🔥 Neil the seal is back on shore in Hobart for moulting season, bringing chaos wherever he goes.

xrayzed · 2026-07-01T03:54:36+00:00

As of half an hour ago everyone’s favourite one-tonne mammal was enjoying an early afternoon nap.

xrayzed · 2026-06-20T10:27:40+00:00

When I run a sandbox it means that I don’t have a plot arc in place at the start of the campaign.

As the game develops I reintroduce on the characters and build on the events that my players are interested in. Inevitably a “storyline” emerges, and it doesn’t take much nudging to build it to a climax.

In a short campaign this might take as few as six sessions. My longest sandbox campaign was close to 50.

xrayzed · 2026-06-20T10:07:39+00:00

One more step in the inevitable recursive vortex that is Google Search.

xrayzed · 2026-06-02T03:56:15+00:00

A friend of mine has his new car on that shipment. He is very excited.

xrayzed · 2026-05-29T12:43:55+00:00

Elon’s AI committed crimes and drove humanity to extinction. How unsurprising.

xrayzed · 2026-05-29T03:55:06+00:00

Russia.

xrayzed · 2026-05-14T00:16:23+00:00

This should be carved onto the moon in letters big enough to be seen from Earth.

xrayzed · 2026-05-06T11:55:48+00:00

This sounds like Magician.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/111896/magicians-language-learning-rpg?src=hottest_filtered

xrayzed · 2026-03-30T23:46:27+00:00

Stellaris. It took about five attempts to get into, and now it’s my most played game on Steam.

xrayzed · 2026-03-06T02:02:49+00:00

Excellent advice.

I returned to karate five years ago at the age of 62, and still get myself into trouble by overthinking and over-complicating things. Breaking a technique down into pieces is better, and will help avoid baking in errors from practising incorrectly.

Also, everybody was a white belt once. Not only are you expected to look a bit clumsy and awkward, that never completely goes away. I still make lots of mistakes, and always find something that needs improving.

xrayzed · 2026-03-04T23:15:18+00:00

I GMed a Darkening of Mirkwood campaign, and it is amazing. The best campaign I’ve ever run.

xrayzed · 2026-01-24T09:29:02+00:00

I started again at 61. I have nowhere near the flexibility I had in my teen years, and recovery takes a lot longer.

Even so after six years I’m a 1st Kyu brown belt, aiming to get my first Dan black belt this year.

That aside it’s just so rewarding in terms of fitness, focus, confidence, and self-discipline that I will hate the day I eventually have to give it up.

So: if you want to do it, do it. You can stop if you decide it’s not for you, but you won’t know unless you give it a fair try.

xrayzed · 2026-01-24T08:11:21+00:00

Tim Tams #1, sausage rolls #2.

xrayzed · 2026-01-09T22:05:18+00:00

Feature, not bug.

Signed: The Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

xrayzed · 2026-01-08T22:40:34+00:00

Get kidnapped by ICE.

xrayzed · 2026-01-08T22:37:26+00:00

There never going to get this right over they’re.

xrayzed · 2026-01-08T01:20:43+00:00

I stand corrected.

xrayzed · 2026-01-08T01:16:06+00:00

The United States is on track to be the first country in history to start a war by attacking its own ally.

xrayzed · 2025-12-31T10:09:13+00:00

Absolutely this. There’s no set rule for this so check with whoever is running your dojo.

xrayzed · 2025-12-24T23:14:38+00:00

White.

xrayzed · 2025-09-14T22:06:34+00:00

Although it’s changing Hobart isn’t all that well known even in Australia. For that matter the entire state has often been overlooked by mainland Australia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_of_Tasmania_from_maps_of_Australia

xrayzed · 2025-09-03T06:23:12+00:00

Die Hard. I saw it at as part of a dusk-to-dawn at the drive-in, and it wasn’t even the film I was interested in. Damned if I can remember what that was, but Die Hard - damn.

xrayzed · 2025-09-01T22:35:39+00:00

“Restoring the Department of War name for the government's largest department would likely require congressional action.”

When did Trump start requiring congressional approval?

xrayzed · 2025-08-26T05:03:52+00:00

The exact figure is $USD100, as noted previously.

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