Darren McGuicken

Code numpty. Continuing to fail at writing fiction. Sucker for a photo of a spooky road.

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Website: https://fernseed.org

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2026-01-06 13:08:06 UTC

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For comparison, witness this towering Northern Irish snowman.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/115/848/307/313/511/899/original/63164b36b1acc8f4.jpeg

2026-01-06 12:47:22 UTC

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I’m not sure the snow we get here in Northern Ireland would even count as ‘snow’ in comparison. Lightly-glazed icing, with a shelf-life of maybe a couple of days until the rains get their act together.

2026-01-06 12:35:07 UTC

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I saw someone using an ‘electric shovel’ on TikTok and my mind was blown. (Sadly, the rain is the best snow clearer here).

2026-01-01 20:07:44 UTC

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Any sprues that you’d fancy from a recent Hachette Partworks Combat Patrol issue? I’ve been collecting a mountain of plastic that at my speed I’ll never get through in a decade.

2024-09-04 08:44:44 UTC

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I’d love to see if if you find the link! It’s incredible how compelling something that seems so niche and dry can be; the hobby equivalent of those How It’s Made videos. You come to hours later with no idea where the time went.

2024-09-03 12:36:07 UTC

Cannot second this recommendation from @npub12nh…8j7q strongly enough if you’re a hobbyist of A Certain Vintage and want to just soak in the nostalgia of nineties-era Games Workshop before it became what it is today, direct from the brains that built it. https://warhammer.social/@rollleafd/113063302042370623

2024-09-03 12:17:27 UTC

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‘The commercial concerns were merely the constraints in which we did our creative work’ is an incredible line.

2024-09-03 12:15:31 UTC

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Also interesting tidbit that they couldn’t sell white metal miniatures to under 14s due to the lead content ruling them out of international definitions of ‘toy’!

2024-09-03 12:14:04 UTC

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Just watched the Priestly video on 40K, and it’s incredibly interesting how much of the RT era was just as informed and shaped by commercial concerns as later, when I tend to think of that in romanticised maverick terms! Roleplay-heavy skirmish games just happened to be the market at that time.

2024-09-02 19:26:27 UTC

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It made so much sense that coming into that weird a gaming situation would favour the natural chaos monkey rather than the pre-planner 😂 And so much clear delight in both their faces as they thought back on the little pseudo-gaming-club they’d accidentally formed before it all got overly commercial.

2024-09-02 15:16:40 UTC

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This one is absolutely amazing, never come across it before. Just watched Andy Chambers and Jervis Johnson reminisce about Battle Reports. Sheer nostalgic delight. Thanks for the recommendation!