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Speaking of Steam sale, I'm still figuring I'll get a Steam Frame some day. Any good VR suggestions to pick up in the meantime? I'm looking at Blade and Sorcery for magic/melee and Boneworks for gun stuff. The Morrigan looks good and is cheap. Beatsaber for rhythm exercise. Any other ideas?

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 15h

Not six weeks later and its on sale again for like $27?? I remember getting Dominions 2 or 3 by using their sketchy website and getting emailed a zip with the files. Steam is so much more convenient, and yet I still can't get friends to try it :|

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Save 40% on Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator on Steam

In Dominions 6 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to old dragons or an enormous tre...

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 17h

Working on a gothic castle book nook thing I got from vine. My thumbs heard from all this pushfit wood but it's surprisingly decent so far. Not sure if Monarch butterflies are particular goth but I glued them on as instructed

Pieces for the gothic book nook arrayed out with the front arch mostly completed

Box cover and open box for the Dark Castle DIY Book Nook

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Printed a playmat tube for this cool playmat I got! It's kinda big in my booth but I tried. Red/blue silk PLA so it has this neat gradient to it. 150g for the whole thing isn't bad.

A 3d printed two piece tube in a white photobooth with a black backdrop.
It's sized to hold a rolled up Magic or Sorcery playmat.
It's printed in a red/blue mixed silk PLA so it has that silk sheen with a gradient that changes as you rotate it.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still blocking a couple dozen new accounts every day posting slop. Kind of amazing how it's a nonstop deluge. "This generic anime girl slop account will surely become popular!" I honestly don't understand why they get made. It's embarrassing and it sucks.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Minecraft Dungeons 2 doesn't play on the Steam Deck like I hoped. It tries to install some xbox service and crashes to desktop or something. Spent awhile trying to get Steam Remote Play working across three computers last night to play it with my kids, and it kept bugging out. Managed to play a bit

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is gonna get his bare butt, balls and back spanked in this election.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

_explaining Hello Kitty to an American_ ok so imagine a burger

A hello kitty keychain in the shape of a burger. It is hanging on a rack at a store

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

_explaining Hello Kitty to an American_ ok so imagine a burger

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorting my Arthurian Legends Sorcery box, I put the "best" cards of each stack on top. A few stacks I didn't get a single elite or unique, pretty swingy box.

A bunch of stacks of cards on the carpet from the game Sorcery Contested Realms. They're sorted by element and then site / minion / spell.
Some of the better cards include Queen Guinevere, a foil The Black Plague, Nelly Longarms, a Grand Old Boar and Pendragon Legacy and Banner.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Got a box of Arthurian Legends for Sorcery TCG ($129us) today and just had my kids open them. Biggest card was a foil The Black Plague ($60). Was hoping for a The Faerie Queene but didn't get lucky, though I did get a Nelly Longarms ($15) which is a pretty sick faerie.

The Sorcery: Contested Realms card "The Black Plague" from the Arthurian Legends set.
It basically kills off the weakest minion each turn in the four sites that it can cover.

The Sorcery: Contested Realms card "Nelly Longarms". It's a yucky looking bog witch looking kind of fairy that basically sends out its long arms, drags whoever it hits back and drowns them (killing them instantly if they don't have Submerge)

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Playing boardgames with a new guy, trying to suss out if he's Woke 1.0, Woke 2.0 or on some kinda Woke beta branch I'm unaware of.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Going to play Inis at 4p tonight for the first time in awhile! Then Sorcery afterwards with whatever time is left. Inis can sometimes be finished in 30min, sometimes an hour and thirty, just depending on how the cards flop. We're not one of those groups that need the "We need a king!" rule.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People posting negative reviews of the Steam Frame on reddit is making me nervous. Still no purchase email for me yet

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This cat's life is too good

The same tan cat lying on his back in a little fuzzy bowl chair.

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Once again, because it's been, I dunno, a few weeks at least: I live in Michigan. I will not vote for Gavin Newsom IN THE GENERAL ELECTION. He is NOT ELECTABLE. Please factor that into your calculations as we draw nearer to the primary in your state if you want to win in 2028.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thinking about this, while cool, while I'd like it to exist, I don't think I'll realistically play Necromunda again and this would be yet another big thing I have to store in my house. Probably just scrap the idea. Maybe go back to painting my Cities of Sigmar (which might actually get used).

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Drystacking some pieces to get the layout of this Necromunda piece. It'll be a 3" high platform with a tunnel under it, some large steps in the front up and a tall pringles stack with some platforms wrapping around it. Multiple ways up, through and around so there's no dead ends.

