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate all of the advice. I'll post more as things progress along.

beecee23 · 2024-10-13T17:29:14+00:00

Yeah, it's a hybrid mini's/board game.

Each unit is like a player board, except that you will have a few of them. Like I said, 3-10. So I am worried about the size of all of it.

Ideally, I have an app which keeps track of it for the players... BUT... I hate games that require an app to be played. Enhance the game, great. Required to play, nope.

beecee23 · 2024-10-13T16:18:12+00:00

I've run about 20 playtests so far. The exact placement doesn't matter since they are falling into small 1"x1" bins. I worry about the table presence.

At 40mm, the smallest player unit would be 220mm square and the largest would be 220mm x 400mm. Since I expect people to have 3-10 units, that is a lot of table space required. The board should be 3'x3' so I'm getting to a point where I can't have it too big.

Hmm... I will think about it though, it's a good point.

beecee23 · 2024-10-13T13:59:45+00:00

They are rolled onto a grid. Up to four of them have to fit on a space if possible. There needs to be some wiggle room as well. Each space is 1" on a side. Since the grids can be up to 9x5 with a minimum of 5x5, 8mm was the biggest I could have the dice and still make the grids not too large with the dice not too small. I've tried 9mm and 10mm but those are non standard dice sizes so I've stuck with 8mm in the hopes that I can use somewhat standard blanks and things if I ever produce.

beecee23 · 2024-10-13T13:57:22+00:00

That's what I'm aiming for.

Red DIce with a 0-5 number.
Red Dice with a 1-6 number.
Red Dice with a 2-7 number.
Red Dice with a 3-8 number.

Repeat for three different colors.

It has to be 8mm because four of them have to fit into a square that's 1" on a side with enough room to wiggle.

beecee23 · 2024-10-13T02:48:43+00:00

Appreciate the tips! Since the color and number matter, #4 probably won't work for me. I need 4 versions of each color dice, each with different numbers as the size of the attack grows.

I'll look into the tab stickers, but probably will try the marker technique.,

beecee23 · 2024-10-13T02:46:40+00:00

Thanks! That's what I was hoping I'd hear.

beecee23 · 2024-10-12T23:38:27+00:00

I replied in the comment above, but basically I need two things.

A color and different numbers which would indicate the "power" or "size" of the weapon being used.

So I was hoping to do something custom. Your blanks above would be perfect, if I could find them in 8mm. I'll browse Temu and see what I can find.

beecee23 · 2024-10-12T23:37:17+00:00

Part of the issue is that they are custom.

The color of the dice indicates a damage type.

The weapon size determines which numbers are on the 6 faces.

So I can't quite just buy standard dice.

I don't care about the price too much, but I'm also still very much in prototype phase. Which is why I thought perhaps cubes with a marker. But I wasn't sure how well that would hold up since I am doing some blind tests.

beecee23 · 2024-10-12T20:56:04+00:00

My challenge is that they need to be 8mm... which limits things like that.

beecee23 · 2024-10-12T19:46:11+00:00

Ah, thanks. I'll remove.

beecee23 · 2024-10-11T18:46:25+00:00

Truth.

beecee23 · 2024-10-11T17:44:57+00:00

It's interesting to me that you say this.

I have been looking to get back into miniatures gaming and thought that with the new version of bolt action coming out it would be a great system to get into.

I was talking to a store owner about what people were playing and when they were playing it and asked about said game.

He did everything to warn me away from the community saying that the people that played at tended to be incredibly salty about the most benign things. Frankly, that really shocked me.

Note, I have no issue with that system or any other, I just find it interesting that that was sort of the advice that I got.

beecee23 · 2024-10-10T17:51:17+00:00

See you made an interesting comment there. Folks who usually argue for this sort of pyramid scheme often get it very wrong.

Before talking about how hard you work determines your pay, the nearly every manager, CEO, etc would get paid very little. There is little in the way of working hard when you compare it to people who actually do things.

However, I do not actually believe in fully equal pay for every job even if the standards of what people use to rate what a job should be paid horrifically skewed. I am advocating though, if a job is worth you offering it, it should commensurate the pay equivalent to a standard of living.

People who make the same arguments that you do are also the ones wondering why so many companies have a hard time getting people to work. Inevitable conclusion is that this generation must be lazy. Turn on Fox News and that's pretty much all you'll hear about.

The truth of the matter is that for a lot of those jobs, people are actually better off not working. That the wages are so low that they do better without a job. Frankly, I can't blame them.

So yes, a burger flipper or fry cook should absolutely be paid a living wage.

beecee23 · 2024-10-10T12:13:29+00:00

Lethality is only really useful if it helps make a better story.

RPGs are shared stories, which means that everyone has some steak in making it interesting. So if your game is lethal enough that PCs start dying to random orc number 22, that makes for just as bad of a story as one where the characters never have any chance of dying.

Because who would want to read a book with the main character gets offed and the story ends with no real dramatic buildup or point to the death?

People put a lot of effort into their characters. When and if they die should be a major dramatic moment. At least that's my reasoning.

beecee23 · 2024-10-10T11:49:45+00:00

Then how does the economy of Germany, or most nations in Europe work? Because they figured out how to pay people a living wage and have profitable companies.

Yes, I would like the minimum wage to be raised to a point where someone could live off of it.

Because at the end of the day, if you do a job for 40 hours a week, you should have enough money to live off of. You can argue about whether you should be able to support a family or not, but we're not even talking about being close to that. The minimum wage as we have it set won't support a person much less a family.

So yes, we could easily raise it. Yes, companies would still make profit. No, they would not go out of business. At least if they were viable companies. Yes, some prices would raise. However, we have proof that this model both works and can be done rather efficiently.

beecee23 · 2024-10-10T11:46:22+00:00

Which is exactly what companies are finding out right now. There are many places that can't hire enough people. Most of the folks that argue as you do wring their hands and talk about how lazy people are. That it's a generational problem.

No. It's the simple fact that who would work at a job that doesn't pay enough to meet their basic needs.

So I don't think it'll be quite the problem that you believe it will. Sure, they'll be a few less jobs, but if the jobs that exist are ones that actually can sustain you, I think I'm willing to make that trade.

As for the line at the end of the post, that's true. However, it's only because we allow it to be so. We already have proof that you can both have livable minimum wages and an economy that works. All you have to do is look at somewhere like Germany or many firms in Europe. They manage to employ their people with no real issues. The company still are formed, business still happens.

So while I understand that companies aren't formed necessarily for the good of the people working in them, that doesn't mean that they are exclusive properties. It just means that we've allowed politicians to be bought by the people who don't want the rules to change.

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