terry had an excellent grasp of human nature in general but he really, truly understood how the rich and powerful worked and he did not like it at all

holy FUCKING shit that latest episode of Game Changer

A reminder that Warhammer Age of Sigmar casually has LGBTQ characters with major models. And the titular Sigmar canonically says "trans rights" and lets his chosen warriors be reborn as their best selves. #HappyPride #SigmarSaysTransRights #WarhammerAoS

Proof of concept for the Gitzfort coming along nice! Still lots to do. #aos #warhammer

Hahahaha lemme tell you about life in Boise, Idaho

helen lewis has an article in the atlantic today begging everyone to read discworld and I am going to suggest she start by rereading monstrous regiment and think about how that might apply to trans issues

Pratchett’s politics evolved over the series, because he wrote them over the course of most of his life, and his own thoughts evolved. This does not make his politics “hard to pin down” unless what you’re trying to do is avoid describing the conclusions he reached about, say, trans rights, HELEN.

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

HoMM: Olden Era is very good, but the term “Law Seals” for that resource makes me chuckle every time. #homm #videogames

“Youz don’t get it. You think you do, but you don’t. Cuz it’s bigger’n you, bigger’n me even, bigger’n orruk or ‘ummie or grot or ogor. ‘S wild. Tha wild in all of us. And you’d be stoopid to think it’s not in you.” #Warhammeraos #aos

Just a joy painting up Sylvaneth. #warhammer #aos

Idk if I’m the outlier here, but after seeing what goblins can look like on Gitmob the new 40K ones are giving me *absolutely nothing.* Like, I know they’re fitting different niches gameplay and narrative wise, but the difference feels stark.

“Stare if you must young one, but do not tarry. It would be tragic to waste what little time you are allowed.” -Brother Willow, First Blade of the Martyrgrove #warhammeraos

“Look upon me and see your sins. The life you’ve trampled, the world you’ve poisoned! Fear! Fear that you are beyond redemption. And Know. That You. Are Right!” -Drycha Hammadreth, Queen of Outcasts, Briarmaiden of Woe

Sin is when you treat people like things, including yourself.

“When one of our kind falls, their seeds rejoin the soil so that their notes may be preserved. One more voice forever in the song. When I was but a sapling, there was a village here. Peaceful, generous, a rare point of beauty. They sing with us now too. Requiem, for blood.” -Brother Ash

The land remembers when the people do not. And roots will find many things thought buried. Branching (hah) into Sylvaneth. Fun to have a lower-stress painting project. #warhammeraos #Sylvaneth

New AoS Battlescroll fixed my only issue with Tzeentch listbuilding (spawn on daemons only). Excited to keep perfecting my Arcanite Kher list. Ironjawz points are getting truly silly though. Brutes same as Ardboyz is wild. #warhammeraos

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In Kher Klovis, one lesson is held above all others. Blessed are those who bite the hand. #warhammer #warhammeraos #tzeentch

Listen, maybe this will age poorly, but of all the fake leaks I’ve seen in my life these might be *the* most fake.

You ever see something so unbelievable it actually sends you spiraling a bit? Like, I really thought I had a firm grasp on how hollow a person could be and then this guy comes out with the “individuality and guilt are recent, European, inventions.”

can i put this on my resume or...

I was ashamed of the National Council when I was a scout, I was ashamed of National when I was an assistant scoutmaster, and I'm still ashamed of National.

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Fascinated that there’s seemingly no one in this person’s life to advise them against showing their entire ass in a public way like this. What kind of mistakes do you have to make to conclude that learning is an obligation and not the reward?

My illustrations celebrating Nancy Drew entering the public domain

Walking past all the $15/lb beef to grab a tofu brick for $2

Sci-fi that deals with questions of artificial consciousness is interesting because it's pushing us to think about what it means to be human. It functions as a metaphorical mirror. Being shocked by a computer programmed to play pretend reflects on us too, but not in a particularly flattering way

Some days make me wish I still believed in hell.

I can’t imagine presenting anything Elon Musk says as realistic or factual. The man is the world’s most famous liar.

Really don’t like the roaring, raging return of acceptable-for-progressives homophobia

GLORY TO THE TZEENTCHIAN WAR TWINK!

Gonna live post the preview show cuz im bored in my lunch break. So far just 40k. New Eldar stuff looks neat, I continue to bounce off marine aesthetics. Space Seraphon is cool.

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

𝒫𝒾𝑔 #warhammerageofsigmar #ironjawz

The eroding of art as a consequence of wholly mundane incentives and carelessness, not some grand conspiracy or even passionate rebuttal, feels like a very *of the moment* thing to understand. A masterclass from Olson (per usual).

Slow pig progress. (Ardboy for reference haha) My goal in the next couple months is to have all my regiment of renowns painted so I feel less bad slamming them into otherwise fully painted lists lol.

Listen, I know the cards are probably stacked towards Total War: 40K, but god I’d kill for TW: AoS instead.

Three characters with narratives about doing the right thing even when it’s complicated, and Chronos purely on style points 😅

I know we’re all nostalgic for vine, but it feels like everyone is ignoring all the crypto language/architecture built into Dorsey’s new gambit. Like it runs in Nostr. Feels more like they’re just using the vine backlog to push a crypto scheme imo.

Pratchett, his whole bibliography, is most of the reason I am the person I am. Specifically the first book of his I read was The Fifth Elephant, a weird place to start but still one of my favorites. Still haven’t read The Shepherd’s Crown, don’t know if I’ll ever be ready.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Extremely low stakes debate topic: What do you figure is the English word with the worst “what it means” to “how it sounds” ratio? Like, I borderline refuse to say “demonstrably” right because “demonstrate-ably” is what it means while “de-MONSTER-bly” sounds like a children’s monster movie title.

I have… way more thoughts about the Wednesday show than is probably healthy. Like it was fun, but idk if I’ve ever seen a piece of media jumble its ideas so powerfully before.

The inevitable has happened, I booted up Silksong and I’ve finally hit a point where the time investment to get good enough to play it just doesn’t really grab me anymore I lived off Soulslikes through my 20s. But I’ve got other stuff going on now I want to do more. End of an era. Skong on for me 🫡

Hello I’m back. (Did a bit of a social media hiatus, cuz you know, everything.)

Just my boys and our devastating ice weakness haha.