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A photo of our dining room table with a bunch of crummy polystyrene terrain on it but also an enormous landing pad made out of cardboard, and lots of miniatures. My mum, a tall white woman with a very mid-90s short but poofy hairdo, is standing gesticulating at the table with a tape measure.

Another photo of our dining table with terrain on it, but this time I'm sitting beside it looking like I'm demonstrating something while mum watches what I'm doing.

A photo of me, a just-thirteen year-old white boy with short brown hair and a red (!) t-shirt on, looking extremely serious and with my hand in the position that indicates I've probably just rolled some dice.

I've been taking proper photos of my Games Workshop miniatures and posting them to Flickr, mum saw them and emailed to say she was very impressed and that I hadn't lost my touch. She ALSO mentioned that she had photos of me when I was much younger having a Warhammer 40,000 battle with her on the dining room table! She brought them over and I scanned them in and cleaned them up, and oh boy, check out the youth and the serious expression. 😂 There was a date on the back of July 1996, so I was 13! I'm playing my Eldar, but I think I must have borrowed a friend's what looks like Orks because those miniatures at the far end of the table are definitely not mine!

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Posted on 21 February 2021, 11:24

A photo of the game board of Warhammer Underworlds: Beastgrave. It has a bunch of hexagonal tiles on it, and the two opposing forces are elves that have red hair and backwards-facing goat legs, and a bunch of rampaging beastmen.

A photo of Karthaen's character card with a bunch of upgrades: Great Fortitude (+1 wounds), Great Strength (+1 damage), Eye of Kurnoth (+1 dice to attack actions), Might of Kurnoth (a temporary +1 damage upgrade), and Kurnoth's Mark (grants the ability to re-roll one dice in the defence roll).

Tonight Kristina and I played Warhammer Underworlds: Beastgrave again, this time with fully painted miniatures (🎉), and GOD DAMN it was a close game! She was smashing me by the middle of the 2nd round, my leader was out of action as were two others and I only had two left. I managed to pull off a win though, by one single glory point. Champion of the match goes to Karthaen who was upgraded to be an absolute BEAST and single-handedly took out three enemy fighters on his own.

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Posted on 7 February 2021, 22:15

A photo of a table with a board and miniatures on it, with a white woman with short hair sitting on the other side of the table and smiling. She has a small scruffy blonde dog sitting in her lap who is also looking at the camera.

We played Warhammer Underworlds: Beastgrave tonight and Kristina enjoyed it! Also Beanie wanted to come help.

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Posted on 26 January 2021, 23:05

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 4 showing a pale baby blue Morris Minor sitting on a beach in front of a row of those weird little beach hut things the Poms love. The car has been lowered and has big shiny chrome rims to go with the shiny chrome front and rear bumpers.

And in the total opposite of American muscle cars, I've also done up a 1958 Morris Minor 1000. It weighs 680kg and puts out 171kW and 320Nm. 😂 I thought the setting for this screenshot was quintessentially British too: a beach with those little beach houses in the background, but it's overcast and feels like it's about to rain.

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Posted on 5 January 2021, 23:18

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 4 of a black American muscle car with the engine poking through the bonnet, driving down a snowy road.

Still having way too much fun hotting up old muscle cars in Forza Horizon 4. My latest is a 1969 Dodge Charger R/T, also made over in the Mad Max style (and like the Falcon GT-HO, I've managed to make it handle pretty nicely too).

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Posted on 5 January 2021, 23:13

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 4 of a black Ford Falcon GT-HO with its headlights on and a big mechanical air intake poking out of the bonnet, Mad Max-style. It's fairly dark and the car is driving through a bunch of tall trees with grey sky visible through them.

Ok, my cheerful yellow Falcon GT-HO now looks like it's something out of Mad Max. 😈 They've even animated the mechanical bit on the side that flips the air intake open when you press down on the accelerator, and it's VERY satisfying.

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Posted on 30 December 2020, 18:42

A photo of a Warhammer 40K Kill Team board with terrain in it. There's a bunch of industrial-looking bits at the right side, and some granite stony-looking craggy tiered cliffs on the left.

Went over to a friend's place today to play Kill Team! I played Tau this time, not having played them before, and it absolutely sucked. I killed one thing and that was it. Partially terrible rolling, but also the lack of guns I had with AP modifiers meant it felt like I was throwing ping pong balls at the enemy. Also my miniatures were shamefully unpainted.

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Posted on 29 December 2020, 18:41

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 4 showing a GT-HO Falcon driving down a long empty road with trees and fields on either side.

I souped up a 1972 Ford Falcon XA GT-HO in Forza Horizon 4, and it's actually a LOT of fun to drive! Managed to get it handling corners very nicely. Plus, it's in cheerful 1970s yellow!

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Posted on 26 December 2020, 23:07

A screenshot that looks more like a photo of a red Porsche (I have NFI what sort, they all look the damn same) sitting on the top of a snowy hill, in the distance and out of focus is the sky just before sunrise, with a number of wind turbines along the hill in the distance.

Current status: having lots of fun pretending I'm a car photographer in Forza Horizon 4.

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Posted on 6 December 2020, 22:37

A screenshot from Gears Tactics of a Black guy with a full beard, cornrows, and combat goggles on. He's got big chunky armour on and looks like he will fuck you up something FIERCE.

Oh shit yeah, I just realised that you can customise the look of your non-core characters in Gears Tactics (it's a turn-based strategic combat game set in the Gears of War universe). Check out how fucking badass my heavy weapon guy looks now!

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Posted on 18 November 2020, 14:45