Nerd Weekend September 2026

Date: 11-14 Sept 2026

Venue: Hugh's house (Sunbury)

Games

• RimWorld
• Re-Volt
• R.E.P.O.
• Left 4 Dead 2

Memories

• Smith picked up Ian from Diggers Rest because he was earlier than Toby, and then we all turned up at the same time.
• Smith only planned to bring laptop and Xbox controller, and forgot one of those items.
• Dave did “a Smith” and forgot power and video cables for his monitor.
• Smith continues his tradition of a pre-nerd weekend surgery and got a colonoscopy.
• Smith giving constant updates on his bowel movements after a colonoscopy.
• Toby writing himself off on Friday night. Midday and 4pm chunder on Saturday, with MANY naps
• R.E.P.O.
  • Freaky scary monsters, and Smith screaming at the top of his lungs at 2am
  • Dead characters talking: raawwwwr, die die die.
  • Battle mode and the leaf blower.
• Dave arriving late, 5pm Saturday
• Smith leaving early, 4pm Sunday. Had to pack to leave for Queensland.
• Hugh dropping heavy bloody heater on his foot.
• Dice drinking game again
  • Robert Van Wilder AKA Vanilla Ice printout on the ice machine
  • Lost the D4 die.
• Rimworld
  • Hugh looking at a map and asks “Whose base is this, looks like Smith’s“. It was Toby’s base, and he was offended by this comparison.
  • Smiths Tinder House - straw matting on the floor and it went up like an inferno, 1000 degrees
  • Semi-stable RimWorld 1.6
    • Had some reasonable gameplay with Odyssey.
    • Sometimes screen would not stop shaking after ship landing
  • RimWorld 1.5
    • Rapid fire RimWorld, Smith colonists regularly starving. He wasn’t even watching:
      “Oh, apparently I died”
      “What from?”
      “Malnutrition”
    • Biotech session Sunday night/Monday morning
      • Dave’s female colonist “Mann” had 2 babies, and one died.
      • Ian had a guy with 1 badly scarred eye and one eye cut out.
        Eventually he went into another knife-fight eye-first and lost the second eye, which was better because it was no longer causing pain.
      • Ian’s only medic/builder with no eyes terribly inefficient and kept failing builds.
      • Same for TOBY’s with 2x cataracts.
      • Toby had 2 cannibals, Fine and Young
      • Dave and Toby rescuing Ian’s colonists. Twice.
      • Ian had 2 colonists, both rubbish at medical, both bleeding out in <10 hours.
      • Toby managed to carry Ian’s colonist back to base, but Ian couldn’t control it any longer and it didn’t show as a colonist at the top.
      • Much hassle around carry/capture/release to restore control.
• Gilbert begging for food non-stop
• Dave Ubered Hungry Jacks on Monday morning.
• Dave Ubered coconut liqueur + mixers on Sunday night.
• Pretty good session of ReVolt with launcher and community maps.
• No one enjoyed the Bundy Rum. Tasted like Petrol.

Photographic Evidence

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