HyveMynd
@hyvemynd
Philly migrant | Corporate drone / struggling TTRPG creator | Monsterhearts fan | Netrunner player | pixel art lover | 🏳️⚧ rights | fuck AI 🚫
Hey hey! I found a photo of the old Hunter's Kits I made for my Gateway2013 Monster of the Week convention game. (13 years ago, wow.) You can see both the inside and outside of the metal case, and the front and back of the play aid cards.
I'm watching the 2010 movie "30 Days of Night: Dark Days." I thought the whole deal with vampires in the 30 Days franchise is that they're animalistic; just running around feeding and killing. The ones in this sequel seem pretty human. It's jarring, and honestly kinda boring.
"A world inspired by Manganiello's clothing line of the same name" and "shared more details in a post on X" tells me absolutely everything I need to know here.
Last night my partner chose 2019's "Dora and the Lost City of Gold" for movie night. For her and our kid — who are completely unfamiliar with the original Dora the Explorer series — it was just a kids adventure movie. I thought it was surprisingly good.
After an incredibly long hiatus of GMing #TTRPG games, I'll be running a one-shot of @genericgamesnz.bsky.social's "Monster of the Week" at the August 9th Osaka boardgame meetup. I haven't decided on a mystery yet. Any recommendations?
I am absolutely BURNT OUT on the "grimdark, fuck you I got mine" apocalyptic settings that seem to be prevalent recently. (Yes, I understand how they can be cathartic or whatever.) But I don't mind it so much in #CARNIVORE, because I don't really expect animals to work together.
I've been reading the rules to #CARNIVORE by Buer Games — the people who did 1490 Doom — and think it's pretty cool. It's a miniature skirmish game where you play as carnivorous dinosaurs fighting over resources after the meteor impact. buergames.com/pages/carniv...
I watched the first episode of Netflix's "the American Experiment" this afternoon. My wife said she wanted to watch it, but fell asleep about 15 minutes in. As someone who has gotten somewhat interested in Revolutionary era wargaming, I honestly enjoyed it.
I won't see "jackass: best and last" because I can't stomach the bodily fluid stuff. (Who knows if it'll even come to Japan?) I watched the original MTV run and a few early movies. Like modern art, I can appreciate it a lot more now that I know the intentions of the cast.
This morning I trimmed the labels of the bases of my 2mm scale Numidian army. (Even with a nice, new blade some of them tore a bit.) Next step is painting over those white edges, and tidying up the side of the bases. Shown below are some light horsemen, imitation legionaires, and javelinmen.
Spent tonight gluing the labels onto the finished bases for the 2mm scale Numidian army. I went with black text on an orange field to contrast with the Romans (white text on red). These labels are descriptive — e.g. Imitation Legionaires — so I can use them with either DBA or Triumph rules
Finally painted the riders on my 2mm scale Numidian cavalry last night. I've got a decent system now: - dark flesh tone base; - horizontal swipe of color for the clothes; - spot of flesh tone again on top for heads; - dot of black for hair; - bronze dot for helmets; - spot of brown for shields.
Too tired to paint the riders tonight, but I spent some time varying the colors of the mounts of the light horsemen for my 2mm scale Numidian army. Most are still that dun color with white or dark brown socks, but there are a few gray, brown, and black horses now. That looks better, I think.
No painting tonight — I'm too tired and my thumb joint is weirdly sore. 😢 But here's a comparison of the Numidian Light Horse I painted for the Marian Roman army (bottom left) and the ones for the Numidian army (the other three). I like the variety of horse colors on the Roman base much better.
On the painting workbench: eight stands of 2mm scale cavalry for the Numidian army. I did all of the horses in a dun color — apart from the general's — which may have been a mistake. I think I need a few darker brown animals in there for variety. Next step is the riders.
It really does. Though things finally seem to be calming down after this morning's water change.
I mean, am I wrong? Relatedly, I literally changed the carbon filter yesterday, replaced half the water, and then replaced half the water AGAIN this morning. WHY IS IT STILL GREEN?
I know it has its fans, but for me Farscape will always just be "that show with the puppets that comes on before LEXX."
Finished rewatching DUNE: Part One last night. (My kid actually watched a bit with me, so I have hope for her.) My two other major issues — the Bene Gesserit's plans NOT being a secret and Jamis being too much of an Angry Black Man — while present, didn't seem as horribly egregious this time.
I mean. A MAJOR plot point of DUNE is that none of the Great Houses in the Landsraad ever find out the Emperor is helping House Harkonnen eliminate House Atredies. So the sardaukar showing up in their crisp, white uniforms yelling "SARDAUKAR!" as they fight is completely fucking stupid.
Rewatched the first half of DUNE:Part One. I've finally accepted that Villeneuve did an okay job of translating an information dense book into the visual language of a movie. But the sardaukar were just fucking dumb.
Took the day off from work to attend parent teacher conferences later this afternoon. I'm going to try and finish watching "THRASH" while I have the house to myself.
Playing Command & Colors: Ancients has made me want to get back to working on my 2mm scale ancient armies for De Bellis Antiquitatus 3 ruleset. I've got Roman, Numidian, Gallic, and British armies from around 100 BCE, plus the New Kingdom Egyptian and Sea Peoples armies shown below.
Got a chance to play Command & Colors: Ancients at the June Game Day last Sunday. It's been a game I've wanted to try for a while and I really enjoyed it, despite losing to Rome as Carthage. I like games with "unreliable activation" and C&C achieves this through activation cards.