#edmonton nerd

[chrismoet]

Your Quest Giver here, letting you know RPG-a-Thon 2024 has begun!

[lifemod17]

Hozier explaining the "river lithe" line in First Time

🎥: bitedownsalvador | tiktok

Roger's Place, Canada || 08/24/2024

[nuge]

connor mcdavid and the atlanta small stat

[sunshine-gumdrop]

Another full circle

[sincerelymarner]

Connor McDavid & Darnell Nurse test their franchise knowledge

[birdybellicose]

Edmonton!? Mf EDMONTON is gonna win the Stanley cup!? Bitch are you FFR!? I am both excited and outraged.

[yellobb]

This fandom has the best artists in the world I stg. Every time I look at my wall I get so fucking happy ❤️❤️❤️ yall are so talented and wonderful, and I hope all your crops are watered and you’re thriving

Tags/links for each poster under the cut :)

Bentley running over the Metatron - @gleafer

Aziraphale with the bees, Crowley with the birds, and purple demon - @/icanbelouder on Instagram

Gladiator Crowley, 1941 Crowley, snek Crowley, and snek Crowley keychain - @angellilou-art

Crowley surrounded by snakes, Aziraphale surrounded by feathers, girl in field, and I THINK the girl with the hair (I managed to lose it to the shadow realm somehow when I went to look at the back for credit) - @cherriielle

Saturday Celestial Post and A.Z. Fell and Co coupon - @lightsintheskye

Lots of Crowley’s - @doodlenoodleh

Sandman light box - @/decofriki on Instagram

Special shoutout to BXTHstudio and @cesiscribbles for the absolutely precious stickers and bookmarks 🥰 be sure to check them out, too!

[canadian-as-puck]

Well shit, this one appears to be accurate:

On the flip side...

UM WTF IS THIS TRUE??!!

maybe this just means when draisaitl isn’t playing at all?? i’m not entirely sure but someone plz tell me.

[felassan]

Mark Meer: "Dropped by the @/Modiphius booth at @/Gen_Con to check out their new @/masseffect board game! Thanks for having me, folks. 😎 #/GenCon2024 #/MassEffect" [source] Modiphius: "It was a pleasure having you stop by! So glad you liked the minis" [source] --- Calvin Wong Tze Loon, board game co-designer: "hi devon! hope we can meet one day, was lovely working on the game" [source] Devon Gardner, Consumer Products Licensing Manager at BioWare Edmonton: "I hope so too! Had so much fun working on the game, your knowledge and revence for the Mass Effect universe was/is inspiring. :) Surreal to see it all out there with people playing!" [source] Calvin: "listen how else are we to spread the gospel of calibrations" [source]

Some more from the upcoming Mass Effect board game, which had playable demos at Gen Con this weekend just past. :) the rest of this post is under a cut due to length.

The game will be $50 (they were aiming for $40 but didn't make it) and is co-op but also one player. the game contains 12 dice, 2 books, 5 character sheets, like 40 cards, 6 minis (for painting if you like), tokens and a rulebook. the game will also be available in Spanish. the game includes calibrations hh. they hope to release in "Novemberish"/Q4. it also sounds like they plan to create expansions for it!

it sounds like everyone who played the game at Gen Con during the demos loved it! co-designer of the board game Calvin Wong Tze Loon (who designed things such as abilities and lore for it) shared some insights about the creation of the game, and the feedback folks who played it at the con had, on Twitter:

