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(Firstly a side note: they're working on more Stargate! :))

Time for another dwarvenforge build! =D

So this one was actually built by a couple of my players (my family in this case, we finally got around to playing again while on holiday). Then I just altered what I had planned to fit the map :) It was an interesting experiment, one I shall do again in the future.

 

(not the best quality photo's but oh well)

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Just now, A Budgie said:

wait wait wait
You're in Perth? So am I! That's surprising...I thought most of the Australian Sharders were more in Sydney...

I'm from Perth but I've lived in Canberra for the last 10 years (well, the part of it I've been in Australia). But I was back there for 3 months late last year to spend time with family before moving back to Canberra (I'd been living in Prague), which was when I went to the zoo :)

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4 hours ago, Extesian said:

@Sunbird one of my favourite travel moments was seeing several hundred thousand puffins in the Arctic Circle, off the Norwegian north coast. That was a Braize to photograph though – with a decent zoom you could be lucky enough to get a nicely framed shot but then you miss the awesomeness of an endless swarm of them. Wide angle, and all you can see is thousands of little black dots in the ocean. Below is the only remotely decent one I got.  My point is…I love puffins.

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Theres a place in Aus called Phillip Island where you can watch fairy penguins come in from the sea in the morning and they are the definition of adorable. I don't think youre allowed to photograph though. 

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2 minutes ago, Delightful said:

Theres a place in Aus called Phillip Island where you can watch fairy penguins come in from the sea in the morning and they are the definition of adorable. I don't think youre allowed to photograph though. 

 Yeah I really want to go there next time I'm in Melbourne, though they put in huge stadium-style seating and I've heard it's not very intimate any more. But I still must, fairy penguins (or, as I think of them, the Fae) are so sweet :) My girlfriend will love it either way, ain't no penguins in the Czech Republic!

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One of my favorite authors had a contest on his facebook page where he was standing under a mountain somewhere in Utah and the first one to guess, which one, would win a first edition signed copy of his book. I copied and pasted a list of every mountain in Utah in the comment box. He declared me the winner out of sheer ingenuity!

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On 21/07/2017 at 0:50 PM, Extesian said:

 Yeah I really want to go there next time I'm in Melbourne, though they put in huge stadium-style seating and I've heard it's not very intimate any more. But I still must, fairy penguins (or, as I think of them, the Fae) are so sweet :) My girlfriend will love it either way, ain't no penguins in the Czech Republic!

When I was there a handful of years ago it was boardwalks. Thought it was all commercialism but apparently it's to keep the penguins safe. Not suuuper intimate but still adorable. 

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Congrats @Jondesu! Remind me to come back and upvote you tomorrow because I've already run out for today. :P

In other news, I went down to San Antonio for the big TBA (Texas Bandmasters Association) Convention. It was so cool because there was all this music stuff down there, and there was this really good composer that talked to us and gave some advice and tidbits about what it's like to compose...and he played the piano for us when we gave him five random notes and he made an amazing song. It was beautiful, and he came up with it on the spot and everything. And then he took the main melody of one of his other published songs and made a beautiful sad piece about what it's like being a father of a little 2 year old that has to travel a lot and how he called his son who missed him...ugh, it was so beautiful and it made me want to cry. Several people in the audience did cry though.

And then the next day I got to go to the DCI Southwestern Championship. That was an absolute blast. It was so cool seeing all these amazing corps in person, and it was awesome seeing my two favorites live. And the last corps that performed, the Blue Devils, while I'm not a huge fan, had an amazing show and definitely deserved to win. Like...that show was phenomenal. I'm only sad that I decided to go to the lot, which is where the corps warm up before they perform, right as one of my favorite corps was about to perform. I'm so sad I missed them. Plus, they're not even gonna be at the DCI event I'm going to tomorrow either.

Anyway, I had a very eventful past couple days, and it was so much fun!

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For the last week or so, we had some political turbulence in Poland. Our government tried to pass 3 bills that would practically give them full control over our courts (totally breaking our constitution, but they don't care). It would be "bye bye" to independent courts and in a matter of fact to democracy. Every day there were protests on the streets, thousands of people every day shouted before our president's palace to not sign those bills. Unfortunately, our president (coming from the party that's in power) has a track record of signing every garbage the government comes up with, no matter if it breaks the constitution or not.

Today, the president announced that he will sign only one of the three bills. The other two will have to be changed. That's not perfect, the government will get more control over courts than they had so far, but the Supreme Court stays untouched (for now)... So, generally, it's bad that even one bill got signed, but it's far better than I expected, so I count it as a good day!

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I had a great day at Antelope Island yesterday. Found some cool shorebirds and got a few decent photos of a pair of Great Horned Owls! I'm still sorting through the 300+ pictures I took, but here's one of an owl for now.

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So I have had the best 24 hours of my life I think. I've been at a thing in NYC at Columbia University debating the ethics of war and terrorism for the past two weeks. I've never been to New York before, so I want to soak up as much as I can while I'm here right? So yesterday Steven Spielberg's upcoming film The Papers was shooting On campus. So I camped outside the set to see what I could see and hopefully catch a glimpse of Tom Hanks or Spielberg. I didn't unfortunately, but it was still a ton of fun and I loved watching the extras. During the afternoon I spent aproximately an hour arguing the merits and reasoning for torture in war in order to finally make my point that I think that torture is both wrong and an unwise strategic resort. That evening I went to Wicked. I've grown up on the soundtrack and have SO much emotional investment in it, and I've never gotten to actually see the musical, so it was one of the biggest emotional pay offs I've ever experienced and it took me to tears at least three times. 
Than this morning I was able to attend a free Imagine Dragons concert in Central Park. They are BY FAR my favorite band, and both their music and their real lives have helped me and comforted me in the worst parts of my depression. I missed going to one of their concerts on their last tour, and I was worried I'd miss them on their upcoming tour as well, so I really can't describe how excited I was to be able to go. 

We did some more cool things while debating war and stuff today, but I won't go into detail right now. 

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