| shut up mike, we don't care about... |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|01:32 pm] |
"shut up mike, we don't care about your stupid space elf viking ninja pirates."
This is the new version of this list. warp beasts and webway portal are gone, sniper squad is slightly reduced. with the points I saved, I replaced that all with another raider squad.
Archon x1: Punisher, Tormentor Helm, Shadowfield, Jetbike, Combat Drugs, 160
Dracon and Incubi x6 Dracon w/ Agoniser, Incubi x5, Plasma Grenades, Raider, Horrorfex, Night Shield, Archangel of Pain, 272
Raider Squad x7 Blaster, Splinter Cannon, Sybarite, Agoniser, Raider, Horrorfex, Night Shield, 172
Raider Squad x7 Blaster, Splinter Cannon, Sybarite, Agoniser, Raider, Horrorfex, Night Shield, 172
Sniper Squad x12 Dark Lance x2, Blaster x2, Sybarite, Agoniser, Haywire Grenades, 156
Mandrakes x8
Wyches x10 Succubus, Agoniser, Blaster x2, Wych Weapons, Raider, Horrorfex, Night Shield, Plasma Grenades, Goblet of Spite, 278
Reaver Jetbikes x4 Shredder x1, Succubus, Agoniser, Haywire Grenades, 155
Reaver Jetbikes x3 Blaster x2, 95
Ravager x1 Dark Lance x1, Disintegrator x2, Night Shield, 135
Ravager x1 Dark Lance x1, Disintegrator x2, Night Shield, 135 |
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| metal progress |
[Jan. 26th, 2009|09:14 am] |
Dark Eldar metals are coming along.
top left, we have sybarites. they're like aspiring champions or veteran sergeants or what have you.
bottom left, we have grotesques. they're a footslogging team that ignores a lot of ranged weaponry, I believe they're elites. I'm going to convert some of the cadians I took to fulfill this slot. Their job is basically to provide cover to teams advancing behind them.
front and middle, haemonculous. this one in particular is 'urien rakarth'. He's an HQ slot. I should really have 2 to 5 more of these dudes.
behind urien is the army of wyches, elites that are good in close combat. There are 5 WHF dark elf witches that need a bit of conversion to join the squad, as I may field 2 squads of wyches.
behind them is the one raider, my AV10 transport. this one is the h.m.s. paper airplane. It is not yet glued, but that's more or less what it will look like.
to the right of the one raider is the bikes, which look better in person.
below the bikes are the army of incubi, which are basically hq retinue. the most awesome one will probably be used as an archon or dracon, one of my HQ choices.
my goal is to papercraft some crud transports together and figure out what I'm doing for the rest of the haemonculous slots that I should be filling for 'counts as' until I finish some more ebay ordering, but my pockets are tight till the next paycheck. If I'm going to do this army right, I probably need at least 3 more raiders, just for the troops I have now. ugh.
What's really left for these guys is the 20 troops, my shredder and dark lance heavy weapon troops, the hellion on the batman wing / counts as HQ / archon / something else, glue the transports, and then we're ready to paint.
To speed up a lot of the metal gluing, I'm trying some thing new methods: I do a little bit of green stuff at the join between the 2 metal parts, with glue behind and glue on top. It speeds up metal gluing by about a thousand percent, for serious, but I have no idea how resilient of a join it is. the dark eldar are supposed to be fast and fragile anyway. |
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| i have bikey friends |
[Nov. 30th, 2007|01:47 pm] |
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and casey would approve that this bike is used with a safety helmet.
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| NC-17 |
[Nov. 15th, 2007|02:32 pm] |
Doesn't look like they go up to X or XXX.
Before my last entry, "Crap" was enough to net me a PG-13. I tried a bunch of dirty words, and the mere mention of Shit and Fuck are enough to propel me into NC-17 territory. None of the "dirty" stuff even registered. Fascinating. |
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| Warhammer 40k. |
[Nov. 15th, 2007|02:24 pm] |
Ruined New York City reconstructed for miniatures gaming. Both awesome and terrible at the same time. You don't believe me?