"'even people who didn't play mass effect liked it' this makes me so happy because this was one of our target audiences. people who enjoy games but aren't necessarily fans of the series. aaaaaaaaaa" [source] "'solved many problems the genre typically struggles with' also really proud of this. as huge tactics nerds Eric and I are always trying to sand down issues that get between the player and the game. clunky line of sight. long set up. lots of admin and bookkeeping." [source] "'got to do [classic thing favorite character does] what more can you ask for' i put many, many, many hours into the character abilities. this was really hard. asymmetric but balanced. accurate to the video game but simple and intuitive. play well off each other, replayable..." [source] "'the mechanics and paragon/renegade represent mass effect so well' one of the biggest compliments i got is that everyone who's worked on this game whether at modi or bioware cannot wait to get their copies so they can keep playing it." [source] "there's a type of person who will see this box and go fuck yeah take my money, no questions asked but we still wanted them to feel like they got their moneys worth with it. we crammed this box about as full as we could but we worked super hard to make the experience easy and fun" [source] "we worked really hard to make the game as replayable and enjoyable as possible whether on playthrough 1 or 10. we know mass effect players love to replay the game over and over so we built that in from the start." [source] "when we started making the game out target was actually 40 dollars so it would be so absurdly cheap people would just impulse buy it but we didn't manage to get there" [source] "seriously i can't wait for people to play it" [source] "mordin was planned but we had to cut him because dev time was pretty short and also we ran out of space for his mini on 1 mould :(" [source] "god i spent SO many hours on the ability design but it's one of my favorite things to do so that's fine. i'm so glad it paid off. shepard's ability alone had like 20 versions" [source] "one of our goals for this game was to take the things we personally found were 'getting in the way' from tactics games and present solutions. 'find tile 13A'->map book. make campaigns short&replayable instead of 'see you in 6months for mission 2'. super long teaches." [source] "eric paid super extra attention to the graphics cause the game is pretty complex we wanted minimum friction in terms of ux" [source] Gavin Dady, Senior Project and Process Manager at Modiphius, also commented - "We also wanted to make not just a Mass Effect game, not just a good game, but a good Mass Effect game. Everybody involved said early on that it had to be an authentic Mass Effect experience and, gosh darn it, I think it is." [source] "We have review copies heading for the local relays in the next couple of weeks. Some are already in transit with Quarian fast couriers using hot-tuned drives." [source] "We've worked very hard to make sure it's not just a good game, or a Mass Effect game, but a good Mass Effect game. It's a franchise that is close to my heart too (I'm the project manager and visionary) so we spent a long time making sure we got it right." [source]

[other post sources: source, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen]

[linguisticdiscovery]

Pumpkin Spice Linguistics

It’s officially Fall 🍂 which means we need to talk about some Pumpkin Spice Linguistics 🎃🗣️

This is a 20-minute talk I gave to Edmonton Nerd Nite in 2022, about what the history of the words pumpkin and spice can teach us about how language changes, and indigenous perspectives on history.

[chrismoet]

Some more statue art I was commissioned to make. This time for a cocky demon deity.

[cobaltsoulsearcher]

Query: Where can I watch hadestown

It seems interesting but I don’t know where it would be available

Okay soo

It’s a Broadway musical, so the only “legal” way to watch it is to buy a ticket to the show in New York, the North American Tour which is currently in Canada , or the South Korean production in Seoul. There’s also a West End/UK production beginning next year.

The music is however quite easy to stream; The original Broadway cast recording is on most streaming services, as are some of the earlier stuff like the NYTW production and the concept album.

That said, many lovely people have bootlegs. If you decide to watch a boot, make sure to note what version/cast it is, as the lyrics and characterizations change significantly from NYTW to London to Edmonton to Broadway, Broadway being the “canon” version. I have seen bootlegs of all four of those as well as of the Spanish language production from Argentina; feel free to DM me if you wanna know how to find them. Unfortunately, there is not to my knowledge any recordings of Vermont or pre-NYTW workshops, though there is a ten minute clip compilation, an Anais solo concert, and the concept album.

That’s probably way more than you wnated to know, excuse me for being a nerd about this show.

TLDR: buy a ticket to see it live or find bootleg videos on YouTube/MEGA/from a bootlegger

[anarchycox]

We're not doing a big summer vacation this year, we need to do some work on the house.

But planning a couple local things.

June we are going to go into Edmonton to see the symphony do an anime night.

July we are going to a medieval festival.

The nerd energy is gonna be so strong.

[sunshine-gumdrop]

Connor McDavid was drafted nine years ago on June 26th, 2015. In Sunrise, Florida.

[fortheb0ys]

HEWWO HOW ARE YOU

Sorry i've also been dead usual work is the culprit I went to West Edmonton Mall recently tho and had some fun there with my friend bought some nerd shit and books

-Bone

Heyyy how yall doing...*insert that one meme*

I've been dead too, Bone, so don't apologize. I've always wanted to go to West Edmonton Mall. Summer road trip plan, maybe🤔

Hope you're doing well, Bone! Sorry for the LATE answer <3

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Trying to do some self-study on Slavic embroidery before I start going to museums and talking to people (visiting the Ukrainian Village with my mom later this week! Mostly because it's the kind of nerd shit I absolutely love, a tiny bit for business.)

The Edmonton Public Library has two books on Slavic embroidery. One was all about beadwork, so I got the other one.

Thank GOD I upgraded my phone last year to one that can do automatic optical character recognition from photos.