mf0 logs -> 2012 -> Sat, 11 Aug 2012< mf0.20120810.log - mf0.20120812.log >
--- Log opened Sat Aug 11 00:00:28 2012
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<~McMartin>
afny: That sounds like you might be giving him
00:17
<~McMartin>
:shades:
00:17
<~McMartin>
cavalier treatment
00:29
< afny>
heh
00:32
< afny>
I'd argue that his attitude toward his own religion is cavalier
00:33
< afny>
but I am a bit flippant
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<+FerrelFerret_phone>
Yo.
02:48
<@randolph>
Hey FF
02:54
<+FerrelFerret_phone>
How's things?
02:56
<@randolph>
Good, prepping for a demo tomorrow
02:57
<+FerrelFerret_phone>
Cool. What type of companies are you taking?
02:59
<@randolph>
One Direct-Fire heavy defender company, one HtH-heavy attacker company, and one specialist point company
02:59
<@randolph>
3/4 (-1 system)/4
03:05
<+FerrelFerret_phone>
Sounds good.
03:10
<@randolph>
Any suggestions?
03:26
<+FerrelFerret_phone>
Not really. I'm personal looking into what would me good builds for demos.
03:26
<+FerrelFerret_phone>
Want to start running them soon.
03:27
< afny>
I think Malcolm's demo builds look pretty good so far
03:27
< afny>
good place to start anyway
03:28
<+FerrelFerret_phone>
That's what I was thinking, too.
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< addking>
evenin
05:43
<@randolph>
hey
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<+MittenNinja>
sup afny?
18:38
< afny>
o/
18:38
<@randolph>
Hey MN
18:38
<@randolph>
Heyafny
18:38
< afny>
Watching The King and the Mocking Bird but it's loading very slowly so I have to take breaks
18:38
< afny>
how goes your commissions?
18:40
<+MittenNinja>
so far so good!
18:41
<+MittenNinja>
im almost done with one, and just started another. Then there's the first one I got which is going to take quite a while to finish
18:41
< afny>
the chess one?
18:41
<+MittenNinja>
yeah
18:41
< afny>
what are they other two, if you can talk about them?
18:41
<+MittenNinja>
I've got the pawn, rook, and knight finished
18:41
< afny>
the*
18:41
<+MittenNinja>
just a couple companies
18:42
<+MittenNinja>
one of them is a group of iguana variants
18:42
<+MittenNinja>
and the other is still being fleshed out
18:43
<+MittenNinja>
i get to do sand green/dark bley with that one :)
18:45
< afny>
loaded client I take it
18:48
<+MittenNinja>
I'm mostly going to be using 1x2 tiles and wedges, which aren't that much more expensive in sand green
18:48
<+MittenNinja>
its' the dishes and headlights that get ridiculous
18:48
<+MittenNinja>
and i already have a crapton of them on hand
18:49
<+MittenNinja>
so finding them on bricklink wont be an issue
18:49
< addking>
5 or 8 per company?
18:51
<+MittenNinja>
5 on the iguanas and 6 on the other
18:51
<@randolph>
Skirmish / small battle sized
18:51
<@randolph>
I wonder how many people go for the full 8
18:52
<+MittenNinja>
once you add a third player you can no longer field 8
18:52
<+MittenNinja>
once you add the 4th it drops to 6
18:52
<+MittenNinja>
as more and more people play I see the average number of frames in a company dropping
18:53
<+MittenNinja>
5-6 is pretty solid if you're playing with multiple people
18:53
< addking>
I could only field 8 in one company personally - altho I have a couple frames, i could 'float' between companies, as they have their own look. I have yet to field more than 6.
18:54
< addking>
my 'normal' group (as much as I can say that) is only 3 of us right now.
18:54
<+MittenNinja>
Yeah, as my group got bigger I found myself planning for 5 frame companies more often
18:55
<+MittenNinja>
even some 4 or 3 frame ones
18:55
< afny>
so far I've just been building 9 or 10 frames
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< afny>
and then coming up with different loadouts
18:55
< afny>
some that involve only four frames
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< afny>
it usually takes me about ten frames to get the company's aesthetic down
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< afny>
or in some cases, complete rebuilds of the company
18:56
< addking>
well the VoP rebuild turned out nice man.
18:57
<+MittenNinja>
for sure
18:57
<+MittenNinja>
I've rebuilt my fat snaks a few times
18:57
<+MittenNinja>
I think I'm finally completely happy with them
18:57
< addking>
I saw the new O6 post with the chain of command
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<+MittenNinja>
awesome!
