Dave's Rantlets

3:43pm: From Peregrine Island to Peregrine Took Chapter 13 - The End Of The Year
In which I make a Lara Croft expy and discover a very useful keybind.

11:05am: Warmachine: Custom wreck marker (Light Warjack)
Boom.

9:59pm: Review: MasterShooter third party toys
Updated versions of several G1 Targetmaster partners, plus boner jokes.

4:43pm: Review: Beast Hunters Deluxe Wave 2
Starscream, Ripclaw, Bulkhead and Smokescreen. A lot of "could have been" toys.

2:55pm: Warmachine: Agathan and Da Boyz
First three Boomhowlers done:

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The other seven Boomhowlers are assembled, and each has his own unique hat.

9:20pm: Warmachine: Cryx Battlegroup in Changeling style

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1:36pm: Essay: A Geek's Guide to Gerrymandering
Simplifying the numbers a bit and putting it in a fandom-friendly context.

4:58pm: Warmachine: Lt. Caine in Troubleshooter colors

7:16pm: Warmachine: Battle Force Knockoff!

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12:50pm: Warmachine: Captain Darius as Mk I Iron Man

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6:11pm: Warmachine: Rhupert Carvolo, the Piper of Ord
With Ord being a town in Nebraska big enough to have a high school marching band, I couldn't resist the gag.

2:33pm: LL&DD Special "Chore Bored"
LL&DD Special - Chore Bored: With DeeDee reformed and made an honest man, in January 1997 it's time to set up housekeeping and decide how the household chores will be divvied up. Yeah, that's gonna go smoothly.

9:00pm: Warmachine: N3mo and Finch as Iron Man and Rescue
Played these tonight in a zappy-heavy army against a Khador force. Sorscha one-shotted Finch, but then ate Stormclad sword. One of my rare victories.


ETA: Huh. At some point LJ decided "lonely" was my default mood. I just noticed that...I wonder how many hundreds of posts I've made with that mood?

3:22pm: Comics for March 2013
March 27, 2013: Bone: Quest for the Spark Book Three, Atomic Robo Two-Fisted Adventures: Enter the Tyrantula, Transformers: ReGeneration One #88, Young Avengers v2 #1, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #4, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #5, My Little Pony Micro-Series #2.

2:29pm: Review: Beast Hunters Deluxe Wave 1
Lazerback (the only entirely new mold) is good, retooled Bumblebee a slight improvement, retooled Soundwave a downgrade, and retooled Wheeljack a wash.

11:43am: Warmachine: Stormclad as TF:A Grimlock
Featuring a souvenir of my interview trip to Idaho:

12:46pm: A geek culture revelation
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6:01pm: Warmachine: Stormguard as Guardsman (full unit)

11:15am: Friendship is Llamas?
Background for people who don't pay attention to such things:

A while back, a group called Mane6 started working on a Street-Fighter-style game using My Little Pony characters, called "Fighting is Magic". They were using an off-the-shelf engine, but doing pretty well in learning how it worked (and didn't work, and how to get around that) and putting together unique moves for all the ponies.

It was well-received. In fact, it was even up for an award for indie games (I forget if they won or just placed well)...which was their downfall. Fighting is Magic got too big for Hasbro to turn a blind eye, and they dropped a Cease & Desist on Mane6.

This is where Lauren Faust, the person behind the current incarnation of MLP, stepped in. She offered to design a new set of characters for Mane6, who would use what they'd learned so far to create an even better game. And now there's a synergy with the kickstarter campaign for a group developing a superior 2-D fighting engine, if they hit 750K they'll give Mane6 a free license.

All that said, silhouettes of some of the new characters are now available as part of a FAQ posting...and one of them appears to be a llama. My Llittle Llama!

3:45pm: Warmachine: Stormguard as Guardsman (one grunt)
After basecoating all ten figures in the unit, I decided to go ahead and finish one to make sure I liked the results before going at the other nine. And I did change a few things along the way, so this one is a little odd-looking in places where I had to cover up stuff, hopefully the rest will be smoother now that I know what I want.

12:11am: Warmachine: Firefly as Bombshell


Painted as another Insecticon since one of the big benefits of the Firefly is that it can hang out with Stormcallers and provide another triangulation point for zappy.

4:35pm: Warmachine: Stormcallers as Insecticon Shrapnel


Finished just ahead of my trip. :) The Firefly Light Warjack I got to go along with them is assembled and will be painted as Bombshell once I get back.

8:34pm: Warmachine: The Mads

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3:17pm: Review: Beast Hunters Commander Wave 1 (TFPrime Wave 5)
Optimus and Predaking are okay, Bulk-vahkin is the best of the lot, but it's getting pretty hard to be sanguine about $11 toys that aren't up to the level of Scout Class.

8:16pm: Warmachine: Krosp, Emperor of the Cats
Modified from a Reinholdt gobber merc.