Good old Jonathan Coulton is a regular feature of the nerdy advent, and this year is no different.
This time we bring you IKEA, a song about many peoples favourite furniture store, and its certainly one of mine, I mean, not only is the stuff great, my studio is a lot of IKEA stuff.
But also meatballs and hot dogs too!
Its been a long long while since we featured MC Chris, so lets rectify that now, with Nrrrd Grrrl
A great Nerdcore rap about a lot of girls we know, and none of us deserve, reminds me of both Megan and Lindsay.
OK I am a day late, I have had a shitty year in terms of keeping up with the things I am supposed to do, and sadly this suffered as a result with poor planning, even though I knew it was coming up!
Anyway, this one is a classic from the Nintendocore (a subgenre of chiptune) band, I Fight Dragons who make music using the electronic sounds of Game Boys and NES consoles.
This is a great song for which the video was released in 3D form for the 3DS, and looked great, but well that console is now dead, so if you want to see it how it was intended, you have to find, other means!
Oh and its set this year, which is why it was delayed until now.
But is still a great listen!
Not much this week, but I have made a couple of changes to the house to make it more comfortable and easier to use.
The first, was to add a SKÅDIS pegboard, just like in the studio to the wall, to hold knives, and a few other bits and bobs using some bits that I had previously used on my studio board.
And Megan and Lindsay want more “display” space, so had me get the Soundbar mounted under the telly to free up the space on the TV unit for it.
I started out with the Chaos Familiars from Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower
After which I painted a Vargulf Courtier for the Flesh Eater Courts
Then a Baal Predator for mine and Megans Blood Angels
Then made a start to the Gloomspite Gitz with a Loonboss
And Zarbag’s Gitz
So whats on the plan for next week?
I finished listening to The Fall of Cadia by Robert Rath, which was a pretty good listen, and I hope they finish the story of the Gathering Storm and give us a novel of the Fracture of Biel-Tan and the Rise of the Primarch because they are so far poorly explored.
I haven’t, but I did receive my BoardGameGeek Secret Santa, which is Root!
I played through The Tyranny of King Washington, the DLC for Assassin’s Creed III
And I started on Assassin’s Creed: Liberation HD too!
I got the latest episode of Edge of Empire puiblished!
I bought myself a couple cheap games in the Black Friday sales, I got Prey, Yakuza 5 & Yakuza 6, Catherine Classic, Doom 2, Doom 3, Two Point Hospital and A Memoir Blue.
Due to the insulation work, we had to swap out a bookcase we had when we moved for a narrower one, so we went to IKEA and picked up a narrow Billy to store some of our board games.
I also got a couple of issues of Stormbringer part 40 for the Treelords!
And I got the second issue as well!
The past couple of weeks have been a bit boring, but I did do a touch more work to improve the studio
First up I bought the last bits for my controller board, and fitted them leaving me with this as the final result!
What we have on it, are:-
| Playstation Controller (USB) | DualShock 3 | NES Controller | SNES Controller | ||
| Tribute 64 | Gamecube Controller | Gamecube Wavebird | |||
| Mega Drive Controller (USB) | Mega Drive 6 Button Controller (USB) | Saturn Controller Model 2 (USB) | 8BitDo SN30 Pro | Hyperkin Duke | |
| PC Engine Turbo Pad (USB) | A500 Controller | USB-C Cable | Micro USB Cable | 8BitDo Neo Geo CD Controller | Shelf with some adaptors |
| Hyperkin Xenon | DualSense | Switch Pro | Xbox Series X | Amazon Echo Dot | |
| Google Stadia | Amazon Luna | Steam Controller | NVIDIA Shield |
So yeah really happy with how its turned out, expensive but worth it!
And I also mounted the Xbox Series S under the desk, just to keep the desk top clearer, becuase it was in a funny situation with no where to be because the place it was, was no longer an option as the new monitor was in the way.
I imagine the next few weeks will be more of the same, just getting stuff better and more tidy, I still may wall mount the PS5 and/or Switch, but lets wait and see.
I started by finishing some Chaplins for the Ultramarines, and a Judicar.
After that it was a Spartan for the Death Guard
Then a Rotor Cannon Support Squad for the Imperial Fists
Followed by 20 Termagants with Devourers
And finally a pair of bases of Rippers!
So whats up next for me?
I listened to Bang-Bang-a-Boom! by Clayton Hickman and Gareth Roberts, which was
I have read with The End and The Death: Volume II by Dan Abnett, and that was a hell of a book is all I will say!
I have started listening to The Fall of Cadia by Robert Rath and that’s pretty good so far, very surprised that they had yet to do this story!
