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Ravendas

@ravendas.bsky.social

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He/Him, lefty, boardgames, tabletop gamer, #terrain maker, 3d printing stuff, occasional #minis painter. Luddite re: plagiarism machines

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hello! I'm Ravendas! I like boardgames, skirmish games, making terrain with Hirst Arts plaster pieces and occasionally painting a mini. I made my own purple hex gaming table and decorate with @hollandspiele.bsky.social games on my wall.

Purple hexagonal boardgame table in a corner with boardgames framed on the wall as art

Wargame terrain in the shape of bridges on a hill, with an archer behind a broken wall.

Gamesworkshop Horns of Hashut minis from the Warcry game painted in a display.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 17h

Hades 2 lower run endboss spoiler, for those that haven't made it that far.

Yeah, he got wrecked.
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A screenshot from Hades 2 of the Chronos, Titan of Time, saying "Argh... I struck... not even once...?"

Which means he didn't deal any damage to me during the entire fight.

This was thanks to my first boon being "get 50% extra cash the whole night" and my final boon being "cash is armor, lose 3bucks per 1hp" and starting the fight with 800gold in my pocket.

So, he did touch me, but not through that golden armor.

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 18h

Gotta be honest here, no.

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Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 18h

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 19h

That comment just got you blocked from three federations

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 19h

It's cheap! I have a charger at home for my EV. My electric cost overnight is 17.6c/kwh (DTE in Michigan), and my car reports I get 3 miles/kwh, so that's a little less than 6c per mile I drive.

Compared to gas at $3/gallon, 20mpg is 15c per mile.

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 19h

Luddite refers to a blocklist I have for AI stuff.

Printing still at least pays 3d modelers. I just don't have the time to cast plaster as much as I did pre-marriage, pre-kids, pre-fulltime job :)

I still have a ton in bins that I use, but I don't know how many more I'll cast.

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 19h

Yucky (approvingly). Looks great!

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 19h

How's Hive Social doing nowadays? Did they make usernames as keys unique yet?

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 19h

Lol bad news on that front: I got a 3d printer, and have printed up a whole board for Mordheim/Frostgrave.

I still do Hirst Arts stuff, just not as much. I use it like Lego with my kids to build pieces here and there.

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 19h

I just tried to use it to look up my slop post, and it came up with nothing. I thought I broke something!

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 19h

At something like 4800 now? The well's getting drier now, which is nice.

Just added a bunch of "AI findom" accounts, where someone generates anime girls and pretends to be them, and then you're supposed to send them money?? And they act bratty??

Comeon, save that for the real life findoms.

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 19h

You all might want to come up with a better handle, you're going to get caught in anti-ai filters
(I say, filtering for ai to add to my slop lists, and manually checking things)

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 1d

Hades 2 people, can you add an option to play the lyrics with the music you buy in camp? I got a certain Scylla song, and I was hoping to hear more than just the tune!

Really kinda sad about that one.

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 1d

Am I supposed to share my thoughts on bidets here, or what??

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 1d

Battlemasters, then later 2e 40k.

Before that I was DM'ing AD&D 2e, which I started with the Zanzer's Dungeon box, but that's not quite a wargame.

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Etrigan wishes Link were back @etrigan.bsky.social · 1d

I won't vote for this motherfucker if it's him and Eric Trump on the ballot. I live in Michigan. Gavin Newsom can't win in the Midwest. Remember that when you're triangulating your primary vote in your safe blue state.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 1d

Uncanny valley Swanboy

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ComradeWolfe @comradewolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Hey artist friends, maybe consider using Nightshade or Glaze or similar before uploading your art online, if you don't do it already <3

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAN

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Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 1d

I'm like, a commune of one, ya know?

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 1d

I have a few protractors in my hobby desk, and the main thing they do is stab me when I am shuffling things around for a different tool.

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 1d

Playing Nine Parchment with my kids some more, it's such a fun couch coop. Any other games like this out there? We've played Gauntlet through a few times too.
Nothing too weird like Magicka (don't feel like memorizing inputs).
Just some fun, kid-friendly, 3-4p coop with characters adventuring.

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 1d

Click it on a work computer, now it's IT's problem.

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 1d

Love when the first time I hear of a movie's existence is in the post-opening disappointed news articles.

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 1d

Where's their posts celebrating count of lines of code, right? We're just a byproduct of it all.

Ravendas @ravendas.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I'm talking! Specifically things like "hell yeah" and "finally" and "i bet the worst people have some terrible opinions to share re: this"