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Rick A

@rvda.bsky.social

Professional geek. 3D artist, game modeler and toy designer. Plastic crack enthusiast, art lover, and fan of tabletop games and shows. He/him. AI can fuck right off.

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Jill Valentine plus 20 some years, a bit greyer in the hair, sporting a big blue jacket, roughed up shirt and silver shades propped on her forehead.

Jill Valentine plus 20 some years, a bit greyer in the hair, sporting a big blue jacket, roughed up shirt and silver shades propped on her forehead.

Friend held me at gunpoint and made me draw the idea I had for Jill Valentine if they let her out of the basement for one of the new games
#ResidentEvil #JillValentine

05.03.2026 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

05.03.2026 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 15313    πŸ” 4928    πŸ’¬ 122    πŸ“Œ 93

How that thing was supposed to transform

18.02.2026 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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One time, I tried to do a thing…

17.02.2026 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 185    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Jets of fire

22.02.2026 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Doncept OC Gamma Supreme

02.03.2026 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Doncept Megaplex

04.03.2026 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
rough digital sketch of a design for Transformers Slipstream that turns into the 'MiG-37B' as released as a model kit by Italeri.

rough digital sketch of a design for Transformers Slipstream that turns into the 'MiG-37B' as released as a model kit by Italeri.

Found this sketch from 2024, Slipstream as the Italeri speculative design for the MiG-37B.

03.03.2026 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Watercolor painting of beast wars Neo Big Convoy

Watercolor painting of beast wars Neo Big Convoy

Big Convoy for the 30th anniversary of #beastwars !!

#bigconvoy #noaiart #traditionalartist

05.03.2026 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 267    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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Here’s a cover I illustrated for the upcoming D&D book, Ravenloft: The Horrors Within. It was such a joy to paint Strahd again πŸ¦‡
Art director: AJ Hanneld

04.03.2026 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3899    πŸ” 1004    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 26

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

04.03.2026 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7134    πŸ” 2595    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 36
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when he’s strong and fast and also fresh from the fight 🫦

05.03.2026 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3427    πŸ” 920    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3
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Checkered flag!!!

That's Cosmos's thing forever now.

05.03.2026 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

I think I'm reaching the point where I wouldn't mind updates of Classic Figures. Mainline, MP, 3P, whatever. Some really quality toys that just need a bit of love to be even more excellent.

05.03.2026 01:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Something else to take into account here is that PlayStation's PC push was started under Shawn Layden, it was his initiative and was paying off significantly, PC was a big growth area for them. So there's another thing Jim Ryan fucked up.

04.03.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

This is extremely disappointing because as far as AAA games go I really do love Playstation titles, they are a cut above, and I was seriously looking forward to both Yotei and Saros and didn't mind the couple of years delay releasing on PC. I hope they'll reverse course on this eventually.

04.03.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 583    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 0

If you wanna be radicalized against GenAI, try running an online business while these thieving shitbricks try to scrape your site at all hours of the day, creating a looping, endless DDoS.

Fuck generative "AI." It's all slop built on wholesale theft.

27.02.2026 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1543    πŸ” 801    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 13

Please do not mess around with the big rock in the sky that makes the oceans work

03.03.2026 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Affection Remains circa. 2022

09.12.2024 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1778    πŸ” 576    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5
A Master Grade GM Command Space Type(white and red mecha) on a cutting mat in front of a cluttered desk.

A Master Grade GM Command Space Type(white and red mecha) on a cutting mat in front of a cluttered desk.

A Master Grade GM Command Space Type(white and red mecha) on a cutting mat in front of a cluttered desk turned with its back towards the camera.

A Master Grade GM Command Space Type(white and red mecha) on a cutting mat in front of a cluttered desk turned with its back towards the camera.

Finished up the MG GM Command with some waterslides, finally started using them. Im also glad the red edging of the thruster pits came out well.

01.03.2026 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prepping some files for print, and I came across this old fave from 2018! It started of as a commission (thanks @yukonshaun.bsky.social!) and then @dcjosh.bsky.social grafted some gorgeous colours onto it, so it became a nice little narrative piece of Verity Carlo's adventures with robots!

03.03.2026 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 330    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Every time I wonder if I should play FO4 I am reminded that nah I'm good.

03.03.2026 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mid-to-late 2000s internet had most of the good stuff we like (streaming audio and video, online shopping, ways to communicate, mobile access) but DIDN'T have:

-algorithms for EVERYTHING
-cookie popups
-adverts taking up 70%+ of screen real estate
-only 6 web sites
-optimisation for retention

03.03.2026 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
2b from Nier Automata fishing with a machine life form and pod underneath a giant tree

2b from Nier Automata fishing with a machine life form and pod underneath a giant tree

On might like to go fishing with friends even on a #cutiesaturday

21.02.2026 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2337    πŸ” 737    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2
Pascal the machine life form teaches two smaller machine life forms how to cut a paper heart

Pascal the machine life form teaches two smaller machine life forms how to cut a paper heart

Has it really been 15 years? #nierautomata

20.02.2026 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1839    πŸ” 446    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 1
sketch of a swordsman hunched over and frozen, arrows sticking out their back and a broken sword in hand

sketch of a swordsman hunched over and frozen, arrows sticking out their back and a broken sword in hand

It's kinda cold out

23.02.2026 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1018    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so fucking tired

03.03.2026 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

02.03.2026 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 16459    πŸ” 5108    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 63

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:

you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

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