Be sure to scroll down all the way for all of the pictures. There's just some crazy shit going on there. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 12th, 2007|12:58 pm] |
heh, we went the opposite direction as head-sploder. Casey and I have had guitar hero for a week (surprise late birthday present for the win), and our TV broke, it won't pick up anything from channel 3, meaning that the DVD/VCR we use to stuff Dish satellite and XBox and Playstation 2 signals into it is rendered useless.
So we decided to keep our ancient backup tv for a while, a little 8" salmon-colored cube with knobs on the front and no remote. It's a color TV though, and it got me through who knows how many years of playstation.
it's totally retro! we should probably be playing guitar hero 80s on that little thing. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 9th, 2007|11:45 am] |
from past life diagnosis.
Your past life diagnosis:
I don't know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern North New Zealand around the year 375. Your profession was that of a artist, magician or fortune teller.
Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
As a natural talent in psychology, you knew how to use your opportunities. Cold-blooded and calm in any situation.
The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
Your task is to learn, to love and to trust the universe. You are bound to think, study, reflect, and to develop inner wisdom.
Do you remember now?
Very scientific this one. It essentially uses cryptographic salts to create a pseudo-random outcome. It's not random, as you'll get the same results with your birthdate every time.
North NZ puts me right around Auckland. Seriously. I wonder if Smith and I were penpals back in the day or something. |
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| metallica |
[Sep. 21st, 2007|06:04 pm] |
the fark joke is 'metallica before pro tools', but I think it's more like what metallica would sound like if everyone in the band was as untalented as lars ulrich. it also reminds me of being in what essentially amounted to a metallica cover band in high school. before I joined, our name was 'distorted youth'. after I joined, we changed our name to 'feedback'.
metallica shreds |
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| o rlyeh? |
[Sep. 20th, 2007|02:19 pm] |
saw this and laughed.
also notable,
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| fucking sweden |
[Sep. 18th, 2007|12:35 pm] |
When I talk about music, do I talk about things besides swedish pop? No. I really don't. The Caesars put out the best album I've heard in a few years, and my situation is that I'm crushed by my own fandom of the swedish pop hooks. Those fucks just keep proving me right. Through boingboing and pitchfork media is this awesome video of a shaker (?) preachfest by soderburg with vicious pop hooks throughout by familjen. Other folks might recall the glory of me finding a single by ray wonder for which I quested for about 5 or 6 years. Anyway, the dark times are behind us. Here's the video:
If you're like me and cursed to like swedish pop, an mp3 is available on this page. Jim, have I fallen a few points again? Yeah, I probably have. I seriously need to check out sweden's math rock and post punk scenes. I think it will be my only way out of this. I'm getting sick of sugary pop, but they keep pulling me back in. |
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| Conan The Barbarian |
[Sep. 13th, 2007|02:13 pm] |
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Conan apparently entered the UK public domain on the 1st of this year. Expect a Conan resurgence. |
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| litterbugs |
[Sep. 12th, 2007|04:21 pm] |
I got really mad at some kid that littered on my lawn on Monday. The cat and I were both chillin on the patio, and this guy in a Nascar #3 (Dale Earnhardt Sr.) hat drove up, tossed a can into the sidewalk of my lawn. I noticed this happen, stood up, and intimated my feelings about it to him.
"FUCK YOU DUDE; PICK THAT SHIT UP."
Number 1 Dale Earnhardt fan got out of his car. "They're just going to bury it anyway...."
I didn't expect it, but it was a logically sound argument. He was essentially presenting that according to his Jeremy Bentham-style utilitarian moral calculus, his action was right because it pleased him, and it could be judged right or wrong by no other measure. Since there were only two people present, there was no 'most people' or 'least people' involved, as the cat opted instead to depart the porch. He essentially presented his act as morally neutral, neither good nor bad.
It was clever; he had already circumvented the major tragic flaw of Benthamite utilitarianism. I'll admit that I was fascinated by his response. I raced through my options. He was obviously expecting some kind of Kantian "theory of universality" discourse, in which I espoused that if an act was obviously wrong if it produced ill effect were it to be practiced by everyone. But then, he could be pretending to be a Benthamite when he was more the J.S. Mill variant of utilitarian. It has of course been said by many that the Bentham version of utilitarianism lacks fairness (one might say that it embraces the tyranny of the majority), and both Imannuel Kant and J.S. Mill would have been reasonable responses.