A hobby desk with a 12" square piece of mdf. On it is a combination of hirst arts plaster pieces, 3d printed pipes and a pringles can to show the general plans for a necromunda piece.
Some painted Escher minis are on it to help show scale.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We got this new chaise lounge and fancy pillow for our front window and our cat is pretty sure it's a present for him.

A tan cat laying on a blackish purple chaise lounge with his head on a purple pillow. It's in front of a window.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(tom waits voice): what's she building in there

Six cards from a work-in-progress, using medieval marginalia as illustrations. Each has a cost, title, type, speed, attack, guard, magic, listed in this alt text in that order.
2 mousers (cat) 1/1/1/1: When this is played, it deals one damage to a wounded drollery, or one damage to itself. ("Now that we've got you, you'll lead us to the colony. We have ways of making you squeak." – Long Tom)
4 crosshares (hare) 1/2/1/1: Handburn (Alchemy): count your hares in play, then defeat an enemy drollery whose guard is equal to or less than the count. ("For every one of theirs we hit, the boys also hit one of ours. Glad their aim is improving." – Whistletuft Manslayer)
5 wandering mystic (fox) 2/2/1/1: Holy: if attacked, another of your drolleries may take the damage instead. Defeat: discard it to your rival's pile instead. (He was guided by visions to new places. What luck they always conspired to bring him to the wealthy and gullible.)
4 wheat thrashers (human) 2/2/2/1: Protector: if not attacked, this drollery may replace another as an attack target. (Manslayer showed the rebels that flails, used to beat the grain from their husks, could also separate a tyrant from his.)
5 mad dancers (grotesque) 3/3/2/1: When played, you and your rival each draw a card face-down from your decks and place it on the table. Choose one to put in your hand; your rival takes the other. ("Come dance with us, stranger! We saw you from acrost the field, and we are drawn to thy spirit!")
4 wyrmling (dragon) 2/3/1/2: Flight: if attacked by a non-flying drollery, can be returned to your hand. Aether created by this drollery during your Alchemy is not removed in your end phase. ("I took pity on a poor, helpless hatchling, and stayed my hand. And that, dear Ban, is how I lost it." – Captain Wyles)

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Waitlisted for Steam Frame (meaning I lost the lotto). Welp, this sucks. Maybe I'll skip VR for another decade.

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feef @feefal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Inspired by a recent interaction

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kinda neat thinking if I get lucky with the random draw I could be playing VR stuff for the first time next week. The last 'closest' thing I had was the Move games on PS3 that tracked your hands perfectly. There was an arena combat game that I loved. Having that strapped to your face sounds great.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Finally rolled credits on Cyberpunk2077's DLC. That started off kinda boring but it got really good towards the end. No spoilers, but I loved the twist and turns of it.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Signed up for the 256gb Steam Frame. $1059, plus $59 for the required comfort pack, maybe $150 for the passthrough Arcturus camera, maybe $200 to upgrade my home network if it's not good enough, plus maybe a hundred bucks in games... Going to be an expensive month.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I also went to the Ed Beard Jr stall run by his daughter (I think) and was like "this is giving Sorcery: Contested Realms vibes" and what do you know he is a #Sorcery artist. Picked up a signed playmat and DragonShield sleeves with the Kairos art.

A Sorcery playmat, signed by Ed Beard Jr on a purple table. Under it is a box of card sleeves and a little flyer with more information on the artist and a link to the website.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I went to the Michigan Renaissance Festival today and got a tiny James Baxter made out of glass the size of a quarter.

A tiny yellow glass horse rearing up. I am loke 90% sure it's a reference to the Adventure Time episode with James Baxter the horse.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lol and it continues. My wife went in for a followup. Asked the receptionist if this visit was already included and free? Yes, no charge today! (Billed two weeks later, ninety buck bill in the mail for the doctor, specifically saying we might get further bills from other entities)

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Put my 3d printed #Necromunda scatter and panel in the booth for better pics. The process is just gray prime, thin coat of the main color (red, blue), thin brown wash, nickel drybrush, thicker brown grime then orange rust stippled on.

The same pipes and fuel containers as my previous posts. 3d printed and painted up in mostly apple barrel paints. Posed in a photobooth.
A few necromunda minis are posed to give a scale to it.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Back to tha old me, casting plaster. Checked my gothic brick supplies and they were way under what I need for a Necromunda thing I want to make.

