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[–] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

All of them. My several kids are teenagers, my job is over an hour commute (and I can't find anything closer) and my spouse is working full time and taking night classes. I am pooped.

I used to homebrew beer, bake bread, 3d print, and far more.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    I'm in a similar boat. Over an hour commute, younger kids with afterschool activities 4 days a week. A wife has a full-time job, luckily, she finally finished her master' so we reclaimed Saturdays and I'm not running the taxi service solo.

    Shit is exhausting, but I am glad our daughters got to see their mom a accomplished something so huge, and I'm proud to have supported her along the way.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    I haven't played airsoft in a couple of years. Mostly because I don't have the time anymore. I used to play about once a month, but then I had to move to a different town, so now my preferred field is ~80 miles away.

    If I'm using half a tank of gas just to go there and back, I want to make it an all-day thing. But I also travel for work nowadays, I'm only home most weekends. Taking my guns and gear on the road with me isn't really an option; space on my work truck is at a premium, and it wouldn't look good for me, if a DOT or customs agent were to stumble across an M60 machine gun during a level 1 truck inspection. I also have yet to find any airsoft fields that allow 18-wheeler parking. My truck couldn't physically fit on the driveway to my preferred field.

    Spending a day playing airsoft means I've only got one other day, if that, to do my chores and run my errands for that week, to say nothing of how physically demanding the game is. If I push myself too hard while playing (something else that happens when I've only got a couple days at home per month), I end up needing the following day just to recover.

    I'd pick it up again if I ever get a regular 9-5 job though, or at least something that gets me home every night.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I really liked the larping aspect of airsoft. I might consider getting back into it if there was a group of only adult players but the average age in the local events is probably like 13 and I can't handle that.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago*

    Oh yes, larping is my favorite part too. I like to get a bit weird with it though, milsim events are a bit too serious for my liking. Same with speedsofters.

    My go-to garb is a thrift shop 3-piece suit, and my most-used guns are pistols and small SMGs. I stick out like a sore thumb playing outdoors.

    If you're ever anywhere near Dallas, D14 is a solid field for outdoor games. I'd also recommend CavTac or Alternate Arms, both near Fort Worth, for indoor games.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    movies, performances, restaurants, basically anything involves going out and spending money

    they all go way too expensive to justify anymore. everything is like $100 minimum to leave the house. even a coffee and a pastry is now 10-15 dollars and all the cafes near me have like 15m seating time limits they enforce.

    i miss being able to spend an afternoon someplace for like 20 bucks. so now i'm either in the woods, which is still free, or at home cooking and watching TV

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Admittedly, D&D (and other TTRPGs)

    I used to do a lot of DMing but its a lot of work to keep the campaign up, dealing with players who just don't show, and a million other frustrations.

    I reached a point where I finally stopped and said "Am I even having fun playing this?" The answer ended up being generally, no.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I dm'ed for a family game (adult sibs and in-laws), thinking it'd be the easiest to schedule. Nope, I got tired of nagging about the next game, couldn't help but interpret it as them not caring enough, and now just listen to naddpod and wait for my kids to grow up enough to play. I miss the table

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I've read a lot that this generally puts a strain on things.

    If you ever consider getting back into it, maybe suggest making DM'ing a rotating role? After all, it pays off to understand the role of the DM as a player too, and premade adventures can serve as a good way to ease into the role by taking the strain of world building from budding DMs. And even then, you could still play a supportive role for them at first so they can get the hang of things.

    And if your players refuse to do that, then simply ask them to look for another DM. Your role as a DM is scarce, so you have all of the bargaining power. And why should you respect players that don't respect your role?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I think its more mainstream now, but looking for players ~2 decades ago, it was generally only socially anxious nerds who were interested in the idea. (At least around here)

    I've seen some players prefer a 'back seat' and not engage too heavily in the social part of the game and watch others do that role, which is fine, but I could see where they'd probably prefer different types of games altogether.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Tabletop RPGs. I'm sick of DND. Hard to find good groups for other games. There's a meetup I go to every once in a while but I want a regular group building a big story together

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Depending on what you're parts of D&D you're sick of Pathfinder 2e can be refreshing and relatively easy to find groups for, otherwise I've found if you want to play something else you probably have to run it yourself.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I hear pathfinder 2e is a big improvement, but still has some of the stuff I'm sick of.

