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Ah, the Bowsette meme was a fun time. And I'm not even a Mario fan. That and collaborative animations always tickle my fancy, especially how there's always a professional level contributor and an amateur.

But also at :45, mmmmmm.

Yeah Christmas reset me to my old normal a bit and I have had trouble going back on task.

But now I am back on I keep having depression spikes so...time to ease back into it.

Once I get the hernia sorted and healed things will hopefully look up, got a consultation for it on Sunday so mentally preparing myself for a bit of shame there.

I was getting into real bad mental places in the pit of winter, no money, no work, no sun, no fun, and the other stuff, really does a number on an already hollow foundation. Spring fixes most of that!

Here's hoping they can fix it! Have a guy we do lots of work for, wonderful man, but his knees and back are completely shot from his weight. But he can't get surgery on them until he loses quite a few pounds, but he can't get a gastric band until he does other stuff. So the poor lad is suffering terribly until he can fix himself enough to get fixed by surgeons. Has to walk backwards down stairs, for reference.

I do a lot of DIY things around the house, so my expenses aren't that high. I lucked out with a low mortgage and inexpensive cars. Living Paycheck to paycheck kind of sucks, but it is definitely not boring. I have no idea what I'll be earning next month but I know I can go out and get at least something. Pancakes are a cheap food to make. So pancakes and waffles galore in my place.

When this album is finished (mixed and mastered) I'll pitch it to a music library. Hopefully my research is fruitful and I'll find a library that's 1) desperate for my 80's retro synth album and 2) gets placement. Then I wait three years. That's how long it takes to start seeing income from things like these. Hopefully by that time I'll have a bunch more albums and possibly even work coming in from other sources. That's the plan at least.

Yeah, my dad's girlfriend does mortgage stuff for a living, at least here in NJ, there ain't no low rates, and very few borrowers right now. Whole market is screwed up for so many reasons. My grandma just decided she's done driving, which is a good thing, and I was aiming to buy her car from her. That way we'd still have one at the house, I'd be able to go relearn how to drive one, and it'd be affordable for me. Then a cousin swooped in with cash and bought it out from under me to flip. So I'm a touch bitter about that. But yeah, if you're willing to eat the same, relatively bland foods day after day, it's pretty darn cheap to get the calories and nutrition to keep going.

Why 3 years to start earning royalties?

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"Do not look away. You witness a king's revival, and the birth of his new world."

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The 'Dorf is back

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Same thing happened to me first time I ever lost weight. Worked really hard and got to a nice 163, thought I kept the habit up, but a year later I was back to 186. Then I lost it again and AGAIN it creeped back up! Third time I really lost it fast and was confident I'd keep it off, but guess what? It's really hard, but when you keep at it and it becomes a lifestyle is when it's easier to keep doing. I've been in the 160's since covid started because I've been practicing for nine years.

You've done great so far, keep the app up and keep the spirit up. You're amazing for even getting this far. What an accomplishment!

Thanks.

I still have the overall goal to get to 200, a nice round number.

I was getting into real bad mental places in the pit of winter, no money, no work, no sun, no fun, and the other stuff, really does a number on an already hollow foundation. Spring fixes most of that!

Here's hoping they can fix it! Have a guy we do lots of work for, wonderful man, but his knees and back are completely shot from his weight. But he can't get surgery on them until he loses quite a few pounds, but he can't get a gastric band until he does other stuff. So the poor lad is suffering terribly until he can fix himself enough to get fixed by surgeons. Has to walk backwards down stairs, for reference.

Yeah winter takes a nasty toll on us all.
Turns out even British people need sunshine sometimes, lol.

Ouch, yeah I am glad I am not getting to that point yet, and hopefully never.
I have some time on my side at least and it looks like things are recovering.
Oddly enough when I weighed myself today I was 5lbs down so, yeah water weight is coming off fast again. With fluctuations that happen form week to week that's still easily a pound or two off from recovery, lol.

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Light the furnaces, boys! Hashut commands it!

[Vol]

Early Chaos stunty campaign report:
Started with the half-petrified fella in the walker. He's an absolute beast, and with his reduction on the BIG HAMMER (wind spell), and his other bonuses/loot from caravans, he's nearly a one man army fairly early in the game. Traded even with Grimgor for context.

