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A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying in a dog bed that's sitting against a wall. He's lying on his side but has his head jammed up at an angle against the wall, and his facial hair is all munted-looking.

Beanie decided he needed to be in a VERY uncomfortable-looking position as we were going to bed last night.

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Posted on 17 September 2023, 9:37

A photo of partially-painted five armoured human warrior miniatures. Their armour is a deep brass colour, they're wearing big mag-boots of the same colour, and their clothes are a rich dark blue. The helmets are reminiscent of diving bells except with a cool-looking visors instead of a round viewing port. Three of them have big short guns, one is wielding a huge axe, and the other has a massive shield that's taller than he is, with a viewing port and a slot for his gun to sit in so he can see and shoot while remaining behind the shield.

First proper batch of Breachers is coming along nicely!

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Posted on 14 September 2023, 21:52

A screenshot from Starfield of the sunrise over, uh, one of the districts (I forget which one it was) on Jemison in the Alpha Centauri system. It's taken looking over an open public plaza with trees and people walking around, and there's tall, sleek, futuristic buildings as well.

Another screenshot, this one is also Jemison but it's inside The Well which is an underground almost slum. Everything made of metal and it's all brown and industrial-looking, with lots of exposed pipes, girders, and mesh everywhere.

Another screenshot, this one is inside the main control room of the space station "The Eye" that's orbiting Jemison. The room is round and stark white, with rows of "NASA punk"-looking consoles with displays and buttons on them. The roof is clear glass looking out into space where you can see the stars.

Man, I'm enjoying Starfield so much. Tonight was spent mostly wandering around The Well on Alpha Centauri helping figure out what was causing brownouts, and chatting to Denis and Dr. Charlie in Cydonia on Mars (wonderful lines and voice acting for both of them), I didn't even do much of main quest things but I thoroughly enjoyed myself nonetheless.

The amount of detail Bethesda put into this game is wonderful, as an example there's a café/not-quite food bank place in The Well, and if you go through the back there's the kitchen with all the things you'd expect to see in there, then upstairs is the living quarters where there's all sorts of stuff scattered around like someone actually LIVES there, there's even a bathroom and everything. The whole thing just feels lived in and it's so good.

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Posted on 11 September 2023, 23:29

A view through the trees in a commuter carpark, the sun is right at the horizon and is extremely orange from all the bushfire smoke.

We're heading out to Mamak with friends and they're doing hazard reduction burns. Having flashbacks to the horrendous 2019 bushfires. 😬

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Posted on 10 September 2023, 17:40

A selfie, I guess, of my character in Starfield. She has dark brown skin and brown eyes and has faint crows feet around the eyes. She has multiple piercings in ears, and her hair is completely shaved up the sides but the top is a big mop of black hair. She looks pretty much exactly like Naomi Nagata from the TV show "The Expanse".

And speaking of Starfield, dear LORD can you spend a lot of time in the character creator! As always I made a Black woman, you can't tell from this shot but I went with the heavy/muscular side of things for the body type, but as soon as I came across that haircut I was like "Oh, I've just made Naomi Nagata." 😅

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Posted on 9 September 2023, 22:02

A photo of our lounge room with our very nice new La-Z-Boy (which I always read as "lay-zed-boy") lounge. There's a three-seater facing a TV that's sitting on a wooden TV stand, and two single chairs. They're a fairly light grey/cream sort of colour which might have been a mistake but there weren't really any others we liked at all when we were looking.

New lounge! 🎉

The thing I'm MOST looking forward to is being able to sit on it for an extended period of time without getting a sore back. Which is very convenient timing since Starfield has just come out, and next month also has Forza Motorsport and Cities: Skylines II launching as well. 😁

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Posted on 9 September 2023, 21:26

A photo taken from above the table of a three-player game of Magic: The Gathering, with lots of cards everywhere.

Tonight was Magic at @[email protected]'s! It was Commander format which I'm not the most fond of, but the first deck I played was a Zombie deck which had quite a few cards I was familiar with from the Innistrad block that my own (non-Commander) Zombie deck comes from, and I smashed it. 😁 ZOMBIES FOR DAYS. (It helped that I had an amazing starting hand.)

Second game was a win from @[email protected], and third was our other friend so it was nice and even!

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Posted on 8 September 2023, 23:10

A photo of our lounge room. There's a box window towards the middle of the photo with a wooden TV stand and TV in front of it and bookshelf speakers flanking the TV, a round table with a lamp and various doodads in the corner to the left of the TV stand, plus a couple of other little side tables. The middle of the room is completely empty now due to the lack of lounge.

We're getting a new lounge delivered tomorrow (the old one is eight years old and has gone completely saggy because it was a comparatively cheap one) so this afternoon we moved the old lounge out to under the patio to make space for the new one, and MAN does everything echo in here now, christ!

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Posted on 8 September 2023, 14:07

A photo of an armoured human warrior mid-stride, holding a big black gun. His armour is a deep brass colour with verdigris encrusted all over it, he's got big mag-boots of the same colour, and his clothes are a dark blue. His helmet is reminiscent of a diving bell except with a cool looking red visor instead of a round viewing port.

I finished the test miniature for my colour scheme for the Navis Breachers tonight, pretty happy with how it looks!

I used that "Nihilakh Oxide" Technical paint for the first time and I love how it makes the armour look all old and worn. I painted the gun straight up Black Legion plus highlights but I think I'll go back to my standard Leadbelcher + coat of something (Nuln Oil or Basilicanum Grey) because it looks far too clean compared to the rest of the miniature now I've applied the Nikilakh Oxide.

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Posted on 7 September 2023, 22:12

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 my forces, the hulking and putrid Death Guard in large military green amour with all sorts of tentacles and demon faces coming out of the armour. Facing them on the other side of the board are the military arm of the Imperial Church, the women warriors of the Adeptus Sororitas. Five of them are heavily armoured in black armour with striking white hair and big guns, and the other five are basically not armoured at all and wielding HUGE chainswords like complete maniacs.

A close-up photo looking down a long corridor from just above my Death Guard Champion, the leader of my team. He has horns growing out of his shoulder pads and has a plasma pistol and a massive powerfist. At the other end of the corridor are two of the black-armoured warrior women and two of the Sisters Repentia with the huge chainswords.

Post-work Kill Team in the office again! This time we went back to the Compendium teams, Death Guard versus Adeptus Sororitas with a fireteam of Sisters Repentia. I lost 15-11, but almost entirely due to forgetting about my damn TacOps. 🙄 It likely would have been at least a draw had I remembered them, if not an outright win.

That being said, player of the match definitely goes to my leader who faced down this entire corridor of Sisters and ended up killing ALL of them. He was down to 1 wound left in the very last turn, and was let down by some extremely poor rolling on my part and ended up getting killed contesting an objective.

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Posted on 6 September 2023, 20:36