    • rolling a single die means flat probability. Equal odds of getting the worst or best possible outcome
    • spells per day is anti-fun for me. I want to do cool stuff, not feel pressured to hold onto it "in case I need it later"
    • class and level is very coarse, and makes some concepts impractical, impossible, or awkward to execute
    • I'm not as interested in "numbers go up big" anymore, and that's kind of the default.
    • I'm not really in the mood for fantasy. I'd rather do modern day occult
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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    For the first point, you could use a random generator and make it pick from a Gaussian or Poisson or other probability distribution depending on the situation.

    For the rest, I do not know. I have been wanting to play a tabletop game with my board game group. But knowing them, I would have to be dungeon master and that seems intimidating since I have never played before.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    For the first point, you could use a random generator and make it pick from a Gaussian or Poisson or other probability distribution depending on the situation.

    Many RPGs that aren't so closely related to DND use a dice pool. Instead of like 1d20, you might roll 3d6. Now you're more likely to get an average result. Only one way to roll 3, but a bunch of ways to roll 10.

    The nWoD games you roll d10s and count how many come up 8,9, 10. Very fast, and once you're good at a task you know you'll generally succeed. It's more a question of how well you'll succeed and how strong the opposition is.

    I'm not mathy enough to talk beyond that, but I find it much more satisfying.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Playing under someone more experienced can build confidence, but the only way to learn how to run a ttrpg is to start running one. Find some one page RPGs with really simple rules that can be learnt in a few minutes and played over an hour or two. No one has to invest in anything, you can switch between different ones to find what people like, and there's no pressure to keep running a campaign if you find it too much. Once you have an idea of what it's like running a game you and your friends can decide if you want to play a long adventure.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    PF2e does a surprisingly good job at both unequaling the odds with it's degrees of success mechanic and making class and level a much more flexible system through feats, but probably not to the degree you're wanting, and I can't argue with the rest.
    Delta Green isn't a perfect fit for your requirements as it uses a single die, but it's degrees of success system also unequals the odds, so it might still work for you. VtM and it's relatives are probably a better fit, but I personally find them a bit melodramatic. I've found it pretty easy to find a VtM group by hanging around Goths, but haven't had any luck with Delta Green yet.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I had a really fun game of Vampire back in like 2016. I'd love to have another go at that, or Mage. The dice pool system always felt simple but exciting. Characters started out competent and being able to buy individual skills or powers was more satisfying than waiting for whole levels.

    I've heard good things about Delta green, but never looked into it.

    Alas, my college days where "hey you look nerdy you wanna play vampire?" are long gone.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Me with ADHD: Where should i start? Alphabeticly, Chronologicly, Amount i spend on it? deep breath

    Animation Drawing Painting Gaming Steampunk propbuilding Making a study of why union numbers are down in germany and is there a link to american culture influence Classic theater acting and playing instrument (i just dont find anywhere and for the last 4-5 years didnt have time due to job so i dropped it but to get back into it i have to train my entire lip tension back up, also i noticed last year as i unpacked my insttumend for one hour to see if i still go it, i apperently positioned the mouth piece wrong all those many 14+ years! Nobody ever corrected me!!) Sound design (but i might pick that back up due to creating video games and mods) Cosplaying Singing Story writing

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Gaming

    It's not even because of a bad thing there, it's just that my now wife and I spend so much time together that we don't really have time for much else

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    I may take long breaks, but I've never fully given up on a hobby.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    None.

    I mean, nearing my 60s, I've already trimmed down a lot of my hobbies. For example, since my childhood I have been on and off into plastic models (small plastic planes and vehicles to glue and to paint) but I let go of that hobby completely maybe 4 years ago. It still liked it, I just had to decide where I really wanted to spend that time, and I had other things to do.

    What won't go away, for as long as I'm able to at least, is reading/writing, sketching and painting (watercolor), long walks, listening (playing too, but barely) to music, and making stuff with my hands.

    I don’t foresee myself coming back to the comic universe any day soon.

    I don't know your age but don't be surprised if that does not go as planned. I will stick to my plastic model hobby: I had been off for almost 20 years at one time, I was just too busy after College but then, one day, out of the blue, and certainly not thinking the slightest about plastic kits, I stumbled upon a shiny box in some shop, looked at it and felt a familiar thrill in my spine, thinking this, I would like to build and paint I put it back on the shelves, could not resit going back to look at it after I finished shopping, put it in the cart with some glue and paint and, well, I was back at it ;)

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I have deliberately taken a break from painting, because we adopted a kitten and I am waiting for him to become less of a feline tornado before I break the acrylics out again

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Beer brewing. I simply do not have the time. Or energy.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    I stopped doing Brazilian JiuJitsu after I got injured like 3 times over 6 months where as I've been lifting weights for 15 years and haven't gotten injured once. It was fun but I don't want to do it at the expense of my health. Also there's always the one guy who takes it too seriously and ruins it for everyone else.

