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Basic thoughts after I recently re-watched the Craig-era Bond Films
  • I haven’t seen it. I have heard about it, but was well before my time. It was early 90s that my dad showed me all the Bond films and let me read his books.

    If it had been running repeats on tv I’m sure my dad would have had us all watching it though.

  • Basic thoughts after I recently re-watched the Craig-era Bond Films
  • When I saw Casino, I was blown away. I still think that’s it for the franchise, they’ll never top that movie. I’ve seen most of the newer ones since Casino, and to me I’m right.

    And to me, Casino works standalone. That ending is the perfect implication of what happens next.

    My favourites before Casino were From Russia With Love, Live and Let Die, and The Spy Who Loved Me.

    I did really like Roger Moore, I thought his light hearted adventure style Bond movies were a lot of fun (not always good 😐)

  • Kevin Kelly suing AEW over his termination
  • I really liked him in RoH. 2010-2013, Kevin Steen era RoH, was some of my favourite times in wrestling, and the 2012 Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino commentary team was the cream of the crop. For me, spot on the perfect wrestling commentary.

    I never heard his NJPW commentary, but when he joined AEW I thought this is great - let’s get ready for some good stuff. And it was so bad.

    I was just like “Who replaced Kevin Kelly with this impostor robot”

  • Doll house Christmas present (bit late posting!)

    I’m not active enough of an internet guy to remember to actually post stuff - so we’re going back 6 months…

    I surprised my daughter (and the entire family) on Christmas morning when they found this waiting in the living room. I hadn’t told my partner I’d been working on anything, kept it quiet.

    It’s all just pine, dressed all round. Had to go buy a cheap and nasty jigsaw to cut the doors and opening between floors since my coping saw broke whilst trying to work this (handle snapped clean off, thanks Stanley)

    The roof- cut at an angle, turned one piece over and glued it. Then stood like a statue holding it for half an hour pressing it against the ground until it dried enough. Couldn’t think of any other way to hold it tight at that angle -_-

    The floors and balcony are all slotted into through dados. Cut, chiseled and then cleaned up a bit with trim router. And I hate so much working pine with chisels! (I’ve since got a bigger router bit that would have made this much easier)

    Finished with water based Jarrah stain, with water based acrylic paint on the roof and “bathroom”. Some of that finish is really sloppy, I was still out there late on Christmas Eve trying to get the last few coats on.

    A leftover sheet of mdf (think about 5mm) just painted and nailed in as the back wall.

    There’s a little set of stairs on the ground floor finished with dark carnauba wax. There’s also a little rope ladder going up to the top floor - was from our pet bird who had left us recently.

    A whole mish mash of different ideas here, but I just wanted to make something fun and interesting for my daughter.

    For what I wanted to do for her first big Christmas (just turned 3), this turned out better than I thought I could do.

    !

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    [Discussion] Do you still use your Steam Deck much?
  • My partner bought me one last month, so it’s still new but I don’t think I’ve stopped playing it. I can’t make time to sit at my pc unless I’m working, all my time is spent with the kids or in my workshop. So I can finally play games again.

  • Have experience with ShadowRun for Genesis, chum?
  • Yes, it’s great, one of my favourites on the Sega. Far more fun than the SNES adventure game.

    I start as a decker. I think he might move a little faster to begin with which helps keep ahead of the gangs in the starting area. When they come, you can zig zag away from them to stay ahead, just keep doing that having them chase you around town in circles, taking pot shots when it’s safe. Some of the gangers drop medkits when they die, I sell these to more quickly get a better gun/armour.

    There’s no value to killing civilians, you might even lose karma, just don’t do it.

    With the shadowruns, just keep walking into Mr Johnson’s booth, if it’s a ghoul run, cancel the conversation and walk back in again. Most of the runs offered should be simple escort missions or courier jobs.

    Once you get some karma and boost some stats a bit, and buy a better gun, you’ll have more survivability. Then you can take on some ghoul runs, which are the easiest way to make quick cash early on - get your negotiation up a few points and only take the run if it pays okay. Don’t bother taking a run that pays 15nuyen per ghoul for example, that’s a waste of your time.

    Don’t upgrade your pistol/shotgun/SMG skills. Only upgrade firearms. The sub categories of firearms will go up to whatever your firearm skill is when you do upgrade it. (ie If you put a point in pistol, then you will continue to raise that skill as usual. But if you get firearm up to level 10 and then upgrade pistol, or smg, or shotgun, it will go straight to level 10 as well)

    You can pretty easily get the Ares Predator after not too many simple runs. You’ll get familiar with so the places doing these runs, but:

    Shiawase nuke plant = South

    Halloweeners = South East

    Chop shop = East

    Abandoned building = north East

    Prison = west

    Coffin motel = centre

    Weapons shop = centre/east

    The two pubs are north west

    Boris greenhouse = north/north east

    One more place south west, can’t remember what they call it

  • New bed for my daughter

    Finally completed a bed for my 3 year old daughter. This was my first project in 20 years, so it’s taken me about 9 months of relearning techniques, practicing, finding the right tools, and just finding time really.

    Originally was just M&T and half lap joins, but when setting up I decided it was a little too wiggly so I put 38mm and 17mm angle brackets to reinforce it.

    Mostly construction lumber from local hardware shop. A few pieces “feature pieces”, Blackbutt and Macrocarpa. Finished with walrus furniture oil. The slats were cut down from someone selling off pieces of their bed on marketplace. (?)

    ! ! ! ! !

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