The gobbo/ork slaves are surprisingly sturdy chaff _if_ you keep a unit with Contempt nearby for the morale bonus, which is any serious CD unit basically. So screen of greenskins, dwarves behind. The proper stunties seem very strong, and with the forge buffs, could be nasty into late game I imagine.

There's a _lot_ of mechanics, basically a little bit of everyone else. Caravans, politics, unit caps, paid unit buffs, this that and the other. But the resource system is what's the hardest to get a handle on. Gist is you need slaves at cities/outposts to produce raw material. Raw material goes to factories (you choose if a settlement is an outpost/tower/factory) to make armaments. Armaments are used to upgrade unit caps, in caravans, and to build certain buildings. Raw material is also used to build certain buildings and in caravans. The issue is that the slave force decays very rapidly, so it becomes impossible to sustain 100% output unless you're constantly getting an influx. But that requires waging war or raiding, neither of which are dependable because the game always has an ebb and flow. So right now, I'm in the mid-game, but I can't upgrade my capital to tier 3 because I don't have enough raw material, but I can't stockpile enough of it because I'm _out_ of slaves. And I can't get slaves because I have no enemies nearby except dwarves, and my tier 2 army can't beat a half-Slayer stack with hobgoblins, and my drain on what raw material I _do_ get is greater than the supply. SO I'd have to dismantle my factories, and stop making armaments, in order to drip-feed the needed supply of stuff to get better units.

Clearly there's a balance here I'm not hitting.

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Why 3 years to start earning royalties?

I don't know. That's just the number from my source, who sees money come in after somethings been out for a long while.

[magnuskn]

Finished an Imrik long campaign in a day (lots of autoresolve later on), which went pretty well in terms of how it played. After the typical stressful start (since you basically have people coming at you from three sides pretty early on) I managed to nail down Ulthuan after less than 70 turns and confederated the last High Elf faction on the map at around turn 100. The Chaos Dwarves didn't change much in terms of how Imrik plays, although I spent a fair amount of influence to keep Drazoath friendly for some time, until he and Helman went to war with each other. Since I had a peace treaty with both of them, they both got pissy and me about that. I didn't have to bother with Helman, because he got shanked by Zhao Ming, but wiped out Drazoath pretty easily. After that, Astragoth let me in peace for a long while, however shortly before wiping out the last faction for the long victory (Skarbrand) I started an invasion of his territory as well, since I felt like it.

Some issues with the campaign since patch 3.0:
- Latency issues on the whole campaign map, starting at about turn 60-70, when about 75% of the map was revealed to me, due to trade agreements (which reveal the map for the trading partners territory for High Elf players)
- Some CTD's, mostly when allocating skills, which may be due to one of the two skill point related mods I'm running (infinite respec and two skill points per level for all lords and heroes of all factions).
- Late event messages, i.e. not at the start of your turn, but which pop up randomly later on in the turn.

I hope all this gets ironed out rather sooner than later. I might have to see if turning off the mods may help with at least the second and third item.

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So Arks of Omen: Farsight is kinda of disappointing, as it doesn't really advance the Omens plot-line; its more of a side-story. If you really want to be charitable, its got some world-building and gives xenos factions some more positive attention, but you can easily skip this one. Its basically just Tau vs Orks vs Chaos in a big three-way. Orks get to krump some gitz. Ethereals are dicks, but claim its for the Greater Good. Farsight gets to prove yet again that he's a tactical/strategic genius and he's got strong enough moral principles that he can resist the temptations Chaos throws at him. Chaos has to take an L here, though it's not gonna impact anything in the larger narrative, and they're not humiliated in the process, so Chaos fanboys can relax. So nothing really important happens. Could have just been a novel instead of a campaign lore book. Probably would have had the same impact on tabletop sales, too.

