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That faint whimpering you hear is "Careless At Bakri" waving it's tiny arms and saying, "Pick me, pick me!"
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That faint whimpering you hear is "Careless At Bakri" waving it's tiny arms and saying, "Pick me, pick me!"
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When you say digitalizing, do you mean scanning and making a PDF version?
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Yes, combined with removing the originals from sheet protectors and binders, and then putting them in a box so they will take up less room. Of course, I could and should put them in the paper recycle bin, but I'm not there yet. With the early CH scenarios, yes, but with official scenarios, no.
Tuomo
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Put out the call for some Top Men, some real go-getters to help us modernize the VASL los-gui tool that is used to add LOS info to every VASL board. If this succeeds, we (and I mean I) will be much more able to add LOS to new boards (and old ones that don't have it), freeing up Doug Rimmer to do Other Good VASL Things.
Top. Men.
Top. Men.
Tuomo
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And if anybody wants to help with this effort, ping me. We may have Top.Men, but we could always use more. You would need to know Java, and be able to work with difficult users (me).
DVexile
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Punched and corner clipped the new Finnish winter camouflage infantry and SW counter set.
von Marwitz
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What are you planning to do with these blank counters? - After the snow covering them has melted off, that is...
von Marwitz
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The artwork is stunning! Very realistic and immersive.
DVexile
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This morning's arts and crafts project was SASL counters. The blank ones can be Suspect counters without further modification. For the information counters I printed out some designs onto a full sheet label and then used a 3/8" punch to create circle stickers to apply to the blank counters:
Sorry for the ugly phone picture! The punch wasn't quite as clean as I'd like, you can see some minor rough spots even in the poor quality photo above. Doing a circle I figured would be less sensitive to alignment than printing and cutting square stickers.
Really, if one values their time at all then sending out for a custom laser cut counter sheet is probably the way to do it. Surprisingly economical these days! I couldn't actually find any place that would do one off prototype die cut 1/2" counters with corner nibs though - only side nibs, which make me vomit. So I think the laser cutting options are probably best if you want smooth sides in small batches.
SASL++ and PBS (Play Both Sides) suggest some optional info counters as well, so I'll probably do the same for that at some point.
Paul John
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Push and twist? That's how a biopsy punch gets a nice clean cut.
fenyan
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Played ASL aboard the USS Iowa and had a hot dog for lunch. Our club played Blood Reef Tarawa scenarios The Hawk, Didn't Have to Be There, and China Girl. We also enjoyed an special tour by one of our members. 
von Marwitz
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After a bunch of ASL stuff has arrived in the past few weeks, today I updated VASSAL/VASL to the latest versions and created a new VASL file to play next Sunday. None of the new stuff, though, but one of the oldies but goldies:
WCW10 Stand And Die
by Scott Holst. Looking forward to this one.
The VASL file (created with VASSAL v3.6.19 and VASL v6.6.6) is also available for download at the ASL Scenario Archive website - of course without VC/SSR to honor copyright.
von Marwitz
WCW10 Stand And Die
by Scott Holst. Looking forward to this one.
The VASL file (created with VASSAL v3.6.19 and VASL v6.6.6) is also available for download at the ASL Scenario Archive website - of course without VC/SSR to honor copyright.
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I listened to some old episodes of the 2 HS and learned something very valuable; not about ASL, but about youtube. I learned that one can play back the episodes faster than normal (e.g, 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x, etc.). This is a game changer for me. There is a lot of ASL and other content that I haven't watched because I did not want to spend so much time watching youtube videos. Now I can watch more in the same amount of time that I am willing to spend.
von Marwitz
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Apparently, you don't have young daughters, otherwise, you would be haunted by this...
I SAY HAUNTED!!
The bad thing about this, that with faster speed the frequency of the voices goes up. Everything sounds as if the people were figures from cartoons. Well, many of them seem to be in the first place...
I say, pass up that game-changer. If you think that watching those things is only worth it at 1.5x or 2.0x speed, then me thinks you should consider if it is really worth watching at all for you.
Cheers,
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I feel that at 1.25 speed, it eliminates the pauses in speech.
