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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." 😅

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 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 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

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, it's a sunny day with cobblestone streets and obviously-Mexican buildings, and there's a massive Christmas tree in the middle the section where a road is splitting apart. On the other side of the road is a huge yellow building that I think is a church.

Another screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, showing my red Datsun 510 with big rims zooming along the road in the middle of the desert, there's lots of cactii and scrubby bushes on the side of the road.

Haha, Forza Horizon 5 is getting into the Christmas spirit as well: there's a giant Christmas tree in the middle of the city, and various other places have big candy canes lining the side of the road. In related news, still having a ton of fun in my hotted-up Datsun 510.

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Posted on 25 December 2022, 22:34

A photo of the four Magic the Gathering/Warhammer 40,000 cross-over decks, plus a 2TB Xbox Series X expansion card, a box of Space Marine Reivers, and a small pot of bright green paint.

It's a pre-Christmas package bonanza! (I should clarify that none of these are actually Christmas presents... I ordered the Xbox expansion card on the 23rd of November, got a notification on the 7th of December that it'd shipped and would arrive on the 14th, and it only just arrived today. And the Magic decks were ordered when they were up for pre-order back in like JULY and were meant to ship in October but there were stock issues from supplier, and I'd ordered the miniatures and paint in the same order so it all got held up.)

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Posted on 22 December 2022, 11:27

My favourite thing to do in the Forza Horizon games is to take an old car and just entirely hot it up. Witness my 1970 Datsun 510 that has an inline four turbocharged rally engine in it, along with full rollbars, weight reduction, and slick racing tyres. In related news, I am absolutely incapable of playing racing games without leaning my entire body to one side or the other as I go around corners.

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Posted on 11 December 2022, 20:41

A screenshot of my character in the video game Cyberpunk 2077. She's Black and has purple/blue hair on one side of her head, with the other side shaved, she's got lots of tattoos on her chest and arms, and her eyes are glowing cybernetics. She has some electronic inlays in the skin on her face, and she's wearing black lipstick. She's standing with her arms crossed and a look of satisfaction on her face.

In news that will shock nobody, I'm having way too much fun in Cyberpunk 2077 both customising my character and also using photo mode.

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Posted on 27 November 2022, 18:15

A screenshot from the cyberpunk-themed game The Ascent. The view is looking into a GIANT cylindrical cavern that stretches way down with lights like in skyscrapers all around the outside, with a huge central pillar covered with pipes and lights, and the whole thing has that very cyberpunk neon lights thing going on.

God DAMN is the art direction in The Ascent incredible! I'm so glad they added a photo mode so you can just cruise around and admire it all, because it'd be such a waste without it.

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Posted on 7 November 2022, 22:18