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Been a while..
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..hasn't it?
Not much to report really. I'm mostly a mess of stress and bad sleep these days, mainly due to work being frenetic and I'm having driving lessons once a week. I know I shouldn't worry too much but it still gets to me somehow. Work was great, it still kinda is, a bit I guess. Right before my vacation I was issued an official warning based on hearsay from "others" along with a pile of complaints from my coworkers. Long story short it is all a pile of BS meant to scare me into doing even better work. Add to that our fave co-worker moving on to a better working place and a growing irritation at some things, so yeah.. Can't wait for vacation though, just four more weeks to go!
I've had some Rogue Trader games under the belt by now, nothing too serious or severe thankfully. An interesting experience, though seeing as my brother is a complete and utter Munchkin I won't be GM-ing any time again. The worst part: He is completely oblivious to his awful behaviour. I cut the last session really short after I was told to NOT roll behind the screen, that I wasn't allowed to fudge (a basic GM perk) and well, fuck it, I'm sick of it really. You set up a game, have a bunch of assholes tear it apart and leave you with a mess while they boast about their kill count and what they are going to spend their XP on. Long live the MMO generation alright. Live and learn eh?
I have been painting almost every day now for the last week or so, which is something to write home about. While my skills haven't increased one iota I do enjoy what I'm doing, even going so far as ordering a few minis here and there just so I can paint them up. Funny enough I've mostly been painting minis that were meant for the RT scenarios as NPC's and PC models, but instead I'm just painting them up because I feel like it. So yeah, expect a shuttle pilot, Imperial Navy captain, Seneschal and a zombie survivor soonish.
While I'm unable to write, I think mostly thanks to how awful work these days is, I do find the inspiration to work on something for Halloween this year, once again involving zombies but set in a more common 20th century setting. It's all scraps and ideas now, but once done I'm hoping for a scenario driven game with skills, weapon choices and a quick to play set of rules that allows for people to pick it up and play it in less than five minutes.
Anything else?
- Alan Wake was too boring for me, I quit after I lost my wife.
- Red Dead Redemption is fun, despite the downer ending.
- StarCraft 2 is like the first one, only with more units, shiny graphics and a third of the campaign present. A good ride though.
- Nemesis was okay, if a bit too standard for my tastes.
- Got the Final Frontier along with a schnazzy t-shirt, awesome.
Not much to report really. I'm mostly a mess of stress and bad sleep these days, mainly due to work being frenetic and I'm having driving lessons once a week. I know I shouldn't worry too much but it still gets to me somehow. Work was great, it still kinda is, a bit I guess. Right before my vacation I was issued an official warning based on hearsay from "others" along with a pile of complaints from my coworkers. Long story short it is all a pile of BS meant to scare me into doing even better work. Add to that our fave co-worker moving on to a better working place and a growing irritation at some things, so yeah.. Can't wait for vacation though, just four more weeks to go!
I've had some Rogue Trader games under the belt by now, nothing too serious or severe thankfully. An interesting experience, though seeing as my brother is a complete and utter Munchkin I won't be GM-ing any time again. The worst part: He is completely oblivious to his awful behaviour. I cut the last session really short after I was told to NOT roll behind the screen, that I wasn't allowed to fudge (a basic GM perk) and well, fuck it, I'm sick of it really. You set up a game, have a bunch of assholes tear it apart and leave you with a mess while they boast about their kill count and what they are going to spend their XP on. Long live the MMO generation alright. Live and learn eh?
I have been painting almost every day now for the last week or so, which is something to write home about. While my skills haven't increased one iota I do enjoy what I'm doing, even going so far as ordering a few minis here and there just so I can paint them up. Funny enough I've mostly been painting minis that were meant for the RT scenarios as NPC's and PC models, but instead I'm just painting them up because I feel like it. So yeah, expect a shuttle pilot, Imperial Navy captain, Seneschal and a zombie survivor soonish.
While I'm unable to write, I think mostly thanks to how awful work these days is, I do find the inspiration to work on something for Halloween this year, once again involving zombies but set in a more common 20th century setting. It's all scraps and ideas now, but once done I'm hoping for a scenario driven game with skills, weapon choices and a quick to play set of rules that allows for people to pick it up and play it in less than five minutes.
Anything else?
- Alan Wake was too boring for me, I quit after I lost my wife.
- Red Dead Redemption is fun, despite the downer ending.
- StarCraft 2 is like the first one, only with more units, shiny graphics and a third of the campaign present. A good ride though.
