Brunch at Black & White cafe at The Rocks.

Shaun and Gina. Welcome home love birds!

Success! Forced Char to check out an Art Gallery.

Finally dropped in to the CCACHE CBD store (it’s awesome!).

White out!

At Strand Hatters (I bought a flat cap!).

Kings Comics (love the new shop!).

I then had a hard hat tour of the new investment apartment.

It’s looking great!

Bathrooms are done.

Arthurs Pizza Rosebery.

Yawn!

The legend that is Christopher Sentosa lovingly created 2 of my favourite past rides: RB26 and TME. Right down to the plates! Best parcel I’ve received in the mail in a long time!

Massive thanks and praise to Christopher Sentosa who’s lovingly recreated 2 of the fastest (and favourite!) cars I’ve ever owned. My RB26 and my old TME.

Follow him: https://www.instagram.com/christophersentosa/

Some of my Xmas haul for 2021!

It’s fucking HUGE!

Forgot to post these! A little while back Dianne created a props album for Spacewalk (our content agency). She got Nick to set up a simple one light setup to shoot all the props in and I couldn’t refrain from grabbing some of the toys I’ve got lying around the house to shoot!

I’ve FINALLY gone and bought something I’ve always wanted to buy. A dodgy eBay tattoo kit. Bad jailhouse style tattoos here we come! #sorrymum

I spent 1,953 hours on The Division 1. That’s a whole lot of hours on a game that’s stuck in what feels like December, Christmas time (a snowy city full of Xmas decorations).

I was always nervous about expecting too much from The Division 2 but one thing I was sure of was that they would take us out of a snowy NYC. I’ve avoided most YouTube videos to date and last weekend I dove into the Open Beta. I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on spending a few hours in the brave new world.

At first there’s an instant familiarity with the controls (I use a controller on PC). Walking slow to admire the world feels smoother now and the fantastic cover system is still there. At 4K and ultra I was only getting 30–40FPS so I ended up playing the Open Beta in 1920×1080 in full ultra instead for a solid 60FPS. The world is super colourful, and missing the spooky dark snowy NYC vibe, but it’s more packed with details like rubbish and overgrowth. I appreciate the slight boost in graphical detail over The Division 1 for sure.

Shooting feels more weighted. Recoil is savage on the controller and I like it. Many audio bits are lifted directly from The Division 1 which is a good thing. Panning out to get an aerial view of a newly discovered landmark feels a little Far Cry to me, but that’s nothing major, the same old audio collectibles and ECHOs are still here and just as boring as they were in The Division 1.

All in all I had a good time in the Open Beta. The Division 2 feels a lot like The Division 1, and that’s not such a bad thing though I was secretly wishing for more. I did encounter some bugs, specifically some AI glitching and skating. That really worries me as it’s crazy immersion breaking. I’m not so sure I like all the UI changes either. Going from a cleaner linework style UI to a more photographical UI makes everything look a little heavy. I would have liked to see a more tech/minimalist approach to the UI rather than the old UI tarted up to look new.

NPC’s still look really gummy, cartoony and fake to me, especially their faces but my main gripe is the NPC chatter. I hated it in The Division 1, mostly because it was repetitive at places you often hung around at like the Base of Operations. It’s worse in The Division 2, where random NPC’s yell out things like “Hey, there’s that Agent!” or “You’re the best, Agent!”, why is this dialogue always so cheesy and juvenile? It makes me feel like I’m meant to be 15yrs old to play the game.

I’m still on the fence about spending up to get The Division 2 when it launches on March 15th. I don’t feel any sort of urgency to pre-order it, but I do have an urge to go back into the Open Beta, which sadly ended yesterday.

These sunglasses have my name on them!

Ray-Ban Justin sunglasses inspired by Wayfarer, but with larger rectangle lenses and a really nice rubberised frame. They fit amazing and the rubbery frame finish feels nice on the face. Best of all I went for the polarised lenses! It’s been so many years since I’ve had some polarised lenses! I’m going to wear these to death!

Happy Australia Day Mum! So awesome to see mum happy!

Love you Mum!

Karaoke even!

My brother from another mother Eugene dropped this off for me, his parents were doing a clean out and found my old Tamiya RC cars! UNREAL RIGHT?! Will do a proper shoot of these ASAP.

Happy Australia Day Mum!