Toys, in the pursuit of happiness

I bought one of these last weekend. Everyone in England thinks I am stupid. Even geeks have been giving me a hard time. Then I showed them this:

The PS3's 3.2 GHz Cell processor, developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM ("STI"), is an implementation to dynamically assign physical processor cores to do different types of work independently. It has a PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). A seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to aspects of the OS and security, and an eighth is disabled to improve production yields. The PPE, SPEs and other elements ("units") are connected via an Element Interconnect Bus which serves to connect all of the units in a ring-style bus. The PPE has a 512-KiB level 2 cache and one VMX vector unit. Each SPE is a RISC processor with 128-bit SIMD GPRs and superscalar functions. Each SPE contains 256 KiB of non-cached memory (local storage, "LS") that is shared by program code and work data. SPEs may access more data in the main memory using DMA. The floating point performance of the whole system (CPU + GPU) is reported to be 2 TFLOPS.

2 Motherpumping teraFLOPS bitch-headed arse helmets!


The English don't like it when I swear at them.

Gentlemen, I think I'm onto something

Hirst Arts in the US sell molds, so you can cast your own pieces to build dungeons like what Dwarven Forge sell.

The big difference of course is that once you have the molds, you can cast as much as you like. Start when the wife leaves for work, the glue should be dry before she gets home, and hide it in your undie draw. Sure you'll then be wearing 4 pairs of undies to make room but we'll cover that in another blog post.

Credit Card Apocalypse

Click on the post title or HERE to more photos of this masterpiece of relentless expenditure. 5year old agrees - definately rad.

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This one makes me wants to drop several hundred bucks just to make a cool Space Hulk game. The another 200 on new terminator kits to customise.


Diablo killer


Star Wars

Insanity

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The crits just keep on coming

As you can see, the proxy miniatures are Castellan Draco standing in for the Frill-Necked Lizard theif, Yoda representing the Echidna fighter in full effect, and a tiny d6 representing the tiny mouse torch bearer hiding behind a tower shield build to his scale.

The echidna (5) has a tendency to roll 20s, did so, and on this the first game I applied penetration rules borrowed from Hackmaster, rolled a 4 on damage for the crossbow bolt, so rolling again, then doubling the total. Nearly snuffing a bugbear with one shot. His brother manned the ballista, loaded it, and took a shot at the stone supports under the aquaduct - it came down in a shower of lego pieces, and the bugbear died from the fall.

To cut a long story short, just before tea the echidna found the magic flying hammer they set out to find in the first place - he spotted it rushing towards his face out of a dark room. It smashed him on the scone, he announced to his brother that he reckons they've found the hammer, and said golden winged hammer flew away again into the darkness. Roll initiative...

I thought they might be getting bored but they're loving it.

DwarvenForge.com eat your heart out...

...Because I just whipped this puppy up in 30 minutes, for tonight's Avalon game. I've hidden it until then enter that room, and picked up some huge sheets of butcher's paper to map it out for their miniatures as they go.

The last thing you'll see...

... before I snatch your Hackmaster character sheet and set it alight.

The critical damage table will make you vomit a bit into your mouth.

ULTIMANT TOTAL WAR (correct spelling)

Shit your pants and cry, because when Cave Trolls, orcs, monsters and space marines duke it out in continent-sized space hulks floating somewhere in time, you are playing ULTIMANT TOTAL WAR. And when these boobs deal d1billion damage, you need a shovel to roll damage.

This was actually a pretty sedate game of UTW, last week the little bloke got kicked out of the manufactorium and told he couldn't play with the big lad's warhammer figures. So the little land shark said "OK, get stuffed" and pulled out half a dozen boxes of old wargames courtesy of Uncle Skaffen and started the ultimant (sic) apocalyptic shitfest. 5 minutes in and the older boy abandoned his army and asked to be allowed to play UTW instead. Can you blame him?

The Manufactorium

With Warhammer40k comic opened to the dreadnought, by an excited 13 year old. He goes to school, Dad spends his day off slaving away and super-gluing his fingers together. Fuck Games Workshop $12 superglue. Close $1 superglue will fix your fingers together faster than anything else on the market. I'm going to the hobby shop next to try to get plastic glue cheaper than Games Workshop's $12 a tube. Why don't they have a hotline where you need supplies, and they drive over and just boot me hard in the balls? It would be easier on my wallet, and less rude than their prices.

Rad guys

The chaplain was from 8ball for xmas (for my eldest son) and Castellan Draco from Skaffen (as was the dreddy). Draco is on a cool BaseIX base. The front on photo didnt come out, I'll post more next time.

And one more for luck

With the assault cannon

Forgeworld Dreadnought

That's right baby, there's a magnet in the waist, so you can rotate his torso.

HOODY HOO!

Someone made these flash cartoons, based on the Knights of the Dinner Table comics, which is where Hackmaster came from. Look Hackmaster up in wikipedia, then watch these cartoons, and you will be ready my son to sit and my table and HACK!

Steampunk Keyboard

It was on Slashdot and Digg so you guys have probably seen it, but I thought I'd throw it here anyway because its cool. What would be even better if you could buy pre-made crap like this as I can't be arsed putting the time in.

http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml