Oh why does your channel not have more subscribers! The subject matter and the way you present it doesn't just apply to TTG but all creativity. There is someone out there who has a knitting pile of shame (and you know it exists) that could benefit from watching you. Your videos are fantastic! I can't wait for my weekly injection of positivity! Sincerely: A fellow Goonie!
The difference between opportunity and same I think varies between awareness of what you have. As you said, you felt shame for something that was primed but forgotten about. I get the same, nothing worse than digging up a miniature that you have forgotten you primed waiting to paint. I like opportunity as it creates a level of anticipation and excitement, shame gives a feeling of dread and apathy.
For me they really are a pile of opportunity. I do custom terrain for clients on the side. I deliberately build up things that I know I can use to make X or Y, and get them listed in my shop. As for unfinished projects, they are a wonderful way for me to test ideas if I've lost enthusiasm for what the final result was supposed to be. Another great video, sir.
@@tabletopalchemy It's not mine, steal away!! 🤣😅 I forgot my cardinal rule, quote your sources, it's actually Bruce Lee, and there are few better men, no, PERSON who would love to have their words stolen in such a way. Another source, more familiar to our generation would be "Magic is the art and science of causing change in conformity with will" (Alistair Crowley) Is it a pile of shame, or a pile of opportunity? What is our hobby, in all its myriad forms, but magic? Turning the mundane into the magical? The role of a die, the drawing of a card, chicken scrawls on a piece of paper, the sum process of injection moulded plastic being hand crafted and turned into art? Crafting stories? Turning lead into gold, the literal meaning of alchemy? Here is one you can steal, Reality is for those with no imagination.
@sutekh233 some excellent quotes in here! Yes, chicken scrawls, yessir - you familiar with Grant Morrison? Should save that question for the email I owe ya😂🏴☠️
@@tabletopalchemy You OWE me nothing Ignatius, but I appreciate the thought. I had to look up Grant Morrison, and you are hitting a period where my kids where more front and centre in my mind rather than reading comics. I have heard of his works, (not by name), but the one that stuck out was Doom Patrol, which I HAVE seen the series adaption of on netflix. THAT is some dark stuff, and I LOVED it. Hmm, The Crow, Blade, V for Vendetta and Doom Patrol, I am noticing a theme here............
This has to be one of the very best answers I have ever heard. I have about 7 of the Malifaux "gangs" who are ALL on greycation. I LOVE the game, but assembling mini's and painting them is NOT my forte, in fact, I have screwed some of them up royally just trying to put them together. Sometimes I miss the time when mini's were pewter, or more likely lead. I may have chewed on some back then, would explain alot............
My main two problems for my pile of shame is 1) I have too many hobbies and split my time up between RPG writing (I plan to release a horror game soon), running games, drawing for said games, painting minis, and playing games. The nature of the beast means some things get put on the back burner for a bit. The upside is I never get bored since I cycle through one hobby and another. But it can get annoying. And there is only so much time in a day.
Agreed, the term "pile of "shame" seems so derogatory. I feel no shame in my unopen boxes, primed and unprimed minis and once half painted. I smile with joy some times finding a box and thinking "OH COOL! found Treasure" I work in a stressful job, and see my Pile as rewards :-) Enjoyed the video, please keep them coming!!
This. This video got me to take a mini I’ve had for two years and just prime it. I’ve never painted a mini but wanted to dip my toe in (I watched that video after this one). I’ve made 100% progress, just by switching from “Pile of shame” to “pile of opportunity”. Thank you!
My Pile of Opportunity has been Great for becoming my Example of Explorers. As in, whenever I want to test a paint scheme the Explorers are the ones to boldly go First.
Pile Management and bridging the chasm between desire & intent. The desire to complete an object of opportunity and the intent to simply go sit in the chair. Oh yea, you have found me were I live. So many hobbies, so little focus. Thanks for reminding me its the journey that counts and practice makes progress. Stalled projects as practice fodder, solid. Now, time to go find that chair [..I had that chair around here somewhere...]
I have unfinished projects. When I look closely at them I can see that mostly, they were ill-conceived or that I was influenced by someone or something else to attempt them. In other words, they weren't original. When I have original ideas they fly to completion on their own momentum.
I have a few minis and some terrain that I should do something with :D Thanks for helping me realize that I should do something with them. Seeing them for sure makes me feel worse than my Pile of Opportunity. When we moved less than a year ago most of my crafting/terrain building is out in the garage, so out of sight out of mind?
