Fortified Niche

..."inability to accept determinisim" is a new frontier is slop defense.

A YouTube commenter asserts that AI will replace what I do, so why fight it, and also apparently can predict my behavior, and also why fight anything because the universe has one predetermined outcome which is apparently slop forever

I'm trying not to respond to YouTube comments anymore because it always leads to bullshit, but sometimes people just say the fucking wildest things.

"how do you do, fellow space marine fans. Don't you hate it when your wife wants to join in the hobby? Anyways, I had a question about the neck joints for the MkIVs..."

81 - Burrows & Badgers: Second Edition

Another brave goon has made a podcast episode suitable for a collection of STLs:

open.spotify.com/episode/2lfP...

Fantasy Animals collection by MrNightmares | MyMiniFactory Collection Fantasy Animals by MrNightmares | STL files for 3D designers and makers, share free and paid guaranteed 3D printable models. Download high-quality 3D print files for tabletop gaming, toys, ...

One brave Something Awful poster has made a collection of STLs suitable for Burrows and Badgers:
www.myminifactory.com/users/MrNigh...

49 of you suffer Spotify just to listen to us, awww <3

I am Up To My Shit Again with the @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social Sprue Game.

But I love those helmets.

GO SUBMIT YOU'RE OWN IDEA, M'LORD:
wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/i...

Is Porble maybe too powerful?

These could have been miniatures, but I don't have to paint stickers.

Half of these are going on the back of a Nissan Pixo.

I hope @qsy.bsky.social remembers us when the TC French come out

Quick shot of the minis for Highlander the Board Game. All done with speed/contrast paints. Its quite cool that with the expansion you get the option of 'historic' or 'modern' versions of each character.
#nerdlings

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Yay!
I've received the @badsquiddogames.bsky.social kickstarter I supported and with it my first miniatures since I made a few in the 1980s.
The kickstarter was a huge success and I'm very excited with what I got, let's take a look at what I received!
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One step closer to finishing the Wasteland terrain range for the SWARM!

"SHUT THE FUCK UP, EPIC SCALE TERF"

Goffs watching football, wearing black

Goffs

Was looking up AT-43 Red Blok stuff on eBay and either people never really played the faction or they REALLY like it to this day, cos most of the stuff on sale seemed to be one American doing it, then some UK sellers, and nothing else.

A TTS screenshot of Gaz truck model in a Gaslands module. The Gaz truck as been equiped with a massive snowplow, some random gatdgets in the bed, and the side of the bed has a large rusty plate with a skull and crossbones that reads, in Ukrainian, "[I forget the word] Tachanka Named After Nestor Makhno"

The other choice shall always and forever be

Use only one art piece to convince people to follow you!

As unlikely as it may sound, it's cos of some recent podcastly developments that I may finally need to mix up a batch of @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social 's Marine Juice.

Also, his videos are reliably non-annoying to listen to <3

OK, as far as attempts at "our sci-fi germans aren't nazis" go, Chaim Drescher: The Maccabean Knight
is a great one.

Finally found a Marcher design I actually like.

I fuckken love the AT-T so any weird remixes will find a place in my heart.

And please know that I'm incredibly in favour of people being paid, I think it's so important that these games and the people who make them can sustain families without living in poverty.
It was just a surprise when so many other indie games don't have that barrier to sampling.

Cassa here, recently played a game at a convention that I really really enjoyed, and I was genuinely surprised that it didn't have a digital quick start of any kind, so I have to rebuy the rule book for a pdf copy and all the army books for the boxes I just bought. Feels like I'm bein nickel-&-dimed

A smoll bonus:

The [gender] urge to make army lists for games I'm unlikely to play and even less likely to collect.

The horse that all that hearsay is about. Painted for an SA painting challenge or something:
www.barreldrill.com/painted-horu...

My orcs are pretty bad.
Vendel wolf riders and knucklebones 3d printed uruks/hobgoblins.
#Nerdlings #MiddleEarthGaming

Ideal Warhammer Fantasy wargame would have Warmaster's scale, Infamy's formations, ASOIAF ease of moving, counting attacks, and frontage matching, WHFB hero customization, and Moonstone hero duels.

Burrows and Badgers 2E has the the Shrew Knight which is always mounted on a grub.

But what if he had a spell-casting counterpart...
www.darkswordminiatures.com/shop/chipmun...

those are some bloodthirsty squirrels