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Two fully-painted goblin miniatures, they're both very characterful, short, and are wearing black robes. One has a helmet on that leaves his face bare but has a big pointy chin bit in the armour, and is holding a yellow shield in one hand and a sword aloft in the other. The other has a full face mask and you can't actually see his face at all, and he's holding a yellow shield aloft and is carrying what looks like a wooden lance but with a sword blade attached to the end of it.

I'm taking a break from Warhammer Quest and Kill Team to get stuck back into some Warhammer Underworlds! I decided to start the goblins of Grinkrak's Looncourt and have done two of the little fellas so far. I'm just doing the box art scheme because it's simple and I like the look of it, keen to get the other five done and get them onto the table.

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Posted on 15 October 2023, 22:07

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying with the side of his face jammed into the corner of the room. Right next to him is a narrow window that's next to our front door, sunlight is streaming in and the dog looks very content.

Beanie loves it when daylight savings hits because it means we're up early enough that he can snooze in the sunshine by the window at the front door.

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Posted on 12 October 2023, 10:47

Man, tonight I had some Mad Max-esque weather to deal with while hooning around Forza Horizon 5's Sierra Nueva rally expansion!

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Posted on 8 October 2023, 21:15

A photo of a Suhr "Reactive Load / I.R." load box. It's a chonky metal box with curved edges along the top, and several silver dials and switches on the front, plus two seven-segment red LED displays at the left marked "Bank" and "Cab".

First new bit of guitar kit in a while!

I already have a load box, but the problem with it is that there's no headphone output which means I need to plug it into my USB audio interface which does have a headphone output but is all wired up to my computer setup, which in turn means I can't play my tube amp anywhere except our home office.

This new Suhr one has a headphone output and can be powered from my pedal board power supply so I'll be able to take the amp and pedal board to the front of the house and play with my full setup there, AND it has an auxiliary input as well so I can plug my iPad into it and play along to music or just use GarageBand's backing dummer functionality to have a drum kit to keep in time with.

I have to say, though, this thing is significantly larger than I was expecting!

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Posted on 5 October 2023, 14:53

It's started to rain outside and Beanie is getting nervous and demanding lap snuggles.

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Posted on 4 October 2023, 15:50

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying completely upside on his back, fast asleep, all four legs up in the air.

Current Beanie status: completely passed out.

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Posted on 3 October 2023, 13:59

A photo of the box of Apple's AirPods Pro second-generation earbuds.

Woot, these will be a nice upgrade over my increasingly janky Powerbeats Pro that I bought like six or seven years ago. The braided charging cable is SO much nicer than the old plastic ones. The other thing that'll be nice with these is being able to fit them into my pocket when we go on the Metro where I don't have my bag and can't bring my AirPods Max. The case for the Powerbeats Pro is just ABSURDLY large, and bounces around uncomfortably even in the leg pockets of my cargo pants.

And it also means my migration to USB-C everywhere continues apace!

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Posted on 3 October 2023, 11:11

A product shot of the Roland A-49 MIDI keyboard in white. As the name suggests it has 49 keys and has a number of buttons and knobs on the left hand side.

I've decided to continue my musical journey and get a MIDI keyboard and actually learn how to play it! 😁

I actually had an M-Audio something-or-other keyboard ages ago (nearly twenty years in fact) but in a similar story to my guitar from 2007, due to the lack of decent learning resources I never actually stuck with it. It turns out that the "Melodics" app I use for learning drums also includes a whole course for keyboard as well so I'm going to take full advantage of it!

I did a bunch of looking around and settled on this, the Roland A-49. The reviews are all glowing and apparently the key feel is very good as well. I could have gotten the black version and probably had it in my hands this week because the white one doesn't seem to be in stock anywhere, but I think the white looks far cleaner and sleeker.

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Posted on 2 October 2023, 19:42

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's 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 four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (three zombies, three skeletons, three bat swarms, and a very large Mongolian-dress zombie thing with a huge axe).

We had @wobin over for Warhammer Quest and a barbecue today!

The Warhammer Quest journey type was "Scavenge" so we could get some gear and currency to level up, it was a similar kind of deal to the others where the map is pre-made, but oh my god I don't think I've EVER seen as poor rolling as @wobin had today. At one point he spent all four of his activation dice making attacks without hitting a single thing, and that was rolling the equivalent of a 3+. 😫 I think he made one single attack successfully, and ended up getting wailed upon by a Kosargi Night Guard which mean he had three grevious wound counters and so had to rely on one activation dice and whatever spare Destiny dice we had left. In the previous game we'd upgraded his character with a piece of equipment that let him attempt to recover wounds on a 4+ instead of a 5+, and literally every single role he made for this he failed. We had @yayKM roll two of them, and she made one success and failed the other.

Thankfully, nobody ended up dying and we did actually get a good stash of stuff and have some good upgrades for the next game, but oh man.

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Posted on 1 October 2023, 22:25

A screenshot taken from person-level at the entrance of Akila City, during the night. It's got a very wild west sort of feel to it, the ground is dirt and the buildings are cobbled together out of a combination of wood and futuristic-looking metal. It's not very well lit and the lights are quite yellow-coloured. In the centre of the frame is an imposing-looking multi-storey mostly built out of stone, with more yellow lights lighting it up from below.

A wide-angle screenshot taken from above the other end of Akila City at sunrise right before the sun is visible above the horizon. There's a solid wall running around a set of closely-packed metal buildings that look a bit more futuristic than in the previous screenshot, but they're still decidedly not pristine and clean. There's some wispy clouds in the sky and mountains in the distance, and a very yellow glow from where the sun is about to rise.

Another wide-angle screenshot of the main bar in Akila City. It's all rough wooden tables and stone walls, with a set of wooden stairs at the right going up to a second level. A handful of patrons are sitting around, the bartender is behind the bar, and suspending from the ceiling is the skeleton of an ashta, a huge predator native to the planet.

Almost 24 hours into Starfield so far and I'm still enjoying the hell out of it. I know I keep harping on about it, but the amount of detail and care in the environments is so good, it feels like a fully-realised world that you want to spend a bunch of time in. Most of my recent time has been spent in Akila City doing various side-quests and helping out the Freestar Rangers.

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Posted on 30 September 2023, 18:49