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The Concept I’ve been sitting on this one for a little while, but I recently completed a project that I had been working on for roughly a year: A Modular LEGO Dungeons and Dragons display case/frame.

I read this book on holiday in 2025, and felt compelled to write about it, even though my thoughts will most likely not be original.

Introduction Last year I took up the challenge to Knit for 30 minutes every day in November, to raise money for the Bone Cancer Research Trust.

What, two posts in quick succession?!

A few days ago was the digital release of “The Dead Shall Rise” - the Legacy of Kain graphic novel that was on Kickstarter a while ago.

I’ve managed to implement a CI/CD workflow into this site - it took a while, because I was overcomplicating matters.

The Blog Post Since my previous post I’ve been working on a few things.

Introduction Welcome to my new blog.

If you have been paying attention, you may have noticed a lot of styling changes being made here.

A small one, but one I want to draw attention to nonetheless.

Good news everyone!

I started this one on November 1st, as my first project whilst undertaking the challenge of crocheting every day in November for Bone Cancer Research Trust.

This one was particularly difficult: The Soul Reaver itself!

After the Mario film came out I asked my son which character he would like a toy of, and he chose Bowser.

For the past couple of years I’ve been dabbling about in Unity, but due to their recent PR disaster, I’ve shifted over into dabbling with Godot instead.

This is one I started working on pretty much immediately after finishing my previous doll - the namesake of the Legacy of Kain series: Kain (in his Elder Vampire form) It’s been quite hard to work up the motivation for typing this up, in part because I so…

I’ve been keeping this one under my hat, a wee bit.

This one has been in the works for a very long time, but last weekend I finally finished the amigurumi of Janos Audron that I’ve been working on for (no exaggeration here) - around 2 1/2 years!

A lot has happened in the past couple of years.

Somewhat inspired by a video titled Stop trying to make us like the Predator, I’ve come up with a rough idea for how the next Predator film should go.

“Character development?

June was a busy month for me, and as I result I didn’t get to go to the cinema - hence there being no film reviews.

The Fast & The Furious 8 is (shockingly) the 8th film in the Fast & The Furious franchise, and was marketed as F8 (Fête) of the Furious in America.

Do you remember M Night Shyamalan?

I only recently watched the original Pete’s Dragon, a technicolor musical about an orphan sold into slavery and his pet dragon.

The Lego Batman Movie is, I suspect, a pseudo-sequel to “The Lego Movie”, which was awesome.

Haxx0r Ridge is the latest film by Mel Gibson and tells the story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), the first conscientious objector in history to get the Medal of Honor (sic) for bravery while under fire.

Moana is the latest film by Pixar, with a story based on Polynesian mythology and a cast made up largely of actors from the region.

Passengers is a film about the starship, the Avalon, which is on a 120 year trip to the colony of Homestead 2, carrying around 280 members of staff and 5000 passengers, all of whom are in suspended animation.

Assassin’s Creed is a film based upon the video game franchise of the same name, starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremey Irons and Michael Kenneth Williams.

//Need a way to distinguish between this post and the link in the sidebar A few months ago (back in July, actually) I added an interactive variation of the Legacy of Kain timeline, which might be more readable than the tabulated version.

Review Rogue One is the first Star Wars spin-off film in out post-episode-seven world.

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is a Harry Potter spin-off where Eddie Redmayne plays Newt Scamander (who I really want to call Scaramanga) visiting New York in 1926 with a suitcase full of magical creatures.

The Accountant has an excellent cast, led by Ben Affleck as an autistic savant.

While I do swear more than I should in real life, I try to avoid it here.

This latest Marvel entry stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular Dr Steven Strange, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon, who gets maimed in a car accident, ending his career.

You may remember the previous two Dan Brown films - “The DaVinci Code” and “Angels and Demons” In The DaVinci Code, Tom Hanks solved some puzzle left by Leonardo DaVinci that lead to a great secret that had absolutely no effect on reality or society at al…

“Ja, Kreacher!”

The Magnificent Seven (2016) is a remake of The Magnificent Seven (1960), which is a remake of Seven Samurai by Akira Kurisawa, which is in turn heavily inspired by the Wild West genre.

The Infiltrator stars Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo and Amy Ryan as undercover CIA agents trying to take down Pablo Escabar’s drug operation in the 1980s.

War Dogs is based upon an interview in Rolling Stone magazine and stars Jonah Hill and Miles Teller (Mr Fantastic from Fanborestic) as Ephraim and David respectively.

Sausage Party is an animated film written by Seth Rogan and Jonah Hill, and is about talking food.

The BFG is a story written by Roald Dahl, which was adapted into an animated film in 1989, which I loved as a child.

I haven’t yet seen Batman vs Superman, but I have heard that the dour atmosphere didn’t resonate with viewers, prompting a massive re-write of Suicide Squad.

This is going to be difficult to pick apart, as it’s a really solid and entertaining film.

Before release When the new Ghostbusters film was announced, I saw the announcement surrounded with rhetoric that the all-female cast was to counter the “imbalance” or the first films.

The original Independence Day is a fun 3-hour film by Roland Emmerich released in 1996, wherein aliens attack Earth, but are defeated by Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith using a computer virus.

This year at E3 Nintendo demonstrated their newest Zelda game, Breath of the Wild.

Review I have not played any Warcraft game, with the exception of World of Warcraft, which is incredibly boring due to it’s nature as an MMO.

Imagine me in 1991, 5 years old, watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.