18:58
< afny>
thanks AK
18:58
< afny>
still need to make a few changes to that company though
18:58
<+MittenNinja>
I still want to make a MgN fat snake in all dark green and give it some ridiculous loadout
18:58
< afny>
mainly replacing all the orange 1x1s in their cores with black
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< afny>
do it like the AA MgN
18:59
< addking>
those orange 1x1's ended up defining my 'Ijad' colors
18:59
< afny>
I told myself they made the frames look cool LIKE ANIME when I was doing it
18:59
< afny>
but I knew deep down that it was just because I didn't have enough of an innocuous color
18:59
<+MittenNinja>
yeah, i've done that too
19:00
< addking>
ah, i'm down with the orange. it pops on the table.
19:00
< afny>
it bothers me more on some of them than others
19:00
< afny>
I think it totally ruins the tan and yellow one, for instance
19:00
< afny>
but it looks good on the grey/blue ones
19:01
<+MittenNinja>
yeah it looks great with blue
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< huhwhozat>
addking: I want orange 1x1's!
19:01
<+MittenNinja>
a little bit of orange makes the blu really pop
19:01
< afny>
they're pretty common on PAB walls right now
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< addking>
yeah my crew is 'creamsickle' colors: white, orange, with light/dk bley's and black.
19:01
< huhwhozat>
which frames are under discussion?
19:01
<+MittenNinja>
afny's VoP company
19:02
< afny>
I'll find you the thread
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< addking>
could be worse afny - my 2nd choice to orange was trans blue - since the PAB had lots.
19:02
< huhwhozat>
found it on flikr
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< afny>
I dont think that's it
19:02
< afny>
I've rebuilt that company twice
19:03
< afny>
the flikr set is build 2 I believe
19:03
< huhwhozat>
so not http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyanosmoros/7348933060/in/set-72157630074737696 ?
19:03
< afny>
yeah, that's old
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< afny>
http://www.mobileframehangar.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1657
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<@randolph>
heh
19:04
<@randolph>
that flame tile is a nice touch
19:04
< afny>
addking: I love white with a neon color accent
19:04
< afny>
I got a ton of 1x2 lime green tiles at PAB
19:04
<@randolph>
(on the Ares)
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< afny>
and I want to use them in a white/dark bley company
19:04
<@randolph>
Ugh, I can't stand the lime :|
19:04
< afny>
it's horrible in large ammounts
19:04
< afny>
but I like it as an accent
19:04
< addking>
I have a fistful as well, but could only manage the lime on a couple chubs, with purple and black.
19:04
<@randolph>
I know it's a personal taste thing, afny, I just hate lime :p
19:05
< afny>
yea
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< afny>
I've ranted against it before
19:05
<@randolph>
It reminds me horribly of the early 90s
19:05
< afny>
I think you have to throw in a lot of cool colors
19:05
< afny>
to get away from that vomit inducing 90's feel
19:05
< afny>
thus the dark bley
19:08
<@randolph>
Black and Lime!
19:08
<@randolph>
;x
19:08
< afny>
that's very 90's
19:08
< addking>
I have a pile of lime 1x1 bricks, that I haven't been able to figure out what to do with. :p
19:08
< afny>
I don't like black and lime at all
19:08
<@randolph>
(I know, I was joking)
19:08
< afny>
yeah, I got a few 1x1 in orange and lime
19:08
< afny>
as well as the tiles
19:09
<@randolph>
Black and Lime is like "Early 90's, the T-Shirt"
19:09
< addking>
That's not an unfair statement. But I have these purple pieces...
19:09
< afny>
well, don't get me wrong
19:09
<@randolph>
Purple is great, though
19:09
< afny>
I LOVE horrible 90's color schemes
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<@randolph>
; ;
19:09
< afny>
but it's a guilty pleasure.
19:10
< afny>
like trashy romance novels
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< afny>
I have no illusions about their quality
19:10
< addking>
haha
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<@randolph>
hee
19:10
<@randolph>
ok, take care guys, I'm off to chores and then demo
19:11
< addking>
demo game today?
19:11
< addking>
cool, make some MoFos.
19:12
< huhwhozat>
addking: you could give them to me!
19:12
< huhwhozat>
cya randolph
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< addking>
hurting for bricks huh?
19:13
< huhwhozat>
YES!
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< huhwhozat>
:P
19:13
< huhwhozat>
what do you guys think of black with white&orange highlights
19:14
< huhwhozat>
I need some orange 1x1 tiles though...
19:14
<+MittenNinja>
that should look pretty good
19:14
< addking>
that'd be great with me, but it's mostly dependant on what parts are black
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< huhwhozat>
the majority will be black, with things like T-pieces being lt bley ofc.
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< huhwhozat>
whoops, off to Wally world.
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< huhwhozat>
later guys!
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< addking>
k cya.
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<+MittenNinja>
Malcolm! whats up man?
