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A photo of my home office desk setup: an expanse of white standing desk in its standing position, with a 34" ultrawide monitor in the middle, and my laptop to the left looking like it's suspended in mid-air (it's on a monitor arm/laptop mount). Underneath the right side of the monitor and the laptop on the left are two speakers sitting sideways on the desk. They're almost entirely white except for the rubber bit around the woofer cone and they look VERY sleek and modern. Tucked away, if such a word can be used to describe a honking great black box, at the left foot of the standing desk on the floor is the subwoofer.

The speakers (and subwoofer) arrived today! I'm glad I got the speakers in white, they're very handsome-looking but also blend in to my desk rather than being BIG CHUNGUS OBVIOUS BLACK. I'll need to do some mucking around tomorrow to get the subwoofer levels right, and there are some switches on the back of the speakers that changes some frequency response to counteract them being so close to the wall so that'll be another thing to play with too.

I also need to go to Bunnings to pick up some sort of individual switch powerboard or adapter to plug the speakers and sub into so I can easily turn them on and off, because fuck me is reaching around to scrabble behind them trying to find the power switch annoying.

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Posted on 20 February 2026, 20:54

A photo of the band Lacuna Coil on stage, lit in red and purple. Two vocalists, one female and one male, a guitarist, a bass guitarist, and a drummer. The two guitarists both have full corpse paint on.

As expected, that fucking ruled. 🤘🏻

They played a couple of my absolute favourite songs (Kill The Light from Dark Adrenaline, and Spellbound from Shallow Life) and man Cristina Scabbia can hit those notes that are so pure and clear that it makes the hairs in the back of your neck stand up! I took a bunch of RAW photos and will see what came out tomorrow.

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Posted on 14 February 2026, 22:57

A photo of a band on stage, lit in white and blue. Two guitarists at the far left and right, guy with a magnificent beard on drums, a tall woman in bass, and the vocalist is a woman who couldn't be taller than five and a half feet or so, she's got a really good clean singing voice and an hell of a roar!

The opening band was called Future Static, they're from Melbourne and have a woman on vocals and bass! They were quite good and it turns out they're on Bandcamp too. :success:

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Posted on 14 February 2026, 20:36

A photo of two white men standing in a very dark concert hall, smiling at the camera.

Currently waiting for the opening act before Lacuna Coil with @damonism@aus.social!

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Posted on 14 February 2026, 19:43

Factory

I have finished my song! 🎉

It's titled "Factory" because the keys sounds are from the EZKeys Dark Industrial expansion, and I chose a more raw metal-sounding kit for the drums (plus the user interface for the Dark Industrial expansion is really cool and looks like a steampunk keyboard). The guitar, bass guitar, and drums are all played by me, the only thing that isn't is the keyboard sounds (and looking at the MIDI files they're simple enough that I probably could manage to do most of them myself as well, but ehhh).

Really really happy with how this turned out, I did a bunch of reading and watching about how to EQ and master songs and the whole principle of making sure each instrument has its own space in the track and doesn't end mushing into other tracks and ending up muddy. I'm also very pleased that I once again didn't need to have flex-and-follow turned on on the guitar or bass to keep them in time, and the only tweaks I made to the drums were to fix just a couple of bits that weren't quite in time, to make a couple of the fills flow a bit better, and to slightly improve the feel of the final chorus at the end. And I didn't need to spend a ton of time re-recording the drums to get them right, it was probably only half an hour or so in total!

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Posted on 13 February 2026, 19:07

A photo of my home office desk setup: an expanse of white desk with a 34" ultrawide monitor in the middle, and my laptop to the left looking like it's suspended in mid-air, sitting on its shiny new monitor arm/laptop mount. Underneath the main monitor is a USB audio interface and guitar load box.

I wanted to get a pair of Yamaha studio speakers so I can listen to and mix my songs on good speakers without needing to cart my laptop down to the lounge room and plug it into the amplifier there, but I'm quite short on space on my desk. I could fit the speakers but the left one would have to go exactly where my laptop stand was. I was doing a bunch of poking around trying to figure out what I could do, and discovered that you can get VESA laptop mounts that attach to a regular monitor arm!

