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A photo of the full Hivestorm game board with all the terrain on it. It's all ruined industrial-looking concrete buildings with rusty pipes everywhere, and along the top of the ruins and in various spots down the sides there is snow that's fallen and collected so it looks extra desolate.

A close-up shot of the rear of the largest piece of ruined building terrain. There's a solid-looking red metal door at the bottom that's been partially smashed in, and pipes snaking along the outside going up that are broken off in various places. It used to be a three-storey building but the first floor has been completely blown apart and has just a relatively small section of flooring still showing, and the second storey is barely enough for a single miniature to fit on. There's snow on all of the tops of the ruin.

A close-up of the middle of the board where theres some of the smaller scatter terrain. There are some pieces of wall (or possibly floor) that have been blown into the ground vertically that are providing cover, and the very battered top off a large metal vat sitting on top of a small mound of other pieces of ruin. Two of my all-women Astra Militarum squad are in the middle facing off against three hulking and disgusting-looking Plague Marines who are clad in pustulant green armour.

In what might be a new record for me, I have a set of Kill Team terrain finished in slightly over a year since I bought the box. 😅 This is all from the Hivestorm box, and I'm really happy with how the weathering came out. I used Dirty Down's rust effect for the first time for this, it required a little trial and error before I got it looking how I wanted, but on the bright side it was easy enough to reactivate with water and just re-do it where I didn't like how it first came out.

Big props to @[email protected] for the underlying drybrushing technique, and I can't claim credit for the snow idea because I saw that, uh, somewhere else online, but I think I did a pretty excellent job of it.

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Posted on 19 November 2025, 18:45

A photo taken looking down at the stage of the Sydney Opera House with Opeth playing. There is the guitar/vocalist, lead guitarist, bass guitarist, drummer, and hidden away there's also a keyboardist. It's lit with primarily lurid red lighting from behind the band and above, and there are some purple lights in the mix too.

THAT WAS SO GOOD. They played mostly either their older stuff (the heavier songs), and a few off their latest album (which is also on the heavier side of things), and I think there was one song from their proggy middle era right at the start. And they finished with Deliverance as is tradition, and fuck me that is a excellent song to end on.

I'd also forgotten how hilarious the frontman is, haha. I'll need to write up a blog post with some of his quotes, and I took a bunch of RAW photos I need to process tomorrow too.

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Posted on 17 November 2025, 23:40

A photo taken with the lights on looking in the same general direction as the last photo, but with the ultra-wide lens. There are quite angled seating boxes at the extreme left and right of the stage, and a bunch of people in seats in front of where I'm sitting. The ceiling has a geometric pattern going in towards the stage, and there are four massive slightly angled panels that are almost in the shape of a guitar pick way up above the stage.

Gotta say, the Sydney Opera House is a pretty neat venue inside. I also didn't realise they'd gotten rid of the doughnut things up near the ceiling!

(And I'm impressed that my internet connection is holding up fine despite how many people there are here.)

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Posted on 17 November 2025, 21:00

A photo taken looking down at the stage of the Sydney Opera House with a four-piece band playing. It's lit solely in blue lights from above and looks very moody.

I'm at the Opera House to see Opeth, first time I've seen them since 2013, and it's a pretty excellent view! (This is just the opening band, Caligula's Horse, but they're very good.)

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Posted on 17 November 2025, 20:23

A photo of a small round cheesecake with berries on top of it, sitting in a shallow white bowl.

I am home! ::collapses in a heap::

Another uneventful day, though we got a piece of delicious cheesecake for our usual Friday afternoon sweet treat and it was pretty tops.

I also think I've realised why my sense of time post-COVID has been so wonky: it's because I'm primarily working from home now and not commuting in. This week has gone by so slowly, and it's felt so long (not in an "oh god kill me now" kind of way mind you), and yet when I'm WFH it absolutely whips by and suddenly it's the weekend, but I'm still mentally operating on the slower commuting-in-every-day state. I suspect if I had only ever primarily worked from home, this would be less of a thing.

