Reply To: [unofficial weekender] 'tis a bit windy in parts of Eruope.

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Nostalgia… expensive as all hell. It seems to be worse when you go after books in the same way. Find something interesting and obscure and watch the price shoot up astronomically. I can’t say that BSG 1980 was something I got hooked on. I’m still on about the cartoons and felt some real potential for following up on the G.I. Joe rpg when I saw it in a local shop.

KS as lost money that makes for “found presents” randomly arriving in your mail. That seems to be the general par for course. Unless the system has a set cycle for delivery or expected time to accomplish goals, the direct to supporter model strips away the veil that companies have of “suddenly we have this for sale” that most consumers can’t get beyond. The back end development and hurdles of business doing business is something perhaps freshmen (maybe sophmore) in business school should learn. Take one class and support a KS to then write up a senior level dissertation on their analysis. It gives time to learn about what people in the real world face in making products available as well as dealing with customers. This also opens up the experience of never getting a product and seeing the fallout.

As far as 1:1 terrain builds you keep at it. My 1:1 builds have made me more aware of all the facets of sheet metal and curious about resin industrial work. I’m thinking about @johnlyons and the mention of rivet counting on tanks. There’s a whole manual that outlines regulation on things you never see in reality but always see from imagination. Where’s the tech manual on the assembly and installation of internal engineering equipment on starships? Why didn’t we ever hear about faulty construction or botched assembly of things like Jefferies tubes? How out of standard was the engineering department with all the bypasses and shoddy improvements? What kind of a nightmare was the paperwork for reprimand in being regulation noncompliant? Every time a ship docked how ever were things done when issues got “fixed” to schematic standard? It makes the mind boggle.

Now… time to make the ears boggle