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They didn't have a lot of irons in the fire. Star Wars was definitely winding down, and Genesys seemed pretty stagnant to me. I expect the bean counters looked at what it'd cost to keep the RPG studio open relative to predicted revenue and said the opportunity cost was too high. Better to invest those dollars in the side of the business that was more successful: board and miniature games ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sad news. Fantasy Flight Games has laid off their entire RPG and FFG Interactive (digital versions of FFG boardgames) staff. Details are available at Reddit. According to the Order 66 Podcast guys, the entire RPG team was let go, so no skeleton crew remains to run a freelancer-based studio. I really like the FFG Star Wars RPG (yes, even the goofy dice...) so this is really disappointing news. The line was pretty close to completion... Edge of the Empire, Age of Rebellion, and Force and Destiny all released a full complement of splatbooks, but I was enjoying the slow stream of era sourcebooks, consolidation books, etc. A Mandolorian sourcebook would have been epic. The boardgames teams are apparently unaffected. So it goes.

No body shaming, man... it's hard to hit the stair climber when you're in deep stasis. According to the reveal, she can be taken with any sept which is most excellent news.

I've played Vior'la in my last couple of games, which has been a lot of fun but I'll totally switch back to T'au sept if Shadowsun gets a new model and rules. I love the character.

How's it going? Had a chance to do any experimenting?

Hunh. I didn't get that read at all. Not saying you're wrong, just that it went completely over my head. Chalk it up as another odd creative decision.

I thought the whole romantic sub-plot of the film(s) was weird, especially given Finn's desire to tell Rey "something" and never getting the chance.

I went and saw it last night. I thought it was fine. Far from my favorite SW film, but definitely not my least. Considering the high degree of difficulty (trying to please all the different camps now in the fandom) I think J.J. did alright despite some very odd decisions.

I found that I needed to add one of these to my Patriot. PDX air is so damp that the water trap on the compressor couldn't handle the job by itself. Also, the Badger quick-release airline fitting is super useful.

I did a big push on my Orks when Contrast paints released and made good progress, but have been slacking off recently. I've got three weeks off work over the holidays, I think I'll try an Instagram #HobbyStreak commitment to stay on track. That, and no hobby-room hotboxing.

I want the right to have babies.

There are worse things. My wife and I share a Kindle account, so I have to be very cautious opening amazon.com at work due to all the semi-NSFW mom-porn it pushes on me. I think there must be a lot of money in painting abs for book covers.

Pretty sure e04 was lifted whole cloth from a Clone Wars episode. In spite of Gina, first miss of the season.

I love the AdMech ornithopter. It looks like BeepBoop-109 found a picture of an extinct cicada and ran with it. And yes, Dune.

The main thing I'm concerned about are login queues. Sounds like that was a launch-week issue. Thanks.

Has Disney+ got their collective crap together yet? I'd like to go legit...

FWIW, IMDB indicates there'll be a Season 02 -- which is a good thing, if they can keep up the quality. I'm loving it...

Salacious Crumb's cousin rotating on a spit, with another looking on from a cage gave me a chuckle.

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I've been painting my 40k ork boyz with Contrast paints and I don't think they'd give the desired effect if airbrushed on. One thick coat topped with clearcoat when dry does the trick for me. I've read of some folks thinning them 1:5 or so and using them as a glaze/filter... that might work through an airbrush.