Pantmonger

There is a thing in academic writing where you are supposed to cite sources & people can verify them themselves. Use multiple sources to show the info broadly accepted, and where possible cite counter positions to show you have considered them. Hobby rumor mills are the antithesis of this process.

The source is singular and unverifiable "trust me my uncle works for Nintendo". There is no attempt to interrogate why person X/location Y would even be the go to for such a leak. There is no counter position considered, or examination of inconsistencies or implausibilities in the 'fact'.

There is a thing in academic writing where you are supposed to cite sources & people can verify them themselves. Use multiple sources to show the info broadly accepted, and where possible cite counter positions to show you have considered them. Hobby rumor mills are the antithesis of this process.

There's a thing in the hobby where people either deeply convinced that their pet theory is true or hungry for attention, present their fictions as fact. "I have insider contacts, people were fired over fem Custodes, they will never be mentioned again!" For some folks any attention is good attention.

It's part of the reason I was obsessed with this stuff for so long. I was baffled by people who'd lie to their follower using an easily disprovable fiction. I was fascinated that they believed their own shit so hard, the idea that reality/time would out this lie, wasn't even a consideration.

There is an all to common type of bigot who mythologies the achievements of their race/gender/sexuality then pretends that by belonging to that group, those achievements are some how theirs and that makes them better then the 'other' who actually did something.

You see this a lot in gender rep bigotry. "There is no way women soldiers/athletes can be stronger then men!" But they are stronger then you... and you think you could be a solder/athlete, that somehow you could level up and do that role, but the women already stronger then you can not...

Looking at the old world and trying to decide which of the many cool armies I'd like to commit to. (Don't want to do my regular 10 army thing :P)

Talking with friends and I have reconsidered. I'm always attracted to playing fragile armies but rarely have the wargaming skill to pull it off and end up having a bad time. So now I'm eyeing Dwarfs and if I don't flip flop again before tomorrow will prob pick up some Ironbreakers (I love em).

One of my university art subjects involved exploring the technique of rotoscoping. I created a couple of pieces using it, the first was simply rotoscoping some movie footage in my own style, in the second I filmed my own arm/hand and using that as the base, I mimicked an existing style & made this.

Apparently Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, is 'sexually suggestive' thanks BlueSky mod bots. 🙄

Went looking for old-world game groups and events in Brisbane and Queensland, and damn the amount of AI used in their posters and event images is disheartening. Really taking the shine of the idea of branching into a new gaming community. 🤮

One of my university art subjects involved exploring the technique of rotoscoping. I created a couple of pieces using it, the first was simply rotoscoping some movie footage in my own style, in the second I filmed my own arm/hand and using that as the base, I mimicked an existing style & made this.

For the interested, the first was a brief scene from one of my favorite films. (They had to be brief given how long it takes to do this stuff and how little time I could really dedicate to a single subject amongst many)

Looking at the old world and trying to decide which of the many cool armies I'd like to commit to. (Don't want to do my regular 10 army thing :P)

Mulling this over and being unable to decide (surprising no one) I'm going to start with Dark Elves. I bought a bunch a while back for Cities before they were squatted, and will hope they come into the main-line by the time my slow painting ass has finished the ones I own.

There's a terrible Kinder Bueno ad I get bombarded with on youtube: X has candy with a 'living' Mona Lisa. "Admiring the painting is good, being alone with it is great, sharing candy with her is Bueno" Obviously people dream of spending time with the model, not the notable artist who painted it?🥴

So I will be doing an intensive over what would normally be the summer hols (T3), an course that will smooth out the rest of my study load. It's drawing foundations, which may seem weird given I can draw, but I've never studied it formally and I have gaps, so it should be a fun elective.

I know I can sound like a broken record with this stuff, but part of the reason I'm leaning toward wood/high elves as an old world army is there are women in the mix. I know its the burden of a game with older minis, but at this point in my life I'm a bit over with having to kitbash better rep.

With autism, it's easy to hate parts of yourself. I have a thing where if their needs to be a visit from a tradie, I need to know at least 24hr prior to 'make peace' with it. I hate that it makes me feel like I'm fragile & incapable of such a simple task, & the imposition it puts on my partner.

It's like I need the time to prep for this nothing event, to be able to mask up. But it's such a nothing event, its deeply frustrating for everyone involved. And I know that in the moment, even though I will dislike it, I'll be fine. But I hate that it's even an issue for me a grown ass adult.

Final day of uni for this semester! Hopefully I'll get some hobby done over my few weeks off, before I rush back for an intensive in T3 because it smooths out the rest of my degree.