Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Boutique minis, old videos and a dungeon crawler

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• Boutique minis: have you tried them, are you tempted?

Many years ago, I bought a whole load of Discworld pewter minis and painted them up as a birthday gift. Now I don’t have them (they looked superb, even if I say so myself) but, frustratingly, neither does the recipient any more! I also bought a bunch of Masters of the Universe minis off etsy a while back (before the MOTU licence got its recent Kickstarter reboot) and they sit proudly on my “done” shelf.

I *could* be tempted again, if it was a subject particularly dear to me – but these days, if it’s not available in STL form, I tend not to be too interested!

 

• rewatching old BoW videos: have you done it and did you like it?

Yes and yes. I much prefer the “studio setting”. And it was great fun to see the likes of Sam and Cass and Ryan on camera too. It felt like a “proper TV show”.

 

•  Dungeon Saga: Origins. Are we ready for another dungeon crawler?

Maybe. I’ve yet to play a dungeon crawler that didn’t, after about an hour and a half, start to feel like a grind. Get in, grab the loot, get out isn’t much of a “crawler” but I think that’s where I’m at right now. So I guess it depends on how it will play. But this year I’m keen to try out some new games, so why not?

 

@horati0nosebl0wer – nice tunes. I’ve been getting a bit “nostalgic” for music too, myself, recently. So much so that when I heard that Rat (from Ned’s Atomic Dustbin fame) was putting out some new music for the first time in thirty years, I jumped aboard straight away. Even bought me some vinyl!

I’ve decided that my love of 80s metal and 90s style indie rock is because it’s so heavily tied into my memories of the people and things that were going on back then. So now I need to start listening to new music so I’ve got something to hook my “new memories” onto, in years to come. (yes, it can be the same *style* of some of my favourite old tunes, but it’s got to be new!). This year is all about finding new tunes to become the soundtrack of “now”.

I’m also buying albums again. Streaming and playlists are fine. But it’s too easy to skip over “difficult” songs and choose only ones with instant appeal. When you play a full album, it’s often the tunes you don’t immediately like that become like a “slow burner” and become favourites after many, many listenings.

So here’s Obey Robots (from their just-released album that made the dizzying heights of number 14 in the charts, outselling The Arctic Monkeys and Lewis Capaldi no less!)