Stuff and Things for the Good of the Blog

Yo peeps. Imma split this post into 3 bits because things happen... Lol i have no idea what I'm doin'.

1. Music
I find it hard to write a post without mentioning music at some point and this one is no exception =P
The 3 week long playlist on spotify I mentioned in the last post has probably now become a 4 week long one... yes I have a months worth of music to listen to and on there there is only 1 album per band... that's a lot o' bands.

Anyway I have a lot to look forward to from various artists
Anubis Gate have a new album out early next year .
Dream Theater have just this week released their new album which I still haven't listened to.
Pyramaze have a new album out at some point either nearer Christmas or early next year
Headspace have a new album out early next year
Bad Salad have a new EP out early next year
Epica have their 10th anniversary live performance coming out on 3 DVDs and 2 CDs as a massive box.

I've also recently discovered the eBay of CDs and Vinyls, Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/
If it exists, someone will either have it on sale or it will have once been sold on there. My bro has bought some almost extinct Black Metal CDs from there for ridiculously cheap prices and I've just bought some album promos for less than £10 each and they're friggin gold dust. You MUST check this but be careful of shipping prices, they caught me out and ended up paying an extra £10 for some bits.

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2. Uni
FRESHERS WEEK YAAAAAY

Monday was the "Welcome to Sheffield. Feel free to explore as many pubs as you can tonight" talk and a pointless talk on modules because I don't get a choice doing Astro. I still don't know who the other peeps are on my course because they haven't dumped us all together in a room yet, but I'm sure they'll all begin to love me soon =P

Then there's the guy with the Dream Theater shirt I saw who's doing physics... he shall be mine...

I've got a Sheff Uni hoodie now too so I'm an official student. The card means nothing. It's all about the hoodie ;)

Anyway, Tuesday was interesting cos all I did (except me piano lesson) was go to the wargames society meet... funneh guyzzz. I took down some models cos I thought that not bringing models was like not bringing my deck to  Yu-Gi-Oh tournament. After being there 5 mins one of the high authority peeps let me join in the game they were about to start. As Mr Leggett knows very well I have a metaphorical boner for Terminators (big guys in big armour with big weapons that never frikkin die) and naturally I used some of them and some bikes as support too... The game starts and the evil ones realise theyve put the best guys at the front and the weakest at the back and the game rules state you have to attack the nearest model in a unit... do the Chaos Lord was driven over by bikers after being shot up a treat. Terminators were in reserve waiting to be beamed in from orbit Star Trek style. All the while I keep getting nice comments from random strangers looking at my models which was nice =3
Anyway back to the game; two of the guys offer a duel for fun and decide to pit the Terminators one of my ally's was using against the evil ones' grots (goblins with pistols basically), of which took a few turns to get going. In the mean time I was down to 1 biker and was about be be assaulted by Howling Banshees (they dance the dance of death and are like ninjas with two swords but all futuristic like) who are scary good in combat. I get my free shot off because they assaulted me and kill 1. He gets 24 chances to hit, then 8 chances to hit, resulting in 1 wound, killing the biker. I so wanted to survive that attack XD
Then the Terminators rain down and do bugger all for the first turn, only to be killed next turn by me rolling 5 ones out of 6 dice -_- never again... The big thing about this is not the shitty roll but that they were killed by the most gruntyest of grunts of gruntytown... even more gruntyer then guardsmen and lets be honest theyre pretty grunty. They were killed by Eldar Guardians. They literally punched them to death...
Dire losses aside, the other lot of my Terminators kill entire units without breaking a sweat... then DIE TO THE SAME BLOODY UNIT OF GUARDIANS!!! They deserved a promotion after that game.
Sadly the game had to be cut short there because we were already 45 minutes over the allotted time XD
Met all the people who run the soc and got a Blood Bowl friend too.

