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A photo taken in our lounge room showing Megalodon Rising on the TV. The poster art has a submarine with an explosion behind it, and underneath it there is the mouth of a GIANT shark whose mouth-width is nearly as wide as the submarine is long. This was very deceptive because there was no military submarine at any point in the movie!

Tonight we did a bad movie night for @yayKM@aus.social's birthday (it was meant to be last month but sickness got in the way), and we watched MEGALODON RISING.

It's got a 2.1 on IMDB and deserves every bit of it, there weren't remotely enough scenes of things or people being eaten by badly CGI-ed giant sharks and way too much talking. @littleal@mastodon.au figured out that the naval ship they filmed the movie on was a museum piece at some maritime museum in California, which explained why all the shots of the bridge had exactly one person in the shot at once because they couldn't physically fit more people in the space. 😛 And there were clearly shots that were gotten by just walking alongside the ship in the dock and aiming upwards at the deck, haha. At least the woman who was playing the main character, the captain of the ship, could actually act though!

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Posted on 20 September 2025, 22:10

A photo of the Kill Team: Tomb World box. There's nothing for scale but it's QUITE hefty. The artwork on the front has four Space Marines in their standard huge armour inside some sort of indistinct structure that's lit with a sickly green/blue glow, with a couple of robot/scarab looking things scuttling around.

Who has two thumbs and approximately three metric tons of new plastic that he really shouldn't start on until he's done with the Hivestorm terrain? THIS GUY!

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Posted on 19 September 2025, 11:21

A photo of the box of the Deep Space Nine complete DVD set.

Yessss it is finally mine to own!

Unfortunately it's a US-region DVD set so the next step is going to be finding a region-free drive with which to rip it.

...although I have a vague memory of there being some relatively small number of region changes you were allowed to do on non-region-free drives, and I suspect the Apple SuperDrive I bought back with the original-gen MacBook Air waaaay back in 2008 probably has never had its region set more than once... 🤔

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Posted on 18 September 2025, 12:25

A photo of the box of the Ravagers squad for Kill Team. The squad consists of five large snake-like alien miniatures, very much in the vein of the xenomorphs from the Aliens universe. Most of them are rearing up, and they all have multiple arms that end in extremely large claws, and generally look extremely unpleasant in a "going to eat you alive" sort of way.

Yessss, plastics for the plastic god!

Looking forward to painting these, I haven't actually painted any Tyranids before except for a single Genestealer over three and a half years ago. I have no idea what colour scheme I'm going to use for these though, I wasn't super-happy with the one I did on that Genestealer.

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Posted on 17 September 2025, 14:34

A photo of one of the two larger pieces of terrain that comes with the Kill Team: Hivestorm box. It's made to look like a ruined gothic-looking building made out of metal concrete with steel reinforcements with rivets everywhere, enclosed on all four sides but the two sides facing the camera have been blown clean away down to a bit below shoulder height and it's completely open in the middle. At the rear is the second level of the building with twisted metal coming out from where the floor ends, and there are tall thick gothic-looking barred iron windows that end part-way up the wall where the roof also has been blown off. Three ordinary human-sized miniatures are standing on and in the terrain for scale, showing that it'd be a somewhat high-ceilinged building if it was fully intact.

I have finally gotten another piece of the Hivestorm terrain done (sans rust effects and weathering)! 🥳 Now there's just the really big piece left, plus the small pieces of scatter terrain. I'm quite looking forward to having a go at the single-player mode on an open board, even though Into The Dark is my favourite way to play Kill Team.

(All this just in time for the Tomb World box to arrive next week. 😅)

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Posted on 16 September 2025, 21:50

A photo of fifteen cut golden brown cut rounds (they very much resemble scones) sitting on a cooling rack.

The #GloriousSydney levels are off the charts, it's 22˚C and 38% humidity, every single door and window in the house is open, and I've just made a batch of cut rounds for the first time in ages. :chefkiss:

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Posted on 13 September 2025, 13:55

A photo of twelve people sitting around a few tables in the corner at the pub, all smiling at the camera. (Sorry Mark, I don't know why your face turned out so red, I think it was light reflecting from the side of the bar next to you!) As per most pubs, the lighting isn't very good or flattering, haha.

Excellent turnout for the fedimeet, thanks as always to @yayKM@aus.social for organising!

Great to see @NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net @s0@cathode.church @vk2gpu@mastodon.radio @heygeorgie@aus.social @ben_hr@old.mermaid.town @thewetmale@aus.social @dimsimple@chinwag.org and @dropbear@aus.social again, and to meet @franksting@theblower.au and @belee@cathode.church!

(Also really good to see and chat to @philbetts@mastodon.social who won't see this, haha.)

It's getting large enough that we're going to be spilling over onto additional tables at this rate!