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< Malcolm>
Question for everyone from a rank IRC amateur: how do you do that thing where you have a private channel to talk to one person? No ulterior motive, I'm just curious because people have done it with me, and I never thought to ask
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<+MittenNinja>
type "/msg (username) andthentextgoeshere
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<+MittenNinja>
without the quote obviously
19:23
< Malcolm>
Aha, thanks
19:23
<+MittenNinja>
so for example "/msg Malcolm whuddup sucka?"
19:23
< afny>
it just auto-opens a window once you do that
19:23
<+MittenNinja>
wait
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<+MittenNinja>
nvm
19:24
<+MittenNinja>
im dumb
19:24
<+MittenNinja>
ignore the wait
19:24
<+MittenNinja>
NOTHING TO SEE HERE
19:24
< addking>
in a lot of clients, you just double click the person in the user list, it spawns the personal/private window as well.
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< addking>
nvm, you saw it
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< afny>
colloquy even has rightclick options
19:25
< afny>
it's very user friendly
19:25
< Malcolm>
Aha, I'm just going through my browser. I feel there may be something I'm missing
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< addking>
yeah there is much to be gained by using a proper client
19:26
< Malcolm>
Righty
19:26
< afny>
what OS do you use?
19:26
< Malcolm>
As I said, rank amateur
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< Malcolm>
Mac OS X Snow Leopard
19:26
< afny>
AHA!
19:26
< afny>
then get colloquy
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< afny>
simple to set up, it saves your servers/logins
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< afny>
and has a great UI
19:27
< Malcolm>
Grand, will do!
19:27
< Malcolm>
Thanks everyone for the info
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<+MittenNinja>
np
19:29
< Malcolm>
You'll probably get a stream of invective shortly as I totally fail to drive this thing properly
19:29
< addking>
don't feel bad, I got banned from a lot of channels learning MiRC back in the day
19:30
< addking>
and it was very frustrating since there was content I was after
19:30
< afny>
Hardcore IRC users swear by mirc and are generally afraid of new technology
19:30
< afny>
ironically
19:30
< afny>
I think mirc is a pretty horrible program by modern standards
19:30
< addking>
yeah i'm running hydra atm, cuz I wasn't sure what the 'new' good
19:31
<+MittenNinja>
i just use the web client
19:31
<+MittenNinja>
it works well enough
19:31
< afny>
hydra is what I use on my windows partition
19:31
< afny>
Not as user friendly as colloquy, but still decent
19:31
< afny>
web clients are a good thing for IRC
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< Malcolm>
Anyhow, must go start cooking. Thanks for the info. I'm already baffled, but that should just lead me to the conclusion that reading the user guide is not necessarily a bad thing
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< afny>
all you should really need is the server and channel name, which I assume the web client provides for you
19:34
< afny>
just add irc.nightstar.net to your "new connections" list
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< afny>
or it might just be the button that says "connect"
19:34
< afny>
and after you pick a nickname, you can just join the channel "mf0"
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< afny>
er, or you can just type irc.nightstar.net/mf0 as the server, and it will autojoin you
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< addking>
yup
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< Malcolm>
The important thing to remember is this: when it comes to anything technical, I'm a fucking idiot
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< afny>
irc is a bit confusing for people who have only ever used chat programs that are dictated by a client
19:36
< addking>
consider this tho: most things are easier with the proper tools
19:37
< Malcolm>
Like cooking! Which I can actually do! But, I will contiue with this tomorrow. First, food, then off to see Mick Foley do stand up comedy at the Edinburgh Festical. yes, really, THAT MIck Foley
19:37
< addking>
it better involve folding chairs
19:37
< Malcolm>
Festival, rather than festical. We banned the festical after all those fatalities
19:37
< afny>
Ouch.
19:38
< afny>
right in the festicles.
19:38
<+MittenNinja>
lol
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< Malcolm>
Right in several festicals. No one looks back fondly on that decade, I can tell you
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< addking>
goddamn, i need a digital camera.
19:47
< addking>
or a cell phone made this century
19:47
<+MittenNinja>
how much are you looking to spend?
19:48
< addking>
lol. nothing? ;)
19:48
<+MittenNinja>
:p
19:48
< addking>
I'll be trying to keep it in the 50 bucks range
19:48
< addking>
at least for starters
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<+MittenNinja>
you're not going to find a whole lot for around there.
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<+MittenNinja>
Not new anyways
19:49
<+MittenNinja>
you might be able to find a used one
19:49
< afny>
wat
19:50
<+MittenNinja>
if you want a decent camera
19:50
< afny>
you can get a decent point and shoot for 50 easy
19:50
<+MittenNinja>
eh, depends on how you define decent
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< afny>
well, my standards are low I suppose
19:51
< addking>
well, i have owned plenty of old school film camers in the 20 dollar range then...
