In my first replay of Metroid Prime 2 since it released, I've been aiming for 100% completion. I have every item pickup! I would have every scan for the logbook... had I not missed one you can only get right near the start of the game. My attempt has been doomed this entire time I'm so upset

I did it, I finally watched 100 films I'd never seen before this year! Now to see how many more I can watch in the next month

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What did I do to get constantly tagged by the same cloned and obviously inauthentic account over and over

Staving off the madness by walking through muddy fields in the rain, photographing a 10th century church, waving at sheep, completing a replay of Metroid Prime, and making myself some gochujang egg fried rice Winter is mentally hard, this one especially so, but yay doing things

The thought of having to be a corporate IT desk jockey for the rest of my life was like staring into abyss so I did the opposite

Been watching through Battlestar Galactica (the 2004 series) and finished it last night, and damn what a show. Nothing like what I expected it to be yet so good??

I have always found the mountains of "visit the Cotswolds" tourist bait accounts on Instagram funny, yeah sure just pack even more people into tiny villages for one photo. Bibury is nice, sure, but all these accounts conveniently leave out that one of the main roads in the area goes right through it

I'm getting irrationally annoyed by the word "oftentimes"; it seems to be increasingly everywhere now, and yet is more to say and type than just "often" which means the exact same damn thing.

I miss the birds

Hey if your website forces a "choice" between accepting all tracking cookies or subscribing, I'm just not going to use your site ever.

Can't believe *I'm* the one being cautiously optimistic for Metroid and not freaking out that it's going to be terrible, like if the companion characters are limited in their use, it's really not that big a jump from the use entry?

Made the mistake of popping in to the minster on a Saturday and aaaaaa so many people But the organ is playing which is nice

Goooood morning it's spooky fog day

Despite a big gap in back into film watching mode; my goal at the start of the year was to watch 100 feature films I've never seen before, any genre, date, or quality. I've got 10 left to go and need more! More!

Oh I wonder why I haven't played any new "AAA" games in ages? Let's see what happens Oh what's that? All the console UIs suck? A game wants me to sign into an account just to have local saves? I have to install games in pieces? Everything has gambling mechanics?? So cool!!!!!

I was watching Bring Her Back and between this and Heretic I'll never be able to watch Paddington 2 the same way again

Step 1: watch a spooky film with the lights off alone Step 2: finish film only to hear horrifying screaming outside Step 3: ...it's a fox

ah I'm bored, here it is now Eve's Ribs Digital painting

Spooking around the near complete early 13th century church in Skelton, North Yorkshire (with obligatory Victorian furniture)

Remember, artists: when people say, “I’d buy a print of this,” they don’t mean it. That sentence itself is just a weird compliment that rarely converts to an actual print sale. It’s like if someone ate a very good hot dog and then said, “I could eat 10,000 of these right now.”

I have finished my first piece since moving aaaaaaaa

Now things feel a little less like everything's on fire, it's Patreon post time! www.patreon.com/posts/big-mo...

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I haven't played the game, but whoever designed the church in Skate 4, we need to have words and talk about why a building like that needs pillars and arcades to stay standing.

Very slowly trying to figure out this arrangement is "fun"!!! (Why do I do this)

Taken to navigating the absurdly slow and spacially unaware city tourists with all the bravado of the Bitter Sweet Symphony video

But what if more detail though

As a change from lots of nature paintings, this one is mostly about surfaces

Sketching arches on location today

I hate my hands I hate my hands I hate my hands

storing my snacks in a safe and thus creating the ultimate biscuit tin

Just saw someone ask if wolfsbane was poisonous to dogs

Autumn Walk

Who likes old buildings (hint: it's me)

Well that's the first of these cracked, I'll see if I can produce a diagram of Tintern Abbey's west window soon too Fun fact that second example appears in a painting I did a few years ago (but I didn't geometrically construct it then)

Thoroughly no point in Halo: Campaign Evolved if Assault on the Control Room or Two Betrayals aren't fixed, thanks I already have halo 1 twice, don't care how pretty it is

Maaaan this week has been rough and of now if being blindsided by everything exploding catching up to me, and now all I can think is how absurdly stupid and dumb and pointless it all was

The solution seems to be that each of the upper circles falls into a kite shape formed form the tangents of each of the arches it borders. So to find the correct tangents without knowing where the circle will touch first...

I didn't find the solution to this particular one yet BUT I did figure out the rule for inscribing a circle perfectly into any non-truncated arch!

This time I know I've definitely gone way overboard with detail

Good morning, have some arch drawing

Next up in Hol's "how do they do those circles?" quest... how do they do those circles? My rules for the previous kinds go out the window because the arcs they're in aren't concentric. I am stumped. And no, before you say it, they don't line up with the top of the adjacent points

Somehow managed to be productive today despite falling down a mental pit thinking how much everything I thought was by life detonated this year and how sometimes it's hard to tell what's really happening. I'm so tired, everything has been so much, and I don't know how or when I'll feel "normal"

Using blender, a method of reconstructing the layout of the chapter house windows! I worked it out! It's all possible with a compass and straightedge. Yay

Slamming that mute button because there's no way to turn off reposts from individual accounts and sometimes it's a deluge of depressing "news" and freaking out over obvious outrage bait

Good evening + pretty lights

...holy shit I think I've cracked it (or at least some of it), I have a general rule that works for the placement of any circle so long as it's touching another curve.

I saw the best surviving original drawings in the world and am no closer to my goal