    Gaming is another one. I get into it for a month about once a year but I'm just not particularly drawn to it anymore.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Stepmania but only because I need a new pad now that the old one is too much a pain in the ass to fix and have it working properly.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Any ideas where to get a good pad? I had ordered one but the pads were actually depressable buttons so it was kinda hard to actually play on it, super tiring.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I highly recommend L-TEK if your budget allows: https://www.iamats.com/

    I have one for DDR and one for PIU, both have been great.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I've been looking at them for months and I still don't understand the difference between the three models, prime, core, pro.

    Any advice would be appreciated

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The main difference seems to be that the Prime model includes start/select buttons. I use a keyboard for navigation so that hasn't been a big deal for me, mine is the EX Pro. There's a detailed comment here for additional differences (sorry it's on reddit): https://old.reddit.com/r/DanceDanceRevolution/comments/1iqrrtn/new_and_clueless/md33x8k/

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Thanks that was very helpful. So the pro is a previous model with core and prime being the current ones.
    I also use a keyboard for navigation, I guess I'll be fine with the core then. Thanks again, I'll probably get one soon.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I mean I guess technically racing motorcycles. However it's more of a circumstance thing, getting back into it would take, pretty easily, almost $10k. So I'm getting into MTB and BMX instead now. I absolutely will be back into it the second I'm able to though, up until very recently, I'd spent more years on a motorcycle than off of one. Age 4 to probably 23 I raced. 0-4 and 23-35 I haven't. Miss it dearly every day, but I'm still very involved in it when I can watch it in-person.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I haven't been on the air in a while either. My dipole antennas are out of commission right now because the stakes came out of the ground, and now I have my antennas tangled in the tree and I will need to take them down in order to untangle them.

    If you are into HF, we are basically at solar maximum right now, so it is a great time to get some DXing in.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm quite currious (not enough to get into the hobby) what does one do with Ham radio? Is it just talking to other people over the radio or what?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    been away from ham for a while too. during covid i realized i could snatch up my very long dead grandfather’s call sign, so i went from one that shows i am tech no code to general, “n1….” to “ka1…”

    i want to get a mobile in my car but its a jeep. easy to steal from.

    and most of my radio work these days is as a firefighter on non ham bands anyway. :/

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Movies. The plots are all the same. It's most drivel. And it's too expensive. Tickets are reasonable but popcorn, drinks, etc? Also streaming is becoming too much money.

    TV. Too much and I can't keep up.

    It's expensive to much of anything these days. It's also unsafe to do things. I already have fears as a black guy with this political climate, but my daughter is half black, half Puerto Rican, and is about to hit puberty...

    Sickos prey on little girls so it's like I can't just take her anywhere.

    And this is why this 40's male here mainly plays video games after work and plays Legos with his kiddo.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I was an avid RPG player, collecting games and running with friends at clubs and stores and everybody's houses. But as many of these friends have fallen away and trends have shifted, and as I get older it's harder to make new friends for hanging out, I need to start reevaluating my hobby.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    All of them.

    Sorry that's a bit glum but that's how it is.

    I've got a lot going on.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Magic the gathering. I haven't really been much interested in playing current stuff since they started doing universes beyond. I'll still keep my cube put together, and I still think commander is fun. I just am really not interested in playing what's essentially just ads for another IP.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    I dont play my bass hardly anymore. My hands got bad, and idk. Used to play for hours each day, and now I pick it up twice a year.

    Used to hike twice a week at least too, but I havnt gone in years at this point.

    I do, yes, feel like im dying. Been putting music on while im home alone more often, its helping a bit, least ive started to dance again.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I stopped playing bass seriously about 8 - 9 years ago. Small child and renovating an old house while working full time with a 45 minute commute.

    I only picked upy bass from time to time to play a song or riff or two. During the last year or two I often thought "I should do this again", but never followed through.

    A few weeks ago a colleague of mine said his band is looking for a bass player and would I be interested. I told them that I was more than rusty, but if they'd give me a chance I would listen to their stuff and learn a few songs. In an hour I leave for the first meeting and rehearsal. This was the push I needed, I don't know if I would have started again on my own.

