CheapSweets

CheapSweets

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I already noted how Walter Koenig's comic timing was such an asset. But I also loved how he portrayed a Russian character with kindness and humor at a time when Russia was our No. 1 foe and its people were vilified for decades. As the grandchild of a Russian Jews, I was grateful for it.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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hello. I’m the new Meta AI chatbot. I am your friend and you can tell because I am made of human flesh like all your other friends. hey bestie let’s rank our favourite passwords

More #Steam #NextFest observations; * I recognise that title font! * So much friendslop * Predictably, so many Backrooms games! * I can't believe it's not Phasmophobia * Why are we calling clickers 'incremental games' now? * Why so many gnome games!? I mean, seriously have I missed a memo?

And thanks for @nordicweaselgames.bsky.social for turning me onto this band! While I'm automatically inclined to like any video with that many swords ⚔️ #Smoulder have a really classic old school vibe (both in terms of the music and RPG/fantasy aesthetics!). Also the new album art is by Ian Miller!

@tdevens.bsky.social thank you for putting me onto Smoulder. This is the most delightful, charming, music video. youtu.be/Kq-xw6v7hSM?...

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On that last note, I have seen a couple of very specific examples that I won't name here, but that also applies to non-white characters (drow do not count!). Given the increase in accessibility settings in demos this #NextFest I'd love to see more disabled representation in characters in games too!

Full disclosure - if you have used generative AI in your process, I am not trying the demo. There are over 7000 games in in this #NextFest and, all else aside, it's an easy way of clearing out the chaff and focusing on the games (and developers) I want to give attention to. #NextFest #Steam #antiAI

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Things this #Steam #NextFest I'm less pleased with - *Overly apologetic AI disclosures (I'm pretty sure people were making games before genAI) *Creature battlers putting their most generic designs front and centre *Overdetailed/overtextured AI generated cover image 🤮

*We have Darkest Dungeon at home... (by all means, be inspired by the aesthetics or gameplay, but both at once always means you will be playing second fiddle to the original) *Inexplicable cleavage *...sorry I forgot that women exist... #steam #NextFest

*word games are out *games based on chess are in *interesting takes on autobattlers *why so many raiding simulators? (are MMOs old? Am I old?!) *lots of 'popular game only idle' *so many of the demos I have played this time round have extensive accessibility settings - thank you devs! #NextFest

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The mantis is called the 'rice-pounding grasshopper' in Thailand (ตั๊กแตนตำข้าว), from the motion of its raptorial forelegs resembling the traditional manner of pounding rice to remove the husks. This one was drawn with this very brush.

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My 10-year-old just burst into my office to inform me that the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire. Thanks, little Voltaire.

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'Hell Chicken' is actually an elegant, dignified little creature, if you please. 🤓☺️ The recently described oviraptorosaur, Infernogallus. Qualifying as an honorary #Boktober. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 132 × 85 mm.

Natee (they/them)@himmapaan.bsky.social

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Here’s a 3up of the old Heroquest Bloodthirster with some of the other sculpts in the background. We used Chavant clay to sculpt these and they became plastic figures. A few of us sat around a table and worked on these together. We would pick one up, work on it and then move onto a different one.

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Tall & Judgy. (Aside: I think the European robin is Birb rather than Berd. American robins, on the other hand -- and by extension all thrushes -- yes, very much Berds.)

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PSA: The latest NVIDIA App update adds a Default-ON option that allows AI Agents to control the app... Might want to turn it off.. Even aside from being lame AI features, that feels like making security even worse by defaulting it ON.

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I don’t know how to feel about the fact that the first gummy military hero I took out of the bag had lost his leg

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🏺 🦣 🧪 Been waiting YEARS for more deets on astonishing wooden objects used by #Neanderthals at Abric Romaní (a site which, as anyone who's read #Kindred knows, I rave about). Can't wait to dive in: bark(!) trays, wood tools inc poss spears, and structural objects www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.orgNeanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic contextWood technology likely played a key role in human evolution, yet it remains poorly documented because organic materials rarely preserve in archaeological contexts. The Middle Palaeolithic site of Abri...

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This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Reminds me the original Traitor / Chaos Marine was clearly based off of Vamp from the Go-Bots. #oldhammer #40k

Andy Foster (Heresy Miniatures)@heresyminiatures.com

Imagining a Transformers/40k crossover line of toys, but done properly, just using the vehicles, aircraft, titans etc as alt forms. And all of the Tyranids i guess? Genestealer alt! (I'd say Grimlock would be a Super Heavy Tank like a Baneblade; Optimus Prime an Ash Wastes Big Rig?)

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These were three individual pieces I did in 2021. Unplanned, they became something of an accidental sequence. They then prompted me to make the piece in the quoted post, of the pumpkin dance, by way of a conclusion. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, each 95 × 64 mm.

Natee (they/them)@himmapaan.bsky.social

Pumpkin Dance. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, 95 × 64 mm. From 2021.

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NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL TOAPLAN!

Forgotten Worlds@forgottenworlds.bsky.social

I still think the cover art is ghastly, and looks like ones of those cheap “100% hits” CD compilations you might see at a service station… but I couldn’t resist these Toaplan classics. #Toaplan #Shmup #STG #RetroGaming