Month: December 2025

Operation Sunburst

The Fallout fan film Operation Sunburst is pretty good!

The dialogue probably needed another round of editing to handle exposition in a way that doesn’t have characters telling other characters things they should already know, calling rocket-launcher armed troops ‘sappers’ seems odd, the mutant qilin cavalry are a bit silly (and why are they using cavalry to attack a fortified building?), and it’s weird that the NCR don’t seem to have reinvented the mortar, but overall really well done! Highly recommended for any Fallout fan!

Roll on the 17th!

Bad Boys, Bad Boys…

Went to bed early last night because I’m tired as hell and wanted to try and catch up on some shuteye.

This plan was working tolerably well until just after 4:00am when the freaking police came knocking at my door to investigate a report of someone “screaming for help” from my apartment.

I had to hurriedly make myself presentable and give a couple of cops a tour of the place to prove that I didn’t have a body hidden in a cupboard, after which I was far too freaked out to get back to sleep.

As such I am still tired as hell, and am now wondering what sort of confusion of ideas could have resulted in such a situation.

Stumbling Into Greatness

Randomly remembering one of the most successful mistakes I ever made.

Back in the early 90s I heard an unfamiliar – but awesome – song on RTR FM’s letter request program Steregoround. I didn’t know who it was by, but guessed the name based on the lyrics, and included a request to play it again in my weekly correspondence. This got read out as follows…

Host 1: …please play The Mercy Seed by whoever sings it…

All Three hosts: NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEATS!! *dissolve into prolonged laughter*

Host 1: That’s really clever!

Host 2: Either that or this person is a fucking idiot…

I opted not to enlighten them.