January - 2018

Workout Recap - Week of January 21, 2018

Ah, at last, you can start to see some of the fruits of my labors over the past few weeks. More to come, with the next non-workout post likely being another miniature painting recap. Sunday Type: Pass/Fail Shoulder-width Handstand Push Ups - 1 set of 8 (pass) 1-Armed Pull Up Negatives - 1 set of 3, each side (pass) Pistol Squats, Both Hands Behind Me - 1 set of 5, each side (pass) Bonus: 4 sets of 3 Superman push ups So, between Saturday and Sunday, I managed to cut a couple

Darkest Dungeon

Rating: B+ Playing Time: About 200 hours total Well, some time ago, I made a post talking about my thoughts on Darkest Dungeon and promising to give it a proper review after I got around to replaying it with the latest patches and Crimson Court DLC. Since I wanted something to break up how much I was playing Star Ocean 4, I decided to make good on that. Now, you might've noticed that I pointed out the Crimson Court DLC specifically, rather than just saying all of the DLC. T

Ravenor

Rating: A- Length: 366 pages, standard paperback font, slightly larger than standard paperback page size I happened to find myself in a bookstore one day (yes, physical bookstores still exist, shockingly enough), and my wanderings took me by their collection of Warhammer-based books. Most of the WH40K books I've read focused on Space Marines (of both standard and Chaos flavors), with the exceptions being the Ciaphas Cain series, but I'd heard a lot of good things about Dan A

Workout Recap - Week of January 14, 2018

The post dearth continues, but as I said last week, there are reasons for that'll become evident in the near future. Trust me on this. In the mean time, it was only a four workout week. I was intending to go for a regular workload, but something came up on Friday that was more of a priority. All things in balance. Sunday Type: Pass/Fail Shoulder-width Handstand Push Ups - 2 sets of 8 (pass) T&A Pull Ups - 2 sets of 5, each side (pass) Shrimp Squats - 2 sets of 5, each side

Workout Recap - Week of January 7, 2018

Bit of a dearth of posts this week, I know. I've had a few things going on that'll take a spot of time to pay off. I won't say much more than that for now to avoid hyping things up too much. Just trust me on this. Sunday Type: Pass/Fail Shoulder-width Handstand Push Ups - 2 sets of 10 (pass) T&A Pull Ups - 2 sets of 7, each side (pass) Pistol Squats, Both Hands Behind Me - 2 sets of 5, each side (pass) Bonus: 4 sets of 3 Superman push ups, 10 burpees Just another gradual s

The Process of Painting Prairie Tick Queen

In the GRIMDARK future of the forty-first millennium, my favorite faction is Tyranid, which is sort of like a crossbreeding of the xenomorph from Alien with a termite colony. I don't own any tyranid models, so getting this little bug as one of my bonus models in my December order from Reaper was my first chance at painting up something along the same lines. In terms of the color scheme, well, it's a fairly bloated tick, so going with red for the sack on its body was the obvi

Workout Recap - Week of December 31, 2017

Because I'd ended up not doing much strength-focused work last week, I decided to dedicate the bulk of this week's exercises to that style. Unfortunately, I ended up with an awful time for my weekend challenge workout, but I think that was more because of being negligent in paying attention to my nutrition during the week than it was because of that decision. Sunday Type: Pass/Fail Shoulder-width Handstand Push Ups - 2 sets of 10 (pass) T&A Pull Ups - 2 sets of 7, each side

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Rating: B+ Playing Time: About 250 hours between the PS3 and PC releases, plus about 100 hours of the original Dragon's Dogma release on PS3 Now, admittedly, the vast majority of my experience with this game comes from about five years ago. I played the shit out of the original Dragon's Dogma after I'd first picked it up, and then I played the shit out of the Dark Arisen rerelease, and I kept going back to it every now and then as something to mess around in when I didn't ha