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A photo of a dining room table with the game board and cards around it. On the very outer section of the board are a bunch of people who have invented something or made scientific discoveries, then directly inside of that is (not in order) their inventions. Then inside THAT is a hexagonal ring that you move around, inside which there is a THIRD section that involves three concentric circles, and the inner two are raised higher on a plastic circular ring that sits inside the middle of the game board. The cards that are sitting next to the board have the inventors on it, then there are smaller cards, some of which you can trade to other players, and the whole thing is just bizarre from a gameplay perspective.

Tonight we went over to a friend's place and played Beyond 2000: The Boardgame! (For the non-Australians, there was a TV show called Beyond 2000 that was a staple of our elder Millennial childhoods, it was basically an educational science and technology show about new technologies and scientific discoveries.)

Apparently at some point someone decided to make a board game out of it, but it was weird. It was part Trivial Pursuit but had all these extra elements as you get further in like being able to steal cards from other players or join forces with them, and they all felt really disconnected from each other, like they'd come up with three different ideas for games but decided they should mush them all together. The facts were interesting but man, we're not going to be playing that again. 😅

Posted on 5 October 2025, 23:04

A photo taken from our patio looking out into our rather modest backyard. The grass is looking rather overgrown and very weedy, and there is grass coming up from between the bricks of the patio, and the small slightly raised section that's directly in front of the back fence is also completely overgrown with weeds.

The exact same view as the first photo, except the grass is short and neat, the edges are all neat and tidy, and I've gotten rid of all of the grass that was in between the bricks of the patio too. Looks MUCH nicer.

Finally got around to mowing the lawns and doing the whippersnippering, and now I am dead. I was going to do the edging along the driveway too but ran out of steam.

our house gardening darkroom

Posted on 5 October 2025, 13:38

A photo of a lightly forested area with a bunch of plants covering the forest floor. Through the trees you can see the sky is completely blue and sunny.

A photo of an open field with a lightly mottled white horse with a black mane leaning down nomming on grass. Right behind it and partially obscured is a smaller white horse sitting down on the ground.

A photo of what I'm fairly sure is a white deer standing in a lightly-forested area nomming on some plants.

A photo looking off the side of the walking track, there are a bunch of long grasses then trees behind that. Everything is very lush and intensely green, and the sky is clear and blue except for some fluffy white clouds.

Despite having lived in the area for well over twelve years now, we'd never actually walked through any of the Western Sydney Parklands tracks, so we did that this morning! Two and a quarter hours, and 9.2km. We met some horses, a deer (!), and while there was a nice breeze that picked up at various points, it definitely could have had more shade. Even though it was only 25˚C, the sun was warm enough that I think that was probably our last walk until autumn arrives given it's meant to be getting into the 30s starting tomorrow.

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Posted on 4 October 2025, 12:52

A photo of a bright red electric guitar with a black pickguard and maple fretboard sitting on a stand.

New guitar day! 😍

It's a Fender "Made In Japan Hybrid II Telecaster" (how's that for a mouthful) and damn does it look good in red. I'd been considering getting a Telecaster for a bit though never really thought about a red guitar, but the lead guitarist in We Are Lady Parts had a red SG and I was like "Oh, yes."

The Hybrid series in particular is neat because it has a fourth pickup switch position that runs both pickups in series and so you get a really meaty sound out of it.

our house music darkroom guitar

Posted on 3 October 2025, 13:09

A photo of the Anker charger, it's a white cube probably roughly 5cm a side. It has an angled "lid" that comes up from the top of the cube that my iPhone is attached to, a little pop-out shelf at the right where the Apple Watch lives, and behind the lid is a spot for my AirPods Pro case to charge.

I got some more referral bonuses from the union for getting people to join, and have spent this batch on an Anker 3-in-1 Qi2 charger, so I'm now living in the future with wireless charging!

our house darkroom new toys

Posted on 29 September 2025, 12:49

A photo of the box of the Deep Space Nine complete DVD set.

Yessss it is finally mine to own!

Unfortunately it's a US-region DVD set so the next step is going to be finding a region-free drive with which to rip it.

...although I have a vague memory of there being some relatively small number of region changes you were allowed to do on non-region-free drives, and I suspect the Apple SuperDrive I bought back with the original-gen MacBook Air waaaay back in 2008 probably has never had its region set more than once... 🤔

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Posted on 18 September 2025, 12:25

A photo of the box of the Ravagers squad for Kill Team. The squad consists of five large snake-like alien miniatures, very much in the vein of the xenomorphs from the Aliens universe. Most of them are rearing up, and they all have multiple arms that end in extremely large claws, and generally look extremely unpleasant in a "going to eat you alive" sort of way.

Yessss, plastics for the plastic god!

Looking forward to painting these, I haven't actually painted any Tyranids before except for a single Genestealer over three and a half years ago. I have no idea what colour scheme I'm going to use for these though, I wasn't super-happy with the one I did on that Genestealer.

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Posted on 17 September 2025, 14:34

A photo of one of the two larger pieces of terrain that comes with the Kill Team: Hivestorm box. It's made to look like a ruined gothic-looking building made out of metal concrete with steel reinforcements with rivets everywhere, enclosed on all four sides but the two sides facing the camera have been blown clean away down to a bit below shoulder height and it's completely open in the middle. At the rear is the second level of the building with twisted metal coming out from where the floor ends, and there are tall thick gothic-looking barred iron windows that end part-way up the wall where the roof also has been blown off. Three ordinary human-sized miniatures are standing on and in the terrain for scale, showing that it'd be a somewhat high-ceilinged building if it was fully intact.

I have finally gotten another piece of the Hivestorm terrain done (sans rust effects and weathering)! 🥳 Now there's just the really big piece left, plus the small pieces of scatter terrain. I'm quite looking forward to having a go at the single-player mode on an open board, even though Into The Dark is my favourite way to play Kill Team.

(All this just in time for the Tomb World box to arrive next week. 😅)

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Posted on 16 September 2025, 21:50

A photo of fifteen cut golden brown cut rounds (they very much resemble scones) sitting on a cooling rack.

The #GloriousSydney levels are off the charts, it's 22˚C and 38% humidity, every single door and window in the house is open, and I've just made a batch of cut rounds for the first time in ages. :chefkiss:

our house darkroom food portrait mode cut rounds

Posted on 13 September 2025, 13:55

A photo of twelve people sitting around a few tables in the corner at the pub, all smiling at the camera. (Sorry Mark, I don't know why your face turned out so red, I think it was light reflecting from the side of the bar next to you!) As per most pubs, the lighting isn't very good or flattering, haha.

Excellent turnout for the fedimeet, thanks as always to @[email protected] for organising!

Great to see @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected] again, and to meet @[email protected] and @[email protected]!

(Also really good to see and chat to @[email protected] who won't see this, haha.)

It's getting large enough that we're going to be spilling over onto additional tables at this rate!

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Posted on 11 September 2025, 21:06