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Well, one month ago the three of us (meself, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) big_blue_bear and lame_storge) moved into this new house, and now I feel that we've been here long enough to post a proper judgement.
As those who've visited can attest, it is pretty large. Three floors,, each one with a toilet and two of 'em with a kitchen. All freshly decorated and clean (at time of moving in, anyway), and no overgrown garden. Furniture's in and things are tid
I started writing this a coupla days ago, and then realised that I'm not up for listing all the good points of this house. Too much like hard work, it was. Suffice to say that this place is great, with the only minor negative at the moment being a lack of wardrobe on my part, meaning that I'm literally living out of a suitcase.
This shall be only a temporary problem.
If anyone is wondering where he is, regent_handbag will be sleeping on the sofa-bed here tonight. Again, this merely proves how great this place is, as there is more than enough room and the area does not stink.
Why's he sleeping here? We're watching Return of the King at the moment (and I'm totally on the internets at the moment as this house is fully wirelessed up!) and it'll be too late for him to bramble home once it's over. He's already 'resting his eyes' as it is right now.
So, in conclusion: House Great, and Google lists only a single site that matches 'gollum porn'. Look yourself, it's got a great image.
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Well, I haven't posted anything here yet about the new house yet, and I won't for another couple of days. It's be too easy to get carried away with liking the new, so I'm giving it a month before properly describing the place. By then, it may also be ordered enough to warrant photography.
So, I guess you'll be expecting me to write up more geeky gamer stuff here instead then? Not quite. Since I properly registered at WotC's community pages, I'll probably put those pesky RPG reports and such up there instead. By which, I mean here.
That is all.
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So, I haven't updated for a while, and while there are many appropriate things that could be commented on - moving house to a place that isn't shit being one of them - it's clear that I need to continue with the priorities that I've established thus far.
Hence, an in-character D&D statement.
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You heard me. Real life can lick a dodo.
( Upon the completion of the heroic tier. )
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Quote from the 'Star Wars RPG Rebellion Era Campaign Guide':
"For many players, interacting with Jabba the Hutt is one of the most sought-after experiences in the Star Wars Roleplaying Game."
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So, I bought some more of those pre-painted Star Wars miniatures yesterday, and found a model that (barring its blaster pistol) should make do as a stand-in for regent_handbag's D&D catgirl ninja razorclaw avenger Kawaii (yes, that's her name): ( Behold! )
( Other interesting finds... )
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Mark me down as the latest rube to sign up for WotC's D&D Insider.
Even if it did take me approximately an hour to get the installation software to start, the character generator seems pretty easy to use. It would have been nice if they'd thrown the maths up on the finalised character sheet (or at least gave that as an option) so one can be confident of which feat and item is giving what, and which conditional bonuses haven't been included. Especially considering it refuses to scale up for tiers the reminder-text on the feats,and if that text is too much for the sheet, it just cuts some feats off, leaving their inclusion implied. Other feats it labels as 'miscellaneous' increases to defence values.
Presumably it's not so bad when slowly added to over time; converting Shibboleth across was relatively painless. Who would have thought that a twenty-first level Genasi wizard would have been a complicated character to throw together, though? Yet despite the problems,despite the mild set-back where the program refused to accept a re-training and corrupted my first save file, Kyumulo Nimbus is ready for a day of epic-scale dungeon delving with membersof Team Olli.
It'll be my first real attempt at the epic tier of play, and perhaps I over-complicated things for myself by choosing a character whose cascading weather powers and feats each overlap and interact with each other. But then there's silliness like a base teleport speed of 5 as an at-will movement action that requires no thinking, only giggling.
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The new Transformers movie was decent enough, in its way. The plot was preposterous and Michael Bay's drippy love affair with the US military was distracting, but let's not dwell on negatives.
There's some top quality Soundwave and Starscream, and a great attempt at redeeming the shameful name of Wheelie. Too many robots, not enough screen-time, though (since every spare second was given over to aircraft carriers and control rooms and OHGODTHECROTCHICAN'TFORGETIT). The new 'bots and 'cons edge out the old ones in a manner that the old cartoon would have been proud of.
Lots of explosions and shooting, but a pity that the final fight takes place in a location not too different from one in the previous movie; it would've been cool to see a vastly different terrain being napalmed. It would also have been cool to have some more aerial combat, in place of the masterful strategy adopted by the Deceptions.
I don't hate it. It just could've benefitted from a surgical removal of Michael Bay.
Oh, and there's nothing after the credits. Which themselves still don't feature anything like the following:
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Since there are possibly a few people that still haven't seen this, go look at the Deceived Cinematic Trailer for the forthcoming Star Wars Old Republic MMO. The game won't look as pretty as that, but that video does have some sweet lightsaber fighting, as well as acknowledging the fact that any bounty hunter created for the system will be a Boba Fett rip-off. I don't quite understand why that gunslinging Twi'lek was in the midst of all those Sith and Jedi, though.
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Thinking back to the Clone Wars cartoon (the Samurai jack one, not the CGI one)... Anakin had that padawan braid cut off when he qualified to be a full Jedi, and Obi-Wan lost his between Episode I and Episode II, so it's clearly a Jedi tradition.
So what do all those hairless alien types do instead?
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It'll be taking place this coming Sunday, at Clifton Road Games.
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It may possibly be redundant mentioning this here, as anyone reading this will probably either already know or be incapable of attending even if interested, but this coming weekend (the one that has a Bank Holiday Monday attached to its rear) will be a gaming extravaganza at Clifton Road Games, just like last year.
Friday through Monday, ten 'til late, with all manner of board games, card games and RPGs. I myself will be running some Star Wars RPG (and will have Panty Explosion and Classroom Deathmatch with me just in case), but there will also be wonders of which I have no prior knowledge. The only way to learn of them will be to turn up and discover 'em for yourself.
It'll be fun. I promise.
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With Alex and Stroge returning to Exeter soon, the Dark Heresy campaign can resume this Sunday, in the Freddie Mercury Room.
Of course, it's been a while since the last session, so perhaps the players are in need of a short recap of their investigations to date.
( From the records of Inquisitor Al'Fredard... )
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The forthcoming Ghost Rider storyline:
In order to stop Zadkiel from obtaining ultimate power, the Ghost Riders and their allies will find themselves protecting an unlikely person. “Everything kind of kicks into gear with the revelation that Zadkiel is attempting to murder the Anti-Christ,” Aaron said. “A group of Satanists have been working together for years to breed the perfect Anti-Christ, and there's rooms of babies and children who've all been bred from murderers, maniacs, psychopaths and politicians in order to create the perfect Anti-Christ. So Zadkiel wants to wipe them out. He wants to subvert biblical prophecy. If there's no Anti-Christ, the Book of Revelations is thrown out the window and Zadkiel can write the future himself.
“So Blaze, Caretaker, a ‘Son of Satan’ who pops up along the way, and a few other characters find themselves in the awkward position of having to save the Anti-Christ in order to save the world. And of course all of that's going to lead to a final confrontation with Zadkiel.”
Genius.
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Stupid Resident Evil 5. I'd actually intended to eat proper food for once this weekend.
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