Got a game of Horus Heresy in at club on Friday myself and Russell started a campaign, and well I wiped the floor with him, but I did have 3250 points to his 2500 so it was an unfair match up!
I finished Assassin’s Creed III Remastered, which I have been streaming!
I also played through Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – The Lost Archive, which you can see here on YouTube.
We will be playing The Tyranny of King Washington next!
I made a little experimental video about the army list I took to Scotland at the beginning of October.
Also a little short on painting lights!
It was Humble Choice this week, so for my £8.99, I got the following
And I bought myself Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 3 Remastered as well.
I also picked up the Space Marines and Tyranids datacards for Warhammer 40k.
And a Vindicator to add to my Imperial Fists.
Following the insulation work I have made a few small changes to the studio, mostly cosmetic, but they do make it far more comfortable.
First up, I have moved my collection of badges to a set of banners that Megan made for me in the polycule sewing room.
Really happy with how these turned out, and they fill a bit of a hole in the room.
I also hung a Man Cave sign that Mary got me before she passed away, and it looks pretty nice.
And I took the fabric Avatar world map we got with the Avatar Legends Kickstarter, and put that into a frame and hung it on the staircase
I also ordered a 3D printed stand for my Echo Dot to hang on my pegboard, its been a bit of a chew on to get it, and when I eventually did two weeks after it should have come, it was in entirely the wrong colour!
Next steps are going to be something to store the hot chocolate pods in, and a couple more Ikea controller holders for the pegboard.
And of course I do need to do some painting still!
I started off my finishing the Ork Boyz
Plus a Runtherd for some Grots
And then followed up that with a pair of Marshcrawlla Sloghoths
Then some more greenskins, this time in the shape of 10 Grots!
I finally painted the Lord Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos, good old Kyria Draxus!
And then a Sister Dialogues for my Sisters of Battle
So what’s up next?
I read a few short stories to try and get me reading again, starting with The Long and Hungry Road by Adrian Tchaikovsky, then Devilhunter by Nicholas Wolf and finally Blood Harvest by Richard Swan.
I have now started on The End and The Death Volume II by Dan Abnett.
Continued to play some more Assassin’s Creed III Remastered, and I am getting to grips with the ways its different to the previous 3 games.
I published the latest episode of Edge of Empire!
My first project in a while, but I am backing the Car Wars Companion for Sixth Edition, cause, you know, Car Wars!
Not much, but I did buy The Ancestor’s Wrath, cause why not, new Votann models are gonna be cool!
We also upgrade our broadband, from 350mbps to 1130mbps, for only a few quid a month more!
This is a big update, life has been a bit all over the place and its taken this long to sort out putting out a new blog post, sorry
My dad turned 60 earlier this month so we buggered off to Suffolk for a birthday meal, we were in the county for less than 24 hours which felt too brief as I was unable to get any quality time.
Would have liked to have spent more time with the nibblings, but it was nice nonetheless.
It was a Sunday dinner at the pub and I had lamb, cause I love lamb and so rarely get to have it.
I turned 41 as well, which was fine, but my birthday plans failed and it’s left me somewhat deflated.
I am on the verge of giving up any attempt at celebrating it from now.
I did get a pair of AirPod Pros for my birthday, mostly cause I needed the ANC
This weekend I went to Stirling for a Horus Heresy event runs by some friends of ours, an event with lots of Conpany of Legends DNA, which is really cool cause we never get to play in our own event!
That’s not me saying they ripped us off, we love that they have taken our concept and turned it into their own thing, it’s absolutely brilliant, although we did provide them with Chris’s scoring/pairing spreadsheet.
I am gonna put up a vide with my list next week.
It’s been a really fun event, my first game was against Matts Whit Scars, a beautiful army that I was able to really push and give it a hard time.
The game went rather well for me, I did lose in the end, but it largely came down to a mixture of great tactics by Matt, poor decision making on my part and of course rolling double 1s on Plasma Pistol Chainfire on my Moritat resulting in him dying in his first turn out of the Rhino!
The second game on Saturday was against Chris’s Custodes, and yeah at 3.5k points, Custodes really get to shine as they can take a lot of the nicer toys that 3k kind of stops them taking
I got hammered in this game, my list just struggled to handle the sheer amount of 2+ Armour
Wonderful guy as well and a beautifully painted army, makes me want to get my Custodes out the box!
On Sunday I faced Mark and his Ultramarines, in a very challenging game, for a good part of the game, I was dominant on one flank, distracting him with stuff on the other, but once he had taken care of those units, he quickly wiped out my whole army!
