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Why are skeletons always depicted as white? Like OK, white skeletons are in the majority, but it's not like there are no brown skeletons. But they're just totally shut out of media representation.
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Furthermore, GW only makes Bleached Bone which promotes unrealistic beauty standards. #BeautyAtAnyStageOfDecay
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Apr 6, 2017 18:45
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^^^ Edit: Reaper makes a 'Yellowed Bone' that is a better representative of many skeletons natural color. They also have a darker and lighter shade, 'Stained Ivory' and 'Creamy Ivory'. I am not really pleased with the names but the fact they're making a variety is positive. The focus on white skeletons is really damaging to many skellies, you see a lot of them using prolonged sun-bleaching or even harsh chemicals to try and achieve that idealized 'bone white' appearance, regardless of the impact that can have. So many end up prematurely brittle due to this. Ashcans fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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Apr 6, 2017 18:50
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This is the ideal skeleton color. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
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edit: wrong thread
Guy Goodbody fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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Apr 6, 2017 19:13
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Not a viking posted:Maybe a better way to put it is "not everyone wants to prioritize table top games enough to be able to play all the games, and therefore would make a hard decision as to which one to play. In which case, they might choose one that doesn't take so much time and money to spend and provide the most amount of "fun" [gently caress I said it didn't I] per time and money spent" Don't play all of them in one day.
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ijyt posted:Don't play all of them in one day. Aren't you banned yet?
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Apr 6, 2017 19:54
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Back in my day those Skeletal Justice Warriors would be exorcised by local clerics. Just saying. 
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Apr 6, 2017 20:39
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Black unlives matter
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Apr 6, 2017 20:59
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Just like Skullet Johansson playing as the Majorbone in Bone in the Shell was really Boneheaded to Askeletons.
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Apr 6, 2017 22:57
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There was no bone bleaching in Ghost in the Skull because the real problem is Scalpitalism.
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Apr 7, 2017 00:27
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Bunch of Skullcial Justice Warriors in this threads
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TKIY posted:Aren't you banned yet? his fursona doesnt give him enough gumption to eat a ban
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:his fursona doesnt give him enough gumption to eat a ban If I get banned I will come back furrier and sexier than you could ever hope to be.
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ijyt posted:If I get banned I will come back furrier and sexier than you could ever hope to be. 
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Apr 7, 2017 07:56
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This chrome plugin changes "skeleton" to "skeleton" It's great for making whiny manbabies on the internet more fun. It's best when you forget you have it, and then you see a youtube link like "Rational College Professor DESTROYS Furious Skeletons!", and for a split second you forget that you don't live in a world where rampaging mindless dead are a huge problem. 
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For those interested...Irate Tree posted:Here's a vid of Newcromunda with a history lesson at the start. Actual game content starts about 20 minutes in. I'm gonna give it a miss but something i noted that seemed lovely; At the end of your turn but before the beginning of the opponents turn, roll a D6. On a 6, something bad happens to a member of your opponents team (Trump supporters, or something). Roll another D6; On a 1, dude lives but makes an ammo check; 2-5, dude lives, proceed as normal; 6, lose a dude.
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I tried watching it but got bored I feel like the board should have been half the size
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Apr 7, 2017 16:35
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Moola posted:I tried watching it but got bored I do find it funny that so many war gamers say they love the story telling and fluff of the game, yet when they play its just rolling and number crunching. It looks simple enough, and I certainly have enough minis. I will definitely be trying it out at my FLGS because they will be supporting it I'm sure.
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Indolent Bastard posted:I do find it funny that so many war gamers say they love the story telling and fluff of the game, yet when they play its just rolling and number crunching. The story comes after the game, when you can talk about how your guy capped a dude through a window, then failed an ammo check and had his bolter blow up and kill him.
