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They are looking great. If it was me I would be tempted to keep the base colour of the tendrils as the shade colour but then work in some flesh tones to give it a more Giger'ish "body parts" rather than "plant matter" feel. Would also give a good contrast to the dark colour on the nids. Still looks ace as it is though.

I could be wrong but I don't think anything will be running at 500w 24/7 so it may not be as expensive as you think. When I looked at this for my home pc a few years back running with a 700w PSU it varied between about 30w when idle up to a max of about 500w when under stress testing loads. Obviously server hardware and usage will be different but I would suggest getting a power monitor (can be got from amazon for under £20) and checking what the actual usage is first over the course of a few days.

One day I will be the other side of the screen and be able to use one of the many characters I have planned.... one day.....

Nice paint job. Honestly I have never been keen on heroforge mini's before, they always looked too cartoonish to me. This one though looks pretty good.

Back at work after being off with Covid. Still testing positive but apparently its non-transmissible now because its been longer than 10 days. Out of the 5 of us at home only 1 of us didn't catch it. Weird mix of symptoms. My youngest (5) was really rough for a couple of days then completely bounced back and was totally fine. My middle kid (16) felt a bit crud and tired on and off but no real symptoms. My Mrs had 3 or 4 really rough days, bad headaches, feeling sick, super tired and oddly enough really bad tooth ache. I mostly just felt really, really tired and weirdly also had bad tooth ache?! Still feel really tired now despite sleeping way more than I normally do. Chest is a little messed up but really glad it didn't hit me too bad. I have lung issues anyway so was pretty concerned about this. While I was off 12 members of staff also went down with it and about 1/6th of the pupils also called out with it. School now back to no whole school assemblies and supposed to all be wearing masks again.

That looks great. The cloak came out really nicely and the orange is really popping as well. I find orange to be one of them difficult colours to do well. It's so easy when shading/highlighting for it to slip into red or yellow.

That is reassuring and hopefully it continues that way. This is pretty much the only figure I'm watching now as it seems to be the only reliable one and an indicator of where we are actually at.

Really enjoying it too. I was a bit sceptical with the first couple of teasers I saw but it is really great. Even the Mrs who isn't into it and is a bit disparaging of "cartoons" was laughing at parts. Been watching it with both my boys who are loving it. Funny enough haven't had chance to watch ep 4-6 yet as I have been busy putting content together for a campaign I'm running for my youngest son and his college mates. Edit: Did you notice that Matt cameo on the cloakroom attendant in that episode?

Lets hope it ends up more like Wheel of Time and less like Sword of Truth. Also please don't give them ideas about The Belgariad. It is my all time favourite fantasy series and I absolutely do not trust anyone to do a proper adaption of it for TV. However going slightly out of the pure fantasy genre and into Horror a little bit, a series based on Brian Lumley's Necroscope series could be awesome if we are talking popular 80's novel's.

How far in have you got? Have to say I felt like this as well to begin with. I watched about 3 episodes the first time and while it was good I had the same feeling that I was missing something. Second time I stuck with it and it does get better. I think maybe there is a lot of world building needed to really get comfortable with what is actually going on in the story. It kind of just chucks you straight into it and it takes a little while to know who the different factions and people are that are involved and not have to keep questioning what and why. I felt the same way about the Foundation TV show. The first few episodes seemed super convoluted and complex until I got to know the world and characters better.

Watched Matrix 4... I've seen worse films but honestly it just feels like a low budget knock off version/parody of the matrix. Storyline is meh, CGI and visuals are pretty terrible for a lot of it, fight scenes are pretty poor and the writing is fairly sub standard as well. If you have ever watched a late night B Movie film on the Sci-Fi channel, one of those low budget copies of a more well known film, that's what Matrix 4 is.

I have no idea who this person is but it scares me that I no longer consider this kind of view point to be "a small minority".

Could be people that couldn't have vaccines previously due to an existing condition that is no longer a factor, could also just be cold hard cash was offered. Was talking about this with my Mrs this morning. Although Covid has been a complete nightmare, it has jumped some medical tech forward by a massive degree. I see a near future where lateral flow tests for cold, flu and a bunch of other viral infections are the norm. Also mRNA technology is going to be huge for treating/preventing everything from the Flu to things like Cancer, Ebola and many genetic diseases.

I'm not over 50 yet (40) but started taking Vitamin D and later a general multivit that was high in Vitamin D. I have found I do feel better when I have been taking them for awhile. Not sure if it is an actual real effect, a placebo or psychosomatic but it does make me generally feel a little better so I'm not going to question it too closely.

Yep same story here, so far all is well.