Mech Advent 2025 Day 22: Hatchetman. Another piece I did pretty early, later updated for a good friend. This is in Kell Hounds colors. #MechAdvent2025 #BattleTech

I have the funniest shit planned for Christmas's bonus Mech Advent entry. Feel free to guess, you'll never get it. (And today's will be up in a few.)

There's a lot of talk about how "it's inevitable" and "everyone's using it" in regards to gAI and I think it's pretty clear folk are misjudging just how much hatred there is toward it, the more the industry fucks with our jobs, tech, prices, privacy. You use this shit & your blacklisted to me.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Wait, there's a *FIFTH* Die Hard!?

If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it

Just 121 hours—and the illustration for Heart Breaker RPG is complete. "New Gods from the Wound in the Old Sky" #TTRPG #InkDrawing

#potionheroes #comics

Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day "I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off. There's silence for a second. "Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."

Tired: Bury the Lede Wired: Bari the Story

Edgelands (2024) Oil and acrylic on canvas

FYI #artsky

A reminder that The Escapist that people remembered does not exist anymore. Almost all the core staff packed up and left. Most reformed as Second Wind, which is doing decent work. The Escapist now exists to promote online gambling and act as a mouthpiece for unhinged venture capitalists. Let it die

Affordable last minute gift ideas! - mysterious jar of moss - invisible helmet - thrift store goblin bones - fox laughter - map of good burritos - curly fries & kindness

The past few days have marked a couple of big milestones for me. I've now been sober for six months, and my mother passed away two years ago. It's a lot for the end of the year.

This isn't part of Mech Advent, but here's a Star of custom white tiger-themed Clanners I finished for a commission. #BattleTech

Mech Advent Calendar Day 21: Warhammer. A relatively simple scheme, representing the classic ride of Natasha Kerensky while she was with Wolf's Dragoons. #BattleTech #MechAdvent2025

Waking up every day, mentally I am both of them.

Yes hello, former senior dev here: Every time someone says “AI does [useful thing]” you can place a safe bet that what they actually mean is “a machine learning algorithm trained on very specific high quality data does [useful thing]”

This isn't just pre-computer sources, either. I know of at least two troves of early BattleTech development documents from the 1980s and 90s that haven't been digitized.

are you jewish and do you think you can gather 2-5 players for TTRPG playtest that must take place in the next 48 hours? if so, send me a DM!

personally think any ai use at any stage in the creation process should be criticized so companies don't get comfortable with even the smallest amount of it in their works

Shrek and Chili's

The issue about using a/i in games is simple: Corporations of all sizes lie. They lie implicitly. If you've ever been employed by one you have been party to at least one corporate lie by volume. If a company is caught using a/i in one instance, the likelihood they've used it elsewhere skyrockets.

if one day after you’ve been taking your meds for a while you start thinking “oh yeah i don’t even need these anymore i’m normal now” that’s the devil talking to you

"man with balloon"

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

This isn't part of Mech Advent, but here's a Star of custom white tiger-themed Clanners I finished for a commission. #BattleTech

Mech Advent Calendar Day 21: Warhammer. A relatively simple scheme, representing the classic ride of Natasha Kerensky while she was with Wolf's Dragoons. #BattleTech #MechAdvent2025

Blocked the UVG guy. I'm supposed to be getting the new boxed set someday, so when it shows up I'll be giving it away. Never has someone so thoroughly destroyed my love for their product.

New commission rule: Mad Cats have a $10 surcharge for all the fucking missiles I have to tip.

#artvsartist2025 ✨

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

Tariffs have made row-crop farming non-viable, due to jacking up the price of fertilizer and steel. Nobody *names* the person responsible for the tariffs, just say their share of $12bn won't cover the costs. Oh, and that farmers only get pennies when breakfast cereal prices are $8/box!

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

I hope you got a big hug without asking for it today, but if you didn’t here’s one 🫂

IT book: Maine's version of the KKK, organized by derry's ruling class, burns down the Black Spot because it became more popular than the bars they banned the black soldiers from and white women were going there and they couldn't get it shut down politically Derry: 4 guys think murderer is there

There is no AI used in Blue Prince. The game was built and crafted with full human instinct by Tonda Ros and his team at @dogubomb.bsky.social. It is the result of eight years of development, fuelled by imagination and creativity, and we are extremely proud of what Tonda has achieved.

Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP

It has become abundantly - and depressingly - clear that there are two kinds of people in this world. Those that can recognize the humanity of other people, and those who are so solipsistic that they automatically react to anything talking as if it's human.

This is a real Jake Paul quote: "I've studied David and Goliath going into this fight," Paul told ESPN, explaining how his faith will fuel him against Joshua.

Morning, chums! Reminder this is on all day today too

joining the great machine consciousness

yeah, most ✨Shameless Self Promotion Saturday✨ are devoted to underlining being a place where people can get things they want while paying no more than they can justify (or just giving shit away) last one before Xmas. it's been a slow month. please be generous today. we could use it.

Has anyone edited this to include the Death Punch from One Punch Man's "friendly fight" with Genos yet?

"Stitch (darn)", oil/acrylic/thread/sewing needle on paper, 10 1/2 x 15", 2025- $450(Cdn) #art

I can't believe I have to make this a rule, but don't buy "ethnic" games made by white guys.

Had the awesome (derogatory) experience of an unexpected medical bill from something last April coming in a few days before Christmas, so uh sales right now both help me AND add community copies!