And my final game was against Michael and his Space Wolves, a great army with a Thunderhawk, my first time facing one of those bad boys!
I did okay, but eventually folded and was tabled, a mix of poor choices on my part and great tactics on Michaels.
A great weekend and the lads put on an amazing event, really good, absolutely loved my time there.
Not my name, but it seems apt, on my return Stirling, we were having some insulation work done by the landlord, the contractors said, it was all external, but when they arrived, we were told its actually all internal!
So we had a chaotic week, with every room in the house being torn apart, and it ended my #HobbyStreak 🙁
It is what it is, but we are only just getting the place back together, and it still needs painting.
In other news, I am back into therapy and mental health treatment, I need it, and the waiting period was awful.
Initially my medication has been adjusted as they build an idea on how to help sort me out.
I started off painting some Blood Angels but got bored partway though so got painted up my Questoris Knight Styrix for House Taranis
Then I finished the Phobos Lieutenant for the Blood Angels
Followed by the Suppressors
And the a squad of Infiltrators
After that a Ballistus Dreadnought for the Blood Ravens
As a result of the insulation, I found a DOOM box of abandoned Warhammer projects and decided to finish as many of them as I could, starting with a resin Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun, who mostly just needed a few bits and bobs finishing
Then it was a Praetor for the Death Guard armed with a Thunder Hammer!
Then I finished up some Marines that Chris gave me ages ago to supplement my Word Bearers who needed a couple of Marines per Squad to allow me to take them as Tactical Squads instead of Veteran Squads and allow me to build some non Pride of the Legion lists
And then some Tyranid Warriors that I originally got with Deathstorm, a very very long time ago!
And finally I painted a squad of Assault Terminators for my Ultramarines from the DOOM box
So what’s up next?
I finished The Prisoner of Tartarus bu Richard Lee Byers, so expect a review of that soonish!
I also read The Devouring Void by Danie Ware, which was ok, the twist was kind of sudden which didn’t work for me, but otherwise was good.
Audiobook wise, I listened to Blood of the Emperor, and The Sandman by Simon A Forward, and I am currently listening to The Church and the Crown by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
I got a game of Sone Mortalis in with Paul at Durham Raiders
I did ok, my list is suboptimal, Paul’s is much better and he played really well, very smart choice made by him.
But it was a close run thing!
And we also had a game of Alhambra, on my birthday which I did not win, of course Megan did.
But it was close!
I have started on Assassin’s Creed III Remastered and been doing so on stream.
I also played and completed Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines, emulated using Retroarch, and I uploaded the playthrough to YouTube
Other than that, I finished Bayonetta.
And I am now playing through Spider-Man Remastered.
I did finally get round to making that Ork Skin video!
I bought this Neo Geo CD controller made by 8BitDo a month ago and it’s only just arrived, the best thing about, MICROSWITCHES!
So yeah 8BitDo got right what SNK couldn’t
I also had a couple of bits printed up for my controller board, some black hooks to hang cables and a shelf, to hold a few little bits.
I also finally bought a new monitor for the studio, I just really needed some more screen real-estate for editing Edge of Empire podcasts, cause the setup I had was a bit weird in composition.
Its a Cooler Master GA271 and is really good for the £130 I paid for it, and I mean, really good, far better than it has any right to be, with some HDR and FreeSync too.
So I am once again a massive failure and haven’t been updating my resolutions so let’s go!
We added the Kabalite Combat Patrol box and that means we now have 1220 points along with Drazhar!
And I also added some Mandrakes too!
No progress
We added some Spinegaunts to the army plus a swarm of Rippers
This month we added the Bladeguard Veterans and the Bladeguard Anicent to the list, along with a Ballistus Dreadnought, Firestrike Servo Turret, the Apothecaries and a squad of Sternguard Veterans!
This resolution is now complete with the addition of a unit of Gutrippaz and some Man-Skewer Boltboyz or Da Kunnin’ Krew!
The Rashaar were painted this month, so this pledge is complete!
Yeah medication changes means that this isn’t going to happen
Lets try and do this in the last three months eh!
Managing to get this done
I finished The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, so thats done!
I also started and finished Tomb Raider, so thats 2 down, 8 to go!
I also finished Control and Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection.
I am now onto Assassin’s Creed III and making my way though Bayonetta
Stuff is getting better and I feel a lot more in control the past couple of weeks, but there is still more to do.
I need to be a bit more forthright about asking Lindsay and Megan for help and assistance.
Currently waiting on some work being done on the house and this is sort of creating a limbo situation for me, so a few bits are on hold, but I think I might be able to end this year feeling a lot better.
