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A photo of a bunch of pastries and sweets (croissants, big cookies, etc.) sitting on an office desk.

I'm in the office today for a team event, we ordered in a bunch of pastry-type stuff for a celebration in the morning and were originally planning on going to the beach but changed that plan yesterday after seeing the weather. So we managed to get a reservation to go indoor go-karting, got on the train at Wynyard and weren't even at Town Hall when the organiser got a call from the go-karting place saying it was cancelled because they were flooded. >_<

Posted on 20 February 2024, 13:52

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. Closest to the camera are the xenomorphs from Aliens pretending to be Genestealers, painted in a very dark blue colour. On the left are the six hulking and putrid Death Guard in large military green amour with all sorts of tentacles and demon faces coming out of the armour. On the right side are six Ultramarines of broadly the same shape armour as the Death Guard, but it's a rich blue and doesn't have tentacles and demon faces in it.

A close-up shot of two of the xenomorphs behind a pile of metal crates, on the other side of the crates is the Space Marine Captain in his huge armour, holding a plasma pistol in front of him.

Sunday night Kill Team tonight was a three-player match, Death Guard versus the Space Marines of Strike Force Justinian versus a Tyranid squad of just Genestealers, on the Gallowdark map. My friend who was playing Genestealers actually used the xenomorph miniatures from one of Aliens games and it looked SO COOL having them lurking around inside an old ruined starship! We only got through three turns rather than the full four, the Genestealers won 5:4:4, but it really could have gone any way, and I was in with a pretty solid shot of winning if we'd had time to play the final turn. Most ridiculous moment of the game was one of my regular Death Guard Warriors being on two wounds left, getting smacked in the face for five melee damage from a Genestealer, and rolling FOUR successful Disgustingly Resilient rolls so he only took one wound so he had a chance to hit back and take the Genestealer down from its starting 8 wounds down to 3. There was also a very cinematic moment of the Genestealer leader fighting in close combat against the Space Marine leader (the Space Marine leader got utterly shredded).

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Posted on 4 February 2024, 23:15

A photo of five Assault Intercessor Space Marines. They're all wearing standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads, and they all look like they're mid-stride. They've got pistols and chainswords, and the one on the left has a grenade in her hand and looks like she's about to lob it. None of them have helmets and they've all got either mohawks or very short cropped hair and various cybernetic implants.

A photo of five regular Intercessor Space Marines wearing much the same armour as the Assault Intercessors. These ones are armed with very large two-handed bolt rifles, two are pointing the rifles and yelling like they're in the middle of laying down a hail of fire, the sergeant is holding hers upright just by the grip and is pointing with her other hand, the fourth is standing there like she's keeping watch, and the final one has a pair of grenades in one hand and looks like she's just about to throw them. They're also all bare-headed with cybernetic implants.

Yesssss, got my converted all-women Intercession squad assembled and undercoated! Extremely stoked at how well these have come out, in particular the one from each squad with the grenades since none of the sculpts actually have them holding grenades (one of the operatives for the Assault Intercessors is specifically a grenadier and I wanted to make it obvious which one that was, and if I don't take her I'd be taking the regular Intercessor with grenade as an added equipment). I even went to the level of detail of chopping off the grip from one of the spare holsters and fitting it properly onto the empty pistol holster that the grenade-lady from the Assault Intercessors has, since she's holding a grenade instead of a pistol. I also chopped off all the helmets and attached them to the belts of every single one of them, to show that they still HAVE their helmets, they're just too cool to wear them. 😛 I'm going to paint them in Blood Angels colours, mostly because the red and black scheme is quite striking and I've never painted Blood Angels before.

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Posted on 31 January 2024, 20:16

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying completely upside-down, with the top of his head against the carpet.

Current Beanie status: melted.

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Posted on 16 January 2024, 11:38

A screenshot of my character in Baldur's Gate 3. She has dark brown skin, black eyes with purple irises, and tribal-looking dark purple neck tattoo that extends up to right underneath her bottom lip. Her lips are black, and her hairstyle is rich purple dreadlocks but with the sides of her head shaved.

As tradition demands, I spent way too much time in Baldur's Gate 3's character creator. 😁 I'm going a High Elf warlock, the Archfey subclass.

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Posted on 10 December 2023, 17:28

Bloody hell, this storm! (It was significantly darker than it looks here, but the iPhone did its best to lighten things up.)

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Posted on 29 November 2023, 15:43

A wide-angle photo of my standing desk in its standing position, my laptop and main displays both have various parts of Logic Pro showing, there's a MIDI keyboard on the desk in front of my regular keyboard, and sitting alongside the wall to the left is a bright orange guitar amplifier and an Ibanez JIVA guitar sitting on a guitar stand.

Aww yisssss. 😎

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Posted on 22 November 2023, 21:51

A photo of my standing desk in its upright position, with an Orange guitar amp and a pedal board with a number of guitar pedals on it sitting at the left and a guitar sitting in a guitar stand on the right. My computer has Logic Pro up on the main display.

Current status. (Recording some tracks for @[email protected] to splice together into something excellent.)

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Posted on 4 November 2023, 21:02

A product shot of the Roland A-49 MIDI keyboard in white. As the name suggests it has 49 keys and has a number of buttons and knobs on the left hand side.

I've decided to continue my musical journey and get a MIDI keyboard and actually learn how to play it! 😁 I actually had an M-Audio something-or-other keyboard ages ago (nearly twenty years in fact: https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1423) but in a similar story to my guitar from 2007, due to the lack of decent learning resources I never actually stuck with it. It turns out that the "Melodics" app I use for learning drums _also_ includes a whole course for keyboard as well so I'm going to take full advantage of it! I did a bunch of looking around and settled on this, the Roland A-49. The reviews are all glowing and apparently the key feel is very good as well. I could have gotten the black version and probably had it in my hands this week because the white one doesn't seem to be in stock anywhere, but I think the white looks far cleaner and sleeker.

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Posted on 2 October 2023, 19:42

A wide-angle photo taken from George St in Sydney. There's tram tracks running down the street, tall buildings on either side, and a nice big green tree at the left. It's delightfully sunny and the sky is blue.

I'm in the city today for the first of SEVEN consecutive weekdays. This is going to be weird! (We've got a full org-wide team event where we've flown everyone in from all over the globe.)

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Posted on 21 September 2023, 11:13