Malifaux: Boilermaker takes the stage
Not all of the Foundry crew are from Canada, but some are. The Foundry folks mix metal and magic into living constructs that stalk around the battlefield, melting stuff.| Chasing Dings!
Not all of the Foundry crew are from Canada, but some are. The Foundry folks mix metal and magic into living constructs that stalk around the battlefield, melting stuff.| Chasing Dings!
I was pretty upset with what Wyrd did with Mei Feng (Foundry). Mei was a reliable leader with a lot of synergy and mobility with her scrap markers, and she was backed up by excellent Foundry models such as uber-buffer Sparks and robot-pig-with-an-attitude Mechanical Porkchop. All this was stripped away from her, leaving her team as one that handed out status conditions that punished enemy mobility.| Chasing Dings!
It’s four days until CaptainCon. Kasul is sick in bed; we’re hoping he’s well enough for the trip to Rhode Island. I was sent alone to Enfield, December box in hand, to save the family honor.| Chasing Dings!
It was the third and last battle of the Malifaux league; we’ll have a tournament to decide it all in a couple of weeks.| Chasing Dings!
I’m reading Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of Casterville“, one of his books set in his fictional Wessex. That series includes Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, among others. I’d read the others, but not this one.| Chasing Dings!
The Caribbean sun shone brightly overhead as Mark Zuckerberg’s toes left the deck of his 387’ yacht, “The Launchpad”. As he floated skyward, “Zuck” felt a sense of quiet satisfaction. He was vindicated. He was special. And he had totally nailed the name of the boat.| Chasing Dings!
I have been waiting for a package to arrive from UPS for weeks. They just sent me my third delivery notice with the third different delivery date. Will I finally get it? I idly thought of spells that might do the trick while at work Thursday, then wrote this story at Pack Rat Gaming while my boyfriend played Malifaux. Not one word was AI generated.| Chasing Dings!
When my boyfriend was in the hospital for a procedure, I noticed that more than half of the nurses were wearing Crocs!| Chasing Dings!
What the heck do I do with my free time? I always feel guilty when I look at the games in my backlog. I want to emphasize that these are physical games, usually, because I am an old crusty Luddite and don’t really trust that the digital games I “buy” are really mine in any sense of the word.| Chasing Dings!
I’m always looking for a good F2P game to play for awhile. I never stay with them for long. They tend to follow a similar pattern of providing a lot of enjoyable, entirely free game before essentially locking you out of playing the game as much as you’d like unless you start paying money.| Chasing Dings!
It takes a village to kill a monsterMy Switch profile says I have been playing Octopath Traveler for about 135 hours. This is only approaching the time I spent playing Skyrim, which is somewhere around 150 hours.| Chasing Dings!
Now that you’ve got all your lenses together and positioned, the beam of light (from the parabolic mirror outside, remember?) is being focused into a tight and very narrow beam that leads deep into the heart of the mountain. Following the deer and the beam of light into the depths, you find the final arrangement of mirrors that will turn the stones into lava. The beam of light doesn’t seem like it’s entering the contraption in the correct spot to do the most damage; your job today is to...| Chasing Dings!
I was nervous, starting today’s puzzle. I saw last night that it was a “shortest path” problem, and since the path had a defined start and end, it was an “A-star” problem, and that’s what it turned out to be.| Chasing Dings!
So, Monday and Tuesday, I flew to Denver and back to pick up my son, who’d gotten stuck on an impromptu trip across country to see the Grand Canyon. Today, I found that the $10,000 sewer pipe we just had replaced on the outside of the house needs a $5,500 mate on the inside of the house.| Chasing Dings!
I am committing myself this year to solving every puzzle in the Advent of Code, an annual coding competition taking place over the Advent season each year.| Chasing Dings!
Advent of Code, the yearly gauntlet of programming puzzles that Eric Wastl runs each year from December 1 through December 25, is a big event for me. It’s the one time of the year when I can get out of the humdrum of programming for an insurance company and really get to think about problems. Problems like, how many puzzles can I solve in a new programming language before I say “Fuck it, I’ll do it in Python.”| Chasing Dings!