But lets keep up the progress and see what happens.
I started with Evander Garrius for the Imperial Fists
Along with the obligatory Lascannon Squad for them too.
After that it was some Apothecaries for the Ultramarines, so thats a Primaris Apothecary and an Apothecary Biologis
Followed by some Vienna Class Escort Frigates for my UCM fleet.
And finally Gardus Steel Soul from Stormbringer
And finally a Heavy Support Squad for my Death Guard, also armed with Lascannons, given that its obligatory now!
So what’s coming up next week?
I finished listening to Blood of Iax by Robbie MacNiven, which was fine, just kinda generic really, but ok.
And I finally finished Secrets in Scarlet so expect a review soon.
I am now reading The Prisoner of Tartarus by Richard Lee Byers which is good so far.
I had a game of Heresy with Graham the other
Got a couple of sessions of Assassin’s Creed Revelations in on stream, and finished the game, so I will be starting Assassin’s Creed III on Tuesday!
I have also been playing a bit more of Starfield.
And some Bayonetta along with a bit of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
I managed to cook for the first time in forever and I made some beans and sausage wraps, which were quite nice.
And a serving of dirty rice for myself and Lindsay too
Bought a couple of Humble Bundles, the Cities: Skylines Build Today, Plan for Tomorrow bundle and the Control the Narrative bundle.
Plus I bought Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2.
I also bought for myself as a birthday treat, the Hyperkin Xenon controller, which so far has been amazing to use, feels so much like playing games in 2005 again!
And after a bit of hunting I found some nice cables to use for my controllers, these nice chunky rubber ones are just right, very dieselpunk and feel really substantial, I love them!
And finally some AirTags and a new wallet, so hopefully no more losing the wallet when I need it!
So I am in the middle of a doctor imposed period of rest and relaxation, not that I can do that much more, and I don’t think I have achieved any of what I was expected to do.
Its been four weeks of the six I was told to take, and I am struggling to center myself and sort out the things I am meant to do, and I think I need to sit and sort that out in the next two weeks.
So I am setting myself some targets over the next couple of weeks, lets say three weeks.
So here is what I need to do
Just sit and play on my Steam Deck for at least 30 minutes a day
The big things are to get some stuff into the eaves, clean up the bookcase and take some old Codexes and rulebooks to a charity shop.
I also need to put this unexpected terrain into a box, so a trip to ASDA or Ikea is needed (so I need to ask Lindsay for help, or perhaps Paul) and put the new PLEX server in its permanent home, which may also involve setting up a KDM using a Pi.
Linked to the above but its a bit of an issue with the left side being a huge issue
I think I have a workflow figured out, so I am gonna try and do this next week, and perhaps do an overview of one or two of my armies.
I have been struggling so much with the electric hobs, so on Sunday, I am going to cook a meal for the otters.
The brain damage is an issue here, causing concentration to really suck, but I just need to sit down and read, force myself if I have to.
I have yet to use it since I moved here, and its been over a year!
I forgot I didn’t have a Lascannon squad for my Death Guard and I put it in a list, so yeah, I need to build one, I have the marines, just need to buy the weapons on pay day!
I know I will need the assistance of Lindsay and Megan, but I am gonna really try to sort this out
I started out with the Praetor for the Death Guard I got a few months ago
Then it was a pair of Azyrite Fountains I got from Stormbringer
Then I painted the Azrakh the Annihilator model I got from Warhammer+
Then I painted a T’au Strike Team
Along with an Ethereal
And a Cadre Fireblade
Plus six Shield Drones and a pair of Marker Drones!
After that it was some Mandrakes for my Drukhari
So what’s up next?
I finished The Great Clans of Rokugan Volume 2 which was a good listen.
And I listened to The Rapture by Joseph Lidster, and I forgot the mad lads at Big Finish did an audio in which the 7th Doctor went clubbing with Tony Blackburn in Ibiza.
I am currently listening to Blood of Iax by Robbie MacNiven.
I had a game of Horus Heresy vs Graham on Tuesday at Durham Raiders.
We played a 3500pts game using a Siege of Cthonia mission, and needless to say, of course Graham won!
A bit more Starfield is getting played and I am making progress on the main storyline,
And I am playing a bit more of Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun on stream
And a couple of session of Assassin’s Creed Revelations.
I am also playing a bit of Bayonetta on the Steam Deck, and wow, I forgot what a horny game this was!
We got the latest episode of Edge of Empire published, thanks to an improved workflow on my end.
I bought Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth for Steam, its been on my wishlist for a while and it was £1.69 so why not!
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