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A photo taken from the end of a train station platform, looking down the tracks. It's overcast and slightly foggy, and the weeds between and on either side of the track are a little overgrown.

Oh shit, I am waiting for a train! (We've got a team event today and work is flying the people in to Sydney who don't actually live here. It'll be good to finally meet the people face-to-face who've joined since we changed to full-time remote.)

Posted on 29 April 2022, 9:18

A photo of a shiny black board sitting on a dining table, it's 3 feet by 3 feet with a lip on each end and a section beyond the lip to put the actual cards on. There's some asteroid tokens in the middle, on one side is an X-wing and on the other are two TIE Fighters.

A photo of the X-wing and the TIE Fighter directly facing each other, with literally a few millimetres separating their bases.

Mid-week gaming this week was X-wing, which I haven't played since 2016 when we played in the office after work with @[email protected]!

I've got a ton of miniatures but it'd been so long we stripped it back to the bare minimum core set of one X-wing and two TIE Fighters and no upgrades, just to get the hang of things again. We got two games in and both times the Empire won, even though we switched sides. We also had this magnificent moment where the X-wing and one of the TIE Fighters ended up SO CLOSE to touching it was ridiculous. 😂

There's a 2.0 version of X-wing which I'm totally going to pick up, apparently they've streamlined a bunch of stuff and actually moved all the points values off the cards and anywhere that's printed so they can update it as they go to keep power levels in check, and not have sprawling broken things they struggle to control. There was a really interesting interview about everything that's new with one of the co-designers of the game.

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Posted on 27 April 2022, 23:22

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying in his dog bed that has blankets on top of it and has the back of it against the wall. The bed is a rectangular one with raised up sides, and instead of lying in the middle of it along the longest axis, he's lying dead straight along the short axis, right at the far right-hand side with his nose jammed against the wall.

Beanie is the weirdest dog. Look at this sleeping position he settled on when he got into bed.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 26 April 2022, 23:41

A photo of the board of a Warhammer Underworlds game. The board has hexagonal tiles printed on it with a blue murky-depths kind of feel of artwork, at the front are three heavily-armoured warriors in gold and dark blue armour (Ironsoul's Condemnors), and at the back are four lithe and elegant aelves (Myari's Purifiers).

Got our Warhammer Underworlds on again tonight! Kristina went back to the aelves and I played Ironsoul's Condemnors. The final score was 10-7 to Kristina, but it was not remotely as close as it sounds, I REALLY need to go in and tweak the Condemnors deck. Lotta suck in it that needs removing.

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Posted on 25 April 2022, 22:20

A photo of the boxes of two Warhammer 40,000 miniatures, both are freaky-looking human/alien hybrids (one looks like a gunslinger and the other is standing there looking menacing). Underneath those are three plastic things: a little bellow, a funnel-looking thing, and a small weight.

Birthday haul part 2! The multi-part plastic thing is a single dose attachment for the coffee grinder.

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Posted on 24 April 2022, 12:27

A photo of inside a restaurant with people sitting at ables. The light levels are fairly low, and there's BIG wicker light fixtures hanging down from the ceiling with tassels hanging from the bottom of the wicker. The wall at the back-left is made from concrete blocks with holes in the middle, and behind THOSE is another wall that's been lit up.

A photo of a half rack of beef ribs and chunky chips on a wooden board. (The board actually made sense for this because it gave lots of room to put the finished ribs on rather than needing a separate bowl.) It looks delicious and it really really was.

A night-time photo looking across a lake with big trees on the shore and the tops of unit blocks poking up behind them.

Topped off the day by going out to Meat & Wine Co. and having ribs, and holy shit it was amazing. 👌🏻The inside of the place was really cool as well, it felt like we were in a super-fancy lounge or something.

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Posted on 20 April 2022, 20:38

A photo of a Breville "the Bambino Plus" espresso machine and a Eureka Mignon Specialita grinder alongside a stainless steel container for holding coffee beans. The espresso machine is very handsome, it's all black and shiny chrome, and the grinder is all black and looks very retro 1950s.

Yasssss, birthday haul. 🎉 I still need to tweak the grind fineness—and the single dose attachment I'm getting from my parents on Sunday will help with reducing the amount of beans I end up wasting because I ground too much—but man, even with that it's a night and day difference between the old machine and the new. I had no idea espresso could be so thick and rich!

our house darkroom coffee presents

Posted on 20 April 2022, 10:25

A photo of beef Pad See Ew on a plate. It looks (and was) delicious!

A photo of dessert which was billed as "banana with sticky rice and ice cream". The banana seemed like it'd been smushed and shaped around a core of bean paste. Not very appetising-looking but was really tasty.

Kristina had a sudden hankering for Thai tonight so we went to our local Thai restaurant and it was excellent as always.

darkroom food portrait mode thai stanhope

Posted on 16 April 2022, 20:02

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying upside down basically on my foot. I'm standing at my standing desk and the photo is taken looking directly down, with my leg and foot visible towards the left of frame.

The same small scruffy blonde dog, but this time he's kind of rolled over on his side but is still on my foot.

Beanie's decided that my foot is the right place to lie this morning.

beanie our house dog darkroom beanie lying on or under things

Posted on 14 April 2022, 11:38

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team board with home-made desert and ramshackle junkyard-style terrain on it.

A photo of nine six-sided dice, three of them are sixes, two are fives, and there's two twos and two threes.

We played another (partial) game of Kill Team tonight! And for the first time EVER, everything was fully painted. 😮 We only got a turn and a half in thanks to us taking a while to set everything up, but we're definitely getting the hang of it.

I was playing Death Guard, and they have a rule called "Disgustingly Resilient" where if they would lose a wound, you roll a D6 and on a roll of 5+ the wound is not lost. It doesn't matter how many wounds, just ANY wound. One of them was attacked and was going to be dealt 9 wounds (out of a total of 12), but my Disguisingly Resilient roll was amazing and I was able to reduce it down to 4. 😂

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Posted on 13 April 2022, 22:44