But in much bigger news, Arks of Omen: The Lion is almost out, and there's been a ton of wild rumors online, but now someone got a copy early so this seems to be the definitive account of how things unfold, if super-briefly and missing some details:

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--The Lion just mysteriously appears on the Blood Angels' capital ship with some redeemed Fallen to talk with Dante. (How he got there, when he woke up, how long he's been active, are questions not explained here, they're saving that for the upcoming novel, it seems)
--The full might of the Dark Angels and their successor chapters, united under the command of Azrael, reach the Somnium Stars and are met by Abaddon's fleet and battle is joined
--Vashtorr has reassembled all the pieces (minus the Rock of course) of the shattered planet of Caliban and turned it into a corrupted daemon world now called Wormwood and it using it as the staging ground for his grand ritual to assemble the Key
--the final artifact Vash needs is the Tuchulcha Engine (if you've been reading the HH series or the Legacy of Caliban series, then you know what that is), which is onboard the Rock
--we find out that the planet humans knew as Caliban was an extremely important world to the Old Ones millions of years ago
--Azrael leads his ground forces to Wormwood to attack Vash in his palace; they take casualties along the way thanks to various traps and monstrous abominations left for them
--the battle in space isn't going well for the Imperium, Abaddon's forces are pushing back the Dark Angel fleets, and Abby's battle plans are impeccable thanks to all the experience he's gained from all those Black Crusades
--Azrael and company at last reach the palace but Vash isn't there. They instead find a bunch of World Eaters completing a ritual to summon Angron, who starts butchering Dark Angels with ease. Even Azrael is proverbially shitting his pants seeing Angron in the flesh.
--the Blood Angels suddenly arrive with a massive force gathered from the parts of Imperium Nihilus that are still in Imperium control to give their support
--the Dark Angels need the help but don't want their secrets getting out, so there's some awkward tension; Dante reveals that the Lion is with him, and the Dark Angels freak out and are shunned into silence
-Angron has massacred almost all the Dark Angel forces and is about to kill Azrael, when Dante and his Sanguiniary Guard suddenly burst in to help. Dante saves Azrael but is easily swatted aside like nothing by Angron, and most of the Sanguiniary Guard gets slaughtered
--Angron is about to finish off Dante, when out from the shadows and mists comes the Lion, and the big, titanic showdown everyone's been waiting for begins
--While this is going on, Vashtorr uses his powers to reach and talk with the Tuchulcha Engine, and convinces it to help him and leave with him, and he commences with the ritual
--The Lion and Angron's epic duel rages as the planet is starting to become unstable from the vast energies unleashed by the ritual, and any remaining Space Marines retreat. The redeemed Fallen help their brothers escape. Azrael is disgusted that one of the Fallen would call him brother and dare touch him
--After a long and exhausting battle, the Lion defeats Angron, smashing the Shield of the Emperor through his head in a gory mess, banishing him back to the Warp. The Lion is triumphant, but he knows Angron will be back soon. No more 100 year banishments for Angron now that the Great Rift is open
--Despite the Lion's victory over Mr. Always-Angry and the aid of the Blood Angels, the Dark Angels fail to stop the ritual, and the Key is assembled. Chaos wins the day
--the Key seems to be some sort of unique and portable Webway, and will allow Vash and Abby to find an Old One super weapon of incalculable power that was lost/hidden away eons ago
--Vashtorr can use Wormwood to travel with the Key and goes to get this Old One Super weapon so he and Abby can achieve their goals
--Abaddon laughs and gloats that he's won, though he's also angry when he finds out that another loyalist Primarch has returned to complicate things
--The Inquisition finds out what's been going on and sees just how insanely bad things have become, and they are now stepping out of the shadows in force to confront this cataclysmic threat to the Imperium
--The Lion returns to the Rock and to his sons, but we don't get to see how he and the Dark Angels react to each other

But we'll know for sure in a week or two.

[Vol]

I don't know. That's just the number from my source, who sees money come in after somethings been out for a long while.

A fair point! Not everything requires a rational explanation, otherwise we wouldn't have funny looking animals.

I hope all this gets ironed out rather sooner than later. I might have to see if turning off the mods may help with at least the second and third item.

Love your Imrik campaigns, eh?

Chaos Stunties seems like it's more an "intuitive" campaign style, where you don't really think too much, just keep track of the green numbers on the GUI and it'll work out. I was expecting a need to really plan my expansions and the ratio of factories to outposts and such, but in practice, it's, "Build more of which resource you have left of," and the units are so damn strong you can more or less gloss over the poor decisions. However, the Tower politicking system is silly, because the AI can and will steal your seats (buffs), and I have yet to see a way to match their accumulation rate short of massive expansion.

Also seems like stockpiling raw resources early on to immediately tech up your capitol to 5 is probably the best way to go about it. I wiped out Grimgor and Greasus with a freakin' tier 2 army, for reference, because my LL (the mech-walker guy) is so insanely powerful he barely needs backup outside of dealing with small/single units.

