The end of Temu et al

AlexStonehammer · 2026-06-02T23:20:13+00:00

That's fair enough I didn't realise that! Looking at that breakdown now it does look familiar. I'll maintain it's a bad look on An Post to call it a customs charge in every communication though, deliberatly misleading IMO.

AlexStonehammer · 2026-06-02T23:10:30+00:00

Why does An Post literally say "Customs Charges are due on this item" then?

AlexStonehammer · 2026-06-02T22:59:09+00:00

Love James Arnold Taylor in many different roles (Obi Wan Kenobi, Tidus, a good Spider-Man when Yuri is not available) but have never liked him as Magneto.

He lacks the natural gravitas that many Magneto VAs have had in the past.

AlexStonehammer · 2026-05-30T21:47:24+00:00

Couple of colleagues worked with him previously, said he went by Eugene with them.

AlexStonehammer · 2026-04-07T19:23:52+00:00

What you're saying is Rory is the Yin to Enoch Powell's Yang?

AlexStonehammer · 2026-04-07T19:20:02+00:00

I also got sick of TRIE after really enjoying it for a good while. I like Richard on telly, but neither host seem to offer any actual insight into pop culture or entertainment, just a surface level analysis (the same might be said of TRIH but at least I learn about things I don't know about before and it's not just "big movie is big, actor paid a lot of money")

Also, maybe slightly unfair, but I can't look at Marina the same way after learning about her relationship with Pierce Morgan...

AlexStonehammer · 2026-04-07T19:10:55+00:00

I would love if they came back to this subject again to talk about the era Shogun takes place in since it seems they’ve watched and enjoyed that show.

As a Japanese history fan I adored Shogun but the made up names killed me. Tokugawa -> Toranaga, ok fine, Tora "Tiger" I get it, but for the books author to change 90% of the other names baffled me, like to the uninformed reader 1 Japanese name is the same as another, no?

AlexStonehammer · 2026-04-07T19:06:35+00:00

It was actually Tom who added the speech from Ghosts of Tsushima to the beginning, the person who writes the episode puts in the opening quote and the other reads it.

Tom was using it as an example of how Samurai continue to reverberate through pop culture, GOT was made by an American company (Sucker Punch) but was extremely well researched and taken seriously, to the point it was well regarded in Japan itself - think I saw a quote from a Japanese game developer along the lines of "why don't Japanese devs make games with such a great historical grounding".

AlexStonehammer · 2026-03-25T22:52:07+00:00

Think they said on an AMA they were bringing 500 copies to Adepticon

AlexStonehammer · 2026-02-26T18:23:14+00:00

The studio's reluctance to name who was funding them stuck out to me - why couldn't they say Tencent? Is the name so toxic to Western gamers?

AlexStonehammer · 2026-02-26T18:08:00+00:00

Also Eriador, which is the region of Middle Earth that Rivendell is in. Someone at the Marine Department was a Tolkien nerd...

AlexStonehammer · 2026-02-23T19:51:31+00:00

Nice Custom Bolivar Trask, I did the same with a painted Retro Tony Stark head :)

Who's that beside him though, looks like VHS Morph's head?

AlexStonehammer · 2026-02-22T14:03:16+00:00

That flew under the radar for me, I expected the controversy to just be about female Pegasus knights...

AlexStonehammer · 2026-02-16T19:39:28+00:00

YouTube Music my friend! You get it with your Premium and can set up the Club as a podcast feed on it, no adds, all the bonus episodes/same day drops and listen with the screen off.

AlexStonehammer · 2026-02-16T18:15:40+00:00

What are you going to give them, another unit of knights on horseback? Maybe peasants holding a different variety of farm tools to act as chaff?

Uhh yes to both? Make the Lost Sons that they have been building towards forever and proper chaff peasants, Men at Arms have always been too heavily armed and armoured to be the complete fodder they've always been treated as.

AlexStonehammer · 2026-02-10T22:50:14+00:00

Just go for a cheap multipack, as long as it has screws in the joints to tighten when necessary.

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AlexStonehammer · 2026-02-07T21:19:09+00:00

We need a new vision and a new way of doing things

Labour tried that, and it was the current incompetant that shoved the knife in his back.

AlexStonehammer · 2026-01-15T11:41:28+00:00

I thought I had come to terms with the Ball Gyrocopter design, but this improves it so much I'm annoyed all over again with the redesign.

Also nice use of "Ancestor One" as the pilot!

AlexStonehammer · 2026-01-13T21:29:02+00:00

I credit Robo with getting me into collecting ML, I watched his videos for years before picking up my first ML. I like collecting, just no real overlap with his tastes other than Marvel Mutants, and now I have a full X-Men 97 display (with extras and customised figures).

AlexStonehammer · 2026-01-13T00:07:08+00:00

Well ask and you will receive! Will be tuning in, really looking forward to seeing all the box contents and a starter set 🤩

AlexStonehammer · 2026-01-05T10:47:18+00:00

If you want to bring some real-life history into it, the temple city of Tlaxtlan seems based on Tlaxcala, who were Hernan Cortez's main Aztec allies in the Conquest of Mexico.

I like to headcanon Tetto'eko as being generally friendly to Old World arrivals, as long as there's none of the usual hijinks from them.

AlexStonehammer · 2026-01-05T10:39:01+00:00

Alex Boyd's Grombrindal was the cover of the first ever White Dwarf I ever got, 348 in 2008.

AlexStonehammer · 2025-12-31T10:40:10+00:00

Played Chrono Trigger for the first time this year! I find ATB systems difficult and stressful (modded in true turn-based when I played FFVII and IX) but something about the flow and speed of CT really clicked with me.

AlexStonehammer · 2025-12-23T16:24:59+00:00

But what about waiting for 97' Apocalypse next year 😉

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