Three Hirst Arts plaster molds filled with Merlin's Magic dental stone and scraped flat. They're on a black plastic bag to make it easier to clean up.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Got 30min of time here and there and mostly finished these Necromunda scatter bits. Might detail some panels and buttons later, but these are like 95% done. Looks suitably grimy and rusty, with just a bit of color so the underhive isn't too samey. Reaper mini from my kids dungeon setup for scale.

Seven 3d printed Necromunda pieces that are storage tanks and pipes of various kinda, as well as two floor or wall panels that are about 2" x 4" each. Next to them are the brushes used, and behind them are the paints used.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My hobby station this morning because the kids want to play in the basement but they've also taken over the only coffee table with a dungeon setup. My handy kallax upright board station saves the day again.

A picture of a white flat 18" board with paints and necromunda scatter terrain in front of a coffee table covered in dungeons and monsters. Random toys and lego are under the coffee table.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Still just not liking the Frieren manga. After owning 1-6 I decided to check out 7-9 from the library. Read 7 last night. The building art is still just boxes, characters have like three expressions, dialog is basic... i don't know. Maybe the anime made up for a lot of it? I haven't seen it.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just finished Silo season 3. This show is great, I wonder how long of a wait it is until the 4th (and final) season airs.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My wife sent her Taiwanese college transcripts to a translation company to get official certifications for her degree, for employment purposes. She just got sent back someone else's documents. Feels like a pretty big fuckup! This is the US though where personal information doesn't seem to matter.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I had a few comments in discord that the red is "too bright" for Necromunda. Grim and dark things only. This is what Necromunda looks like to me though. Bright blues, yellow hazard stripes, red and yellow books. I didn't think my piece here stood out too much in comparison with this.

An image from an old advertisement for the original release of Necromunda, with its grey uprights and blue card floors and walls with hazard stripes, bright explosion markers and classic red measuring sticks.

The books in the back are yellow and red, with the quick lookup sheets featuring bright red panels and hazard stripes all around.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I firmly believe that everyone should read Swanboy. This ending is so good (with that subtle? callback to answer what we all wanted to know)

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Michigander (Detroitish) here that went to college in the UP so I guess that pulled my average location to "Up North". Sometimes, the devil does beat his wife, ya know? Rarely on Devil's Night.

A map from mydialect's quiz https://mydialect.us/quiz-standard.html
It shows I speak most similarly to the northern part of Michigan and out towards Wisconsin and Minnesota, while being very different from New England and the South in general.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I was going to post a funny (real) ad from IKEA about the Kallax being added to Skyrim (?????) but the image looks like it's slop, which is disappointing.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Got around to painting a pipe-y piece of 3d printed scatter terrain for Necromunda as a color test. How does it look? Details in alt text

A 3d printed #necromunda piece of scatter terrain in a photobooth with an unpainted enforcer next to it for scale.
It's a storage tank with some pipes coming off of it.
Undercoat: rustoleum painters touch 2x ultracover primer (flat gray)
Red tank: apple barrel flag red
Brown mud: watered down Apple Barrel Nutmeg slopped on
Metallic: drybrush of folkart nickel
More nutmeg painted on for drip paths
Rust: apple barrel jack-o-lantern stipled on

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Played Old Kings Crown! 3p, all of our first time playing it. We did the short game because time was running out (maybe 2.5 hours to finish), but I liked it a ton. Kind of reminded me of "what if Oath was a lane battler." I won as the purple witches on right.

A 3p setup of Old King's Crown on my purple 4' wide hex table.
The closest player is the blue nobles. On the right are the purple witches. On the left are the red anarchists/bomb throwers.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm going to play Old King's Crown tonight for the first time, 3p. All of us new. Any tips or tricks or anything I should know about?

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Enjoying this fine Warhammer40k related comic

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

End state of me vs my 11yo in "the pretty girl game" Hanamikoji. She beat me in her first game! I haven't played this game in like six years but it was really quick to pick up again.

A picture of the game Hanamikoji in its final state on the carpeted ground. The player opposite me (my 11yo) won with 4 of the "pretty girls" (geishas) liking her gifts vs only 3 for me.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Played Zcom (Star Wars Zero Company) for an hour and refunded it. It's basically Mario vs Rabbids with Midnight Suns DNA, and not the Xcom I hoped for. I love love love XCom, and this wasn't scratching the itch. It's not worth $50 to me, especially with the Steam Frame coming out sometime soon (??)

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The always fun, but tedious to setup Beyond the Sun on the table tonight! It works well with 3p, which is about the most we can muster most weeks.

The board game Beyond the Sun mostly setup on a purple hexagonal boardgame table

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