I moved my web host and need to see if it’s working
A new blog post will come soon, it’s been a challenging couple of months for me
I moved my web host and need to see if it’s working
A new blog post will come soon, it’s been a challenging couple of months for me
Below is our living room Christmas tree this year, one thing that myself, Lindsay and Megan have been doing, well ever since I moved out of my parents, is to have no repeated baubles. My mum was always one for uniformity on the tree and I have found that to be super bland.
So for years, me and Lindsay, and later Megan when she moved in with us, have been buying unique ornaments and baubles each year, and we have now such a decent selection of ornaments that we have no duplicates.
This tree is the one we have in our living room and is usually reffered to as the geeky tree as it contains all our ornaments from various fandoms and stuff. These baubles have come from a variety of places, from the Disney Store, Debenhams, Primark, Etsy and right down to Poundland. And of recent some 3D printing, this year we added a Tardis and an Eldar Scrolls ornament that I printed. We also have a small selection of Warhammer models which got painted gold and a bit of string put through them to turn them into baubles!
There is also a large amount of Disney decorations too, most of which were inherited from Lindsay and Megan’s family collections, these are beautiful, I must admit I would prefer the tree without them, but hey I am just one of three. But we do have enough Disney decorations that we could genuinely have a tree of just Disney stuff!
The dining room is host to a more grown up tree with the traditional style of decorations, which is lovely and exactly the same with unique non-repeating baubles, but its far less fun!
I got a few nice presents, to add to the driving rig, I got a Logitech Driving Force Shifter, which was purchased on Prime Day for me!
I also got a couple of board games, Ticket to Ride Paris from Paul, Unlock Adventures, which includes scenarios from Ticket to Ride, Pandemic and Mysterium from Emma, also from Paul a box, some dice and a notepad for RPG playing and a sign about my Dumbfuckery, Jane and Geoff got me a new desk mat, a Warhammer 4ok one, and from Lindsay’s father I got a hat and gloves.
Of course the best present was my Lynx Africa set!
In my stocking I also got the servo skull palette which on reflection is actually pretty cool!
My VideoGameGeek Secret Santa got me a nice £20 worth of vouchers for Steam, so I was able to grab a few cool things from my wish list, those being
But pretty much as soon as Christmas was done, I was out for the count with a nasty lergy and spent most of a week and a bit in bed feeling very sorry for myself!
I got finished the Dread Pageant at long last for Direchasm
Plus the third Leman Russ Vanquisher
And a Leman Russ Command Tank
So whats next?
At the Durham Raiders long gaming day, I played two games of Heresy, one against Sam’s Iron Warriors
And another in a doubles game, where I paired up with Sam to take on some Sons of Horus and World Eaters
Quite a bit of Hell Let Loose with Graham and Chris which is a lot of fun!
And I have started playing Lego Batman!
I published the Issue 04 Combat Patrol Magazine Battle Report
We got a new epsiode of Edge of Empire out, using a totally new workflow
I bought with Christmas money vouchers, both of the Malcadors I needed for my Solar Auxilia list
Got the Sci-Fi Shooters Humble Bundle which bagged me
And of course it was Humble Choice, which got me
I also added
An update of where I am at now for this years resolutions!
This month I painted the missing unit of Bloodletters to get the Chaos Daemons Combat Patrol finished.
So we now have 3 of the 6 Combat Patrols I wanted to get done this year done.
I added a Loonboss on a Giant Cave Squig this month, plus two units of Stabbas and two units of Loonsmasha Fanatics to give me 1710 points worth.
Obviously this may all change with the new edition, so lets see what that brings!
No progress, but I have started on a Haemonculus today
This month I completed both Yakuza 0 and Spider-Man: Miles Morales!
So this is where we stand now
Alternative Three
Also Completed
This month I have read/listened to
Due to family issues, one wasn’t published this month, but I plan to upload two in April, starting with T’au vs Adepta Sororitas and followed by Dark Angels vs Daemons of Chaos
Space Marines | Imperium | Chaos | Xenos |
Ultramarines | Adeptus Mechanicus | Death Guard | Durkhari |
Blood Ravens x 2 | Adepta Sororitas | Chaos Daemons | T’au |
Dark Angels | Necrons |
Ok I will be honest, the death of our dear Douggie hit me hard and sent me down a huge depression spiral and the past twelve days have been a haze, and everything in my life has been kind of neglected.
