Conpulsion 2025 Quiz

If you dare!

Answers in a day or so.

Marathon

Marathon from the makers of Halo and Destiny, an extraction shooter with a sound reason for respawning (you’re piloting robots) and a cyberpunky Mork Borg dayglo aesthetic.

The title comes from the pre-Halo action adventure game about fighting through a colony ship taken over by a rogue A.I.

And at the end of the cinematic introduction, a question.

Nationals 2025

Looks like it was fun.

But if you win the Nationals that often you should be made to run it even if you have to build an arena for it. You know who you are, Stirling.

Only joking.

OR AM I

Next year Cardiff, and my immediate reaction is that feels like a long way...

Conpulsion 2025 Day 2

Talks! Quiz! Banquo Award for Andy Hepworth!

Conpulsion 2025 Day 1

Talks! Auction! Saying hello to people!

Pride & Prejudice

The new adaptation of Pride & Prejudice will be backwards compatible with Pride & Prejudice 2005 but will still produce a new core set and Monster Manual.

The Librarians: The Next Chapter

The Librarians: The Next Chapter finds a new channel in the US, with trailer and all. With its flappy-coated British out-of-time hero it looks slightly less Ghostbusters and even more Doctor Who than last time.

Garbage - There's No Future In Optimism

“The city’s on fire and the sirens are screaming”

Daredevil Born Again 1.08

Loved Fisk’s “damn it I can’t kill him now” look at the end.

V5: City Of Angels 1.31

Having had time to consider ways to play a depressed character after the previous session, I went with seeking and glad to be given some support.

How healthy is the support? Could be worse actually.

Predator: Killer Of Killers

Predator: Badlands follows Prey this summer, but on June 6th we’re also getting Predator: Killer Of Killers, an animated anthology setting them against vikings, ninja and WWII fighter pilots. YEAH

2025 Hugo Award nominations

Here.

Delighted by Best Related Work including The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel.

Vote splitting could mean the two analyses of the failings of the 2023 Hugos cancel each other out?

Doctor Who and Lower Decks likewise both gets two Short Dramatic nods, which could mean Agatha All Along or Fallout get it.

A finale

There are a lot of different ways that could have gone, but me dropping that particular hammer felt right.

V5 Empire 2.08

Tonight in Vampire: The Masquerade - Empire, a finale:

“It’s not really a Vampire game without some betrayal, is it?”

“Not always, but I’m proud of you all.”

A me problem

I don’t have a good substitute visual for the hunter antagonist in my current Vampire: The Masquerade game to replace the person I’ve used as a reference for the inspirational monster-hunting PC before and I don’t want to have the current PCs kill her off or vice versa, even at this remove.

This is very much a me problem.

First Contact Day

For First Contact Day we played Star Trek Adventures. Which we were going to do anyway as we didn’t realise, and there wasn’t any first contact in the episode, but still.

Reminder: no music rounds

Our team won the GEAS quiz, despite me putting in the wrong answer for which ride of the Rohirrim the musical cue in that music round came from.

Boundary of the Darkness playtest

Pelgrane calling for playtesters for Boundary of the Darkness, the Trail of Cthulhu sourcebook of dread investigation during the Age of Enlightenment.

Buffy on ITVx

Buffy The Vampire Slayer returns to free-with-ads streaming in the UK, despite not having been shown on an ITV station AFAIK.

The Streaming Voyage Of The Demeter

The Last Voyage Of The Demeter is now on Prime if, unlike me, you didn’t buy it on disc the day it came out (seven weeks ago...) after waiting a year and a half for it to get a UK release of some kind.