Bertie

Exact same for me, I don’t think I’ve hated any experience more.

I’m going to have to make a macro to just send you boos

Genuinely the only reason I had any idea of what was happening was that I’d just played a mobile game that summarised the original show.

My goodness, this poem. A beautiful, savage, blunt explanation of why we study war and conflict and also why military history is not and should not be just 'for the boys.'

The poem is moving in its unwillingness to whitewash the many tombs of war, as we should too should be unwilling.

Historicals Essentials: How Accurate Do You Need to Be? Today in historicals, HardyRoach pops in to take a look at how much accuracy matters on the table in historical games — and where to prioritize it.

Interested in historicals but worried about accuracy? Don't be! I write about accuracy and historicals, with the new player in mind.

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I stuck the Data System glow in some water effects and it made some seriously toxic looking sludge

Boooooooooooooo

The Ice Maiden from Dystopian Wars. It is an iceberg to which a giant flight deck has been attached.

I really love the Dystopian Wars Ice Maiden. It’s such a nonsense ship (seen here without the guns)

Causton CID got a budget for outside help

Literally did my first experiment with liquid effects last night! Going for the sort of toxic filth that’d be around at the end of the Siege of Terra

Or if you’re me, 100+ Space Marines!

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

You mad bastard. Nicely done

Beyond delighted to share the cover for The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver. Kerby Rosanes is a wizard. If you think the cover is beautiful, just wait until you meet the wild, heartbreaking adventure inside. The good folk @gollancz.bsky.social await your preorders. Link in bio, as they say.

How is 2nd edition?

The Gunpla kits Ariel HG 1/144th scale and Ariel FM 1/100th scale

What I have done is find one design I like just enough to care and get that in a couple of different styles 😂 But I 100% get what you mean

Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books
1. Terry Pratchett
2. J.R.R Tolkien
3. Adrian Tchaikovsky
4. Ben Aaronovitch
5. Robert Jordan
6. Bernard Cornwell
7. Brian McClellan
8. Kevin Hearne
9. Steve McHugh
10. David Eddings

Probably at least one BL author but I’m not doing the maths

If you see this, quote repost with a sword.

I really should finish this lad. It’s just his shield and base to do.

Sorry to hear that 🫂

Would you look at that, suddenly I’m 5’10”

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Oh 100%, if it’s going to happen then at least it happened then

So a mixed success

Floating land raider, just to really drive home the naming convention

I really enjoyed it (helped by a lot of going “Oooh, I know where that is”). My parents and I binged it independently but I’d have happily watched it with them.

I reckon the folks from Dept. Q will get around to it, but I’m not entirely comfortable with how long it’ll take.

The cover of the original Warhammer 40K Tau Codex. It features a Crisis Battlesuit towering over a group of Fire Warriors and Kroot Carnivores

I got this before I got my first core rulebook and spent a while staring at it, trying to work out what things like AP could possibly mean.

#289, so the issue immediately after you! It might still be at my parent’s house but I think we cleared them out a while ago.

Now that there’s going to be plastic breachers Fafnir Rann will be getting reinforcements.

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again