So, I quit WAR a few weeks back, just wasn't into it.  A great pity, I loved the game, but I just couldn't seem to click with the community.  Ofc 2 server megres didnt help with that, but more importantly lots of my RL friends didnt stick with the game.

Now several of my friends have signed up for Aion, and have persuaded me too as well.  It's not ( Read more... )

Wednesday at work on the early shift I got discussing chocolate rice crispies with the other TCs.  Such is the randomness of 7AM at work.  Somehow I came up with the idea of making chocolate weeto fingers using Wispa bar chocolate.  During my lunch break I gave it a go.    I bought a multipack of Wispa bars, a box of Weetos and emptied out my IKEA  ( Read more... )

I have many interests.  Two of the biggest, though, are video games and war games.  The MechWarrior series is pretty much the perfect combination of the two, being a videogame based on the BattleTech wargame.

Half flight-sim, half FPS and half RTS/RPG (yeah they were all big complex games) you play a MechWarrior, basically a fighter pilot of the ( Read more... )

I have taken some screens of Demigod and saved them in Wordpad, how can I extricate these pictures from the word document and/or display them in LJ?

For a coupla months now I've been sneaking up to Leicester for AT-43 tournaments/events.  One bright sunny day a few weeks back I got there an hour early  so went for a wander and found a fountain.  Apparently there is also a Cathedral.
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Picked up the rules and a starter fleet at the brummie UK Games Expo.  (Placed a pitiful 8th out of 10 in the AT-43 tournament, clumsily lost to Jon in the first round and it all went downhill form there.  Statistically I'm due to play an entire tournament without meeting him at all soon, although it won't be the next game in Leicester as that's a ( Read more... )

Very eventful af'noon.  First fun that happened to me today was I got into a oRvR warband taking ass and kicking nameds whihc was woefully short on healers - 3 total out of a full WB of 24.  Perhaps no accident that I placed 1st in the roll-off and won a mahoosive l3wt bag:-

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My student loan is finally all paid off.

Completely unrelatedly, this is what I have to walk past to and from work at least twice a day:-


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Last night (or was it night before last? I forget) Destro got into Altdorf.  Whoops!  I'm not used to seeing the capital of the empire full of red names:-

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