- Nemesis was okay, if a bit too standard for my tastes.
- Got the Final Frontier along with a schnazzy t-shirt, awesome.
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Devious Journal Entry
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Turned 26 last Saturday, big whoop really, though I did get Scene It! 2 along with a box of Killa Kans. Scene It! is an excellent game for when you and your family don't want to get along any more. I am not a trivial pursuit monster, but I just happen to know a lot of pointless things about movies. Still a fun game, with some movies I actually know or care about for a change. As for the Kans, I can see why GW would want them pulled from the shelves: their plastic technology has advanced in such a way that pointy bits can easily kebab fingers. Haven't they learned nothing from the Skull Pass Gobbos? Kans are a fun set, bit low on spare bits, but all in all fun stuff and good value for the price asked.
Hobby-wise I've picked up on my Elysians again in a big way:
- All my birds are as of now primed in delicious Middlestone, so I can get started on the engines and other details.
- After a lot of cussing, fiddling and sighing I finally managed to get the Punisher cannons under the hybrid Vulture. The ammo feeds were most problematic indeed but as of right now, everything is in place thankfully. All I need to do now is touch up on the weapon supports, throw on some decals and weather her. I'll also need to prime the cockpit section, I wasn't happy with the previous one so I built a new cockpit with crew out of spares.
- I've also been working on the resin Vulture, priming the lascannons and looking for a suitable secondary weapon set. Either rocket pods or HK missile racks. I am also looking for a second Sentinel HK missile, seeing as FW, bless their bones, sent me five missiles instead of six. Well I'm not going to call them over that, so I'll just improvise.
- I've also been looking at what I want to do with my medical Valkyrie and after some research I've ordered up an Elysian command squad that I will be converting into a squad and medical crew occupying the rear compartment. Planned conversions include a medic, a door gunner and a soldier preparing to rappel down.
Other army ideas I'm toying with:
- Build a small pararescue squad
- Get a few dogs, give them body armour and use them as rescue / attack dogs
I'm also diving back into Rogue Trader, hopefully I get to crank out some fluffy background for one or two characters along with some minis.
In short:
- Started playing Saints Row 2 again with my brother, only he's impatient and has played through it by himself for the most part by now. He's also a regular speedfreak, rushing through missions in top speed. Reminds me of when we played MMO's.
- Space Marine, that "timeless" classic from the Black Library is quite the ordeal. I mean Cor Blimey, it's bad. And not bad in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. I'm guessing this book was aimed at the 13-yr old category, with the fart jokes and rollerblading humans with shuriken catapults. Not to mention the absurd brain eating thing. I've got the feeling I'm one of the few who doesn't get the novel I guess.
bleh.
Hobby-wise I've picked up on my Elysians again in a big way:
- All my birds are as of now primed in delicious Middlestone, so I can get started on the engines and other details.
- After a lot of cussing, fiddling and sighing I finally managed to get the Punisher cannons under the hybrid Vulture. The ammo feeds were most problematic indeed but as of right now, everything is in place thankfully. All I need to do now is touch up on the weapon supports, throw on some decals and weather her. I'll also need to prime the cockpit section, I wasn't happy with the previous one so I built a new cockpit with crew out of spares.
- I've also been working on the resin Vulture, priming the lascannons and looking for a suitable secondary weapon set. Either rocket pods or HK missile racks. I am also looking for a second Sentinel HK missile, seeing as FW, bless their bones, sent me five missiles instead of six. Well I'm not going to call them over that, so I'll just improvise.
- I've also been looking at what I want to do with my medical Valkyrie and after some research I've ordered up an Elysian command squad that I will be converting into a squad and medical crew occupying the rear compartment. Planned conversions include a medic, a door gunner and a soldier preparing to rappel down.
Other army ideas I'm toying with:
- Build a small pararescue squad
- Get a few dogs, give them body armour and use them as rescue / attack dogs
I'm also diving back into Rogue Trader, hopefully I get to crank out some fluffy background for one or two characters along with some minis.
In short:
- Started playing Saints Row 2 again with my brother, only he's impatient and has played through it by himself for the most part by now. He's also a regular speedfreak, rushing through missions in top speed. Reminds me of when we played MMO's.
- Space Marine, that "timeless" classic from the Black Library is quite the ordeal. I mean Cor Blimey, it's bad. And not bad in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. I'm guessing this book was aimed at the 13-yr old category, with the fart jokes and rollerblading humans with shuriken catapults. Not to mention the absurd brain eating thing. I've got the feeling I'm one of the few who doesn't get the novel I guess.
bleh.
