Family, Cool Stuff and Assorted Geekery; the finer things in life. Updated when I have something interesting to write :)
Xenonauts is a strategic / tactical hybrid in the style of the original XCOM, even down to the plot (1980s ill-prepared humanity gets invaded by vastly superior alien force and struggles to rally a defence). It’s more like the original than the Firaxis remake. More depth, more strategy, better AI but not so glitzy and LOADs more unforgiving (esp on hardcore).
Which is demonstrated by the ignoble end to my last mission (and game,as it turned out).
Yay! Today was the first released project out of all products I helped make via Kickstarter.
Divinity:Original Sin is out today!
Beds are the great comforter; they give peaceful repose at the end of a long day. A restful haven allowing you to regroup. A blissful bastion against the travails of the daytime.
Right?
Wrong.
Beds are cunning adversaries, lying in wait to trap the unwary.
The following are my hard-learned tips for playing State of Decay or Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse (whichever comes first);
Continue reading “State of Decay / Zombie Apocalypse Handy Hints”
Gah. Importing accounts into accountancy programs can be tedious. What makes it more tedious is when banks make life even more difficult. American Express allows you to download statements in nice CSV formats though.
Yay!
Except if the statement is older than 6 months, then you have to download it as an non-formatted PDF.
Boo.
Continue reading “Converting American Express PDF Statements to CSV with Powershell”
Took the family up to Cardiff at the weekend (some friends said we could use their flat which was awesome). One of the places we went to was the new, improved Doctor Who museum. A very cool interactive experience / adventure with Matt Smith as the Doctor was great; and totally authentic as the petrified 5 year-old in the group could testify. To be honest the Weeping Angels would terrify anyone.
There are mitigating circumstances though; The Wheel of Time is a fourteen book fantasy epic by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson so it’s not some superficial piece of fluff like War and Peace or Lord of the Rings.
Continue reading “The Wheel of Time, Finished After 15 Years”
The Arena is a cool ‘sealed draft’ style sub-game. For 150 gold you get to pick one of 3 randomly allocated heroes, then make a deck from 30 single selections from 3 cards. Upside is you don’t have to worry about playing George Osbourne who’s spent 5000 quid on his deck of legendaries with custom ‘prole-skin’ card-backing.
It’s a good way to get extra free gold too.
Hearthstone is Lots of Fun. Free-to-play cardgame from Blizzard. Good fun, and you can earn gold to pay for more packs of cards pretty easily. If you’re not playing it, give it a go;
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/
I’ll post some tips on getting gold and cards I’ve found. First is about Questing;
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