I’ve been trying to publish this all day, but I just couldn’t get this Google Sheets spreadsheet to display like anything in the West Karana blog. I’ve downloaded a plugin — TablePress — that claims to be able to do the trick.| Chasing Dings!
I’m taking a break from Sword for Hire. I will finish it. I know everything I need to do. I just need a break.| Chasing Dings!
There was a point this last weekend where I decided I’d had enough Neo Dimension and would just be starting a new game with the dimensions I already had at home. The grind was getting to be too much. Then I unlocked more of the “growth tree” and was able to start shaping the characters more to my liking, and suddenly, things began to look up.| Chasing Dings!
Some call me a Warrior of Light. Some call me a renegade. Some call me when Chaos rears its corrupted head. But you can call me Garland. Jack Garland. I’m the one they call when there’s nobody else.| Chasing Dings!
Month: October 2025 | chasingdings.com
As near as I can tell, by doing some archaeology on my computer, is that I played Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lion, a remake of the game for handheld game machines, a few years back. I replayed the original, on an emulator, about ten years ago. And I know I played it at least twice through on the original PSX hardware.| Chasing Dings!
You have to have goals in any MMO, some reason to get you logging in, day after day. It could be levels, it could be dungeon runs, it could be raiding.| Chasing Dings!
Steam says I’ve been playing Dune: Awakening now for 114 hours.| Chasing Dings!
The first Imperial Testing Station I’d encountered was a fun little romp. These are the Dune Awakening versions of dungeons. These are the old school kind of dungeons; not instanced, everyone shares the same dungeon and if there’s someone a few minutes deeper into the dungeon than you, you’re probably not going to find much. Since these dungeons are open to all, the mob respawn is pretty fast. It’s entirely possible to happen upon a testing station and just keep working through it for...| Chasing Dings!
Month: September 2025 | chasingdings.com
I lost so much stuff when I left Twitter, and again when G+ shut down. Never again. I'm using WordLand to control my social media.Related posts: He thought I was joking. Social media is a terrible way to find blogs to read Weblog 4/17| Chasing Dings!
I died to a FREAKIN' PINATA?Related posts: Malifaux 4e: December vs Experimental Malifaux: Boilermaker takes the stage Malifaux: Booty & Plunder| Chasing Dings!
The owl's tireless hunger for my money has finally pushed me out of the nest. No related posts.| Chasing Dings!
There's the recommended way to play Final Fantasy Tactics. And then there's the way I play it.Related posts: Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins FANTASIAN Neo Dimension (Part 1) Monster Hunters Wilding| Chasing Dings!
Taking Control of my Skeets and Toots| chasingdings.com
Month: December 2020 | chasingdings.com
Finally, finally, FINALLY! All the work Tom and I have been doing in printing and painting miniatures and dungeon parts paid off last night as we finally sat down to play the first two scenarios in Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion.| Chasing Dings!
It won’t be any sort of surprise that a family that has weekly board game nights plays one of the most popular board games on this planet or any other (as far as we know). Terraforming Mars is a long time staple of ours. It’s easy and fun to play, can take as many people as you can throw at it, and is pretty fast moving to boot.| Chasing Dings!
Month: August 2020 | chasingdings.com
We’ve been doing a family game night where my boyfriend and myself, my son, my daughter and her family all get together to play board games once or twice a week. We recently finished an epic, year-long Gloomhaven campaign. If you have been following my Instagram, you’re probably really familiar with our game nights…| Chasing Dings!
I don’t think anyone could watch “The Queen’s Gambit” and not immediately want to pull out a chessboard. After we watched the series, my son started getting into chess online again. I eventually remembered that I have a 3D printer (two, actually), and that I hadn’t yet printed a chess set. I think if you have a 3D printer, you are obligated to eventually print one.| Chasing Dings!
We have been preparing for this night for a very long time. Tom has always had an intense interest in Mahjong, especially in the Japanese variant, Riichi Mahjong. He’s got books and books about it. Lots of apps. A vast collection of Vita and Super Famicom versions.| Chasing Dings!
