Reply To: Hobby Weekender 17/08/18

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Woohoo! Weekend! Sorry, I’m just keen apparently…

@mage thanks for hosting once again 🙂 And kicking off with Maiden no less. Ah there’s a reason that the classics are classics 🙂 A fairly decent sized chunk of a pledge there. Looking forward to seeing the ogres with their final skin highlight on. Hope you are feeling OK soon.

@tuffyears nice acquisitions, keen to see what you do with them.

@sundancer stylish indeed 🙂 Ah yes, lamentably all my old concert t-shirts are now worn to rags. I had to part with my ‘Broken’ NIN Tee a few months ago, I had had it for a quarter of a century. Sad sad times…

@biggabum good to see Harley arrive and work already underway. And don’t worry about the vintage of the tunes, think of it as a testament to their quality that they still stand up 🙂

@dawfydd yes i remember hearing that ice ages had wiped the British isles clean of inhabitants several times over, and each time the isles were repopulated. A sobering thought…

Questions!

(1) What is your opinion on cloning technology? If it was better would it be good for the world? What are the downsides?

Would depend what was being cloned. If modern cinema has taught us anything it is that bringing dinosaur species back to life is always a fantastic idea, with no negative consequences whatsoever. Seriously, if we are restricting the focus to the cloning of humanity then that does pose a bit of a puzzle to unpack. The idea of ‘lab grown’ 100% compatible replacement organs for people who need a transplant would be wonderful, but if you were cloning people to try to selectively enhance the human genome then that would be a dangerous pursuit IMO. I’m pretty sure we would end up missing something really important and end up exposing humanity to risk without a diversified gene pool – ie one where a virus which we might otherwise have been able to deal with ended up doing untold damage because we had accidentally selected and cultivated a genetic predisposition to not have immunity to that particular strain. Long winded example but I hope you get what I mean… Additionally, you couldn’t just clone Einstein or Beethoven and expect them to carry on as per their originals – without the sum total of their life experience and cognitive development you would end up with an entirely different mind, despite starting from the same genetic raw material as it were. Then again, Clone Troopers did shoot better than Storm Troopers…

(2) Do you think we are the remains of a once more advanced society that suffered a calamity and since have had to rebuild our way back up since Ye Olde Caveman times?

Probably not. Although if you swap out the word ‘advanced’ for something with less of a technological connotation and went for, say, ‘enlightened’ or ‘developed’ then some sociologists might argue that that is the case.

(3)  What is a game you have wanted to get into but have not yet done so? Board game, RPG, miniature game, computer game, all of the above and more. Tell us, go into detail.

Erm… all of them?… Still want to have a proper look at Age of Sigmar but the number of books and supplements is making me shift my focus elsewhere. Keen to get stuck into Kill Team when it arrives. I like the look of Infinity but found the rules book pretty dense (I should probably watch some playthroughs on Youtube or something…). Bolt Action looks interesting but I’m not sure if I could be bothered due to the uber competitive tourney players, same with 40k really. Konflict 47 and Dust do look like riotous fun, of for no other reason that doing up the minis. Truth be told though I have enough project wise at the moment to keep myself engaged without jumping into anything new.

Pledges for the week: Will have a go at making some road sections, work on some French Napoleonics, base and touch up my old Ork army and print some more Kill Team terrain. Will see where I go from there…