I tend to make a rule towards LEGO, in that I’m not to buy any unless it’s very, very necessary. You could argue that no LEGO is necessary, but then you don’t own LEGO minifigs of the Ghostbusters, Doc Brown and Marty and the Joker, so shut up. Aside from…
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March 29, 2015 at 5:19 pm | LEGO, Manchild at Play (Toys) | No comment
Tags: detectives, Discworld Noir, LEGO, Philip Marlowe, private investigators, Raymond Chandler
Despite not actively being a die-hard LEGO collector1, I somehow have a growing collections amassing on one of the coffee tables in my flat2. The collection grew a little larger over Christmas, with my other half kindly gifting me a LEGO set that pandered to my fascination with both LEGO…
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March 21, 2015 at 12:00 pm | Batman, LEGO, Manchild at Play (Toys) | No comment
Tags: Batman, Batwing, geekgasm, impractical death machines, LEGO, the Joker
They say that Sir Terry Pratchett is dead, but I find that very hard to believe because, although the body may no longer function, he poured every thought, idea, belief and thesis of his into the hundreds and thousands of words he wrote down. I looked at his bibliography earlier…
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March 14, 2015 at 12:12 pm | Vaguely Topical | No comment
Tags: Discworld, RIP, Sir Terry Pratchett
If you thought my physical space was cluttered, you should take a look at my computer desktop. I tend to save everything to the desktop and then, once every few months, go through everything and either archive it to a hard drive or consign it to the digital recycle bin….
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March 5, 2015 at 11:50 pm | Batman, Real Life | No comment
Tags: Bane, Batman, Catwoman, Doctor Who, Firefox, funny images, geekgasm, Groot, Hitman, Jaws is the best henchman ever, Kevin Smith, memes, oh goody let's talk about real life for a change, Playmobil, the Joker, translator
The one thing about moving house that surprised me is the sheer amount of stuff one accumulates over the years. However, most of this stuff normally has the common decency to secrete itself away in nook and crannies, unseen and unknown until it is required1. Philip K. Dick coined the…
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February 27, 2015 at 5:24 pm | Action Figures, Manchild at Play (Toys), Real Life | No comment
Tags: oh goody let's talk about real life for a change, packaging, they're just toys!
“The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long – and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy.” That’s one of the better quotes from Blade Runner. It’s what Eldon Tyrell tells Roy Batty when he delivers the bad news that, no matter how much they have…
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February 18, 2015 at 9:35 pm | Real Life | No comment
Tags: birds, Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, I'm overly emotional and quite a sensitive person, oh goody let's talk about real life for a change, RIP, Willow
I don’t normally write about my personal life, insofar that I don’t write about specific life events that aren’t tied to video games, films or toys I’ve bought. I am making the exception here. 2015 was going to be a big year for me – I decided that I would…
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February 16, 2015 at 10:32 pm | Real Life | No comment
Tags: birds, moving house, oh goody let's talk about real life for a change
I had high hopes for 2014, but when I started the year by almost killing myself with alcohol it sort of set the mood. Despite that little hiccup at the start of the year, a lot of effort went into the first few chapters of the Two Doctors’ World Tour,…
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January 1, 2015 at 12:00 pm | The Year in Blogs | No comment
Tags: advertisements, Derren Brown, GamerGate, LEGO, podcast, yearly summary
At the beginning of the year I wrote about a Paint-Your-Own Gromit model I did up in the style of Peppa Pig. What I didn’t mention in that post was that I had actually bought two models – one for my relative, and one for me. The reason for this…
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December 23, 2014 at 2:54 pm | Manchild at Play (Toys), Model Kits and Figurines, Villains | No comment
Tags: Dick Dastardly, Dick Dogstardly, Gromit Unleashed, modelling, Professor Fate, Snidely Whiplash, Terry Thomas, Wallace and Gromit
Shadow of the Colossus is the video game representation of the classic fantasy archetype – a hero fights and slays a huge monstrous beast. No guns in this one, then? No, you’re not playing as an assassin or a secret agent, you’re just some have-a-go-hero out to save a damsel….
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December 7, 2014 at 3:53 pm | Game Guides for Non-Gamers, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Argo, Ico, puzzle games, Shadow of the Colossus, Team Ico, Wander
