April, 2021

Drafts to Blog

Hooray! After a bit of tinkering with Drafts actions, I managed to get it set up to directly post my microblog posts feed. I tried to do this a few years ago and gave up in frustration. It just makes quick microposts so much easier.

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Utter Failure!

Utter Failure!

Utter failure in what I thought was going to be a quick solo game of The Midnight Masks! Didn’t even manage to capture a single cultist!

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Popular Opinion

Frightening – and yet unsurprising – report explaining how Facebook is used by politicians to unduly influence public opinion through the creation of incredible numbers of fake comments and likes from a tiny number of users. The report is based around an interview with Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist…

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Howard’s Conan

Still working my way through the Conan stories and it’s (sadly) clear that the better Conan stories so far are indeed the ones by Robert E. Howard. I’ve always been wary of the dismissal of de Camp’s and Carter’s stories as merely pastiche, but it does seem that there’s something…

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Night of the Zealot, Solo

Night of the Zealot, Solo

Dug out Arkham Horror LCG and considering playing it properly over Easter hols. Played the first scenario, The Gathering, from Night of the Zealot true solo. Just one investigtor. It was HARD and took ages. Took damage. But survived!

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Breakdown

My car broke down in the car park at work and I waited 5 hours for the RAC to arrive. In that time I finished a whole Conan book and nearly half of Children of Blood and Bone. Five hours though!

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