So I bought a mount from Desky and another Ergotron monitor arm (I've already got my monitor mounted on one), the laptop mount arrived yesterday and the arm today, so now I'm all set up!

...now hopefully the studio speakers actually ship soon. 😛

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Posted on 10 February 2026, 12:46

A photo of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's played on three rectangular boards sitting together in a T-shape, there are tiles marked out with hexes, and the artwork is all dark blue like you're underwater. At the bottom closest to the camera are the Shadeborn, four lithe elves in very dynamic poses with very pale skin and wearing deep purple clothing. At the left are the Gorechosen of Dromm, a three-fighter warband consisting of very large meaty-looking warriors in large red armour, one of whom is clearly part daemon because he's hunched over and has MASSIVE arms and huge horns sprouting from his head. And lastly at the right are the vampires of the Crimson Court, who have pale blue skin, elegant armour, and red cloaks, with blood dripping from their weapons and the corners of their mouths.

A closeup photo of the bloody battle at the beginning of round two. All four of my Shadeborn are within one or two hexes of two of the vampires of the Crimson Court, with a third standing just behind them. And behind _them_ are the Gorechosen of Dromm, two within charge range of any of the Shadeborn or Crimson Court, and Dromm himself standing a little further back in the distance.

We were going to have a bad movie night with @wobin@aus.social and another friend, but said friend had to cancel because he was coming down sick so instead we had @wobin@aus.social over anyway and played Warhammer Underworlds instead! (The original edition, not the new one.) I played the Aelves of the Shadeborn, @yayKM@aus.social played the Khorne's finest, the Gorechosen of Dromm, and @wobin@aus.social had the vampires of the Crimson Court.

Man it was a hell of a game, the start of the second round consisted of an incredibly brutal three-way fight between all of us, and the Crimson Court lost all but one of their warriors before the end of that round. My Shadeborn were doing okay, but I lost two warriors during the second round which denied me a couple of objective scoring opportunities, then Sylark was killed during the third round by a ridiculously long-range charge of 8 by the Crimson Court's remaining warrior Vellas von Faine. The Gorechosen only lost a single warrior right at the end (granted they only start with three), taken out by Valyssa of the Shadeborn, and I was able to score two objectives right at the end, which meant that the final score was 8-8-7, with the draw being between the Shadeborn and the Gorechosen! I'm honestly amazed that the Crimson Court managed to get so close with how badly it started for them.

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Posted on 7 February 2026, 23:34

A multi-display screenshot of my current music production setup. On the main display at the top right is Logic Pro's main window showing the various tracks that have been recorded (or MIDI notes put onto) and the main channel window showing each track and the volume faders along with the various effects that are applied to them. At the left is my internal MacBook Pro display showing Superior Drummer 3's frankly ridiculous "Mixer" tab where you can individually mix and EQ and compress and do basically everything to each separate drum kit piece (kick, snare, hi-hats, even overhead microphones for goodness' sake). Then lastly at the bottom left is my little 13" portable display with four Channel EQ windows showing a visual representation of the frequencies in each track and how they've been adjusted.

I'm working on another song using some of the EZKeys Dark Industrial expansion sounds and MIDI files I bought last month and have discovered just how much of a difference adding EQs to your tracks can change the sound. This feels like a potentially very deep rabbit hole to go down. :ohno:

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Posted on 7 February 2026, 12:51

A photo of the box for Kill Team: Shadowhunt. The box shows a photo of a squad of Sisters of Battle (warrior women in black power armour) battling Chaos Raptors (mutated evil Space Marines in blue armour with gold trim wearing big jump packs). The tag line says "Faith versus heresy in the shadow of alien terror".

Aw yiss, guess who has even more plastic to paint!

This is a surprisingly weighty box given it's only got two squads in it, I guess it must be the tokens and books as well.

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Posted on 5 February 2026, 10:51

Excellent to see @futzle@old.mermaid.town,
@fsvo@old.mermaid.town, and @franksting@theblower.au again, to finally meet @MattHatton@aus.social in person, and to meet new people @LapTop006@aus.social, and @markjustmark@aus.social! (And also @bri7@treehouse.systems but that instance has ended up on my blocklist here, heh.)

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Posted on 4 February 2026, 20:36