It’s funny. I’ve been listening to their last album a lot lately and finally feel that I know it properly and now they decide to release a new one. Just in time…or maybe they are spying on me.
Alex is worried that people will think that M is a TV junkie when they see this picture. To set the record straight: on average M watches about half an hour of TV once a week; some weeks she watches none at all. Mostly this is because Alex and I don’t watch TV very much either.
I am a giant nerd and to celebrate I have spent the last week on my new summer project which was making terrain for wargaming.
I took ordinary styrofoam
and made a couple of walls
some standing stones
and some hills
Here is the roacky garden up close
Lastly here is Vilmon defending the forest?
The lights were too close to this set up and it didn’T work out the way I wanted it to.
I really made it for my Trollbloods, but seeing as how they aren’t painted, Vilmon got the nod for the photo shoot.
Go nerds!
Here she is, the Great Mthulhu; feared and worshiped by her slaves. She attempted to tear a page out of my Cthulhu Mythos compendium, but luckily I knew the elder sign and was able to distract her and snatch the book to safety.
I am not normally one of those bloggers that posts other people’s content, however I have taken a momentary break from my current summer project (while the glue and paint dries) and decided to share with people what is currently distracting me. Ahh bless the internet’s little cotton socks.
For the star wars nerd in us all.
For the politically incorrect or the vengeful; you can’t have both.
M has a nemesis, which is amazing for a 10 month old.
Enter Captain Bumbo Head
M hates it when Captain Bumbo Head shows up, so she uses her crying beams to repel him.
I was on the train the other day with M and a couple (with a baby) struck up a conversation with me; this happens quite a lot when the slaves of two different babies meet. After a few minutes they asked me where I was from. This is code for, “you look German and your German is passable, but you aren’t from around here.” Before I could answer, the guy said, “America?”
I could have answered yes (although American is one of the last English speaking nationalities I would choose) and then I thought, well I really am Australian and why would I pretend otherwise.
I was thinking about it for a while later on and wondering if I am still Australian (in the spiritual sense) and what the hell that means anyway. I was reading the ‘paper’ this morning and this article
reminded me of what it means to be Australian.
Give ‘em hell Jimmy!
Reading forums about D&D, it seems to have become a tactical combat simulator. Now these are only the opinions of people on the internet, who we all know are middle aged, overweight guys living in their parent’s basements. However, a bunch of my friends were discussing it in an email conversation. I trust the opinions of my friends and what they said was the nail in the coffin of D&D for me. I didn’t ask them if I could post their thoughts, so I will change their names.
Bill said: Once I learned to say “It’s only a rule, it doesn’t have to make sense” everything got a lot better.
In reply to Bill, Ben said: Absolutely, they’ve pushed the balance far in the direction of playability over plausibility. Which IMHO is a good thing, since DnD really should be the easiest RPG for casual players.
Hmmm, if at all possible it seems that 4th edition has gone even further toward being a table top war game than it had already become with 3rd edition. When the main concern is balance between characters, then that smacks of competition rather than cooperation. When I sit down at an RPG session, I want to explore the character I have created and experience and build the narrative that the GM has presented. I already play a couple of wargames, so I don’t need to waste my time playing a wargame disguising itself as an RPG.