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A photo of a pork collar butt sitting on a Weber Smokey Mountain smoker with smoke coming up from underneath. It has a temperature probe in it, and another to measure the ambient temperature inside the smoker.

It's that time again!

I definitely want to try brisket next time, but I was talking to the friend of mine who introduced us to smoking meats in the first place and given it takes like 12 hours, I think I'll be smoking it with the expectation that we won't be having it for dinner that night. No way in hell am I getting up at like 6am to get it started. :P

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Posted on 5 April 2021, 12:05

A photo of two cardboard takeaway boxes, one has hot chips, the other has slices of beef brisket, some potato chips, pickles, and a container of barbecue sauce in it.

Yasssss, Black Bear Barbecue time again.

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Posted on 1 April 2021, 12:46

A photo of the warband Morgwaeth's Blade-coven from Warhammer Underworlds. Five female aelf miniatures, the one in the middle is holding a spear with a goblet raised in triumph and has long pale blue hair. The two on either side of her have long pale pink hair and are both holding swords like they're about to use them. The one on the left's bottom half of body is a snake and she's holding a bow. The right one has a whip and is mid-leap over a broken statue. They're all not wearing much armour.

Oh man, I just did my first ever glaze for miniature painting (I thinned out Flesh Tearers Red with Contrast Medium in a 1:8 ratio), and hot damn am I a convert. Look at how rich that red looks now!

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Posted on 30 March 2021, 20:33

A photo of a 3-player game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all industrial, with lots of pipes and metal structures, as well as shipping containers and cargo crates, and some bridges connecting the various upper levels.

Went over to a friend's place for a three-player game of Kill Team! It was Death Watch versus Chaos daemons versus my Astra Militarum. Very happy with how my guardsmen performed, though I didn't win. We called it after the fourth round, and the Death Watch won despite having only one model left. If we'd gone another round, though, the daemons would have overrun EVERYONE and definitely won.

This was definitely the best-looking board we've ever played on, terrain-wise, despite my larger pieces only being undercoated with silver. My friend has been making lots of terrain, both 3D-printed and built from scratch, and all of his was fully painted, so it really felt excellent to play on. The only thing letting us down was that the Chaos daemons were all only base-coated. :P

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Posted on 28 March 2021, 19:49

A photo of the box of Apogee's "Jam" guitar input, an unassuming silver rectangle with a dial on the front as well as a button and some lights.

Woohoo, my new guitar input arrived! I took it for a quick spin and the sound quality is noticeably improved over the old one, everything sounds crisper and clearer (old was 16-bit/44.1KHz, new one is 24-bit/96KHz).

This was paid for by selling some of that funny money that Keybase gave everyone a few years back, turns out it's actually worth something now!

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Posted on 23 March 2021, 13:08

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying underneath a dining table and chairs.

We're currently at my parents' place on the Northern Beaches because there was an SES flood evacuation warning late last night that said we might need to evacuate before 3am. We figured we'd get ahead and just leave and get a decent-ish sleep rather than waiting and worrying. Unsurprisingly Beanie has taken this turn of events in stride and is currently resting under their dining table.

I doubt we're in any danger of the house being flooded, didn't want to be potentially cut off with no power though!

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Posted on 22 March 2021, 10:17

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board. The board design is the inside of a cave and has hexagonal tiles on it. The three miniatures on my side of the table are bulky and slow-moving, and the three on Kristina's side are lithe and elegant aelves.

We played another game of Warhammer Underworlds tonight, the vile Wurmspat versus Myari's Purifiers. I was coming first right up until the very last end phase, then Kristina scored two objectives to put her ahead by ONE glory, and she'd killed one of my fighters thus rendering six additional glory out of reach for me!

I'm not sure how I feel about the Wurmspat's current deck, I think I want to make it a bit more mobile and combat-focused.

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Posted on 21 March 2021, 22:32

A photo of three fully painted "orruks" (Games Workshop speak for orks). They're all in battered-looking dark metal and bronze armour, the leader is pointing a sword and roaring, and the other two are mid-weapon swing. One mid-swing one is holding two metal clubs with spikes coming out of them, and the other's is the same club-looking things but joined together in a nunchuck-like fashion. Their bases are pale blue and white like snow.

And that's Morgok's Krushas done! Proper DSLR photos will be coming on Wednesday once it's not actively raining so I can varnish them.

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Posted on 21 March 2021, 14:49

A photo of a bowl of porridge with brown sugar and a dollop of butter on top.

Well, the temperature might not be quite right (it's 20˚C outside), but I think two days of unceasing dark and raininess qualifies for good porridge weather.

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Posted on 21 March 2021, 9:31

Three round miniature bases, with really pale blue icy-looking areas and some chunks of rugged white rock/snow, with skulls and bones scattered about.

I know the bases of miniatures aren't the most exciting things, but I'm seriously stoked with how these came out and wanted to photograph them separately before the miniatures themselves are glued on. I immediately thought of snow and ice when I saw the bases, rather than dirt and rubble, and it's excellent to have something a bit different! (The feet are molded to the bases if you're wondering).

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Posted on 20 March 2021, 23:24