However, I long ago learned in one of my college courses -- "the Philosophy of War and Peace" -- that it is often important to break the mirror. It was imperative that my response deviated from the mundane; both the elevated Utilitarianism of Mill and the Categorical Imperatives of Kant would bring canned responses that any canny speaker such as this would have obviously prepared for in advance.
But whither justice? I instead opted to shift gears (there's a modality joke in there somewhere). I had made some strong declarations, and justifying them could be difficult. I instead opted to engage my skills as a Devil's Advocate, in which I argue for something that I don't necessarily believe.
I chose my next words very quickly, though carefully: "I don't care."
Ha! The sharp sword of moral relativism cuts both ways, foul Benthamite! He knew that at that point, it was futile to discuss moral philosophy. In terms of moral relativism, he had brought a knife to a gunfight. He understood full well that moral relativism is essentially subjective and regional at best, which left him in a difficult spot: he was in "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" territory. I was simultaneously explaining one of relativism's essential outcomes (it's central response to a notion of capital-J justice) while acknowledging both the regionality and vicious subjectivity of my philosophical stance.
He was stunned into action, and didn't even bother with a response. Dejected, he picked up the can, brought it back into his car, and drove off.
Don't get me wrong, I think that the personal politics of Mr. Bentham were both good and sound, but Benthamite utilitarianism really lacks any concept of 'capital-J' Justice, and it was justice, or at least redress, that I sought. Without some of the requisite social concepts like fairness in society, it just doesn't work beyond a personal scale. I'd like to think that my temporary descent into relativism will elevate this person's personal moral code into something a bit more modern and forward-thinking. The statement "Give a hoot, don't pollute" functions just as well in an elevated moral discourse like the seemingly more objective utilitarianism of Mill, or the entirely collective and objective categorical imperative of Kant as it does in the individual and uncaring pose of moral relativism. |
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| Bacon |
[Aug. 10th, 2007|10:54 am] |
I found a great post at MetaFilter that details the process of making homemade bacon. Needless to be said, the topic of bacon elevated the discourse of the poster to a new height. There is. Bear witness:
Next step: the rub. As in “herein lies the.” Since I was doing this for the first time, I made three different rubs for the three different slabs. The first was 1/2 cup of brown sugar, and 1/2 cup of Kosher salt. Which is ironic, if you think about it. Go ahead, think about it, you anti-Semite jerk. |
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| random soccer stuff. |
[Jul. 20th, 2007|01:33 pm] |
I'm going to come right out and say it: we should go to a Minnesota Thunder game sometime. They play within biking / long walking distance of my house (on Lexington and I94. They're in the USL, which means they're 2nd tier soccer, but hey, it could be worse and i have an itch to watch it. Here's their schedule.
Also, David Beckham is playing at the Metrodome on October 10. Which is my birthday. Hmmmm. I might go to that.
I wonder why EA's FIFA soccer empire has 3 or 4 leagues worth of British Football but only 1 of US / Canada (MLS) and 1 of Mexican soccer (Primera?). They've announced that they have some leagues coming; I wonder if some support for their home fans are there.
I was thinking about buying a used $15 copy of FIFA 07 until I realized that FIFA 08 would have FC St. Pauli, recently promoted to Bundesliga 2, which means they'll be included. w00tding, I can wait a few months for that. Casey is the one that brought FC St. Pauli to me; she gained love of them while studying abroad in Hamburg, Germany. FC St. Pauli is an anti-fascist anti-sexist anti-racist leftist team, and they've sucked in the lower leagues for a long time and soon I will be able to dutifully recreate that suckage in FIFA 08. |
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| Spectral Bride Situations |
[Jun. 25th, 2007|08:46 am] |
I don't recall asking any of these questions when we moved in, but I probably should have.
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| Golly! |
[Jun. 15th, 2007|04:41 pm] |
It's really been a long time since I did anything here. But, it's been a long time since I saw anything so awesome on the internet. This is basically the definition of dangerfun: Will It Blend? with Tom Dickson. There's a top 5 available.
For your viewing pleasure here, I've selected the iPod.
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| More pictures up |
[Apr. 5th, 2007|11:37 am] |
from Clara and Jim, including this doozy below.
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