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A cropped screenshot of iOS's Fitness app, showing all three rings closed.

Bam, today is four straight years of closing the rings on my Apple Watch every single day. 💪🏻

Posted on 24 September 2023, 19:58

A screenshot from Starfield of the sunrise over, uh, one of the districts (I forget which one it was) on Jemison in the Alpha Centauri system. It's taken looking over an open public plaza with trees and people walking around, and there's tall, sleek, futuristic buildings as well.

Another screenshot, this one is also Jemison but it's inside The Well which is an underground almost slum. Everything made of metal and it's all brown and industrial-looking, with lots of exposed pipes, girders, and mesh everywhere.

Another screenshot, this one is inside the main control room of the space station "The Eye" that's orbiting Jemison. The room is round and stark white, with rows of "NASA punk"-looking consoles with displays and buttons on them. The roof is clear glass looking out into space where you can see the stars.

Man, I'm enjoying Starfield so much. Tonight was spent mostly wandering around The Well on Alpha Centauri helping figure out what was causing brownouts, and chatting to Denis and Dr. Charlie in Cydonia on Mars (wonderful lines and voice acting for both of them), I didn't even do much of main quest things but I thoroughly enjoyed myself nonetheless. The amount of detail Bethesda put into this game is wonderful, as an example there's a café/not-quite food bank place in The Well, and if you go through the back there's the kitchen with all the things you'd expect to see in there, then upstairs is the living quarters where there's all sorts of stuff scattered around like someone actually LIVES there, there's even a bathroom and everything. The whole thing just feels _lived in_ and it's so good.

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Posted on 11 September 2023, 23:29

A selfie, I guess, of my character in Starfield. She has dark brown skin and brown eyes and has faint crows feet around the eyes. She has multiple piercings in ears, and her hair is completely shaved up the sides but the top is a big mop of black hair. She looks pretty much exactly like Naomi Nagata from the TV show "The Expanse".

And speaking of Starfield, dear LORD can you spend a lot of time in the character creator! As always I made a Black woman, you can't tell from this shot but I went with the heavy/muscular side of things for the body type, but as soon as I came across that haircut I was like "Oh, I've just made Naomi Nagata." 😅

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Posted on 9 September 2023, 22:02

Back on my Forza Horizon 5 bullshit again! I'd forgotten I bought the rally expansion and man is it fun to blast around this rally-spec Peugeot 207 without any of the usual breaking lines on and instead just getting the instructions from your co-pilot ("hard left", "medium right into hairpin right", that sort of thing). On asphalt it's pretty much glued to the road and even on dirt it handles extremely nicely.

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Posted on 19 August 2023, 21:29

A screenshot from the iOS app "Melodics" showing a current streak of 328 days, as well as an all-up total 4,345 minutes played across 672 sessions.

We're off to Canberra tomorrow morning, which means RIP my 328 day drum practice streak in Melodics. Also I should probably email them about the fact that the streak text overlaps when the numbers get this large. 😅

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Posted on 14 June 2023, 13:17

A screenshot of a dust-covered black hatchback driving along a road with looming sandstone cliffs behind it.

I was a bit sceptical about the new Forza Horizon 5 DLC, it's a whole proper rally thing. By default they recommend you leave the driving line off and they have the full co-driver giving you directions ("medium right into hard left", etc.) and I gave that a go and man is it fun! I've been blasting around in my rally-spec 1990 Nissan Pulsar (the brown is actually dust, it's black underneath all that, haha).

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Posted on 2 April 2023, 22:11

A screenshot of four lines of sheet music, it's not CRAZY complex or anything, but there's a lot going on.

A few months ago I signed up for Mike Barnes' drum lesson stuff (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mikebarnesdrums) and one of the things he really recommend was Trinity College London's Introducing Drum Kit course (https://store.trinitycollege.com/products/introducing-drum-kit-part-1). It includes music tracks to play along to and teaches you how to read drum sheet music. I've been working my way through it and can actually read everything that's going on here!

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Posted on 2 April 2023, 15:20

A screenshot of macOS's Calendar application showing an event called "Holidays" that goes for the entire month of April.

Yesssss, this is my work calendar for next month.

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Posted on 31 March 2023, 9:13

A screenshot from Cities: Skylines, looking down a leafy boulevard. The road has two lanes on each side, one regular and one bus lane, and there's a yellow bendy-bus just pulling into a stop at the left. On the right alongside the road is a train station with a whole bunch of people walking down the street and going into the station. On the other side of the train station is a highway, and there's a pedestrian foot bridge crossing over it.

Apart from doing chores, this weekend has been spent almost entirely playing Cities: Skylines on the Xbox. NO REGRETS. They released a free "remastered" update that brings it in line with the (software) architecture of the PC version, and one of the things that allows is that instead of a maximum of nine 2x2 kilometre tiles in total area, your city can now be a maximum of TWENTY FIVE 2x2 kilometre tiles! Unfortunately the save file format is totally different and so can't be brought from the original game to the remastered version, so I'm having to start from scratch. My biggest city in the old game was about 120k population, I'm at a bit under 19k in my new city now. As always my favourite part is setting up the public transport and watching all the little people go everywhere!

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Posted on 5 March 2023, 20:35

A screenshot showing a hotted-up (pun unintended) red 1970 Datsun 510 driving along a road with rolling sand dunes behind it and clouds in the distance, and the sun blazing down. Just looking at it, it feels HOT.

Another screenshot of the same Datsun 510, this time in a different spot. There a bunch of foliage and palm trees on the side of the road being buffeted by extreme winds, the entire scene is yellow and the visibility is extremely low because I'm in the middle of a huge dust storm.

It's the hot season in Forza Horizon 5, and it feels like I'm driving on Tatooine. And then a dust storm rolled in!

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Posted on 1 January 2023, 22:26