AI server farms destroy the planet, destroy our ability to verify information, destroy users' ability to think for themselves, and are actively raising a generation of students to be incapable of performing the tasks they'll need to ever contribute to society. It's morally justified to destroy them.

I feel like I would get more fiction writing done if I treated the word count targets I pledge to do in my writing group as a good starting point rather than the minimum I need to clock out.

Filing a restraining order against my writing group for refusing to let me insult my own work.

Sat down to read more of @mel.bzky.team's WIP novel this evening and I am heartbroken to report that its really good.

The most iconic piece of Warhammer 40,000 artwork. Ever. #WarhammerCommunity #WH40K

New #paleoart posted to #Patreon: woolly mammoths around a duck-filled lake. Accompanying the hi-res and WIPs of this image is a discussion about mammoth colour: the uniform red-brown mammoths of classic palaeoart seem unlikely now. Check it out at www.patreon.com/posts/night-... #fossil #sciart

Wild that the people who run this place are speed-running replicating every mistake anyone who accidentally gets big on a social media platform makes rather than just hiring an actual team with experience running these types of place.

Tried to do dogsitting and ended up getting dogsat.

Managed 50 sustained minutes of work so now my brain thinks it deserves a 2 week holiday.

Turns out this model is older than some of the people in my writing group so excuse me whilst I go crumble to dust.

Been replaying Baldur's Gate 1 + 2 in my spare time and its remarkable just how much better the opening to the second game is than the original. Immediately throws out the typical fantasy start and drops you into an interesting dungeon full of weird experiments and a villain with an intriguing past.

The second part of my Pathologic 2 video essay is now live over on youtube! This time we're diving deep into the game's weird world and story, examining its themes, characters and even drawing comparisons to real life Russian history. Check it out!

Happy to announce that BIG FROG

@thehistocrat.bsky.social: okay do you want to start working now? me: first, most importantly, let me show you this video of a little frog I found. vm.tiktok.com/ZMAmaYELG/

Phew managed to get the copyright claim on my second Pathologic 2 video removed by trimming the credits sequence.

RIP Renato Casaro, an Italian artist known for his film posters. He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

Well my second Pathologic 2 video essay got copyright claimed for music and blocked in a bunch of countries so probably going to reupload shortly.

Picking this up again and honestly baffled that I remembered how the control scheme for these games works.

Me sat with 200 paints surrounding me: I can't paint this mini because I am missing the exact perfect shade I've decided I need for one small part of it.

Sat down honestly intending to spend my spare time writing another of my bad gaming videos and instead spent 2 hours musing about how inscrutable the evolution mechanics in Digimon world on the PS1 were.

Had 5 hours of dogsitting to fill in which I could have exposed myself to any number of new creative experiences via the miracle of streaming. Instead I watched Fellowship of the Ring for the 300th time.

Tried to do dogsitting and ended up getting dogsat.

I am become hobbyist, the eraser of childhoods.

Bought some old metal LOTR minis off eBay and I feel like by stripping them down and repainting them I'm destroying the childhood of whatever kid had a go at painting them originally.

I finally did this and I can report that I have been reborn with a shock of white hair, a new man.

Just one more paint bro, just one more paint to feel better bro, just one more paint to fill the void inside bro

Me: eh I've not been feeling this painting stuff recently but I'll make myself do it to justify the expense. Me waking up four days later covered in paint and waiting on three different online orders for more paints: I have made a wonderful mistake.

DECLARING A PRELIMINARY ARMISTICE

Ran out of contact lens fluid early this month and have to use my glasses so I have gone from looking like a 30 something guy pretending they are still young to looking like someone's dad.

Ran out of contact lens fluid early this month and have to use my glasses so I have gone from looking like a 30 something guy pretending they are still young to looking like someone's dad.

Me: eh I've not been feeling this painting stuff recently but I'll make myself do it to justify the expense. Me waking up four days later covered in paint and waiting on three different online orders for more paints: I have made a wonderful mistake.

Was mentally giving myself a hard time for struggling on the highlights for these guys until I reminded myself just how small they are.

DECLARING A PRELIMINARY ARMISTICE

Update: The war is intensifying.

Sad to announce that I spent my day joining the war between the have nots and the have snots on the side of the have snots.

Took a 2 day break from work and already I can feel my deranged posting juice refreshing.

I'm far from a productive creator, but think about how much worse I'd be if I didn't have the original Stronghold soundtrack to listen to on loop for the last 5 years.

The sick truth behind my warhammer buying habit is that it's the only thing staving off a much larger and more dangerous vintage lego buying habit.

Me: -Half finishes painting one of the 300 unpainted minis in my office- Right I've caught up on my painting time to buy more minis.

Just one more paint bro, just one more paint to feel better bro, just one more paint to fill the void inside bro

One bonus of having NHS people call me out of the blue for the last couple years about my condition and associated medication is I've gotten out of the habit of ignoring calls from numbers I don't know.

Gonna paint more snotlings today hope this doesn't awaken anything in me (e.g. wanting to paint more snotlings)

Sad to announce that I spent my day joining the war between the have nots and the have snots on the side of the have snots.

the day is over. your timely efforts allowed your supporters to remain unharmed. a new mime performance is being reharsed on the youtube

Still wild that I actually finished all my Pathologic 2 video essay stuff after so long (sorry thinking about this is my entire personality atm).

A part of me wants to replay Resident Evil VIII given I enjoyed playing it and never finished it but another part of me can't stomach the idea of dealing with that fucking baby again.

Had a terrifying moment when I was looking for something to play now I've finished my project and my mouse briefly hovered over a paradox game in my steam library.

I'm equally glad that I have enough folks following me on here that I get a few people regularly liking the nonsense I say and also I'm small enough that I'm not worth harassing.

I looked at that bluefacts thing out of curiosity and I was suprised to discover I'm apparently ranked higher than a 6 at something for the first time in my life.

Right thats my foray into non-history/archaeology topics largely done for the moment folks, from now on its going to be back to business as usual for a while.