But I want to finish this, so how about a big lot of 12 wonderful songs!
We are starting with the amazing Marian Call, that typewrite musician from Alaska and The Avocado Song, a song that’s just great with a nice bit of aggression!
We love SΔMMUS, the amazing rapper with a PHD in Science and Technology, and this video is just mint.
Great song that I think you will all love!
First time for this rap group that have been making music about video games since 2007, and this song is about the classic game Shadow of Mordor from their album Legend.
CG5 has been making songs about video games and pop culture for about a decade now, and this is my favourite song of his, about a charcter Nintendo seem to be content to ignore Waluigi, who really needs his Taco Stand!
The perfect girl loves Firefly, nuff said!
Good old MC Lars, teaming up here with the amazing Mega Ran to give us this great spooky Halloween track.
We all know I love The Aquabats, they are a crazy bunch, and this one is as crazy as it gets with a giant Crash making it rain tasty burgers!
God of War is a great game, that I really need to finish, and Gunblade X agrees, and wrote a song about the series!
I am a big fan of Mega Man and a big fan of The Megas, and this is from their concept album based on Mega Man 2, Get Equipped!
Tryhardninja is another one of those amazing artists that sings songs about video games, and this one is about Five Nights At Freddys.
Not my favourite franchise, but my nephew Max is a big fan and asked me to include this!
Nerd music has a long history of parodying the popular songs, and this is a good example of that.
Taking a so called popular song, and twisting the lyrics to make it more relatable to geeks and also better!
My degree is chemistry and its the best of the sciences, I will die on that hill.
So of course I love this song, it really does speak my language!
And finally here is the last song for 2023, Roll A D6 by Assorted Intricacies a great parody and one of my favourite DnD themed songs, hope you enjoy it too!
Weirdly no socials I can find 🙁
Hopefully next year will be less stressful!
This lovely little ditty by the PDX Broadsides has some nice Doctor Who influences, but never struck me as being about Doctor Who.
But it’s always seemed to be to be a song about, knowing your own worth, but let me know what you think!
The Guild, was a brilliant web series from a few years back written by Felica Day, one of geekdoms favourite actors.
To promote the show, which was about a guild in an MMORPG, they released the occasional song, the very first song in the first advent, in 2019 was their first song, so it’s been a while since they have featured.
Anyway, here is their third and last single
I have been provided with an advance copy of the new Watch Dogs Legion novel Day Zero by Josh Reynolds and James Swallow, published by Aconyte Books, so here is the honest review I promised in exchange for the book.
So here is an important disclaimer which is always important to put out there first. I have a casual work contact with Asmodee to demonstrate board games for them in stores and at conventions. Asmodee being the parent company of Aconyte the publisher.
I am also friend with Josh on Facebook, however I am sure for him that’s more about connecting with fans rather than being one of my best buds, that said he is actually a really nice guy.
I am going to try my best to not let that cloud my judgement in this review, but I accept that subconsciously it might.
Watch Dogs is an action-adventure game franchise, published by Ubisoft, and there have been three games published since 2014, the most recent being Watch Dogs Legion, published in late 2020.
Watch Dogs feature protagonists who are hackers working against criminal underworlds, corrupt companies and rival hackers.
Watch Dogs Legion, takes place in a post Brexit London, in which Britain has rapidly declined, and a hacker collective known as DedSec works to clear their name after being blamed for a series of terrorist bombings.
Their main opponents are the PMC Albion, who they try to liberate London from, Clan Kelly, an east end crime family, and Zero Day, a cyber terrorism group.
Day Zero takes place a over a few days and features several characters who find themselves drawn into a murderous conspiracy, that they must get to the bottom of, or risk London falling into control of a private military contractor who have their own designs on the city.
Our cast of characters is Olly, a new DedSec recruit and bike messenger, Sarah, an ambitious young Labour MP who has an eye on the advancement of her own career, Danny, a former soldier, and now Albion employee, being lead down a dark path, and his sister, Ro, a former MMA fighter and enforcer with Clan Kelly.
A series of assassinations across the city drag our protagonists into a mystery and things are starting to spiral out of control, requiring the killer to be tracked down.
Ok I have yet to play the game, I did buy the Ultimate Edition when it was on sale after reading this novel, but I am aware that this is a prequel, and the game protagonists and antagonists only feature briefly.
But as I said I haven’t played it, so for me, its very much a cool intro to the universe, as I have yet to play the first two games either, but they are on my purchase list!
