Chatter Of The Squirrel

Games: Space Hulk

GW re-releases their best game ever… after 20 yrs, with the …erm… 20th Anniversary Edition Space Hulk.

It’s an amazing package, and it sold out really quickly. Some local stores are selling it 25% over recommended retail.

It’s also the first time I’ve looked at a plastic sprue, and felt desire. It’s some amazing…

Wolf only brought in 8 boxes, and they went out really quick. Of course, a bunch of people gave him shit for not bringing in more, cos he was supposed to TELEPATHICALLY pick up on their desires, and thus brought in more stock for them. Even though Wolf had asked everyone to pre-order and no one did…

Well, I only saw the contents of the new Space Hulk. Everyone just pick up the goodies and bring them back to their lairs.

But we opened up Wolf’s own old copy of the game, and I learnt to play it for the first time ever. Even though that game has always been sitting somewhere around for years and years.

Imagine the scene in Aliens when the marines hunt for vicious aliens besetting them from behind every door and dark corner. That’s what this game is like.

A squad of Terminators, genetically enhanced super-soldiers in thick, cumbersome armor and armed with the best weaponry of the 41st millenium, enters derelict spaceships to purge it of deadly infestations of Genestealers. The armour is so heavy that in the time it takes a Terminator to pirouette a 360, a Genestealer can rush inside half the maximum range of some of these 41st millenium guns. The armour is so big, that it becomes impossible for the Terminator behind his squadmate to provide covering fire. Yet the armour is so delicate that it’ll yield to the claws of a Genestealer in one hit. They might as well be fighting in their jammies and at least be more comfortable!! Oh, and those 41st millenium guns still jam all too frequently.

Well, asides from the inconsistencies in logic and imagination, the rules of the game is pretty good. It’s extremely challenging for the Terminators to achieve their objective. And obviously everyone loves to play Genestealers. The game comes with a whole bunch of missions of varying challenge. It’s a true classic.

Farewell Lunch at Danny’s

Last week at ABRIC. The boss’ PA insistently says that she will handle the menu so that I won’t over-order at her expense. But I think she might have shot herself in the foot in that regard…

We ended up with:

Some sotong fried in a salted egg marinade I think…

And the best pig trotters outside of Sibu.

Several places around KL boast their ‘famous’ pig trotters, but most places are quite crap. I dine with pork lovers a lot. And half the time, they’ll want to order this dish, but I’ve always found them decidedly inferior. It’s almost always over-dry.

But this place Danny’s at Solaris Mont Kiara does it right. Not as good as Sibu… But still the best I’ve had in W.Malaysia…

And apparently some people are more than happy to see me go.

3ix Web Hosting

Website went down for several days.

Apparently they moved my website to a different server, and did NOT inform me. And it’s a different IP and everything, and there was NO instruction of what I need to do to get everything working again.

I had to create a service ticket and got short, curt, unhelpful answers.

Then had to figure things out on my own and get my domain to point to this new server.

I’m paying $1 / mth in hosting. You get monkeys when you pay peanuts.

But I’m just glad that the blog is still here. Teaches me to backup more regularly.

Important to keep up-to-date backups, and have contingencies when something fails…

Heck this webhost could go belly up without any notice, and I’ld have lost everything I’ve written in the past few years!

Weak IKEA Stuff

IKEA makes a lot of their stuff out of cheap chip-board. And this table isn’t meant to sustain the load from a 21″ CRT flat screen monitor.

Especially when mop water seeps into the wood, melts the glue a little, and the constant pressure bearing down on it… The table is starting to tilt.

But I got the table cheap, so it’s fine I guess. It fits perfectly in a corner of my room, and I spend a LOT of time with it. Still good value. Worth some DIY efforts to keep it going a few more years.

The Megalomaniac Insurance Guy of Malaysia

Dropped by the FLGS just for an afternoon chat with the guys, and Scott eagerly showed me a piece of news in the local papers.

Ex-top execs plead not guilty.

Damn, if that mug doesn’t belong to the “insurance guy” who commented on my post here, and whom I wrote more of here.

This will be heavily talked about amongst the little community of Malaysian gamers.

And since I’m writing this so belatedly, over the weeks, I have heard a number of reactions to the news. Mostly jubilation that the ‘evil emperor’ is getting a big serving of justice.

First reaction to the news, we thought that since it’s the first time anyone has been charged under this act, the authorities are going to want to make a huge example of this. We doubt that he lives