I've noticed a lot of "Astartes" influence in cinematic trailers for games lately, especially MENACE's cinematic trailer. This isn't a criticism at all, I like seeing passion projects like Astartes having wider influence like this.

Update: I have ADHD and the meds have worked WONDERS

when A Mechanic is happening and there's that one melee uptime hole

There are plenty of free resources to learn but when you use ai you choose to not grow. You choose laziness. At least be honest with yourself on that.

In a few weeks I’ll find out if I have ADHD or not. Honestly terrifying.

Next Savage Tier comes out next week, and somehow I’ve gone from playing Melee DPS to being Main Tank

Shouting out Libre in Sligo, my favourite book store out West

Really interesting article, this part stuck out particularly well to me:

I know I’m still working on edits but man I also want to do more shoots like now

I need to get FFXIV running on my SteamDeck I also need to clear all my photo editing backlog before the new Raid drops

Fiancé: “what if I get the ugly Labubu?” Me: “Don’t worry, dear. They’re all ugly.”

Burning #ffxiv

Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI. Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI Please do it 🫠

New Monster Hunter good, very good Except the Inventory UI, which is now a row that comes across the entire screen instead of the 3xWhatever grid in World I could tell exactly what I had at a glance at one part of the screen without looking all across the scene

Have to make a very difficult decision today. Which of my cats am I making in Monster Hunter Wilds to be the Palico. It’s either Link or Purrah

Okay, painting update thread as I get increasingly into 40K minis. I settled on being vanilla as hell. We’re painting up as Ultramarines because eventually I want to get Guilliman and Ventris. I already have the Titus mini. I had to prime in Grey Seer, though I would’ve preferred a darker grey

Got myself a little early birthday present. This rounds out my force to just shy of a thousand points. Will share painting updates later. I’ve started with the larger squads to practice and experiment, before I get to specialised squads and heroes. Definitely painting Titus last.

I tell my cat “I know” when she meows at me but if I’m being honest? I don’t always know

Never let them tell you that Irishness is some set, immutable fact of the blood

This is what I mean when I say to just make that thing you want to make, even if it’s garbage, especially today in the world of AI-generated dreck. One person’s absolute dogshit passion project will be 1000000% more powerful than a million auto-generated books thrown onto Amazon.

Oh! Well. That's disheartening. Someone is pirating all of my paid Patreon posts. I'm just trying to pay rent and keep my cats alive, man. I depend on my Patreon income for that. If you're gonna steal, can you steal from, I dunno, The Mouse or something? Do you gotta steal from me?

I am still learning to process compliments about my work. They are difficult to accept, but ive started researching ways to overcome the internal disbelief I feel when people say “photo good”

I recently learned that due to a translation error in a few lines of dialogue in Dragon’s Dogma 2, the nature of the true ending is lost. And that’s such a shame, because it all hits much much harder than the mistranslation does. I get DD isn’t for everyone, but I love it

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

The food scene in the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark is incredible Which makes the choice for the live-action Pork Chop frying scene in Dragon’s Dogma 2 even more baffling as a choice, since Wilds is on the same engine as DD2 I guess DD2 walked so MH Wilds could run on the RE engine?

Just make insanely self-indulgent shit. Quality does not matter. Quantity does not matter. "It's just [thing] yet again 🙄" does not matter. Whether or not you ever show it to anyone does not matter. Make self-indulgent shit because it's the only way to live and be happy.

ASTARTES II LETS GOOOOOOOOO www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbgY...

I do think it’s important.

Me, but it took 2 months

Hellblasters built Only thing left to build are three Eliminators and put the accessories on these guys and my intercessors

Once again cannot believe how long I slept on playing Paladin Running Oath of Conquest in a new campaign and walking into a room and frightening half of your enemies feels powerful

I wish literally every site had the means to label genAI content so I can avoid it like the plague it is

fuck pinterest

a lesson people oughta take from the rise of bluesky is that buying into anybody's claimed hegemony online is dopey. Facebook didn't used to exist, neither did Instagram or TikTok or any of this stuff. as soon as any platform starts to stink no sentimental attachment is practical or good. bail ASAP

very easy to get caught up in the loud obnoxious grifter assholes who decry “wokeness” & complain representation is ruining their “hobby” but the thing that matters is, a bunch of people chanting TRANS RIGHTS raise $2mil+ for great charities twice a year, every year. that’s what it’s all about

WHO COULDVE SEEN THIS COMING

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days

New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work www.404media.co/its-total-ch...

Spent a little time today updating all my streaming tools. I really want to get back to it. At this point I’ve definitely lost a lot of what I’d built over the last three years. The longer it’s left the more it’ll build up in my head 🫠 I’ll start small with two shorter streams a week, I think.

In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:

So Helldivers II is becoming a film, that's neat and I sure hope they make it drip with satire like the game. I think it should open with SEAF forces getting overwhelmed by Automatons or Terminids, then the Helldivers show up. We see obvious relief on the surviving SEAF troops' faces But...

"bypassing traditional milestones" is a funny way of saying that most of us can't afford to buy a house with multiple jobs, won't have children because we can't afford them, most of our degrees are useless, and we are the poorest generation among all current living generations

Motherfucker thought he'd make money taking ARTISTS jobs?!

Got a bunch of Astartes to build. I have a Phobos Kill Team, Primar Lt. and Primaris Gravis Captain to prime. Then 10 Intercessors, 5 Hellblasters, and 3 Eliminators to build. Then the question is do I paint them up as Ultramarines, or a custom chapter with Ultramarine rules?

2024 has made me re-evaluate my relationship with craftsmanship, cosplay, and hobbies in the face of ever-rising pressures on my time and energy. It has broken the last link to an old name, and given me the freedom to think about what I want from my creative pursuits. 📸 by @toodaneasy.bsky.social

I found one of my first nsfw drawings from over a year ago now. Enjoy. 🙏