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A photo of several different pieces of gothic-looking yet somewhat futuristic ruins of varying sizes sitting on my painting table.

Right, that's the terrain assembled and undercoated! Next stop, attempting to replicate @[email protected]'s method with minimal effort via the magic of drybrushing.

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Posted on 19 October 2024, 13:55

A photo of an electronic drum kit sitting in a corner, with a mesh snare and three mesh tom pads on it, and four black cymbals. Three of the cymbals are noticeably larger (and also cleaner) than the fourth one, and they're the new ones.

It's aliiiiiive!

Three crash cymbals are go, and the drum module is smart enough to assign a different crash sound to each of the inputs (the default single crash that it came with, the extra "Crash 2" input, AND the third one that's just marked "AUX") if you have it set to the correct cymbal type, so no mucking around needed.

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Posted on 16 October 2024, 18:17

A photo of an electric guitar with a white body, black pick guard, and a maple fretboard and headstock. It's VERY handsome.

A photo of an electronic drum kit sitting in a corner, with a mesh snare and three mesh tom pads on it, and three black cymbals. Two of the cymbals are noticeably larger (and also cleaner) than the third one, and they're the new ones.

New gear day! 🎉 A Fender Player II Stratocaster, and upgraded cymbals for my drum kit (CY-16RT ride cymbal and CY-14CT crash cymbal, both Roland).

Mannys only had one of the crash cymbals in stock so I'm still waiting on the second to arrive, as well as a Boss ME-90B bass guitar multi-effects pedal. I haven't had a chance to play with the Strat yet, but MAN the new cymbals are nice, they have a far better feel to them than the stock ones, and the new ride cymbal has three trigger zones on it, so you get the bell sound in the very middle too.

I'm currently trying to see if I can fit another cymbal mount on there to use with the last input on my drum module so I can make use of one of the now-spare CY-8 cymbals as a third crash... 🤔

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Posted on 14 October 2024, 13:58

A screenshot from Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox, it's very wide-angle view of a huge wall of futuristic buildings with neon lights on them, many of them with Japanese writing on them. It's late afternoon so everything is a bit more orange than usual, and you can just see the shadows from the buildings behind starting to encroach on the ones in the screenshot.

Another screenshot, this one is far smaller in scope, it's night time and you're looking down an alley in between two brick buildings, with pipes running along them, grafitti on the walls, and steam coming up from the ground. There are some puddles on the ground reflecting the light.

Another screenshot, back to the wide angle view looking up but this one is closer to night time and it's inside the city with neon-lit buildings towering all around. There's some steam coming up from a couple of places here too.

Cyberpunk 2077 update: still absolutely enjoying the hell out of the atmosphere in this game.

And no spoilers so this is a bit vague, but you go to the funeral of a character and man, I was not expecting to get hit right in the feels by a video game.

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Posted on 13 October 2024, 21:02

The Indian family who lives behind us has several kids and they like to kick balls around their backyard, which means they often end up over the fence in our yard.

I just had FIVE kids and the dad show up at our front door and ask if they could get the two balls that'd just ended up in our yard (I'm not 100% sure whether all five of the kids actually live there or not, they tend to have a lot of family visiting). The three girls were all dressed in identical red dresses, those really pretty traditional-looking Indian ones, and the two boys were all neat and tidy and formal-looking with long pants and long sleeves.

I asked if they wanted to have me throw the balls back over or if they wanted to come and get them, and one of the boys said he'd come in, then the other eagerly asked if he could come too. They came into the lounge room and exclaimed with complete sincerity, "Wow, your house looks amazing!" 😂

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Posted on 12 October 2024, 14:27

Yasssssss.

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Posted on 11 October 2024, 10:12

A photo looking out from the window of a plane that's sitting on the tarmac, showing the wing and another plane in the next terminal over.

Bye Perth, it's been fun!

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Posted on 10 October 2024, 12:25

A photo of the partial timber hull of a huge sailing ship, the Batavia, from the 1600s.

A wide-angle photo of a big black submarine sitting in a dry dock.

A photo of a piece of focaccia with tomato sauce (as in the pizza basing, not like ketchup), blobs of fresh melted mozzarella cheese, cherry tomatoes, and fresh leaves of basil.

Back to Fremantle today, we went to the Shipwreck Museum (free entry, small, but very good) and the Maritime Museum ($15/ticket, larger than the Shipwreck Museum but not very good, and as far as I can tell none of the exhibits have had the statistics they mentioned in the descriptions updated since the early 2000s). The Maritime Museum had a couple of interesting bits about things during World War II, and there was an Oberon-class submarine in dry dock that was cool, but you had to pay extra to go on it as a part of a tour.

I also got a margarita focaccia and custard tart from a place called Common Bakery and OH MY GOD they were SO GOOD. The focaccia was absolutely perfect and the toppings were completely fresh.

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Posted on 9 October 2024, 17:23

A photo of a very large golden-brown poodle mix, maybe a groodle, smiling and staring directly at the camera.

I went down to hole-in-the-wall coffee place around the corner for our morning coffee (the place we're staying has a Nespresso machine but it uses the old smaller-style pods and I think they're stale because it's AWFUL), and there was the BESTEST dog named Douglas there. He came right over to say hello, I gave him lots of scritches, and then when they left he insisted on carrying his own lead back to the car, haha.

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Posted on 9 October 2024, 11:23

A photo of an open grassy area surrounded by tall trees, with a little stream off to the right and a chonky plank of wood going over it to allow for crossing.

A photo of four people smiling at the camera. There's me, a white man with a short red beard and short hair, velvetrhapsody, a white woman with VERY long light brown/bordering on blonde hair and glasses, Kristina, a white woman with short brown hair, and w0d, a white man with long dark brown hair that's dyed neon green at the front and a huge long dark brown beard.

After yesterday's efforts we had a relatively chill one today. Went to Araluen Botanic Park where there was allegedly a tulip festival, but October is right at the tail end of things and the tulips were looking pretty ratty for the most part. It was still nice to get some nature in and take some photos though.

Then in the afternoon we went over to visit some friends from LiveJournal who we've known for nigh on 20 years and used to live in Sydney (w0d and velvetrhapsody, in case anyone from the early-to-mid 2000s Sydneysiders community is on here). He plays guitar and drums and she used to play saxophone and apparently electronic saxophones are a thing and she'd been toying with the idea of getting one, so we're going to make some music together at some point!

(Also I say "chill one" but I just checked and I've still done over 10k steps.)

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Posted on 8 October 2024, 22:06