    As for the hiking, a "outdoors youtuber" I like was just talking about this, people not going outside anymore. He said to put a date in your phone calendar and then actually go on this date - for him this works because it gives him this little nudge.

    Hang in there, hopefully the dancing is just the start.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Is basketball a hobby? I have been playing less and less the past couple of years. With my knee and back problems becoming more frequent now, I decided it was time to quit. The only time I’ll probably play is with my highschool friends who are at the same level of fitness and physicality, and we meet only every few years or so. I can’t show up at the rec center to play with randos anymore, because you never know how hard people play, and I can’t keep up anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Tbh, more less gaming

    I would game all day and night but these days , I just have no energy for games and would blatantly decline invitations regarding it (⁠^⁠^⁠)

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Comics aren’t just Marvel and DC. Check out Image, Boom Studios, Ablaze, Oni, and whatever the hell Vertigo is now. Pick up Something is Killing the Children or Department of Truth (both by James Tynion, but I like most everything he does). Look for Hopeless Savages and We Only Find Them When They’re Dead. Go read Scott Pilgrim, Locke and Key, Deadly Class, Resident Alien, Die, or Phonogram. There is so much out there that doesn’t have to do with dudes in tights fighting each other. You’ve got a lot to explore once you get away from Summer Crisis Events.

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I was super into the Star wars unlimited tcg, but I've really fallen off. Just didn't find the play lines interesting. Now I'm getting back into Netrunner which you can play for free online.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Magic the Gathering. I love the game but it just seems that something always take priority. Hanging out with my wife, working on the house, or playing video games with some friends of mine.

    I'm glad that I've stayed away from the release cycle of a new set every month. That would have been tiring.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Gaming, it's so hard not to view it as a complete waste of time at my age. But all my social life is driven through it. So I'm playing games to hangout with friends but the entire time I'm bored of the game and resenting spending my time and energy on it.

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    I don't know of any short games I barely play single player. For me the only games I enjoy are sandbox games and competitive multiplayer. I cannot deal with how boring it is to play against ai enemies but at the same time it takes so much regular playing and even some studying to maintain being good at a multiplayer game and when you switch the learning curve is brutal.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Yeah, been wanting to try baldurs gate but I know I'm going to feel like its too much of a commitment and time sink. I mostly stick to indie games, short and often better than AAA for my taste at least.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Video games, 3D printing, and movies/television.

    Modern video games are nothing more than a linear hand holding experience with hours of pre-rendered cut scenes. If I am interested in a game, I watch a streamer play it long enough for me to be bored then I read the plot on Wikipedia.

    I used to have multiple 3d printers going. But after one broke down, I didn’t have the motivation to fix it.

    Movies and television shows are the same slop with tired tropes. I watched Con Air with my son the other day and he was amazed with the difference between the acting and presentation in the 1990s compared to today.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Gaming.

    Don't have the mental energy for it anymore... depression...

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Same. I'm either working at work, or doing chores, or doing different work on the house / car partly as a hobby, working out, hanging out with friends, whatever.

    I feel like I can't fit it in here anymore :-/

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  • Re: Comics

    I've gone through phases of the same. Just give it time, something will come along that catches your eye. For me, it was a bunch of indie comics. Look into the more indie publishers, and you'll find something you like.

    There's a lot of good stories out there, just not in the mainstream Marvel/DC universe.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Playing the piano. Not because I don't like it. I just found it to be another thing I mostly do alone and I have more than enough hobbies where I do that already and enjoy more. Instead I picked up some hobbies to do with friends.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Anything to do with Warhammer 40k after being into it for decades, even playing competitively, going to the big info dump events, weekly gaming with friends, etc.

    I still have all my models, tens of thousands of points in multiple armies, just lost all desire to play with the newer rulesets as they became too simplified and even more focused on buffing the latest new shiny models stats. Plus latest models are often very limited poses, sure the overall detail is up but the scope for personalization is way down without major work.

    Then due to infighting the Horus Heresy line of rules and models got intentionally road blocked after Blighs death, which I had been relying on as a more crunchy outlet and to protect my investment in my models.

    Oh, and they started the long road to sunset normal Marine models, which when you have over 50k points of marines you collected and painted over the past 35 years stings more than a little.

    For the company its been an enormous success, sales are hugely up, so I don't begrudge them too much after the mismanagement of Kirby post LotR.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    This year I've hardly watched any movies on my own so far. I think my other hobbies simply demand more time and there is nothing I urgently want to watch currently. Even the movies I only slightly desire to watch are just some of my favorite movies like Akahige that I haven't seen in a long time.

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