#The IVth Crusade era

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Here we have the new Warsmith and Exalted Champion for my Iron Warriors. The new Warsmith (by LoggyK here) is magnetised to accept his claw, a hammer and a chainsword just for some WYSIWYG and I gave him the crane arm of the metal model just to keep a bit of the spirit alive. The Exalted Champion (By Hellforged Miniatures, cant seem to find them anymore), gave him my spare Warpsmith axe for him to use as the Axe of the Forgemaster. A quick pivot back to the IVth since I’m in a Crusade with them and want them to be ready to go. A smidge of sappiness below the cut. As usual, the models were printed for me by the wonderful @heretic-deb​ over at Forsters Foundry. Cant thank them enough for their continued help!

An end of an era, the metal model did me real well and has a pride of place on my mantle. Genuinely sad that he got outscaled so quick. Iron Within, little guy. Here he is next to his properly scaled self.

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Roundup #6: Roguelike Mustard Adventure/ Cringesanity

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Not a whole lot to report this week. Really just that tomorrow is my wife's birthday so we're probably gonna hang out, eat pierogis, and play Shredder's Revenge.

Other than that? I dunno... Still chipping away at learning music theory so things might be a bit quiet on the music front until I get that figured out.

Oh yeah, the grocery store I've been going to for the past seven years completely reshuffled all their aisles so it just took me almost half an hour of dungeon crawling to find mustard.

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Muzak:

Heretical Sect - Picked this up without knowing much about the band 'cos I thought the album cover was cool and man it's good... Crusty doom/ death that sounds like "IVth Crusade" era Bolt Thrower covering "Through Silver in Blood."

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Forn - Funeral doom leaning heavily in the direction of death metal. Manages to be both achingly sad and totally fucking crushing, often at the same time.

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Isole - Like I said when I wrote about these guys the other day: I always had it in my head that Isole sounded like Nightwish but it turns out I was wrong and they're more along the lines of Solstice or early Candlemass which makes me feel extremely stupid for not checking them out sooner.

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Thy Catafalque - Super proggy black metal from Hungary. In a weird way they kind of remind of Galloping Coroners crossed with Emperor or Arcturus.

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Heilung - Super hypnotic "viking folk" music that is pretty similar to something like Garmarna I guess.

Gotta be honest and say I'm a little bit skeptical of these guys 'cos paganism/ heathenry comes with a lot of sketchy baggage, and over the top theatricality is not usually my thing, but they definitely scratch an itch when I want to zone out.

Second song on this newest album is really good.

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Video Games:

Fire Pro Wrestling World - I really liked the Fire Pro game that was on PS2 back in the day so I've been wanting to pick up the new one for a while now. Just saw it on sale for $9 and that was enough of a discount that I finally pulled the trigger. So far it's exactly what I expected and you can play as Jushin Thunder Liger, so yeah... two thumbs up from me.

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Xenoblade Chronicles - It took a while but the combat is finally making sense and I'm honestly really enjoying the story which is essentially: "Progressive Death Metal Album Cover: The Anime".

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Reading:

I stalled out on my book but my iPad is charging and I swear I'm gonna finish the fucking thing this week.

Up next: Probably Red Harvest by Dasheill Hammett

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Tube:

A bunch of the 90's/ 00's era Godzilla flicks.

Hakaider

Burst City

Devil's Rain

This weirdo Christian doomsday cult indoctrination DVD we found at a used bookstore for $2.

That 2000s era live-action Casshern flick that is kind of an over the top CGI nightmare, but stylized enough to be pretty cool as far as anime adaptations go... I went into this not expecting much but probably liked it better than any of the Matrix films.

Dragon Ball Evolution I was aware this existed but only sought it out after hearing it was one of the worst films ever made because I kind of collect worst films ever made.

A weird live action video game/ anime/ horror movie fan-film rabbit hole which I must say is a rich vein of hilarious cringe/ insanity (cringesanity?).

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The IVth Crusade era.