Reply To: Hobby Weekender 15/03/2019 – The 2000's

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This weekend’s pledge?
Well, I have to confess… not only do I have a laser cutter (which gets quite a bit of use these days) but I’ve had a 3d printer for about two years. And have printed a little calibration cube and a tiny polygon-dragon, and that’s about it.
So this weekend’s pledge is to get the thing working again and print something “terrain-y” on it. Anything.
Waiting on some fresh filament and the nozzle’s been soaking in acetone for an hour or so already to unblock it….

1. Memorable films from the 2000s? The Lord of the Rings trilogy was good, wasn’t it? And the early Harry Potters were pretty impressive for their special effects (though not really for the child acting!). Does the Matrix count? I know it was first released in 1999, but I didn’t get to see it ’til it came out on DVD! That (the first movie) was a great film! The Batman reboots were pretty good – but also ushered in the start of the current mind-numbing “super hero” crossover film franchises.
Books? I’m going to admit that I quite enjoyed the Da Vinci Code. I don’t care about the cheesy dialogue and the stilted prose; when I first read it, I enjoyed it.

 

2. This was a pretty busy time for me, and I didn’t really play much tabletop. I don’t have a video console and, as I used to write games for handhelds, I’ve never really spent any time playing video games (too much like reading the Matrix for me). As far as gaming goes, a bit of a lost decade for me. I did notice that zombie games were particularly popular during this time (hey, I was busy, not asleep).

 

3. The 2000s were a great time for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes:

 

The world’s best (and most troubled) rock band, the Wildhearts continued to split up and reform, but still put out some excellent stuff during the 2000s. Their covers EP was just as good as any original material:

 

The Reel Big Fish went from initial to commercial success but then lost it all before going “indie” and producing their own records. Their sound (and some might argue chord arrangements) didn’t change. Personally, I like that it didn’t. Their cover of New York, New York is a modern classic:

 

While artists like Imelda May took rockabilly mainstream, there were loads of cool bands chugging out fast-punk 2/2 marching time tunes. The Creepshow with Zombies Ate Her Brain mixed a popular style with a popular topic of the day:

 

I still return to the Bad Luck Bandits for a quick burst of tongue-in-cheek misery:

 

4. Probably something industrial – that could double-up as a zombie/post-apocalyptic terrain, or a sci-fi battleground.
I really like the look of how Wildlands plays: