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A photo of a finished game of Carcassonne. It consists of a bunch of square tiles with medieval castles, roads, and churches on them, with green grass in between. Normally there'd be a bunch of little coloured wooden people on it to signify who has controlled what in terms of scoring points.

A photo of a game of King of Tokyo. This is much less involved, there's three cutouts of monsters standing upright and a small board with a cartoon version of the coastline of Tokyo and its buildings, plus a number of cards with cartoony artwork on them.

We went over to @[email protected]'s for board games tonight!

First was a four-player game of Carcassone, which is the first time I've played it physically, which I won 62-48-43-39 (though forgot to take a photo of the board before the scoring was done), and two three-player games of King of Tokyo which we'd not even heard of before but was quite fun.

@[email protected] won both games of King of Tokyo, the first one wasn't even close thanks to a whole bunch of ridiculously good dice rolling, but the second came down to the absolute wire between him and @yayKM and it really could have gone either way.

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Posted on 19 May 2023, 22:51

A photo of an electric guitar and an electric bass guitar sitting in gig bags open on the floor. A small scruffy blonde dog is giving them a good sniff.

We're going over to a friend's place in a couple of weeks for a barbecue and some music-playing, which I'm very excited about because I haven't actually played guitar with anyone else before. I realised that I didn't actually have any safe way of transporting said guitars though, so ordered a couple of guitar gig bags. I got a properly nice official Ibanez one for my JIVA since that's the expensive one, and a cheap and cheerful $50 one for the bass guitar which ought to do the job sufficiently for that.

Naturally Beanie had to give them a solid sniffing.

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Posted on 18 May 2023, 16:28

A photo of me, a white man with a beard and short hair who is in increasing need of a haircut, holding a bass guitar and smiling at the camera.

Current status: B A S S.

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Posted on 16 May 2023, 20:40

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog curled up on a green blanket that's been rolled-slash-balled up right in front of a doorway.

Beanie has very carefully moved his blanket to be EXACTLY in the way in the doorway.

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Posted on 14 May 2023, 20:18

A photo of three heavily-armoured fantasy-type warriors. One is holding a long staff behind her and looks like she's in the middle of flying just above the ground, the second has a cool hood/cloak thing going on and has one hand in front of him levitating a giant rock, and the third has a sword and staff and is pointing his staff forwards like he's about to cast some magic from it.

A photo of five miniatures. The leader is androgynous and skinny and has four arms and no eye sockets and is wearing a long robe, and the other four are smaller and... just really fucked up. It's hard to describe. One is like a starfish but with an eye in the middle and a fish body, the second is running on four legs but has like six eyes and a mouth that goes most of the way around its body, the third is a leaning back on its arms and has like a bird head, while its lower half of body is too short and its feet are holding up a swirling ball of magic, and the last one is also like a starfish with an eye in the middle but it has three-fingered hands at the end of each of its five arms and it's capering along the ground while holding magical flame above its "head".

There we go, Domitan's Stormcoven and Ephilim's Pandaemonium are both assembled!

All of the Warhammer Underworlds warbands are push-fit — meaning you still need to chop them out of the sprue, but gluing them together isn't required if you're not actually going to paint them because there's little poles on some pieces that go into holes on other pieces inside the miniatures to keep them together — but holy FUCK were the Pandemonium irritating to put together, they would have been SO much easier if they hadn't been required to be push-fit. 😫

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Posted on 14 May 2023, 10:05

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board. The artwork looks like a bunch of huge tree roots and on one side they look like they're going down into a river of blood. On the side closest to the camera are six zombies and a zombie master in a flowing purple cloak, and on the other side are six beastly goatmen.

First game of Warhammer Underworlds in a while, and my first outing with the Exiled Dead! @yayKM won 9-7 with Grashrak's Despoilers, and I realised I was playing a couple of things wrong and also misread one of my objectives.

It was a lot of fun though, and the shenanigans with Exiled Dead are fantastic.

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Posted on 13 May 2023, 23:46

Metal Tones

I did some more musical mucking around last night and today and recorded this! I did the guitar first, then bass, and finally drums, and it was a lot easier to fit the drums to the guitar tracks first than the other way around. I made more use of the guitar pedals this time, I had nearly everything on! Reverb and analog delay as always, but I also had the SD-1 Super Overdrive on and feeding into the DS-1W Distortion, plus the flanger in front of everything, and I quite like how it came out. I did the same thing as last time with the scooped mids, partially because I love the tone but also because I haven't figured out the best settings for a good crunchy tone yet.

It's funny how I can mostly play drums along to the track fine, but as soon as it comes to actually RECORDING I keep overthinking things and being overly nervous about fucking it up, and end up not doing nearly as many fills as I mean to. This was my first time recording a "skip note" (the extra snare hit right before the kick drum on beat 3) and I missed a bunch of those, as well a lot of the open hi-hat hits right at the end of the bar too.

(Yes, this is still using basically the same handful of notes that my last song did, in much the same progression. 😛)

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Posted on 13 May 2023, 20:16

A photo of a bowl of porridge with two slices of butter on top and sprinkled with brown sugar.

Yesss, first porridge of the season. It's meant to be fairly miserable this weekend so I figured it was a good time for it.

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Posted on 13 May 2023, 9:17

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying with his head over the side of my lap, fast asleep.

Beanie's currently asleep on my lap, doing a big snore.

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Posted on 11 May 2023, 15:05

A photo of the front of the box of the new Warhammer Underworlds release. The artwork has a guy in golden armour with a big blue cloak with a hood standing there with a staff and casting some sort of magic, and below that are two more similar figures fighting off freaky-looking misshapen daemons.

Yesssss, very excited to put the warbands in Wyrdhollow together and take them for a spin, they look like great fun, lots of magic-casting!

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Posted on 10 May 2023, 13:57