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A close up of miniatures in the midst of a 40k game. The remnants of a Cadian combat squad with two armoured vehicles are beset by the Necron xenos menace.

If nothing else it's just really nice to see a couple of painted armies going up against each other. :D

A picture of a Warhammer 40k game in progress. Three Cadian armoured vehicles and two squads of infantry hold the center of the board surrounded by Necron forces.

The lads from Cadia put up a decent struggle. I was ahead on points until the last turn but thanks to the way the missions and secondaries landed my opponent ended up scoring more points in the last turn than I had the entire game.

Them's the breaks. :D

The sprinkles are also cursed does not constitute good bedside manner!

Sounds like you’d really benefit from looking this up for yourself. It’s about a lot but recent themes for given years have been about suicide prevention, finding actual positive role models beyond celebs and influencers, gender equality, encouraging young men to care about health, etc.

Yes it does. It’s Nov 19th. Has been for the last 26 years.

Kid: Milk
@strandedselkie.bsky.social: Do you want milk?
Kid: Yes
@strandedselkie.bsky.social: Shall we get you some milk?
Kid: No

I’ll give her this, she keeps us on our toes.

A dry brushed grey knight, which is not technically a space marine, I guess

It’s true, you can’t dry brush a space marine.

A nice thing about having a proper shape sorter toy (not everything goes in the square hole) is that I can sometimes short circuit an impending tantrum by just playing with the sorter in front of the kiddo and doing it deliberately wrong. She can't resist coming and showing Daddy how to do it right.

They also do content delivery (meaning they have copies of files in data centers all over the world so when you load a video, for example, it can come from a local server instead of across the world).

Sadly the fact they do so much for so many sites means when they have an outage EVERYTHING does.

They don't do that kind of file hosting. What they do do is actually very cool. Amongst other things they do attack mitigation, of all kinds. They constantly monitor new threats and put a layer of defense in front of a lot of websites (a LOT of websites) and protect against DDoS attacks too.

It's rare but always satisfying to see someone online with a correct take.

I'm putting it on MySpace. My top 8 are gonna be ROTFLing

The promise of household robots was that they'd tidy up and do our laundry leaving us time to write and create art.

The reality is that they're stealing the creation of art and writing from us so all we have left is tidying up and laundry.

I too shall not cede ground on this one.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

This is bullshit.

"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.

"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.

Just spent an absolutely lovely morning just going around Ikea. Amazing how joyful even a mundane thing can become when you're doing it with a toddler who has never done it before (as far as she can remember).

Games I am currently playing:

Ace Attorney: Justice for All
Pokemon Platinum Edition
Persona 3 FES
Final Fantasy VII

All of which I'm playing for the first time.

Yeah... I'm doing ok while I ride out the AI bubble.

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender:

Console gamers who want to get into PC gaming. Xbox owners who feel like MS is abandoning them. PC owners who also want a big screen experience at the tv. Parents who want to get their kids their own PC without the hassle of building a system out. Don’t worry, it’ll sell.

gabecube

a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch

My last word on the matter

Eww, please don't make me defend Sandy here... but he specifically doesn't claim to have made E1M1. He claims to have made AN E1M1 that was thrown out and never seen.

How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?

Zero.

Alternatively the BBC accepting that trans people exist is considered too pro-trans?

FUNKO IS DYING
RETWEET TO MAKE IT DIE FASTER

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

Me: (to the cat who just jumped up into @strandedselkie.bsky.social’s seat at the kitchen table, where the kiddo and I are sitting) awww are you sitting at the table like you’re people?

@strandedselkie.bsky.social (back turned, unaware of the cat): what on earth are you saying to my child?

I have no idea whether Eli Roth sucks, I have never seen an Eli Roth movie. Partly because I don't like gory movies.

When I said Elon couldn’t possibly come across as any more divorced if he tried I never actually thought he’d hear me. Certainly didn’t expect him to treat it as a challenge. But he sure showed me!

It’d be hard to laugh at if a human being posted it, but Elon? Elon is easy to laugh at.