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< afny>
if you take the time to do research
19:52
< afny>
you can get a point and shoot that's analogous to a cheap, reliable film camera for 40-50 bucks used
19:52
< afny>
there are a LOT of shitty ones, though
19:52
<+MittenNinja>
if you want film? Hell yeah you can.
19:52
< addking>
nay on film these days. :P
19:52
<+MittenNinja>
there are a lot of crappy digital point and shoots out there
19:52
< afny>
yeah, sooo many
19:53
< afny>
but the good ones aren't necessarily more expensive
19:53
<+MittenNinja>
if you can manage, anything from either Nikon or Cannon will be good
19:53
< afny>
just gotta do research
19:53
<+MittenNinja>
yeah
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<+MittenNinja>
DSLRs are where it's at though
19:54
< afny>
definitely can't get a good dslr for 50 bucks
19:54
<+MittenNinja>
nope
19:54
< addking>
k, i don't know what that is
19:54
<+MittenNinja>
Digital Single Lens Reflection
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<+MittenNinja>
basically a semi-professional camera with removeable lens'
19:55
< addking>
is that the current 'gold' standard?
19:55
< afny>
it was the gold standard even before digital cameras, really
19:55
<+MittenNinja>
it gives you the most options
19:55
<+MittenNinja>
shutter speed, iso, white balance, exposure settings
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<+MittenNinja>
etc
19:56
<+MittenNinja>
plus with different lens' you can achieve a lot of cool shots
19:56
<+MittenNinja>
and you can use filters and such
19:56
<+MittenNinja>
granted those cost more money to get too :p
19:56
< afny>
unless you want to get into photography as a hobby and really learn about your camera
19:56
< afny>
you really don't need one
19:56
< afny>
just to take pictures of lego
19:56
<+MittenNinja>
true
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<+MittenNinja>
but its totally worth the time and money investment if you take pictures
19:57
< addking>
i was gonna say, i have a friend who is a photographer
19:57
< addking>
but I'm not looking for art levels here, i'm aiming at bricks. =/
19:58
< addking>
photoshop/gimp is more in my baliwick then lens/filters
19:58
< afny>
the only problem I've found with cheap point and shoot cameras when it comes to lego is white balance
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< afny>
you're pretty much limited to presets
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< afny>
but the crappy camera i'm using now that has presets that are good enough, and I can do the rest of the color editing in PS if I need to
19:59
< addking>
altho i suppose a few lessons for free, wouldn't bust my ass.
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<+MittenNinja>
Yeah, the nice thing about having a DSLR is that you have to do very little or no editing in PS
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20:06
< afny>
I very, very rarely do any ps editing even with my point and shoot
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< afny>
but then again, my standards are low.
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< addking>
working it out
20:21
< Malcolm>
So, I had a pretty fun demo of the game today
20:22
< Malcolm>
Also: loads of people stopped and asked questions, wanted more info, etc
20:22
< Malcolm>
So, pretty positive all round
20:23
< addking>
you take the kit you last mentioned on the forum?
20:23
< Malcolm>
Yes, indee I did
20:23
< Malcolm>
indeed, rather
20:23
< Malcolm>
Although, embarrassingly, I won the game. Despite trying not to. I was ridiculously lucky with the dice
20:24
< addking>
as long as it wasn't a complete beatdown
20:25
< Malcolm>
The other guys were making some solid tactical decisions, but I just had the luck. It ended up 30/27/21
20:25
< Malcolm>
I had started as the middle team
20:25
< addking>
that's not bad
20:25
< addking>
it's the really lopsided ones that can turn someone off
20:25
< Malcolm>
The guy on primary offense was so close to pulling it out of the fire.
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< Malcolm>
I think he only realised half way through that you need to concentrate your fire on one unit at a time if you can.
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< Malcolm>
He did some pretty great station taking, though
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<@randolph>
That sounds great,too bad Malcolm'sgone
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<@randolph>
I wanted to ask him for some lessons learned before my demo tonight
22:51
< addking>
did he post about it?
22:51
<@randolph>
not that I saw
22:51
<@randolph>
He mentioned 3 hours ago that he did a demo, but didn't post anything
22:52
<@randolph>
I came back early from chores, tightened up one of the stations, and am about to head out for the actual demo
22:54
< afny>
He went out to a festival
22:54
< afny>
I think he lost his SD card as well so I dunno if there are pics
22:54
< addking>
good luck. I'm gonna see if I can get another friend to give it a try tomorrow.
22:54
< addking>
not a 'demo' per se, but might score another local
22:57
<@randolph>
ah ok
22:57
<@randolph>
I just wanted to ask if he had any last minute advice
22:59
< addking>
well hopefully you both post in that thread afterwards with some impressions/advice. I am planning a demo at the local comic shop, but haven't had time to work out 'when' with the owner yet. he's a friend tho.
23:00
<@randolph>
I'll definitely do so, and I remembered my camera this time
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