I think I need to get “finished is better than perfect” tattooed on me to remind me to not give up on the projects in my pile of opportunity. And there are a LOT. 😅
@@AwkwardBirb More like I feel stuck, like I'm going nowhere and death would be a reprieve lol I just didn't wanna be Debbie Downer and be that explicit about it heh
I remember somebody saying... "Nothing is ever finished just abandoned... and of course we can't forget what Ron Swanson says, "Don't half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing!!"
Do you find a bigger payoff dealing with the Pile Of Opportunity LIFO or FIFO? Or is the reward/satisfaction the same regardless of when it was started and how long it sat on the shelf?
The shelf life has no bearing on my personal gratification regarding accomplishment lol. Once remanded to the Pile, all semblance of hierarchy is removed. 😉🍻
@@tabletopalchemy Oh how I wish I could make the mental shift required to live that way. The twenty year old project carries so much more weight than the 20 day or 20 week old project. I'd love to be able to take a year and do nothing but finish the unfinished projects, and just clear the deck, so to speak.
When I look at my so call pile of shame. I just ask myself. Why the F$%& did I not finish that? Ok I can blame part of that on my ADD and some on just working on other projects. I sometimes work on three or more models at the same time. I know that sounds funny and my hobby table becomes full incredibly fast. Some times my audio projects get put off to the side when that happens. The funny part is I do get them done. I promise myself not to get so backed up on my hobbies and then just do it all over again. I am still working on some dialog for a Orc King. I have the stuff on paper. I am just trying to get the voice and the FX I need for the large throne room he is in. Not to mention the sound of him eating. LMAO!!
Trust the process... I always hated when a director or whatever came by to see work in progress. Work they had no way to properly judge or evaluate. And the havoc that would ensue when they didn't understand what they were looking at... At least in this case you know what you need to do, being the author of your own procrastination.
I noticed you don't use the word procrastination. Good for you. I need something to replace that work with. But pile of shame is way to heavy, and easy to add to, like tears of .... Plus, I trip over piles. Like the one I tripped over getting to my computer. Which reminds me there's something I should be doing. So I'll get back to you.
A pile of shame is a POS. We're back to spelling.🤣😂 Or does all the magic happen in the toilet? Is that why there are no toilets on the enterprise? enquiring minds want to know...........🤣😂
Um, you didn’t use the P word. Most “piles of shame”, or as l like to call them my BNM’s (bare naked minis), are largely the result of the P word. Procrastination. There l said it. I even procrastinated saying it. 🙄 Im not sure if procrastination is a disease or not, as most debilitating issues nowadays tend to be, but a LOT of us have it. And at some point l plan on dealing with it, just not right now. Anyways, thanks for another amazing video! 🍻
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"I think overcoming challenges is actually the only useful metric by which success can be measured."
Absolutely.
I have a pile of shame too, but it's a bunch of unfinished programming projects so a lot easier to hide.
lol I get that! 🍻
Fantastic work, as usual. thanks!
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Oh why does your channel not have more subscribers! The subject matter and the way you present it doesn't just apply to TTG but all creativity. There is someone out there who has a knitting pile of shame (and you know it exists) that could benefit from watching you. Your videos are fantastic! I can't wait for my weekly injection of positivity! Sincerely: A fellow Goonie!
Goonies never say die! 🏴☠️😉 Thank you for the kind words, much appreciated!
I'll second that.
Of course it applies to everything, that's the alchemy!!
And I am Sirius, and don't call me shirley!!
100 points from Gryfindor!!😆🤣
The difference between opportunity and same I think varies between awareness of what you have. As you said, you felt shame for something that was primed but forgotten about. I get the same, nothing worse than digging up a miniature that you have forgotten you primed waiting to paint.
I like opportunity as it creates a level of anticipation and excitement, shame gives a feeling of dread and apathy.
Bingo! 🍻🏴☠️
For me they really are a pile of opportunity. I do custom terrain for clients on the side. I deliberately build up things that I know I can use to make X or Y, and get them listed in my shop.
As for unfinished projects, they are a wonderful way for me to test ideas if I've lost enthusiasm for what the final result was supposed to be.
Another great video, sir.
Excellent! And thank you!🍻
Words are magic, that's why it is called spelling
That's a good one - I like it :D
Excellent lol (damn I feel another theft coming on 😈)
@@tabletopalchemy
It's not mine, steal away!! 🤣😅
I forgot my cardinal rule, quote your sources, it's actually Bruce Lee, and there are few better men, no, PERSON who would love to have their words stolen in such a way.
Another source, more familiar to our generation would be "Magic is the art and science of causing change in conformity with will" (Alistair Crowley)
Is it a pile of shame, or a pile of opportunity?
What is our hobby, in all its myriad forms, but magic? Turning the mundane into the magical? The role of a die, the drawing of a card, chicken scrawls on a piece of paper, the sum process of injection moulded plastic being hand crafted and turned into art? Crafting stories?
