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A photo of three heavily-armoured fantasy-type warriors. One is holding a long staff behind her and looks like she's in the middle of flying just above the ground, the second has a cool hood/cloak thing going on and has one hand in front of him levitating a giant rock, and the third has a sword and staff and is pointing his staff forwards like he's about to cast some magic from it.

A photo of five miniatures. The leader is androgynous and skinny and has four arms and no eye sockets and is wearing a long robe, and the other four are smaller and... just really fucked up. It's hard to describe. One is like a starfish but with an eye in the middle and a fish body, the second is running on four legs but has like six eyes and a mouth that goes most of the way around its body, the third is a leaning back on its arms and has like a bird head, while its lower half of body is too short and its feet are holding up a swirling ball of magic, and the last one is also like a starfish with an eye in the middle but it has three-fingered hands at the end of each of its five arms and it's capering along the ground while holding magical flame above its "head".

There we go, Domitan's Stormcoven and Ephilim's Pandaemonium are both assembled! All of the Warhammer Underworlds warbands are push-fit — meaning you still need to chop them out of the sprue, but gluing them together isn't required if you're not actually going to paint them because there's little poles on some pieces that go into holes on other pieces inside the miniatures to keep them together — but holy FUCK were the Pandemonium irritating to put together, they would have been SO much easier if they hadn't been required to be push-fit. 😫

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Posted on 14 May 2023, 10:05

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board. The artwork looks like a bunch of huge tree roots and on one side they look like they're going down into a river of blood. On the side closest to the camera are six zombies and a zombie master in a flowing purple cloak, and on the other side are six beastly goatmen.

First game of Warhammer Underworlds in a while, and my first outing with the Exiled Dead! @yayKM won 9-7 with Grashrak's Despoilers, and I realised I was playing a couple of things wrong and also misread one of my objectives. It was a lot of fun though, and the shenanigans with Exiled Dead are fantastic.

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Posted on 13 May 2023, 23:46

Metal Tones

I did some more musical mucking around last night and today and recorded this! I did the guitar first, then bass, and finally drums, and it was a lot easier to fit the drums to the guitar tracks first than the other way around. I made more use of the guitar pedals this time, I had nearly everything on! Reverb and analog delay as always, but I also had the SD-1 Super Overdrive on and feeding into the DS-1W Distortion, plus the flanger in front of everything, and I quite like how it came out. I did the same thing as last time with the scooped mids, partially because I love the tone but also because I haven't figured out the best settings for a good crunchy tone yet. It's funny how I can mostly play drums along to the track fine, but as soon as it comes to actually RECORDING I keep overthinking things and being overly nervous about fucking it up, and end up not doing nearly as many fills as I mean to. This was my first time recording a "skip note" (the extra snare hit right before the kick drum on beat 3) and I missed a bunch of those, as well a lot of the open hi-hat hits right at the end of the bar too. (Yes, this is still using basically the same handful of notes that my last song did, in much the same progression. 😛)

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Posted on 13 May 2023, 20:16

A photo of a bowl of porridge with two slices of butter on top and sprinkled with brown sugar.

Yesss, first porridge of the season. It's meant to be fairly miserable this weekend so I figured it was a good time for it.

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Posted on 13 May 2023, 9:17

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying with his head over the side of my lap, fast asleep.

Beanie's currently asleep on my lap, doing a big snore.

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Posted on 11 May 2023, 15:05

A photo of the front of the box of the new Warhammer Underworlds release. The artwork has a guy in golden armour with a big blue cloak with a hood standing there with a staff and casting some sort of magic, and below that are two more similar figures fighting off freaky-looking misshapen daemons.

Yesssss, very excited to put the warbands in Wyrdhollow together and take them for a spin, they look like great fun, lots of magic-casting!

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Posted on 10 May 2023, 13:57

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. On the left are nine Aeldari (think space elves) in elegant fuchsia-coloured armour, and at the right are ten heavily-armoured human warrior women in black armour and red cloaks, all with striking white hair.

First game of Kill Team with my Voidscarred tonight! It was against the Sisters of Battle, I won 18-13. Really enjoyed this layout from the new Critical Tac-Ops, it required a lot of strategising about where to go and which hatches to open when. The Voidscarred are so much fun to play, they've got lots of things they can do and the free Dash action every turn is brilliant, it makes them incredibly fast to move around. Good LORD the Sisters' "Divine Intervention" tactical ploy that lets them ignore the damage from a single attack dice was a pain though. It would have been four or five times I was about to kill a miniature and my opponent was able to pull that off to save them! Favourite moment was absolutely melting one unit with my Starstorm Duellist's dual fusion pistol, shooting another with her shuriken pistol, and then using the Way Seeker's Warp Fold psychic power to swap positions with the Duellist and proceed to beat down on another unit that was next to the one I'd just melted. I ended up sweeping up and around the top to claim six objectives, while my forces at the bottom ended up getting annihilated and not accomplishing a whole lot, though it DID end up with a bunch of my opponent's forces down there without being able to get to anywhere useful so it worked out well enough in the end.

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Posted on 9 May 2023, 21:12

A photo of the mostly-disassembled innards of a Pirate MIDI "BRIDGE4" controller sitting on and around a magnetic iFixit mat. There's a selection of screws, and next to the circuit board is the TRS jack that's been ripped off it.

Well, fuck. I managed to break the MIDI-out jack on my MIDI controller. I guess this will be a good test of my soldering skills. 😬 I've been watching a bunch of That Pedal Show on YouTube and was rejiggering my pedal board (I ended up removing everything from the effects loop except for the looper pedal, put the flanger before the boost/overdrive pedals, and it all sounds amazing), and I leant the amp forwards a bit so I could get behind it to plug the effects loop cables back in. The jack sticks out far enough from the MIDI controller that a significant portion of the 13kg weight of the amp ended up on jack and just ripped it straight off. 😢

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Posted on 6 May 2023, 21:46

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying curled up on the floor in a big patch of sunlight.

Autumn and winter are definitely Beanie's favourite seasons because the sun is low enough that it starts streaming into the spare bedroom.

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Posted on 5 May 2023, 11:24

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on the floor on his side. His ears normally flop down on either side of his head but he's gotten them both to be outstretched, the one that's not sitting against the floor in particular is perfectly balanced so it's just sitting in mid-air.

Beanie looks like he's mid-run, but he's lying down. I don't think I've seen him manage to get his ears in that position before. 😂

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Posted on 4 May 2023, 12:04