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A selfie of four people sitting in a vintage train carriage, all smiling at the camera.

Current status: getting our train on at the ZigZag railway with @[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected]!

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Posted on 6 June 2026, 11:34

I really hope one of the expansions for Forza Horizon 6 is a rally one like FH5 had, that was so much fun. The rally-spec cars are such a blast to drive because they accelerate like an absolute motherfucker but don't go to absolutely ludicrous speed like supercars do so you don't end up sitting there going "OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT". 😅

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Posted on 30 May 2026, 21:43

A photo of my desk setup with a big monitor in the middle, my laptop sitting on the desk in front of and underneath the big monitor, and two white Yamaha speakers on stands on either side of the big monitor. On the big screen is Logic Pro's main screen with the Superior Drummer 3's mixer window open, and on the laptop screen are three Channel EQ windows where I'm tweaking how the mix fits together, along with the Mastering Assistant window.

Current status: putting the finishing mixing touches on my song and using my fancy speaker setup for its intended purpose!

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Posted on 30 May 2026, 17:07

A photo taken at night looking towards the end of the train platform. The roofed area ends right in front of where I'm standing so the rest of the station is covered in water and you can see the rain busily bucketing down next to the lights. Overall is just looks miserable (and basically is).

I've been in the office for the second day in a row this week, and am in again tomorrow, because we're having a team event and have flown people in from our other offices, but my god you could not have asked for worse weather. I was originally planning on being in all five days, but Thursday's forecast is for 55-70mm of rain with a chance of thunderstorm that's possibly severe "with heavy rain that may lead to flash flooding", and like fuck I'm dealing with the trains probably melting down during that.

I stayed a bit late because we had an in-office dinner and @[email protected] was also out for dinner with a friend, and we ended up catching trains only 15 minutes apart so I'm waiting at the train station so we can walk back to the car together.

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Posted on 26 May 2026, 20:41

A screenshot of the Subaru Vivio, it's a very small red hatchback that's been lowered and big rims put on. The design of it very much brings to mind the Mazda 121 of the 90s. It's parked in a very narrow alley in Tokyo at night, with a bunch of lit-up shop signs stretching away down the alley, and it's been raising so there are water drops on the car and reflections in the puddles on the road in front of the car.

Forza Horizon 6 is out, and as per tradition I've taken a teensy little car and turned it into an absolute pocket rocket. 😁 This is a 1994 Subaru Vivio RX-R that now weighs all of 757kg but has a 4-cylinder 2.0L naturally-aspirated engine in it and it puts out 169kW! It's AWD so you basically point it in a direction and it'll fly there. I could have gone really nuts and added a turbo and done more engine upgrades but I wanted to keep it in Class B.

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Posted on 25 May 2026, 21:55

A photo of (most of) the terrain from the Kill Team: Tomb World box, it's a bunch of walls that all connect together with corner pieces. The designs on the walls have a geometric alien-robotic look, and in many places it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath regular walls that have been damaged or rotted away. It's not Egyptian exactly, but the pillars on the corners of where all the walls connect to each other have that inverted-obelisk design to them. One section has a bunch of Necron warriors (think the un-fleshed machines from the Terminator movies) dormant in their recharging alcoves. The painting I've done is the brown stone that's covering the Necron walls so it looks like the stone is crumbling away and revealing the alien Necron technology underneath.

It's taken a while, but I've now got all of the base stonework done for my Tomb World terrain. 🫠 (The pieces off to the left are the fully-finished test ones I had done previously.)

The stone was definitely the largest job, theoretically it should be faster going now because there's much less left to paint in terms of surface area... various dark green bits like the archways built into some of the walls and a few other pieces, some glow effects, then it's just highlighting those various colours (including the base white of the Necron walls) to make them pop.

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Posted on 14 May 2026, 12:59

A photo of me, a white man with a red beard, short brown hair, and a very receding hairline, smiling at the camera. I'm holding a bright red guitar electric guitar, and behind me is my home office desk in its standing position with my laptop and external monitors with Logic Pro and various plugins on screen, and two white speakers on either side of the main monitor.

You'll have to speak up, I'm not only playing a guitar, I'm coming up with some sick riffs.

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Posted on 8 May 2026, 21:45

A photo of a group of people sitting around a pair of long tables in a pub, all smiling at the camera.

A selfie of three people all smiling at the camera, with various pub tables in the background lit up by multicoloured lighting. We have s0, a white woman with curly brown hair pulled back in a pony tail. Liam, a white man with glasses, short hair and a short greying beard. And then me, also a white man with short hair though significantly more receded than Liam, and a red beard.

Another fedimeet success! 🎉 Great as always to see @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected], and many thanks to @[email protected] for organising!

We even had a appearance from @[email protected] though he had to leave before the first photo was taken so I grabbed a quick selfie as he went past on the way out while @[email protected] and I were waiting at the bar. 😛

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Posted on 30 April 2026, 22:20

A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There's four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus two groups of hostile miniatures: a swarm of bats, and Radukar the Wolf who is a vampire and has two big wolf pelts including the heads draped over his shoulders

Our Warhammer Quest adventure continued with @[email protected] tonight, and it was an abject failure, and my brave dwarven warrior Dagnai is now permanently dead and can't be played anymore. 😭

We chose to do a Deliverance journey which in hindsight was a bad idea, but we wanted to try to reduce the fear level. From our previous roll at the end of the last game, Radukar the big bad was going to show up as the second hostile group, and right from the very outset he fucked us up. We've seen him a couple of times before but have managed to kill him before he could do too much damage, but the rolling in this game was absolutely atrocious. Dagnai was attacking some corpse rats and hits on a 3+, and out of four rolls he missed with three of them. @[email protected]'s character was taken out of action twice, and we were unable to stay sufficiently ahead of the gravetide and multiple times where we took two damage from it. We then had two of the huge Kosargi Nightguard show up, and at that point we gave up, there was no possible way we could survive. We rolled on the table at the end of the game as if everyone had been taken out of action, it's on a D12 and on a roll of one anyone out of action permanently dies, and I managed to roll a one for Dagnai. 😭😭

It means I'll need to start from Level 0 with his replacement, Brutogg Corpse-Eater though he'll level up faster assuming we're actually successful in the next mission. 😬 We should probably do a Scavenge journey next instead even though it'll increase fear, so we can get some more gear.

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Posted on 27 April 2026, 19:07

A photo of five adults and one child sitting (okay one of the adults is standing) around a dining table that has a bunch of paints and miniatures on it, all looking intently at what they're painting.

We went over to a friend's place today for a painting afternoon! My goal was to just put a dent in doing the base stone colour of my Tomb World terrain, I had half of one wall left and fifteen of the L-shaped wall connectors. I got the wall finished and two of the connectors, and did half of all the others (as in, one half of the L-shape: because they're a bit tricky to hold by only doing them half at a time it makes it easier to not put your fingers in wet paint). @[email protected] also painted her first miniature, a Tau Stealth Suit!

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Posted on 25 April 2026, 20:05