Turning lead into gold, the literal meaning of alchemy?
Here is one you can steal, Reality is for those with no imagination.
@sutekh233 some excellent quotes in here! Yes, chicken scrawls, yessir - you familiar with Grant Morrison? Should save that question for the email I owe ya😂🏴☠️
@@tabletopalchemy
You OWE me nothing Ignatius, but I appreciate the thought.
I had to look up Grant Morrison, and you are hitting a period where my kids where more front and centre in my mind rather than reading comics. I have heard of his works, (not by name), but the one that stuck out was Doom Patrol, which I HAVE seen the series adaption of on netflix.
THAT is some dark stuff, and I LOVED it.
Hmm, The Crow, Blade, V for Vendetta and Doom Patrol, I am noticing a theme here............
Mine aren't Unpainted, they're just On Greycation 😅!
Lol, sounds like I been on that trip! 🍻
This has to be one of the very best answers I have ever heard. I have about 7 of the Malifaux "gangs" who are ALL on greycation. I LOVE the game, but assembling mini's and painting them is NOT my forte, in fact, I have screwed some of them up royally just trying to put them together. Sometimes I miss the time when mini's were pewter, or more likely lead.
I may have chewed on some back then, would explain alot............
@sutekh233 this is also why I like the 3d printed trend - very little assembly and no mold lines!
My main two problems for my pile of shame is 1) I have too many hobbies and split my time up between RPG writing (I plan to release a horror game soon), running games, drawing for said games, painting minis, and playing games. The nature of the beast means some things get put on the back burner for a bit. The upside is I never get bored since I cycle through one hobby and another. But it can get annoying. And there is only so much time in a day.
I fully relate 100%! What annoys me most is when I realize just how long the back burner has been simmering certain things lol. 🍻
Also, best of luck with the horror game!
Try being like this but without the space to actually do anything :
@3nertia lol this a thing indeed
@@tabletopalchemy Sadly
Extra good sentiment!
I have totally adopted your "pile of opportunity" nomenclature...
Excellent! 🤙
Agreed, the term "pile of "shame" seems so derogatory. I feel no shame in my unopen boxes, primed and unprimed minis and once half painted. I smile with joy some times finding a box and thinking "OH COOL! found Treasure" I work in a stressful job, and see my Pile as rewards :-) Enjoyed the video, please keep them coming!!
Awesome! This is just about how I think of The Collection as well lol. 🍻
This. This video got me to take a mini I’ve had for two years and just prime it. I’ve never painted a mini but wanted to dip my toe in (I watched that video after this one). I’ve made 100% progress, just by switching from “Pile of shame” to “pile of opportunity”.
Thank you!
Right on! Very cool! 🤙🍻
My Pile of Opportunity has been Great for becoming my Example of Explorers. As in, whenever I want to test a paint scheme the Explorers are the ones to boldly go First.
This is exactly what I’ll be doing in a video soon lol! 🍻
Pile Management and bridging the chasm between desire & intent. The desire to complete an object of opportunity and the intent to simply go sit in the chair. Oh yea, you have found me were I live. So many hobbies, so little focus. Thanks for reminding me its the journey that counts and practice makes progress. Stalled projects as practice fodder, solid. Now, time to go find that chair [..I had that chair around here somewhere...]
Lol damn missing chairs, poltergeists running rampant I suppose … 😈🍻
I have unfinished projects. When I look closely at them I can see that mostly, they were ill-conceived or that I was influenced by someone or something else to attempt them. In other words, they weren't original. When I have original ideas they fly to completion on their own momentum.
Ah that’s a pretty cool self-realization! 🤙🍻
Please someone make t-shirts with "...And Knowing is Half the Skirmish"
Lol I could have that up tonight if I’m not lazy (someone must have made that already)!
Thank you
Nice, I've recently dug up a old pile of half-finished goblins to repurpose for some other game. Time to get them done.
Hoo-ah! 🏴☠️🍻
I have a few minis and some terrain that I should do something with :D Thanks for helping me realize that I should do something with them. Seeing them for sure makes me feel worse than my Pile of Opportunity. When we moved less than a year ago most of my crafting/terrain building is out in the garage, so out of sight out of mind?
Lol I tried the out of sight thing … but I could never fully escape it! Probably because ultimately I do want to finish all the stuff.
I think I need to get “finished is better than perfect” tattooed on me to remind me to not give up on the projects in my pile of opportunity. And there are a LOT. 😅
Lol - might just be a worthy tattoo (make sure to get written in mirrored font, so you can read it … in a mirror …😂)
Might be easier to just like, get it on my arm or something. Would save me from people looking at me more confusedly than they already do 😂
@AwkwardBirb sure … take the easy way out … 🤣
My whole life feels like one big unfinished project heh
I’ll bet most of us are on that train lol!