The book was very enjoyable to read, it took me a little longer than I would have like to read, but I have some personal stuff going on in my life right now which is reducing my reading abilities.
I personally think, this not being a retelling is actually a positive thing, because the plot didn’t feel like a video game plot, sometimes when tie-ins are a retelling, it just doesn’t work.
This book is a perfect meld of the two writers style, James Swallow, writes very tight, very ordered plots, and Josh Reynolds is a master of witty dialogue and unlike many books with two authors, you never really see where ones work begins and the others ends. It feels like the two authors have merged Tuvix style and created a work that takes the best of both of their talent.
My only criticism is that with so many characters, the development of those characters is not the best, and I would like to learn more about them. So I do hope that they return to the setting and what Olly, Ro and Danny in particular do next.
I find myself very excited to play Watch Dogs Legion, and I am very much considering buying the first two games first.
This is a very solid 4 out of 5 Stars.
Day Zero is out now in both ePub, paperback and as an audiobook from all good booksellers!
If buying online, I recommend the below, but if you have a local indie bookstore and like the physical books, go take your custom to them!
Yep our beloved SEAT Alhambra has come to the end of its life, sadly the gearbox has gone and the replacement cost is just far too much.
So we are forced to scrap it altogether.
Now this has thrown a cat amongst the pigeons as we are due to go to my brothers wedding next week, in Cornwall.
So Megan is staying home, and looking after the cats and bunny, whilst me and Lindsay hire a car.
Its a bit annoying but it is what it is.
We don’t know when the new car will be ready but we are told May is the earliest, so we are likely going to have to buy another cheap car for now.
It’s been a slow week, but the weekend was much better.
I painted up a Munitorium Armoured Container I got from Imperium.
And then I finished off a squad of Adeptus Custodes Wardens.
So how does that leave the list looking?
Not a sausage 🙁
I have completed Halo 5: Guardians and am thus ready for Halo Infinites campaign when it arrives!
I also finished Far Cry, and that was a pretty good game, very very tough, but very good.
I am getting a game of Halo Infinite in each night, because the Xbox app gives me nearly 250 Microsoft Reward points each day!
Nowt 🙁
Just an Imperium Battle Report, which you can see below.
No new projects, but Rawr! Velociraptor! sent us a free bonus of live songs by The Doubleclicks!
Cyber Monday deals were good, so I picked up the Far Cry games that I don’t own, Far Cry 4 and Far Cry Primal.
And the Batman Humble Bundle deal looked awesome, I once owned Batman Arkham Asylum in Xbox 360, my brother in law borrowed it, and I never saw it again.
I already have Lego Batman 2 and Lego Batman 3, I have offered them to my nephews, but if they don’t want them, a friend is hunting some codes down for a charity thing.
And a couple of movies got bought too, digital copies of 300, Warewolves Within and Snowpiercer They were all on sale and I fancied having them in the collection to watch.
I also bought a camera bag for my Sony ZV-1 to take to the wedding.
This month has been slow going, a mixture of depression and the heat has really slowed my painting to a crawl.
I am currently at 835 models painted for the year.
This number has actually gone down thanks to points changes in Chapter Approved, so I may be revisiting this to work out a new list.
But sadly no work done on models for the list this month.
But I was able to paint a unit of Lychguard armed with Warscythes.
The new editor of Age of Sigmar means a new Generals Handbook and new points, so here is my revised army list.
Core Battalion: Warlord
+ Leader +
Abhorrant Archregent: Warlord - 1-2 Commanders
Abhorrant Ghoul King on Royal Terrorgheist: Warlord - 1-2 Commanders
Crypt Haunter Courtier: Warlord - 2-4 Sub-Commanders
Crypt Infernal Courtier: Warlord - 2-4 Sub-Commanders
+ Battleline +
Crypt Ghouls: 20 Crypt Ghouls, Reinforced, Warlord - 1-2 Troops
Crypt Ghouls: 20 Crypt Ghouls, Reinforced, Warlord - 1-2 Troops
Crypt Ghouls: 20 Crypt Ghouls, Reinforced
+ Other +
Crypt Flayers: 3 Crypt Flayers
Crypt Flayers: 3 Crypt Flayers
Crypt Horrors: 3 Crypt Horrors
This month I got the first unit of Crypt Flayers painted.
No progress on this resolution this month.
This month I painted the Ur-Ghuls!
So what’s coming up for me next?
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