Wednesday was stressful... All I wanted to do was go and get registered but nothing is ever that easy is it?
I got up, got ready and then couldn't find any keys, not even mine. After 10 mins of frantic searching I find them and get going. I turn up at registration 10 mins early and hang around for a bit before going in, queue for about half an hour then get turned away because I didn't have my passport... Id've put money on it that they said that only international students needed it. I still don't understand why because they have me on the system with a picture of me... So I ring my bro who luckily hasn't gone to his lectures yet and is still at home, so I get him to find it and chuck it to me as his bus goes past. While I'm waiting for him, 3 hipsters pass me and wow they were the most classic yet extreme hipsters I've ever seen. The word faggot didn't do them justice, so I just thought they must be doing psychology. Anyway so my bro hands me me passport over the bus and I go back to register and it all goes smoothly. Then the worst part... HMV DIDN'T HAVE ANY ALBUMS I WANTED DX

I got my timetable too today so for those of you who want to know, I have stuff at these times:
Monday 11:00 - 12:00 and 17:00 - 18:00
Tuasday 9:00 - 10:00 and 16:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00
Thursday 11:00 - 16:00
Friday 10:00 - 13:00
I'ts nice that I only have to get up early on Tuesdays =P

Thursday was the activities fair where we sign up to the societies. I am now a member of:
Minecraft Soc
Not Only D&D Soc
Board Game Soc
Card Game Soc
Collectible Card Game Soc
PokeSoc
RockSoc (Which is pretty shit so will drop it)
PhySoc
Wargames Soc

That afternoon I wanted to go to the card gaming thing but the booklet that it was advertised in said tickets were £3. That wasn't the problem... the problem was that the booklet said for some other events that you had to pre book, so I assumed the £3 tickets were to buy on the door... I was wrong... they had to be pre booked too... so I got there and was immediately turned away. Fun.

Friday I had the departmental talks about physics telling us about how not to fail, why failing is bad and how big and scary the books are. They said that in the £9000 fees, our textbooks are bought for us so we get to keep them forever =3. (Suck it up Baker 'n' Jake XD).

There was a guy there and he had a Tool shirt... like the Dream Theater guy on Monday, he shall also be mine... He looks like he's in his 30s tho...

After those we had a PhySoc gathering in the union bar (Bar One) and that was a weird experience. Everyone sitting round a table with a beer or cider and talking about how much 'fun' they have while they're drunk. So I was just sitting there thinking, in the words of Bill Bailey, ...Die...Die you smug bastards... It's really weird wanting to join in but then don't because you feel you have a better life choice than them...
Thats a bit harsh Tom...
It's true though Tom...
True, but you could've put it nicer...
Nobody needs to know... And stop talking to yourself
Ok Tom...

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Yes so that was a strange experience but I did chat to some peeps that sadly do binge but are genuinely nice guys... outside the pub...

So overall for freshers... I've played 1 game of Warhammer all week... sounds a bit bad now I've put it that way, but there wasn't really anything else I wanted to do, except for archery which I did want to go to, but then I saw that they were using the Olympic-style bows with the counter-balances and all that jazz which to me aint archery. I think I'll start fitting in a bit better when we get into lectures and lab sessions.

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3. My RPG

OH... MY... GLOB
I'ts turned out 100 times better than I ever expected but I still haven't had the courage to do the feats yet XD
For those who haven't played it yet, its based on percentages for everything. Like in D&D you roll a D20 for everything, In this you roll a D100 and depending on how well you succeed depends on how effective your action is. The lower the roll on the D100, the better the result. For example if you're slapping a goblin (a favorite pastime of mine), you have a base skill with the weapon you're using and a strength modifier and there's the armour value of the goblin. Say the armour gives a 50% chance to hit. To that 50 you add your strength mod and the weapon mod to get a final hit chance. Lets say that chance ends up as 70%. You now roll the D100 and roll equal to or lower than the 70%. Each weapon do a specific die of damage for every so many % you succeeded by. Say you roll 50 and your weapon does "1D8 per 10% + 1". That means that against that hit chance of 70% you dealt 3D8 damage (difference of 20%,  + 1. The +1 is so that if you roll equal to the value you still do some damage). This means that criticals are easier to score against less armoured enemies but the only real problem is that it's delicate. 10% difference has made major differences to the outcomes of things so I need to be careful about the feat abilities. We don't want any wizards being tanks like they can be in D&D.
The steampunky bit of this is fun. I hope peeps like flamethrowers, tesla weapons and steam powered exo-skeletons and mechs because that's what there's gonna be. If anyone wants the rules for this I can give ya them and if peeps are ready we can do another beta testing sesh soooooon!

So there you go, an update of my life! You should feel privileged =P

Stokachu =3