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I like my working place and other things
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Haven't really commented on that all that much. Again, this could be taunting fate, but she's been a fickle bitch before. Not to mention a harsh mistress and other things. Ugh, digressing.
Anyway, I like working at the AKO, which stands for "Amsterdamsche Kiosk Onderneming" or Amsterdam Kiosk Organisation. Granted, they've grown out of that cesspit of an excuse for a city a long time ago, we've got two stores gracing my home town these days. I help man the till at the store located in the station. Biggest pro of working there has got to be the staff, my co-workers. Each and every one of them really nice people. They made me feel right at home and with quite a few of them I can work perfectly, in that sort of Zen thing where you can work without having to constantly state what you're doing or planning to do. They're great to work with and last year we had a dinner with the staff of the other store, which was good fun and really a great way to learn to know them a bit more beyond the world of black work clothes and orange counters. Sure, there are bad things, like nutso customers, them cunts who are in a BIG hurry* and the icky-filthy junkies. But a customer is a customer and they all deserve the same service, even if scorn, mockery or a snidely tone sometimes enters my voice or the voice of one of my co-workers. After all, we're human ourselves and in no way do we all have infinite patience.
* Yes, I hate people who are in a hurry. We all have our little things I guess.
In other news..
- Been working my way through Dragon Age for a month or so now, had to take a break when I was sick for two weeks, but I think I'm somewhere near enough to the end. I got to kill a fuggen dragon, slaughtered enough bandits to be considered an equalizer and my character romanced the woobie of the party. FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER THEY PRAY TO: either do sex right or leave it out damn it. Nothing is more awkward than watching to characters in their underwear bump and grind against one another while stupid Enya music is playing. I mean, Mass Effect was cheesy, but that showed some bum at the very least. Also, the whole "this game is so HARDCORE that even when you kill a rat you are painted in blood" is a bit over the top, if not stupid. But it's an interactive novel, with some very annoying battles. But I've gotten to the point that my rogue could go through the Proving with little aid and a fuckton of healing items for the squad battle. At least the rare finishing moves are fun here and there. I'd like more of those, make the combat more rewarding damn it!
- This Saturday the Frenzy is finally happening. Me and my brother are going, for the books and with a little luck, a pair of Elysian Tauros ATV's. I mean, fuck. Fucking shit. Fucking shitty hell. Those things do look good. A squadron of those would be a great addition to my D-99 detachment. Bookwise I'm hoping to pick up a early release of a Thousand Sons. Wish me luck with that though.
- Finally, I had the chance to read "Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon" by Something Awful writer Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons. An odd book, but it was a fun read to say at the very least.
Anyway, I like working at the AKO, which stands for "Amsterdamsche Kiosk Onderneming" or Amsterdam Kiosk Organisation. Granted, they've grown out of that cesspit of an excuse for a city a long time ago, we've got two stores gracing my home town these days. I help man the till at the store located in the station. Biggest pro of working there has got to be the staff, my co-workers. Each and every one of them really nice people. They made me feel right at home and with quite a few of them I can work perfectly, in that sort of Zen thing where you can work without having to constantly state what you're doing or planning to do. They're great to work with and last year we had a dinner with the staff of the other store, which was good fun and really a great way to learn to know them a bit more beyond the world of black work clothes and orange counters. Sure, there are bad things, like nutso customers, them cunts who are in a BIG hurry* and the icky-filthy junkies. But a customer is a customer and they all deserve the same service, even if scorn, mockery or a snidely tone sometimes enters my voice or the voice of one of my co-workers. After all, we're human ourselves and in no way do we all have infinite patience.
* Yes, I hate people who are in a hurry. We all have our little things I guess.
In other news..
- Been working my way through Dragon Age for a month or so now, had to take a break when I was sick for two weeks, but I think I'm somewhere near enough to the end. I got to kill a fuggen dragon, slaughtered enough bandits to be considered an equalizer and my character romanced the woobie of the party. FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER THEY PRAY TO: either do sex right or leave it out damn it. Nothing is more awkward than watching to characters in their underwear bump and grind against one another while stupid Enya music is playing. I mean, Mass Effect was cheesy, but that showed some bum at the very least. Also, the whole "this game is so HARDCORE that even when you kill a rat you are painted in blood" is a bit over the top, if not stupid. But it's an interactive novel, with some very annoying battles. But I've gotten to the point that my rogue could go through the Proving with little aid and a fuckton of healing items for the squad battle. At least the rare finishing moves are fun here and there. I'd like more of those, make the combat more rewarding damn it!
