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The Belfast Comic Con – Second Time’s a Charm
Comic Con came round faster than I expected. It was a month early, but still, it caught me off guard. I wasn’t very enthusiastic about the event this year, after a rather lacklustre experience last year, but I finally gave in and bought a priority ticket for £12. Not a bad price for a day of…
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Making of the “Making Of”
It’s that time of year again – the Belfast Comic Con. Except that it isn’t. It’s a month earlier this year, and I’ve talked myself into going again. I will try to remain positive, but there is no guarantee on how long that will last. I briefly considered applying for a press pass, but given…
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Adventures in Text and Wind-Up Birds
Interstellar Text Adventure What’s this? Am I about to talk about a real life game for a change? And not just any game, may I add. This is a classic text adventure based on last year’s Kip Thorne and Chris Nolan epic, Interstellar. For those who missed it, the plot of Interstellar involved a future…
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The Reality of Business Part 2
Welcome back to the Nostalgia Hour, with your host, the Ordinary Decent Gamer. I finished up the last entry at the first big hiatus in my ring making career. My degree had to take priority until it was finished up, but after that I was free to return to production. My eldest brother Keith was…
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The Reality of Business
The reality of running a small business is hard work. The amount of work I am putting into Newforge Rings in my spare time is far in excess of the financial rewards. The small amount of revenue I have generated to date has been used to buy coins, tools, and other consumables. My latest investment…
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Newforge Rings and Tendon Springs
There I was after a marathon three and a half hours of ring making, casually washing a chopping board, when my thumb decided to try and kill me. Perhaps a tad dramatic, but it was somewhat terrifying, feeling your thumb snap closed beyond your control. I dropped the board and attempted to straighten it again.…
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The Great Vaccine Debate
This isn’t my usual area of journalistic interest, but I read a recent blog post by Linzy Browning and thought it deserved a response. While I can’t argue that we have become poor critical thinkers in general and take a lot of what we are told for granted, there is a reason that things are…
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Altnageezy (*Nialism*)
EDIT: Just to clarify, *nialism* is referring to a word coined by Niall, one of my fellow medical students. I can spell relatively well, but in this case I’m fabricating words. Life is full of choices. Some of those choices lead us down paths filled with wonder and adventure, and some of those lead us…
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Into the Woods and Batman
We ventured Into the Woods and saw the titular film last week, and those woods may just be the same woods from the Evil Dead. They’re every bit as disturbing as the woods in the Evil Dead. What initially appeared to be a children’s film quickly unravelled into something darker with more mature themes than…
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Renewed Respect for General Practice
Bear with me – this is more medically related than anything else I have written so far, but I believe it should be said. My time in General Practice is over. Like many people who start studying medicine, I had no inclination of ever becoming a GP. My exposure to doctors was limited to getting…
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