Pins collected
2024
Count | Month | Pin | Notes |
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33 | Jan 2024 | Thornhill Manor | Received as part of the rewards for backing Curious Correspondence’s Kickstarter campaign for Doomensions. |
34 | Mar 2024 | The Cardiff Castle | Bought to celebrate a weekend with Tim and Jake from Timlah’s Techs and a successful escape from Escape Rooms Cardiff. |
35 | Mar 2024 | Satan Loves Me | Purchased after being found by Pete on a stall at the London Gaming Market. |
36 | Apr 2024 | The Morrison Game Factory | Received as part of the rewards for backing PostCurious’ Kickstarter campaign for their escape-room-in-a-box. |
37-38 | Apr 2024 | Pointless Meeting Survivor and Wishing I Wasn’t Here | Part of a lovely birthday gift received from Tim and Jake from Timlah’s Techs. |
39 | May 2024 | Rubber chicken | Bought from the MCM Comic Con in London. Sadly without a pulley in the middle. |
40 | May 2024 | Cats Are Better Than People | Purchased to celebrate Zelda’s appearance in The Cosmic Cat Tarot Deck after Helenasia’s Kickstarter campaign. |
41 | May 2024 | UK Games Expo 2024 | Bought while visiting the UK Games Expo, in between picking up more board games. |
42-44 | Jun 2024 | Annapurna, Stray and Gorogoa | A surprise parcel from friend-of-the-blog Darkshoxx, which included a Lorelei and the Laser Eyes notepad |
45 | Aug 2024 | Tiny frog | Bought from Damnation Party’s stall while at Kitacon, with Tim and Jake from Timlah’s Techs. |
2023
Count | Month | Pin | Notes |
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23-24 | Mar 2023 | Dark Brotherhood duo | Received after backing Scout and Traveller’s Kickstarter campaign for Elder-Scrolls-inspired pins. |
25 | Apr 2023 | Ticket to Hell | Who else would send a birthday present like this but Ellen from Strength in Sarcasm? |
26 | Jun 2023 | Wine bottle with angel wings | Received after attending a wine-tasting event in London with Pete, and getting rather tipsy. |
27 | Jun 2023 | UK Games Expo 2023 | Purchased during our second visit to the UK Games Expo, along with plenty of board games. |
28 | Sep 2023 | Safe In Our World | Gifted after chatting to the Safe In Our World team about their mental health work at the WASD X IGN event. |
29 | Sep 2023 | Butlins | A memory from a weekend away with Tim and Jake from Timlah’s Techs, Ellen from Strength in Sarcasm and friend-of-the blog Phil. |
30 | Nov 2023 | The Detective Society, episode 2 | Added to my jacket after playing the first episode of the second series from The Detective Society on stream. |
31 | Dec 2023 | Pew Pew Pew Octopus | Part of a Christmas present kindly sent to me by Tim and Jake from Timlah’s Techs. |
32 | Dec 2023 | Ok, Great! | An item received as part of another lovely Canadian package sent by Ellen from Strength in Sarcasm. |
2022
Count | Month | Pin | Notes |
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15 | Mar 2022 | DeLorean | Purchased from Etsy after taking my stepson to see the Back to the Future musical. |
16 | Sep 2022 | Phantom Peak | A souvenir from our first trip to Phantom Peak, and the first of several pins from the event. |
17 | Sep 2022 | Big Daddy | Bought at the EGX expo, after spending the day volunteering on the stand for SpecialEffect. |
18 | Oct 2022 | Jonas Approved | A souvenir from our second visit to Phantom Peak for the Hallowed Peak Halloween edition. |
19 | Nov 2022 | Manny Calavera | A nice little badge received as part of the welcome pack at the AdventureX conference. |
20-21 | Dec 2022 | Ouroboros and New Game + | Bought from Insert Coin, after visiting the website to try and find a link for an existing pin (I got distracted). |
22 | Dec 2022 | Voodoo Guybrush | Another lovely Christmas gift from Ellen from Strength in Sarcasm, continuing to feed my Monkey Island and pin habit. |
2021
Count | Month | Pin | Notes |
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13 | Jun 2021 | The Detective Society, episode 1 | Received in one of the episodes after subscribing to The Detective Society’s monthly mystery games. |
14 | Dec 2021 | Anchor | A Christmas gift from Ellen from Strength in Sarcasm – a reminder that stormy waters can be sailed. |
2020
Count | Month | Pin | Notes |
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8 | Sep 2020 | Lightning bolt | Bought from Amazon after completing Final Fantasy XIII on stream – a reminder to never play another Final Fantasy game. |
9-11 | Oct 2020 | Guybrush, LeChuck and Murray | Kindly gifted to me Ellen from Strength in Sarcasm as part of a lovely parcel sent to us from Canada. |
12 | Dec 2020 | Los Angeles Detective | Received as a part of a kind gift of the Post Mortem: Murder Mystery series from Kevin from The Lawful Geek. |
2019
Count | Month | Pin | Notes |
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5 | Feb 2018 | Please Adopt | Purchased from Etsy after Zelda’s brother Link sadly passed away due to a heart defect (we adopted them both in 2016). |
6 | May 2018 | GameBlast heart | Bought from Insert Coin in the MCM Comic Con in London, while volunteering on the stand for SpecialEffect. |
7 | Nov 2018 | Wine bottle | Purchased from Amazon after a rather drunken evening at a wine-tasting event with Pete. |
2018
Count | Month | Pin | Notes |
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1 | Jun 2018 | Sensitive Badass | The pin that started it all. Obtained from backing The Doubleclick’s Kickstarter campaign. |
2 | Jul 2018 | Save Ferris | Purchased from a stand at the London Gaming Market, as I’m a huge fan of the 1980s. |
3 | Nov 2018 | Game Boy | Bought while volunteering on the stand for SpecialEffect at the MCM Comic Con in London. |
4 | Dec 2018 | Blue shell | Found on Etsy after writing a post about Christmas gifts for gamers – liked it so much that I made a purchase. |