- This Saturday the Frenzy is finally happening. Me and my brother are going, for the books and with a little luck, a pair of Elysian Tauros ATV's. I mean, fuck. Fucking shit. Fucking shitty hell. Those things do look good. A squadron of those would be a great addition to my D-99 detachment. Bookwise I'm hoping to pick up a early release of a Thousand Sons. Wish me luck with that though.
- Finally, I had the chance to read "Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon" by Something Awful writer Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons. An odd book, but it was a fun read to say at the very least.
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Merry Christmas to all,
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wherever you may be.
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Ugh
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What the title says really. Last weeks of the year are always the toughest when you work in retail. Unless you somehow manage to get time off, in which case: hurrah, go you for doing it right and die in a fire. Anyway, got a week of working all evenings and the 25th ahead of me. Thankfully I'll have the weekend off after that, plus some extra down time around New Year. Not really looking forward to it obviously, but seeing as I'm the bitch of the store. At least I'll be home in time for the Christmas dinner, which is most important to me.
Not the presents. Haven't got those yet. My big order from Maelstrom hasn't come through and other parties have also been strangely/obviously/sadly absent as of yet. But Christmas isn't about getting, it's about giving. I am lying here, but lemme try and sell myself that for a moment.
Speaking of presents, right now on the desk are two Chrimbo projects that are almost done: a Flames of War Panther A that I'm building a diorama for as a gift to my dad and a crappy painted Ghazghull Urug Thraka, which I plan on repainting as for my brother. Still got four days to go, I should be able to pull this off. Hopefully.
Eh, things ain't all that bad. Work in the store ain't half bad, once I man the till I get into a mode of sorts where everything is automated, from the words coming from my mouth to giving exact change for certain items. I can even force myself to smile and be polite at the people. Except for the wankers and whores who refuse to put down their phones. If I believed then I'd say that there would be a special place in hell for those people.
Okay, away Christmas, away.
In other news I may finally have found the cheats to start working on all those Valkyries and other Elysian goodies again. Flames of War is doing their own spray and as luck would have it, one of those colours is Middlestone. Imagine my surprise when I tried a can yesterday and discovered that it is the same as the stuff in the tiny Vallejo pot. Yes! Yes! Yes! This saves me a crapton of time with a tankbrush and those tiny paint pots. Sadly the weather isn't exactly cooperating this time round. FUCK YOU SNOW.
Anyway, I've made it an official New Year resolution to finish that Elysian detachment with all support elements. Other resolutions include getting either a better job or enrolling in education again and setting up and running a Dark Heresy or Rogue Trader campaign of somewhat small to medium size. Let's just say that the first segment of the Return of the Jedi has inspired me a great deal.
There's more, always more, but blah.
Not the presents. Haven't got those yet. My big order from Maelstrom hasn't come through and other parties have also been strangely/obviously/sadly absent as of yet. But Christmas isn't about getting, it's about giving. I am lying here, but lemme try and sell myself that for a moment.
Speaking of presents, right now on the desk are two Chrimbo projects that are almost done: a Flames of War Panther A that I'm building a diorama for as a gift to my dad and a crappy painted Ghazghull Urug Thraka, which I plan on repainting as for my brother. Still got four days to go, I should be able to pull this off. Hopefully.
Eh, things ain't all that bad. Work in the store ain't half bad, once I man the till I get into a mode of sorts where everything is automated, from the words coming from my mouth to giving exact change for certain items. I can even force myself to smile and be polite at the people. Except for the wankers and whores who refuse to put down their phones. If I believed then I'd say that there would be a special place in hell for those people.
Okay, away Christmas, away.
In other news I may finally have found the cheats to start working on all those Valkyries and other Elysian goodies again. Flames of War is doing their own spray and as luck would have it, one of those colours is Middlestone. Imagine my surprise when I tried a can yesterday and discovered that it is the same as the stuff in the tiny Vallejo pot. Yes! Yes! Yes! This saves me a crapton of time with a tankbrush and those tiny paint pots. Sadly the weather isn't exactly cooperating this time round. FUCK YOU SNOW.
Anyway, I've made it an official New Year resolution to finish that Elysian detachment with all support elements. Other resolutions include getting either a better job or enrolling in education again and setting up and running a Dark Heresy or Rogue Trader campaign of somewhat small to medium size. Let's just say that the first segment of the Return of the Jedi has inspired me a great deal.
There's more, always more, but blah.
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