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Comment on For Tomorrow We Fight by 101stmonkey

101stmonkey — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:19:09 +0000

Just in case anyone is interested in what happened at the tournament, I’ll break it down into seven easy-to-digest chunks.

1. Registered online several weeks in advance.
2. Paid tournament fee at the store in advance.
3. Turned up at the store early to help set up tables and terrain.
4. Noticed lots of people were turning up late and had not paid/registered in advance.
5. Told by organizer that due to an uneven number of players in the tournament, I would not be playing during the first round.
6. I became pissed off, for obvious reasons (not least of all I’d be paying the same amount of money for two games that practically everyone else would be paying for three).
7. I got my money back and went home.

What the hell is wrong with people? I mean, it’s not easy to organize a tournament, I know, but if you’re going to make the effort then damn well do it right. Don’t have an odd number of players, that’s a given. But if you do, don’t treat the people who signed up early and are regular and loyal customers like shit, while treating the careless jerks like royalty. I never had this problem when I used to run tournaments at stores.

Sweet Jeremiah H. Crankshaft, I despair sometimes, I really do.

Comment on How to Paint… an Imperial Guardsman by Nick

Nick — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:18:35 +0000

Mate, i have been looking for a tutorial for ages just like this becuase i didnt know what to do becuase i sucked at painting the cloth and i was using GW painting tutorial but this is this freaking best thx man so much!!!!

Comment on How to Paint… an Imperial Guardsman by Hans

Hans — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:46:26 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I’ve been trying something similar, but I’ve been dry-brushing the lighter layers, and I think it’s given my models a “fuzzier” look than I want. I’m going to give this method a try.

What do you do for models that have a lot of flat spaces, eg tanks? This is what I find hardest. If the figure doesn’t have curves and ridges to suggest areas to shade or highlight, I don’t know what to do.

Comment on When a Mad Old Woman Tells You to Leave, You Leave by 101stmonkey

101stmonkey — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:57:36 +0000

Later thought. Looking back over this article, I re-read my comment about The Day of the Triffids. The two plots are obviously similar: in both, the protagonist is knowledgeable in the area that is causing the problems (Mark Wahlberg’s character is a science teacher who focuses on biology and nature, while John Wyndham’s protagonist is a Triffid oil farmer), both possess an advantage over all other survivors (scientific knowledge and an open mind in the first case, sight in the second), and both aren’t really heroes but merely want to survive. In addition, the plots follow similar patterns. However, the big difference between the two is that despite the last-minute claim to the contrary, nearly everyone in The Happening works with each other and helps out. (There are exceptions: most notably the holed-up survivors who kill the two annoying kids; and possibly – at a stretch – the drivers who refuse to stop and pick up Wahlberg and co., and the crazy old lady.) It has a very optimistic viewpoint on the whole. The Day of the Triffids, on the other hand, has a much more bleak outlook – practically all the survivors the protagonist encounters work against each other and things get worse and worse. In many ways is a blueprint for future fictional works in which society collapses, such as Romero’s zombie flicks. M. Night Shamaylan missed an opportunity there, I think, much to the film’s detriment.