[unofficial weekender] Hello 2025

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Lovely metal minis! Just received my latest BeQuest Star Rogues KS with evil space dwarves.

 

https://pixelfed.social/p/SunDancer/784342523894226744

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Back to work today after my week off that was effectively sick leave.

It’s was like I hadn’t been gone… unfortunately that’s because the lazy gits they put on the duty made very little effort and some places hadn’t had mail for a full week.

Needless to say… we can’t catch up in one day… so more crap tomorrow.

Trying to book a few days off to do some hobby to make up for the hobby I could not do last week because I was ill.

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I got some new toys on Friday – all but one of the available Star Trek Away Missions sets, with the missing Scotty box incoming from the evil bay. (Boo, but I wanted the whole set).

Also took a major leap into tech in my music hobby by trading in my guitar pedal board for a super high digital modeller. It’s bonkers what it can do. I had reached the point of near insanity with the pedal collection, and the modeller will be endless in variety. And ironically will save me money.

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[insert inane rambling about how analog is better than digital] 😉

I’m sure the gearheads out there who can afford the space, maintenance and cost of having the actual hardware will argue that these ‘modern’ modellers can’t compete with the actual hardware. I think they’re just insanely jealous that even a total noob like me can get some pretty neat sound-effects for cheap.  Why spend thousands of dollars when you can get a cheap-ass digital replica that sounds good enough for a beginner ?

It’s also funny to think that it all started because someone had a defective amplifier and thought it sounded ‘good’.  This was when valves were a thing. Idiots wanting to get back to that era really don’t understand why those things sucked unless you wanted to heat the room as well … 😉

Which reminds me that I really should try to get Rocksmith up and running. It was fun to pretend to play an actual guitar instead of pressing buttons like Rockband/Guitarhero (although it was really really hard compared to the rythm games).

If only Activision and Rockband hadn’t tried to milk the genre dry in such a short time. I think the last iteration of Guitarhero is now unplayable as the ‘live’ content has been taken offline. Such is the life of these ‘on-line’ service oriented games.

Maybe that’s kind of why I’ve been refocusing on tabletop gaming. Those things will work even if the internet is down and out.

/rant

 

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I had a MESA/Boogie tube amp, with 6V6 tubes; and wanted the EL34 (Marshall) sound. Then I wanted to add a 67 Fender Vibrolux to the set … and a Neural DSP Quad Cortex will do all that. Literally, it FEELS like air being moved. As it should. I have a friend who’s a touring musician, and during both recording and tours, he uses this modeller. It’s not a cheap tinny fizzy one! In fact, it’s about the same price as my Boogie was … also, it weighs about 33lbs less 🤣

 

Anyway! I’m back to hobby today, for the morning anyway.

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“Nearal DSP Quad Cortex” … sounds like something straight out of Cyberpunk 😀

(1600 Euros … *ouch* but then the real gear would have cost ten times more and not fit in a car ;))

I only got a basic guitar because I wanted to play Rocksmith (on my Xbox 360) so I got me a Squier Strat, an entry level amp and a Line6 guitar input for my pc. And as per usual after a while I lost focus after attempting to play the game. I won’t say I play guitar. At best I managed to make some noise in time with the notes displayed on the screen. The automagic backing band that was in the second version of Rocksmith was a stupendous amount of fun. I’m sure the experts managed to break that system without even trying, but as a n00b it sounded fantastic. I can’t imagine what a new version of this game would be like … but I suspect it didn’t sell enough to warrant a sequel.

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So I sent the required photos to get an estimate on my new central heating system … turns out Google didn’t like the attachment and had turned it into a google-drive link, which they couldn’t handle. I had to manually resize the images to be more web-friendly.

Anyways … back to tabletop things.

Scibor have announced their next project already with the current one getting the pledge manager ready. He’s a real talented b*stard, so I probably will back that one as well. I would say I don’t have a game that fits them, but then I remembered I’ve got the Fantasy rules for Baron’s war and Dragon Rampant as well. So I could make something work if I wanted to 😀

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scibor/bad-guys-vol-2

Big chunky minis, so more like 32 Heroic Plus ™, but loads of character for everything.

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