devolutionary

Ahhh jealous, I have no idea if they are going to get back to NZ at any point. Enjoy!

But if we don't glaze the rich DIYers, they might not explode themselves any more :(

Yeah... this army is going to suck to paint. The 2nd ed paint scheme is intense #oldhammer #spacewolves #miniaturepainting

.... wut?

Ah the orcs and goblins featuring sculpted giant with the sick dragon tattoo. I remember this store profile well now (the Blood Angels statue in particular), been a while since I looked back at this issue.

Boy howdy the #horusheresy 3.0 stuff is a hell of a mess. I had ignored it for a long time, then spent the past week trying to catch up.

I fucking miss 1.0, damn.

Hot damn thats some good news to wake up too!

Bretonnian Green Knight

Bretonnian Green Knight

Bretonnian Green Knight

Bretonnian Green Knight

The final model to call my Bretonnian army complete. Never painted to this degree in my life, never done mass lighting to this level, never tried this much freehand, super pleased with how it all came out #warhammerfantasy #theoldworld #bretonnia

I have missed the Froggy friend, but please take what time is needed. Happy Froggy is Best Froggy.

I do not like a bunch of things about this model, especially as a game piece, but it does look pretty damn hot #warhammerfantasy #theoldworld #bretonnia

Ahh the Semple, a beloved favourite of tank nerds everywhere, alongside the Killdozer. What a champion of an effort.

1996 Louen Leoncouer on Hippogriff model by Citadel Miniatures

1996 Louen Leoncouer on Hippogriff model by Citadel Miniatures

1996 Louen Leoncouer on Hippogriff model by Citadel Miniatures

1996 Louen Leoncouer on Hippogriff model by Citadel Miniatures

My 1997 birthday present finally assembled and painted. Super happy with the classic scheme or as close as I could get with only 3 angles ever photographed of the model. I am so happy it is done, and it was such a joy to work with #oldhammer #miniaturepainting #theoldworld #warhammerfantasy

How can anyone not love an outrageously flamboyant man with a love for throwing cash at people in small boxes for entertainment and his terrifyingly bloated paralysis-demon husband??

Been a hot minute since I posted anything (mostly because of a broken light box) but here's a WIP of a classic birb in a classic scheme. Still a bunch to do, but took shockingly little time to get this point. #oldhammer #warhammerfantas

I feel no small amount of concern that my love of history, miniature wargaming, and now electronics is all converging on an absurdly huge and time consuming railway display. Is this my impending mid-life crisis finally coming to the fore? God have mercy (on my family)

That's a peak "go fuck yourself" moment if ever there was one. What a load of bollocks to have to deal with.

Finished GuitarPCB Model T preamp pedal kit

Wiring on my GuitarPCB Model T preamp pedal kit

Finished my first guitar pedal build, my first proper electronics project, and my first time putting down a decal that large. Very fun project, very satisfying to have complete, had to force some patience into my bones. Wish Dad could hear it, though he'd probably complain it's not a Fender.

Michael J Sullivan's Riyria Revelations perhaps? I always liked the world. Gritty, but not so gritty I felt uncomfortable turning the page. I always liked that it didn't treat the reader like they don't understand human nature and behaviours.

Hah they were on my list but I ran out of characters.

Aside - if you're old enough, the "Warhammer used to be good..." argument means female space marines, Space Orks with bolt pistols, and not having serious portrayals of the monstrous, evil, fascist human-grinder as heroic, noble, and good. Though I guess all nobles are fascistic and evil anyway?

My exciting Saturday night life.

I honestly cannot remember, it's been so very very long. That does sound on par for that game though, it was so strange but compelling.

Yooo One Must Fall 2097, deep cut right there. Brother and I put a lot of work in learning those moves on keyboard.

Decided on the art I'm going to put on my home made EAE Model feT clone for the new pedal board.

Now I need something for the fuzz.

#diypedals #guitarpedals #oldhammer #thousandsons

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

YouTube video by The Australian Armour & Artillery Museum WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: StuG III Ausf. G restoration COMPLETE!

I had no idea the Aussies had such an excellent museum and range of restorations, they are finally tempting me to do a weekend trip over the Straits.

The PCB for a guitar pedal

Such a dingus. Bought two pedal kits last year, built one, didn't work, got demoralised, got busy, finally take another look - it helps to wire up the input and output to the sockets, who'd have thought??

#guitarpedals

I've been smashing out Bretonnians to finish off these lads, I should really get some photos sorted, but I kind of want to make some terrain and do some old school style shots (ambitious given my atrocious photography skills)

Legend of the Five Rings core rulebook

Finally picked up a long time wanted book. Been interested in the setting since the 90s so happy to find a copy in New Zealand to nab