Avast ye land lubber! I rather doubt any sea-fairer – piratical or otherwise – shouted such nonsense, but it suits for the intro. Below are some 20-odd characters for pirate stories and adventurers. I wrote these some twenty-odd years ago for a text-based open world fantasy single/multiplayer game, based on 2nd edition D&D. Basically, it […]
COVID: Songbird Four years into quarantine the virus has changed and so have we… Described as a ‘terrifying thriller’, in the Songbird movie SAR2-Cov has mutated into COVID-23 virus and the world is now in its fourth year of lockdown. In this new dystopia infected Americans are dragged from their homes and forced into quarantine
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Web design, just how you like it, Sir! Sir, or ma’am, of course. First the good news: I am considering offering to do websites again for a reasonable, possibly even near-cost price. Huzzah! See our daughter site, Ackadia.co.uk Now the bad news: I’m not a big fan of the curious idea that ‘the customer is
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Host change: to WP Engine Latest server update to improve the site responsiveness for viewers. Someone once said I was the most laid back person they’d ever met. Someone else said I was bat shit crazy. Both were probably right, depending on the circumstance. Some things that perhaps should upset, annoy or phase me, don’t.
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Mechanicus guide: intro If you are looking for a recommendation, it’s got over 4,000 positive feedbacks on Steam (92%); I, too, can give it a big thumbs up if you like the genre. A lot of the Warhammer games spewed out over the past decade or so are either garbage and or tainted by endless
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Guide to Warhammer 40K Mechanicus glyphs Glyphs: the good, the bad, and the ugly { Mechanicus glyphs screen } More accurately, they can be considered as desirable (Blackstone, CP, and gear), helpful (health or initiative), bad (take damage, lose CP, lose initiative) and really bad (awakening hastened). Note that some randomness is involved in some,
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* Takes a big hammers * Short version: I am revising every single page and post on the site, checking and redoing: Every image Every external link Every instance of corrupted html (e.g. £ or a single quote rendered as a string of foreign characters) Looking for typo’s etc, occasionally improving the prose Looking for
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I read about giant earthworms decades ago, so nothing new to me, and this/these particular images have been floating around for several years, usually decried as a fake, Photoshop’ed, obviously. The image below caught my attention all the same, appearing on Facebook pegged as We don’t need Dune in 2020 So, ‘obviously’, it’s fake, right!
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