Fergus Halliday
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Award-winning journalist at Reviews.org Australia. Follow my newsletter at MultiplierAU.substack.com
The green light has come through and so I am thrilled to confirm will be at @paxaus.bsky.social this year with my most deranged panel pitch to date (feat. @stephpanecasio.bsky.social @zacspeaksgiant.bsky.social @nomibelle.bsky.social and @lawksland.bsky.social)
Second game of Trench Crusade down. Gelling a bit more with the rules and thought a bit more about my roster this time. Made some bad deployment choices and lost but got to do the Iron Sultanate Assassins double charge teleport ability twice so can't be too mad.
Last night's Ninajirachi show was so good that I think I might have to become an EDM sicko because that was one of the best gigs I've ever gone to.
I'm have made no secret about being more partial to Diablo 3 over the years 😅 More generally, I think this paragraph sums up the highs and lows of D2.
Can't believe it took like 20 books for Drizzt to get his own Asajj Ventress
I think the ubiquity of 3D printing and more reasonably priced mini games like ASOIAF, Trench Crusade & Modiphius' Fallout game have made skewed my view on this but I got an email about preorder and was taken aback by how even a single larger mini might run me.
Watching the new season of BEEF and they really did make a show that's nothing but characters living the spirit of this gif
(I'm increasingly convinced that RA Salvatore just loves writing about Jarlaxle)
Some real good quotes on world building in this interview about the future of The Captive's War
Last but not necessarily least, here's the Nokia 8 and the Huawei P40 Pro.
And for comparison to their premium siblings, I present the Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro XL.
This brings us the Pixel pics - and there are a lot of them. To start with, here's the Pixel 5, Pixel 7a, Pixel 8a and Pixel 9a.
And now the more current Galaxy S23 Ultra, Galaxy S24, Galaxy S25 Ultra and Galaxy S26 Ultra.
Moving back to more mainstream devices though, here's the Galaxy S10 Plus, Galaxy Note 20 Ultra and Galaxy S22.
The difference between the above and what foldables like the Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 isn't as large as you might expect.
Starting with the cheaper Samsung devices, here's the Galaxy A55, Galaxy A56 and Galaxy S24 FE.
Moving onto OPPO, here's the Find X5, Find X5 Lite, Reno 15F and Find N6.
Next up, we've got Nothing - which I was surprised to learn accounted for a disproportionate amount of cat photos in my cloud. Here's how the Nothing Phone 1, Nothing Phone 3, CMF Phone 1 and CMF Phone 2 Pro fared.
Here's how the more budget-friendly Motorola G62, G67 and ThinkPhone compare.
That's enough Apple though. Moving onto Motorola, we've got the Motorola Edge 30 Fusion, MotorolaEdge 50 Fusion, Motorola Edge 60 Fusion and Motorola One Vision.
I did not expect to win but extremely thankful I thought to scribble something in my notes app!