Marian Call is a wonderful artist from Alaska, who has featured a couple of times before.
Anyway, this is a lovely little song about spaceships and typewriters
How about a song that always gives me a tear at the end?
This song by Hank Green always makes me realise that I don’t think there is ever enough time in life to spend with those we love.
The Great Luke Ski, or just Luke Ski, has been around on the filk scene for a very long time, this is a wonderful parody song about the Disney takeover of Marvel.
I think a lot of us were, at the time very worried, and I would like to think that for the most part the concerns have mostly been proven to be unsubstantiated.
Anyway, enjoy!
We have been here for a few months, and I must admit, it’s not actually that bad.
People said the neighbourhood was rough, but in all honesty, other than bonfire night, it’s been alright, but hey, I am from the west end of Newcastle so, rough is a relative term.
The sea air, as weird as it sounds, has helped, I need my inhaler a lot less and my lungs feel a lot less heavy, and there is something about waking up to a sea fret, that’s almost magical.
There are some issues here, our kitchen is so so small it’s difficult to cook in, and the wi-fi on the router is so bad we are going to invest in a mesh system.
Whilst I miss aspects of the old house, what I do like is having my own space, but I am struggling to keep it tidy.
I think in the long run the move is positive, but I do need to make sure the doctors are issuing my repeat prescriptions when needed as this far they are doing awful at that.
What I Am Modelling
I started with a trio of Kataphron Breachers for my Adeptus Mechanicus
Started off with a Praetor in Terminator Armour for my Ultramarines.
And followed up with a Techpriest Enginseer to join my Death Korps of Krieg.
After that I concentrated on the officers for the Imperial Fists and painted up a couple of Praetors first, the Legion Specific in Artificer Armour, and the Praetor Tribune.
And a Praetor in Cataprachtii Armour and Chaplin.
Then it was the Vindicare Assassin from my Warhammer + Subscription.
And then I finished a final pair of Kataphron Breachers
After which I completed an Imperial Fists Legion Champion and Master of Signals.
So what’s coming up next week?
- Imperial Fists Tactical Squad x 10
- Orruk Gutrippas x 12
- T’au Crisis Team x 3
- Imperial Fists Contemptor Dreadnought
- Ultramarines Intercessors x 5
- Silver Tower Heroes
- Blood Angels Repulsor
- Imperial Fists Templar Brethren x 10
- Hobgrot Slitaz x 20
- Leagues of Votann Kâhl & Einhyr Champion
What I Am Reading
I finished up Zachareth by Robbie MacNivan, and you can read a review of that here.
And I started Sanguinius: The Great Angel by Chris Wraight
Continuing my listening to the Doctor Who Monthly Series, I listened to The Spectre of Lanyon Moor and Winter for the Adept.
What Tabletop Games I Am Playing
Wasn’t sure where to put this but my Board Game Geek Secret Santa arrived, and it’s the incredible Arkham Horror!
What Video Games I Am Playing
Darktide hit GamePass, so I got that installed on my PC.
I also decided to play my first game on the PlayStation 5, specifically God of War, which is proving rather fun so far.
What I Am Backing
The Car Wars CARnage project
I completed my Backerkit survey for the TT Combat Paints and Washes project and picked my two paints, went for Supernova Chrome and PHR Bone.
What I Am Winning
A while back I won a competition run by Durham Prints Store for anything in their Etsy shop.
So I opted for this personalised slate signed with “Kill, Maim, Burn” on it, the warcry of the World Eaters, cause I thought it would be funny!
It’s taken a few weeks but it’s finally arrived and I am super happy with it!
What I Am Spending
I need to get back to streaming properly again, and I decided to spend my sponsorship money on a new toy, an Elgato Stream Deck Pedal, which is gonna sit on my floor and be useful for things like muting the microphone, which I think the fellas on Edge of Empire will appreciate!
- Mood:- Annoyed
- Caffeinated Beverages Consumed:- 0
- In My Ears:- Twiddles – Misbehavin’ Maidens
- Tabletop Game Last Played:- Just One
- Video Game Last Played:- God of War (2018)
- Book Last Read:- Sanguinius: The Great Angel
- Movie Last Watched:- From Bedrooms to Billions
- TV Show Last Watched:- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Current State of Projects:- Imperial Fists Tactical Squad at the highlighting stage
We all love the Misbehavin’ Maidens and their NSFW sea shanties, and this is a great one that flips the idea of a girl in every port on its head!
Its a great song, but I strongly recommended not listening to this round the bairns!
I have been provided with an advance copy of the new Descent: Journeys in the Dark book Zachareth by Robbie MacNiven, 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.
Secondly I am a friend of Robbie’s on Facebook, and whilst we aren’t best buds, we do interact with each other on occasion and I consider him a class person.
I am going to try my best to not let these things cloud my judgement in this review, but I accept that subconsciously it might.
What’s is Descent: Journeys in the Dark
Simply put Descent: Journeys in the Dark is good old fashioned dungeon crawler whose linage goes all the way back to Heroquest.
Based very much on the Doom board game published by Fantasy Flight Games, you can see influences from across the gaming hobby, with bits from Space Hulk and Lord of the Rings being identifiable.
It’s set in the world of Terrinoth, a setting shared with Runewars, Runeage and a few other games and RPGs published by Fantasty Flight Games.
It’s a high fantasy universe and you will recognise many of the tropes and races seen in other similar fantasy style settings. It’s not particularly unique, but it is fairly well developed and interesting.
Descent is the dungeon crawler game in that universe, with one player being the evil overlord of the dungeon and the others taking in the tiles of the hero’s.
For a dungeon crawler, let’s be honest it’s one of the best out there, and the only reason it’s not in my collection is that Lindsay and Megan aren’t as enthusiastic about high fantasy as I am!
The Story
This is the story of the genesis of one of the settings villains, and in this book, you see him grow from an angry child living in Castle Talon seeing his father live under the influence of a sorceress, as he grows into a teenager, who chooses to study rune magic in an attempt to gather the power he needs to defend his barony from the undead, and finally into a young man who seizes his inheritance and leads a charge against the forces of an ancient necromancer.
Conclusion
Look this book bills itself as the origin story of the game’s most notorious villains, but as someone who has never played the game, I have little background knowledge of the character, but this doesn’t feel like he is a villain, he seems more heroic, if angsty.
This book, ends up with him seeming to be a flawed hero, who has made questionable choices, but not an outright villain.
It would be nice to see a sequel, because the book leaves me wondering when he actually turns to evil.
The story is really well written, one of Robbie’s best works thus far, and at no point, does the story get dull, there is always something interesting happening.
I have to give this story a solid 4 out of 5 stars.
But come on Robbie, when’s the second part!
Zachareth is out now as an eBook, paperback and audiobook
Once again, if you know me, you know how big a Trekkie I am, my earliest memory of TV is, usurpingly Star Trek: The Original Series on the small black and white TV my parents had before we moved to London.
So no surprise that I like a lot of Star Trek themed songs, and this one from Warp 11 is very cool, you should give their stuff a listen, it’s really great, and entirely about Star Trek!
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
Let’s have a happy song today, and this was specifically written to be happy, and it’s by one of my favourite ukulele artists (I do like the ukulele a lot), Molly Lewis.
She wrote this after reading Mr Ts autobiography and the video I found of her performance has her explain this, and it’s a really fun and happy song!
Aurelio Voltaire is a musician who is kinda hard to classify, his music is folk, but also goth, cabaret and lots more.
I enjoy his music, a lot, especially his Trek stuff, but I think this is the typoe of song that Paul, my meta, will enjoy a hell of a lot!