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Hi Guys.

I'm going to enter into the world of miniature casting. My end goal is to field a little army of Space Marines that I can put on my shelf and show how geeky I truly am, without having to dish out $350 to do it. Here is what I am going in equipped with:

1) A .pdf about casting miniatures that I found in a link on 1d4chan. It's pretty good. Blows away what I could find on Google. Lucky find.

2) My girlfriend's dad casts miniatures all the time. He's a big wargaming buff. I think he might be too advanced for me to handle, though, since he apparently casts pewter models.

Does anybody here have any knowledge on this sort of thing? Maybe you've done it before?

Otherwise, you can just look in here to find pictures of what I make. I'll post all my failures to make it truly entertaining.

I'm going to start with casting a 6-sided die. They seem like they're shaped in the easiest possible way, and I've got so many of them as to make them completely expendable. I'll let you know how it goes once I get started.

My girlfriend and I like to play on our computers. What are some good games for two? Co-op, versus, it doesn't matter! Genre? Doesn't matter! Style? Doesn't matter! I won't even list what we already play because our influences literally do not matter!

Though these threads, all across the internet, typically fill up with Minecraft, so I'll let you know that we already play it.

Upcoming new book:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022565.do

It's in the "Happy" thread, but it deserves its own topic.

Check it out. This site is confusing to me, but for best results, CTRL + F "Original Article", read all of that, and THEN go the top and start following Updates.

What can we learn from Christoforo? Where does Avenger itself fit into all of this? (I'll pop in this opinion from a mostly unrelated company) Does anybody want to devil's advocate for Christoforo (Good luck!)

Hello all,

I'm trying to find a pen and paper RPG dealing with organized crime, a subject touched upon in our media through shows like the Sopranos and movies like the Godfather. I've had no luck, so maybe somebody else has heard of one (or, better yet, played one!). There's a bonus if it covers some level of police investigation into crimes the characters may commit, even in a relatively abstract way, so as to encourage subtletly.

Conversely, an RPG based around police and detective work would actually work equally well.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/at-least-80-killed-in-norway-shooting-police-say/article2106259/

Earlier today, when I first heard the news and nobody was sure what had really happened (and the death toll at the camp was estimated at about 'ten'), one thing was clear. The shooter was a tall blond male. Naturally, speculation continued to be directed at an Al Qaeda orchestrated plot, and the strangely unintellectual comment sections of all news media websites were rife with people lamenting the West's lax attitude on Muslims and how we should all close our borders. You can generally tell which ones the evil Muslims are because of their blond hair.

There is no tl;dr, because you should really take the time out of your day to look up the news and not rely on us here on the forum. Also, I provided a link.

Discuss.



(Yeah, Cap'n'tastic, I ended the post with "Discuss". Suck it.)

Canada has trumped the United States once again:

Sun News Interview with Margie Gillis, incredibly influential interpretive dancer and choreographer.



Some background: Sun News is a new channel based around news from a Right-of-Centre perspective. The Toronto Sun, where this channel gets its name is a tabloid (as all newspapers called 'The Sun' are). The interviewer is Krista Erickson, an incredibly impoverished individual who has to struggle and claw for every .3 cents in annual income she has (calculations are my own, based on figures she provided and Canada's approximate 30 million population).

I haven't lawl'd so hard in so long.

Anybody else kind of glad that they did away with this whole subplot before it got too terrible?

Also, I just got the BSG: The Board Game: Exodus Expansion. It's pretty great.