New Member Monday - Of Basements and Horsemen

Hello everyone!  It's another opportunity filled week here at the House of Paincakes.

What opportunity you say?  Why, the opportunity of a lifetime - blog promotion!  

For the last few Weekly Top X's, I've been experimenting with a new format.  The basic idea is to create a sort of topic guide using the HoP blog roll search engine to dig as deeply as possible into your output.  But here's the thing - thinking of topics is harder than we thought.

This is where you come in!

What topic(s) would you like to see us do for the coming weeks?  Hit us up in the comments!

New Member Monday

Four Horsemen

Keywords: battle reports, 40k, video explosion!

Geek in the Basement
Keywords: painting, terrain, zombie, apocalyptic, miniatures, Warhammer 40k, Car Wars, models, board games 

No essay, but here's a video that Four Horsemen found:

Rad!

[Musings of a Game Store Xeno]

Hey folks, SinSynn here.

The lovely, luminous Loquacious is doin' the gamestore thing at a Hobby Convention somewhere, which means I'll be filling in today.
Uh...yeah. Sorry 'bout that.
But hey, when Lo' and theDude come back, I'm sure they'll have lotsa cool pics and whatnot, so there's that to look forward to...
In the meantime, let's hang out a bit, shall we?
We'll talk about our guilty pleasure.

The Game Store.

*This came up in Google image search for 'guilty pleasure.' Iz funnie.*

The Von Show #9 - The Games I Play

Yes yes yes I know the numbering's slipped.  This is what happens when you change your mind halfway through a three-week dump of pre-recorded footage that you hastily edit while you should be working.  Normal service, i.e. the single-week dump of fresh-recorded footage that I hastily edit while I should be working, has now been resumed.  I blame any factual errors, lapses into slackjawed silence, or outbursts of TVTropes-speak on the lack of a script.  It's been a busy week, okay?

The Weekly Top X - Arkhan Land is a Dumb Name

For one brief moment I was going to do this week's Top X on the 6th edition leak.  But I pulled back at the last second.  I just can't shake the fact that most of you out there just don't care about a rule set that is  maybe half real or probably mostly fake.

The last attempts with this new 'search and return' format have been focused on the written word.  But what about a more visual medium?  With that question burning in my mind, I decided to do a Top X on painting and modeling.  Today's subject: the Land Raider in all it's glory.

Blog Name: Scratchbuilt 40k

 - Mk1 Land Raider Tutorial:  A pretty amazing step by step (in four parts) for your very own Mk1 Land Raider.

Blog Name:  The Waaagh Heresy

 - unbagging forgeworld: Heresy era Land Raider part - A nice little overview of what you can get from Forgeworld if you're not into all that DIY stuff.

Blog Name: Outsyder Gaming
 - Remote Controlled Land Raider: Pretty self explanatory but super neat.

Gaming on a Budget - Things You Shouldn't Buy

Hey everyone and welcome to another episode of gaming on a budget!  Dethtron's tied up with a little something he likes to call "ensuring I can pay my mortage" - whatever THAT means - so I'm filling in.

As usual, my contribution will be a little off beat, but I won't be asking you to spend a bunch of money or trying to stretch a paragraph's worth of information on plastic bags out to a full post.

Today, I will be listing off a number of things that you shouldn't buy.  Thusly, I will head off the spending mistake banditos at the pass and allow the train that is your finances to make it to El Paso intact and un-robbed.

Space banditos, if you prefer.

So, here is a short list of items you may be tempted to buy as a gamer - but shouldn't bother with.  This is all first hand experience.