@@tabletopalchemy I certainly hope not!
I mean, that’s being alive, isn’t it? You’re only finished with the project called “life” when you shuffle off this mortal coil. 😊
@@AwkwardBirb More like I feel stuck, like I'm going nowhere and death would be a reprieve lol
I just didn't wanna be Debbie Downer and be that explicit about it heh
I agree with you. Many words have negative connotations.
I’m gonna change my pile of shame name to P.O.S.
Yeah… That’ll make me feel better.
Lol that’s the spirit! 🤣
@@tabletopalchemy 👍☺️
I remember somebody saying... "Nothing is ever finished just abandoned... and of course we can't forget what Ron Swanson says, "Don't half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing!!"
Both pretty damn true lol! 🍻
“Negative vibes”?
You do, in fact, look amazingly like a certain leading actor in “Kelly’s Heroes”.
Lol I’ve heard that before … 🍻
It's a beautiful mother bridge!
I'd just like to tell anyone who calls their shame a "pile of opportunity" that denial is not just a river in Egypt.
🤣 hey, we’re all good at telling some kind of story, right? 😈🍻
"YES"
I guess this is Universe telling me to go back and finish that card game I started making oohhhhh, give or take 2 years ago...
It very well could be - and if you do finish it, then it absolutely was lol!
Do you find a bigger payoff dealing with the Pile Of Opportunity LIFO or FIFO? Or is the reward/satisfaction the same regardless of when it was started and how long it sat on the shelf?
The shelf life has no bearing on my personal gratification regarding accomplishment lol. Once remanded to the Pile, all semblance of hierarchy is removed. 😉🍻
@@tabletopalchemy Oh how I wish I could make the mental shift required to live that way. The twenty year old project carries so much more weight than the 20 day or 20 week old project. I'd love to be able to take a year and do nothing but finish the unfinished projects, and just clear the deck, so to speak.
@ocalicreek I concur - a year to take care of stuff would be nice … fantasy is my favorite genre 😂
When I look at my so call pile of shame. I just ask myself. Why the F$%& did I not finish that? Ok I can blame part of that on my ADD and some on just working on other projects. I sometimes work on three or more models at the same time. I know that sounds funny and my hobby table becomes full incredibly fast. Some times my audio projects get put off to the side when that happens. The funny part is I do get them done. I promise myself not to get so backed up on my hobbies and then just do it all over again. I am still working on some dialog for a Orc King. I have the stuff on paper. I am just trying to get the voice and the FX I need for the large throne room he is in. Not to mention the sound of him eating. LMAO!!
Lol it’s all about the details! And to be honest, the piles are really probably just a part of the creative process. 🤙
6:48 am here to just saying yes
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Trust the process... I always hated when a director or whatever came by to see work in progress. Work they had no way to properly judge or evaluate. And the havoc that would ensue when they didn't understand what they were looking at... At least in this case you know what you need to do, being the author of your own procrastination.
lol very true and fundamental state of client-contractor relationships!
I noticed you don't use the word procrastination. Good for you. I need something to replace that work with. But pile of shame is way to heavy, and easy to add to, like tears of .... Plus, I trip over piles. Like the one I tripped over getting to my computer. Which reminds me there's something I should be doing. So I'll get back to you.
😂 Yep all this sounds familiar … 🤙🏴☠️
Pete and the Pile of Potential is your latest dungeon crawler? 😊
lol this sounds like an absolute banger!
My inner child just wants to point out the acronym for pile of opportunity is POO 😂
🤣 you can see how far ahead I think 😈
A pile of shame is a POS.
We're back to spelling.🤣😂
Or does all the magic happen in the toilet?
Is that why there are no toilets on the enterprise?
enquiring minds want to know...........🤣😂
Nope! No unfinished projects at MY house, and anybody who says otherwise is clearly a low-down dirty lying liar!
Lol, them pesky lying liars, conundrums every one of em. 😂🏴☠️
Um, you didn’t use the P word. Most “piles of shame”, or as l like to call them my BNM’s (bare naked minis), are largely the result of the P word. Procrastination. There l said it. I even procrastinated saying it. 🙄 Im not sure if procrastination is a disease or not, as most debilitating issues nowadays tend to be, but a LOT of us have it. And at some point l plan on dealing with it, just not right now. Anyways, thanks for another amazing video! 🍻
🤣 yep that old demon likes to party don’t it? Someday I’ll get to the gumption to discuss this one. 🍻
Can we send our piles of opportunities to you? I have some to spare.
😂