Eurovision 2023 - The Winner Takes it All
I was late to watch this years Eurovision, hosted by runners up the UK for their awesome entry last year and because Ukraine, last year's actual winners, are still fighting against Russia. That recent...
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Blue Lock (Season 1)
An anime about... death match soccer!?Anime can be just about anything these days, so when it focuses on something mundane (for me at least) like sports I normally opt to skip it. This one is all about...
View ArticleCreative TV Shows
Shows about creating stuff that is!Lego Masters Australia (Season 5): Grandmasters I've posted about Lego Masters Australia before, and for season 5 they've invited teams of past winners and finalists...
View ArticleExtraction 2 and TrepangĀ²
Bullets of fun!Extraction 2Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth), who barely survived the last movie, is asked to go rescue a family from a prison and battle a small army in process. The simple story lets the...
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GTFO: ALT R2B3 - Pathfinder
Been awhile since the last drop so we just went with our "standard scouting loadout" which we've used a fair bit now as it's pretty effective in winning on the first go:Me:...
View ArticleGTFO: ALT R2B4 - Septic
The final B level for ALT rundown 2 really brings in the infection rate with many areas of wall cancers and farty fog so its fitting the mission is to find a SPECIFIC fog turbine and bring it to the...
View ArticleThe Chess Campaign
Regular readers would know that I'm terrible at many things, one of them being chess. I figured I'd keep a log while I try change that so that at least I move from "absolute crap" to "not very good"....
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The Chess Campaign - Ground Zero
[Part of the Chess Campaign]For those wondering why I'm even doing this, my cousin's son Josh is really into chess and is pretty good as is his grandpa Rick. While I know how the pieces move I have...
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The Chess Campaign - Martin (250)
[Part of the Chess Campaign]After that thrashing I decided to play Martin (250), the lowest AI on chess.com (at least the lowest for free to play members) and proceeded to LOSE FOUR MORE TIMES. Sigh....
View ArticleThe Chess Campaign - Coach Mae (800)
[Part of the Chess Campaign]Instead of sleeping all the time I thought I'd occasionally practice on my daily commute but since chess.com relies on an app for phone games and doesn't load on the browser...
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The Chess Campaign - Starting Blitz 1 to 10 (126)
[Part of the Chess Campaign]Chess.com has a few types of game options to pick when finding an opponent, and most have to do with time controls. "Daily" is just, whenever you can make a move I think so...
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The Chess Campaign - Blitz 11 to 20 (118)
[Part of the Chess Campaign]This is rather addictive. so just for the hell of it I've decided to learn one open: the Queen's Gambit, because it's easy to remember, gains a decent central position on...
View ArticleThe Chess Campaign - Blitz 21 to 30 (221)
[Part of the Chess Campaign]Apparently there are weekly player "leagues" on chess.com and I've graduated from the first one, the Wood League, by being one of the top 20 players in my division! That's...
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The Chess Campaign - Blitz 31 to 40 (319)
[Part of the Chess Campaign]Thirty games down and while my number of victories are growing, the number of my wins by checkmate is very low. LOL. Guess I'm officially a clock warrior? Just goes to show...
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John Wick: Chapter 4
The master of revenge returns.After recovering from the previous movie, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is back to bring the pain to more of his assassin acquaintances though this time they are equally...
View ArticleThe Chess Campaign - Starting Rapid 1 to 10 (400)
[Part of the Chess Campaign]Ok, so I'm trying Rapid (10 minutes per side) games for the first time and once again I'm starting with a "gifted" (400) rating as it turns out the ratings aren't shared...
View ArticleThe Chess Campaign - Rapid 11 to 20 (364)
[Part of the Chess Campaign]I think my lesson this time is not to play consecutive games (like these first six are) as it just makes me more and more impatient! Apparently this is called "Tilt"?...
View ArticleThe Chess Campaign - Rapid 21 to 30 (418)
[Part of the Chess Campaign]I'm now in the Bronze league having finished in the top 15 of Stone but to advance again I'll need to be in the top 10 of the week. I was also lucky to get a lesson game...
View ArticleThe Chess Campaign - Rapid 31 to 40 (514)
[Part of the Chess Campaign]After all these games I think I've gotten over the "trauma" of DL beating me when I was younger by eliminating all my pieces and forcing me not to quit. Eliminating all the...
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The Blacklist (TV Series)
When the FBI's most wanted person, Raymond "the concierge of crime" Reddington (played by James Spader), turns himself in to become a super high value criminal informant - a secret task force is...
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