Have noticed some buggy GUI interactions, especially with the convoys, so they definitely need a new bug-patch after this.

But we'll know for sure in a week or two.

Some of that is entirely believable, other parts less so. Because the amount of Chaos wanking off has to have a limit, and it ain't when GW has expensive models to sell.

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Love your Imrik campaigns, eh?

He's definitely my favorite character from my favorite faction.

I wiped out Grimgor and Greasus with a freakin' tier 2 army, for reference, because my LL (the mech-walker guy) is so insanely powerful he barely needs backup outside of dealing with small/single units.

Yeah, they seem very good at the moment, but then again the new DLC lords tend to be that way and then get progressively nerfed over time.

Cathay can give them a good fight, I had a multiplayer campaign yesterday with two friends where one of the players went up against two full stacks of Cathayan armies (one peasants, the other mostly Jade troops) with his one stack and got taken out in the end, despite the completely fucking OP dwarven artillery. Just too many peasant archers, who actually focus fired individual units.

[Vol]

Just paid my taxes, since I just got paid for a big job. First one of the year, finally had some breathing room. Figured it'd be about what it was last year, nearly offset by the state refund. Apparently I missed a memo, and my tax bill doubled, while my state refund dropped to nearly nothing, while all numbers and deductions remained the same. The whiplash from "I can have more than one meal a day now" to "One meal a day is a decadent luxury" is intense (I'm being facetious). Fuckers.

He's definitely my favorite character from my favorite faction.

Only finished one campaign with him. Was really neat, albeit the Vortex campaign map for him was a pain in the ass behind in the southern Sahara. But the dragon gimmick was some real classic FANTASY feeling.

Cathay can give them a good fight, I had a multiplayer campaign yesterday with two friends where one of the players went up against two full stacks of Cathayan armies (one peasants, the other mostly Jade troops) with his one stack and got taken out in the end, despite the completely fucking OP dwarven artillery. Just too many peasant archers, who actually focus fired individual units.

Haven't gone up against Cathay yet, the CD bloc has taken over most of the Mountains of Morn, the Darklands, and now I'm leading the advance westward, while the guy who owns the CD capital is pushing into Kislev. Nurgle has been the toughest fight so far, weirdly enough. Don't have enough blunderbusses to nuke their fat boys down, and my line infantry can grind it out, but they lose. So it's up to the LL and heroes to do the yeoman's work, while the artillery isn't much use either. Need to run my main field army back to the capitol to get the higher tier stuff soon, I think.

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[Vol]

The tragic thing is everyone I hear talking about WoW lately says it's pretty good, but Shadowlands broke a lot of backs. Plus COVID ending and all.

Finished my first Chorf (Legendary) campaign. Ironhand is ridiculous fully souped out. Basically tanked the entire final battle by himself, while I dropped 8 different kinds of nukes on him. Pulled him out once to reset his healing cap before the final wave, but really, probably didn't even need to. Bigger problem was the positioning on the gunners, despite being on a ramp, not getting LOS for some reason.

Otherwise, really fun campaign. I wanted to get every relic (super items you use for campaign goal or for personal use) before I finished, and the last was owned by the Legion Chorfs, so I force-confederated. They were the #1 faction left on the map, and the game hung for a good 30 seconds, which was _deeply concerning_ before it fixed itself. Got the hang of the economy stuff, though it punishes you real hard for losing settlements, but thankfully they have some of the best units in the game. Learning to line up the blunderbuss lads and artillery, which I swear are scripted to prioritize friendly fire, is how the Skaven should've been in TW2.

Infernal Guard were underwhelming. They looked like evil Ironbreakers, but in practice, seemed way more squishy. Great Weapons are useless, as always. Didn't recruit monsters much at all. Hobbos were pretty darn useful all throughout, and the legendary hero buffs them to mid-game level, but the army I had him in was stuck on perma garrison duty in case Kislev got uppity. Tried the melee machines only once, and they got wiped out, so I stuck with the ranged. Dreadquakes are _fun_. The rocket launchers having toggles for single/many targets is great. Though bringing at least one flying monster to the final battle would've saved a lot of grief, it's not like it was close anyway.

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Sounds like a really fun campaign, I got to try them out one of these days. Currently running a Zhao Ming campaign, which is going very well.

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