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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wish there was an option for "I'm in the UK - we don't use SMS/RCS anymore". Every time I open the text app it acts as if it's Signal/WhatsApp and I'm suddenly going to start texting people like it's 2003. I just want the 2FA pass code that was sent, you weirdos.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Got the attachment for shooting down police helicopters?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Stupid Flanders!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

If we're talking on the phone and you start talking about stuff that I'm not interested in hearing, I'm allowed to hang up.

You can disagree all you want, that doesn't mean I'm required to listen to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There are many things I'd spend more on, but gaming is something that I can spend a lot of hours on without necessarily enjoying. As in, the experiences are often weirdly compulsive and before I know it I've tanked eighty hours without really enjoying it all that much.

I collected all the submarine collectibles in GTA V - do I think that was more fun than a party with friends? Absolutely not. Did it take more time? Most definitely.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I'm trying to remember what that phrase about people who aren't bothered about fascism is. Something like "If there are nine nazis sitting at a table and someone is okay with sitting with them then there are ten nazis sitting at the table".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The only full price game I recall ever buying was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (back when £35 was the standard "full price" price point). Now that one was worth it, but no other AAA game that I can think of has justified the cost to me. Once we're talking about that amount of money there's a lot of other things I would get more enjoyment from.

I think I paid about £10 for GTA V. I'd maybe go to £15 or £20 these days, but beyond that I simply have other things I could play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Little Big Adventure 2

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That's fair. It's not actually awful, I just didn't enjoy its mechanics (and it was wildly unstable too).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But Discworld Noir is dreadful!

Also it has Vines being corrupt!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm pushing 40 and I don't remember when I last bought anything from WH Smiths. I used to go in all the time as a teenager but these days they seem to not have a niche. They're a zombie chain.

I don't know what I'd want them to do, but they should have done it fifteen years ago.

 

Individual photos with a better camera here: https://imgur.com/a/gYE7XH5

I painted these mostly with speed paints (and the equivalents from other companies). They came together quite quickly and I had fun with them, which is rather the goal of hobbies, isn't it?

 

The dice makes me think of the bit in The Dark Tower film where there's a theme park that the residents of that world are perplexed by. Why's there a dice? No one knows - it's always been there. It's Dirty Down rust, if you were wondering: https://dirtydown.co.uk/product/water-soluble-paint-rust-25ml-pot/

I bought a static grass applicator and had fun making my own tufts and I'm pretty happy with the outcome. Unlimited tufts!

There's also the boxes - they're not as good as I'd like (the knees get in the way of painting!) but it's a bit of an homage to how GW boxes looked when I first got into the hobby.

I sculpted this lad but for now he's not available (he should be available at the Tenby Games Festival in December, in the unlikely event you're in west Wales! https://www.pembrokeshirewargaming.co.uk/ ) and then eventually he'll be up on Ramshackle Games' shop under my brand (Fox Box).

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I'm not sure if this is controversial or not - but I (mostly) don't like games that are primarily set underground.

There are a few exceptions to this, Dungeon Keeper and The Binding of Isaac spring to mind, but mostly I find it actively discouraging. Perhaps it's a desire to explore under the sky, perhaps it's that it feels claustrophobic, or perhaps it's the gloom.

I don't have a problem with the dark or claustrophobia in the real world, so it's not that. Anything that involves dungeon crawling immediately puts me off. I don't want to go down into the dark! I want to be outside!

I wasn't a fan of the Metro series until Exodus, I bounced off Recettear as soon as the dungeon element was introduced. Anything that wants me to spend an extended period underground with monsters is just a massive turn-off for me. Sewer levels and the like also have this, to a lesser extent.

Anyone else have this specific dislike?

 
 

I didn't mean to time this one for Orktober, but maybe it's just a happy little accident. He's an obscure Forge World mini from 2007 or so. I've recently been watching Masters of the Air and it made me want to dig him out of my backlog. No idea what I might field him as, but he's a fun sculpt.

There's a couple of more photos here: https://imgur.com/a/cmmgacE

There's a press release about the mini here, if you want to know more: https://ifelix.net/forgeworld-newsletter-171

 

This crew of Ork-wannabes are my Diggamob. They currently don't have names, apart from the test model - Zagatha (back left). I mostly don't like the old Digga range, but there's a few exceptions, so I went with those.

I've no idea when I'll get around to fielding them in Gorkamorka, but hopefully at some point. I deliberately opted for no heavy weapons on the vehicles to field more bodies. Diggas have access to archeotek and can get some very fancy bits of kit - but to find them and wield them effectively numbers are required.

These are a combination of GW's original minis from 1998 and Red Nebular's Primal Raider range: https://www.myminifactory.com/users/Red%20Nebular

I mainly painted them using contrast/speed paints, but I didn't have the requisite paints when I did the test model, so the skin ended up being done the traditional way. I regret it, but it was too late to do anything about. I'm not overly fond of how they turned out, but hey, done is the best feature.

There's a few more pics here: https://imgur.com/a/07Mzj17

Also, just to pre-empt it, no, the faction aren't called "digganobs". They're called "diggas", you memelords.

 
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