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Posted on 14 November 2025, 18:32

A wide-angle photo taken out of the 29th floor of our office building, looking out and down. Directly in the front is a much older building, the Grace Building, in an art deco style, mostly surrounded by much taller modern office blocks made of glass. The sky is mostly overcast.

A photo of a three-section metal tray, the left has a roti canai which is a sort of fluffy balled-up pastry thing and a dollop of sambal sauce, and the other two sections have two different types of curry sauce in them.

A photo of a plate of mee goreng, with a slice of tomato, lime, and three slices of cucumber next to it.

Today itself was uneventful, but we caught up with an ex-coworker and went to Chatswood for Mamak and it was good as hell.

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Posted on 13 November 2025, 21:18

A photo of a bowl of laksa in a white takeaway container. It consists of thin noodles with a chilli coconut soup all over it, there are pieces of barbecue pork scattered throughout, and two big pieces of tofu on top.

Nothing major today, I even left work on time, but we did go to our favourite laksa place for lunch (Laksa King on Erskine St) and I'm happy to confirm that it's still excellent. 😎

I always forget just how slow the week passes when you're in the office every day though, I can't believe it's only Wednesday today.

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Posted on 12 November 2025, 19:23

A photo of the Sydney Opera House, behind it and partly obscured by the Opera House is the distinctive coathanger shape of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There's some blue sky at the right but most of the sky is cloudy, though in a somewhat dramatic way rather than a bland and boring and flat way.

A photo of gulab jamun, an Indian dessert. It's a single brown round ball sitting in a little silver dish.

For day two, we went for a lovely (if rather windy) afternoon walk up to Circular Quay and around to Mrs Macquarie's Chair, then went for dinner at an Indian restaurant called The Grand Palace. 👌🏻

In related news, I am very full.

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Posted on 11 November 2025, 20:23

A photo in portrait orientation taken from the fourth floor of our building, looking down Carrington St in Sydney. There are tall buildings on on the left, and a bunch of trees and greenery on the right, with more tall buildings rising up in the distance past the greenery. It's completely sunny and the sky is totally blue except for a single fluffy cloud.

I'm in the office today, and for this entire week which is going to be a hell of a shock. We've got a team event where we've flown in the whole department from all over the place, so I'm going to be non-stop peopling and am going to be so drained come the end of the week, heh.

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Posted on 10 November 2025, 12:46

A photo of the battlefield at the beginning of the game. It's played on a roughly six-by-four foot play mat that's decorated like grass, and the terrain is almost fantasy-looking, there are some sections of hills and a bunch of various stone ruins. Closest to the camera are the orange-clad Space Marines, including two large walkers (the Dreadnaughts) and a gravtank with a big lasgun on its turret), and on the opposite side are the hordes of "Tyranids", which all look like a cross between crabs and the actual Tyranid models. There are a ton of small ones, and two HUGE ones that a towering over everything else.

A closeup photo of one of the large "Tyranid" units ( I don't remember what it was, but it's all chitin and huge claws and if it was actually alive and real size would scare the fuck out of you) towering over a squad of Space Marines.

Today started with me hopping on the Metro first thing after breakfast to go to Crows Nest to pick up my last two fully serviced and restrung guitars (the Ibanez JIVA10 and the Epiphone SG Standard), then I headed over to a friend's place for lunch (it was tuna mornay and it was gooooooood) and to hang out and watch a game of Warhammer 40,000! It was Space Marines versus "Tyranids", where the Tyranid miniatures were some custom 3D-printed alien crab things. They didn't end up doing the final turn because the Space Marines were already ahead 50-35 and it wasn't going to be possible to bridge that gap.

There was some hilarious dice rolling though, including a squad of 20 Termagaunts firing their Spinefist weapons at a squad of Space Marine Scouts, which involved rolling forty dice. 😂 (The Scouts ended up dead, unsurprisingly.)

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Posted on 8 November 2025, 18:38