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berzerkmonkey posted:The story comes after the game, when you can talk about how your guy capped a dude through a window, then failed an ammo check and had his bolter blow up and kill him. I guess. I assume it's part of playing for the camera, that they hurry through everything and just roll-roll-roll so that the video isn't 1.5 hours. It makes the game itself seem less fun.
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Apr 7, 2017 16:55
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I dont really see the problem with long lets play videos. You are tuning in to watch a game be played. If the game takes 2 hours, why should the video be 30mins? Ok some stuff you just dont need to show but that does not mean you should rush through (you lose the fun) or cut it down to a cursory recap of the turn (because then you didnt see the game). I only ever watch/listen to this stuff while painting so sure, take your time.
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Apr 7, 2017 17:22
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a lot of the stuff happening in one of these games is not particularly interesting to anyone not involved (someone thinking, pushing models around), which goes 10x for GW games which have an insane ratio of time taken to non-trivial decisions made
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Some bloke procrastinating should get cut, yeah. I guess the trick to a good lets play is to do a bit of narrating and try to explain why you are pushing the models over here rather than doing some other thing. A bad lets play is 5 minutes of silence followed by a grunt and some vague shuffling.
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that video made me want to buy Deadzone
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Ugleb posted:5 minutes of silence followed by a grunt and some vague shuffling.
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Apr 7, 2017 17:48
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the title of your sex tapes
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Moola posted:the title of your sex tapes 5 minutes? Undead stamina is so unfair on the rest of us
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Thirsty Dog posted:5 minutes? Undead stamina is so unfair on the rest of us It's not that they have stamina, they're just resistant to piercing attacks
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Moola posted:the title of your sex tapes 
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Moola posted:that video made me want to buy Deadzone I looked for this product on the Games Workshop website and couldn't find it, is this a Forgeworld thing?
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panascope posted:I looked for this product on the Games Workshop website and couldn't find it, is this a Forgeworld thing? No - it just sold out within 5 minutes of them putting it up in the store. They didn't anticipate the demand and will be working to get the rules to everyone.
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Avenging Dentist posted:It's not that they have stamina, they're just resistant to piercing attacks berzerkmonkey posted:No - it just sold out within 5 minutes of them putting it up in the store. They didn't anticipate the demand and will be working to get the rules to everyone. these are both good jokes
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Moola posted:these are both good jokes Tickled your funny bone?
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Was that rule/spell that turned 6s to 1s and 1s to 6s real or a hoax?
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Real.
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So I was just at the GW website to see if the old Blood Bowl made to order teams were available yet and I noticed that Shadow Wars teams are being sold in boxes for $130-150.  That's not really the kind of price tag that I expect to see on a skirmish game.The Eldar one for instance is 21 models. An Enforcer starter set for Deadzone comes with 23 models and costs $40. For another $40 you get an additional 13 models including vehicles. That means for $80 you 36 models of varying shapes and sizes and can still afford to buy the core rules or terrain without spending as much on a single Shadow Wars team. Like, I totally get if you already have a collection of 40k models why SW:A is so appealing, but I can't really see it being the kind of gateway game that GW hope it might be the way Deadzone is for Warpath.
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Atlas Hugged posted:So I was just at the GW website to see if the old Blood Bowl made to order teams were available yet and I noticed that Shadow Wars teams are being sold in boxes for $130-150. Yeah.. Cheapest option looks to be a 15 model Tau set for £57.50. You can buy the Deadzone 2nd edition two player starter direct from Mantic for £50. That contains 20 models plus terrain, mat, book, dice and tokens. Deadzone faction starters are £25 for about 20 models in each, so you are paying well over double the price for fewer models at the cheapest option.
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Going a step further, if you got the Enforcer starter plus booster for $80, you have around 1000 points for Firefight, a game played at 1250 points. For another $20 you could get one of 10 Enforcers, 10 Pathfinders, 1 Strider, 5 Peacekeepers, or 4 Jetbikes. Buying any one of those would get you to the 1250 point level and you'd have only spent $100 on models.
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