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A quite zoomed-in photo of a small dark blue helicopter.

And now we've been buzzed by a VERY slow-moving, low-flying helicopter that's going along the river.

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Posted on 13 December 2024, 16:41

A photo of a big underwater section of the aquarium with lots of fish swimming around.

Today we went to the National Gallery of Victoria, then caught up with @joffotron for lunch, and just finished visiting the aquarium. Pretty overpriced tbh, but the aircon was nice and we had a good sit and watched the fish and it made me want to play Subnautica again, haha. Now we're just killing time until we meet up with everyone for Fedivus!

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Posted on 13 December 2024, 16:33

A photo taken from my seat looking down the length of the plane, with people busily piling in and putting their luggage in.

We are on a plane! Very shortly to arrive in Melbourne.

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Posted on 12 December 2024, 12:38

A photo of three people sitting around a restaurant table smiling at the camera.

A photo taken at the intersection of George St and Park St in Sydney's CBD, looking up at a building with a whole bunch of dangling string lights over the outside. They're making animated patterns and the one in the photo is a series of circles going outwards.

It was most excellent to finally meet @[email protected] in person tonight! Then on the way back to the Metro station, the George St Woolies building had this big animated light display going.

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Posted on 10 December 2024, 20:50

I was in the office today for another post-work jam session! It was a lot of fun, I just stuck with the drums this time and we played along to a number of songs before we did some general improvising. The best thing about drums is that I don't actually need to know how the drums REALLY go, I can just get the tempo right and off I go. We played Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising, and a number of other songs I've never heard of, but it was great. There was a non-work university friend of one of the work people on vocals, and while we were improvising and she didn't have anything to do I asked if she could take a video of us, longer than the six seconds from a couple of months ago. Next time I think I need to get it taken from where the speaker is actually pointing to because the sound is not great in this as the speaker was over by the bass player and pointing out to the right, oops. I also managed to get the recording done RIGHT before 8pm which is when the lights in the building automatically turn off, hence why it goes dark right at the end. 😅 (We have a big multi-channel mixer that I could probably hook something into and record the proper audio straight from the instruments, which I think I might need to look into at some point...)

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Posted on 5 December 2024, 22:04

Oh wow, I ordered a Lowen band hoodie from Bandcamp and received it today, with a personal note from the lead singer saying "Thanks so much for supporting Lowen, <my actual name>. Sorry it took a while to arrive, hope you enjoy the hoodie. Cheers, Nina"! 😮

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Posted on 4 December 2024, 15:31

A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There are four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus ten skeleton warriors at various points on the board. They're wearing rusty armour and tattered red cloaks, though four are unpainted because I haven't gotten around to them yet. There's also Watch Captain Halgrim in the middle who is attired similarly but is carrying a massive halberd.

This afternoon with @wobin we finished off the next Big Bad in our Warhammer Quest adventures, the skeleton warrior Watch Captain Halgrim! We were all inspired from the first half we did last time, but even so we absolutely destroyed everything, only to realise right at the end after we'd finished that there is a whole separate event table you're meant to roll on at the end of each turn and the bottom half of that is filled with things like "All the skeletons come back". 😬 So uh... oops! For the next game, it's the same sort of journey as this one (destroy another big bad) and we need to have done _both_ before we get to level up to Level 3. I've made a note to remember the new event table, and it's going to be quite the fight because it's against Gorslav the Gravekeeper who not only hits like a truck but also makes zombies a lot nastier as well, and we'll be facing all ten of the zombie miniatures that come in the Cursed City box.

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Posted on 30 November 2024, 21:40

A screenshot of my Tiefling Barbarian. She's tall with broad shoulders, dark red skin, black eyes, and two short grey horns protruding up and back from her forehead. Her hair is long on one side and shaved on the other, and her neck is completely tattooed in dark blue, with the top of it being a flame motif coming just up past her jawline.

I decided to go back to Baldur's Gate 3, started a new character, and apparently the theme of all of my RPG characters of late is "extremely large horned woman". 😅

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Posted on 26 November 2024, 19:47

I'm Staying Home This Christmas

As part of our #LPlatePlayers collective (https://music.futzle.com/lplateplayers/), our esteemed leader @[email protected] wanted to write a Christmas song for #RememberingGeordie since he was such a mad fiend for all things Christmas. It was very collaborative, she did the base song with vocals and details of the key and chord changes, and then the rest of us piled in for the various parts and she pieced it all together and mixed it. I offered to do both bass guitar and drums, and am so impressed at how well the song turned out! I'm definitely getting a _feel_ for the drums at this point, for the song it was pretty much free reign other than wanting to ensure there was an open/close hi-hat at the last beat of the bar, and of my original take there were only a couple of minor improvements that @[email protected] suggested (well, that and a bit of quantisation needed), plus some back and forth figuring out how the intro should go. For the bass guitar, my timing was quite good and there was only _very_ minor quantisation needed. For both instruments, I ended up recording it in sections rather than attempting to go through the whole song in one go, and that made it FAR more manageable. I'm also going to get the original stems for the song and see if I can turn it into "I'M STAYING HOME THIS CHRISTMAS (DEEP TECHNO MIX)". 😈 (Or at least, some sort of electronic version anyway; we'll see how good my Logic Pro skills are. 😛) I did something similar a couple of years ago and it was great fun: https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/2232/thread

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Posted on 23 November 2024, 14:50

A photo looking along the very tall hedge that's between us and our neighbour. It's very overgrown and looks messy as hell. And when I say tall I mean well in excess of two metres.

The same view, but now the hedge is all neat and tidy.

Trimmed the hedge today before it got too hot. If you need me, I'll be over here not lifting my arms above about waist level.

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Posted on 23 November 2024, 11:05