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Posted on 11 September 2025, 21:06

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. Closest to the camera are my Corsair Voidscarred (think punk/pirate space elves) in elegant fuchsia-coloured armour, and facing them on the far side of the board are the pustulant warriors of the Death Guard. There are three Plague Marines in hulking green armour with tentacles coming out of them, and six Poxwalkers which are basically zombies but with open wounds and bone spikes and tentacles.

A close-up photo of Arendra Firewinter, my Starstorm Duellist, right as she was vaporising one of the Plague Marines. She has dark skin and a bald head with a white flowing topknot, is wearing got a dark-ish teal cape that looks like it's blowing in the wind, and she's holding two elegant-looking alien pistols, one of them aimed forward and the other held pointing upright like she's just finished shooting it. Through the hatchway in front of her is one of the hulking Plague Marines holding a huge boltgun and with a demon face in his shoulderpad. Just to the left of frame you can see the Poxwalker's foot that she killed right after the Plague Marine.

I FINALLY got around to playing some single-player Kill Team! I decided to use my Corsair Voidscarred since I love the miniatures so much even though I'm pretty bad at remembering everything they can do (which I guess just means I need to play more). My Death Guard were the non-player operatives (NPOs) and I went with a mix of the light "brawler" troop type so I could have an excuse to use my Poxwalker miniatures, and the heavy "marksman" type for the Plague Marines.

It didn't actually start off super-well, I was very excited to see my Shaderunner get stuck in because she can teleport through walls, but misjudged where I could move her and keep her safe before she attacked, and she ended up getting killed by one of the Plague Marines before she did anything. 😞 I think I also need to rethink my initial deployment strategy on Into The Dark because I always end up sitting with a hatchway closed because I don't want to open it and give the enemy free reign to shoot my quite-squishy operatives, and if I was to run out my operatives would be completely murderised.

Operative of the match goes to my Starstorm Duellist Arendra Firewinter who single-handedly accounted for two of the three Plague Marines and one of the Poxwalkers. One of the Plague Marines in particular got absolutely turned into slag, he was on ten wounds and got hit with three critical successes from Arendra's fusion pistol, which meant that the Devastating 3 rule went off and immediately inflicted three damage for each crit, with no save possible, before anything else even happed. And in the same activation thanks to the Pistol Barrage ability that lets her shoot twice, once per pistol, she then turned around and killed the Poxwalker that was standing behind her with her shuriken pistol!

Overall I only lost three miniatures, the aforementioned Shaderunner along with my Way Seeker and my leader, and the win condition for this scenario was to just completely wipe out the enemy.

As I'm writing this, I realised another difficulty I have with the Voidscarred in particular is that they're very close-combat-focused because I built them all as the specialists with no regular warriors. My Fate Dealer doesn't see much action especially on Into The Dark (she did nothing whatsoever this game), and although the Kurnite Hunter finished off the remaining Plague Marine in this particular game, I'm constantly wishing that he was a regular Warrior with a shuriken rifle.

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Posted on 7 September 2025, 16:45

A photo of the lake at Nurragingy Reserve. In the middle of the photo is a big ornate white Chinese arch bridge and on the right up the top of a set of big stones that has a waterfall coming down it is another traditional Chinese building. The whole lake is surrounded by trees, some have their leaves and some don't. It's completely sunny and the sky is blue, and the whole shot has a warm early-spring feel to it which matches exactly what it felt like being there.

We went and did a few laps of Nurragingy Reserve today, you absolutely could not have asked for better weather for it! There were quite a few families hanging out, we spotted at least three separate wedding parties having photos taken, and also got to say hello and give scritches to two Malteses and a Pomeranian.

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Posted on 6 September 2025, 17:00

A photo of the front of our house. It's a standard-looking single storey house in red brick, in the middle is a large box window with thick white PVC frames. To the left of the window is the front door also in white, and left of that the side of what is the garage extends out towards the camera and out of frame. In front of the window is a small garden with various trees and plants. The new guttering is the same dark grey as the roof and blends in nicely and looks very nice.

A photo of the side of our house that faces the backyard. Three windows are visible, all with the same thick white PVC window frames as the front, but on the two larger bedroom windows there are tracks for shutters to run down (right now the shutters themselves are fully hidden because they're open since it's GLORIOUS today), and there's a big box at the top of both where the shutter rolls up into. The tracks and shutter boxes are a cream colour and it looks really crap now.

And we're done! I didn't realise just how awful the old gutters looked until now, they had been painted (badly and unevenly) in a really drab-looking brown. Of course, now the frame of the shutters for the bedrooms looks really shit because it's a cream colour and it looks dingy next to the nice cleanness of the white window frames and dark grey guttering. 😛

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Posted on 2 September 2025, 13:37