Ragathol

Ragathol

@ragathol.bsky.social

Artist, miniature painter, wargamer. #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity

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Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

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Replying to @caseyexplosion.bsky.social

I wish I was exaggerating, 16 games from one dev, all AI slop, all clones of something else, all pumped out in the space of months. That's my experience of what AI tools are enabling, not creativity, not anyone's dream game, but spam. Constant, low effort, neverending, AI generated spam.

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The gang all together, and in time for #halloween! From left to right that's an Arcuitor Magisterium, Magos, Archmagos on Abeyant, another Magos and a Skitarii Pilgrym Marshall. The main coven of my Vampire themed Mechanicum army for The Horus Heresy #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #warhammer

Trying this guy again. Seems like I need the tags to have any visibility at all. Something this one does not suffer from. #AoS #PaintingWarhammer

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Hereโ€™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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Replying to @dumbrobotstuff.bsky.social

got nuclear sunrise for the orange glowy bits and scribbled purity seals and stole with text lines, stripes and symbols adapted from alpha-numerics trying to copy the style of some of the admech decals

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eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

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Finally finished with my Keeper of Secrets! It's been standing around half-finished for years... It's always been in many parts, so seeing it all together at last is quite a sight, I hope you'll agree. The inside of the cloth was inspired by Japanese artist Kamin, the outside by a dance performance.

Jump marines are always like that... I guess it's the old evergreen of 'Yay, I finished the model -- oh no, the backpack...' but with effort x2.

Finally finished with my Keeper of Secrets! It's been standing around half-finished for years... It's always been in many parts, so seeing it all together at last is quite a sight, I hope you'll agree. The inside of the cloth was inspired by Japanese artist Kamin, the outside by a dance performance.

There's a lot of grumbling about Genshin Impact, some of it justified, but it is also a remarkable work of art, both visually and audibly. The soundtrack now involves over a thousand tracks of beautiful music of many different types and genres.

Vincent Knotley@vincentknotley.bsky.social

QTP with a game that has a 10/10 soundtrack ๐ŸŽต

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FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinityโ€™s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb

Recently remembered that Warhammer TV exists, so I've been watching Penitence and Imperial Aeronautica. Both quite good! The stories are pretty simple, but great animation and full points for atmosphere, sounds etc. They're really stepping it up now. Loved the Aeldari air acrobatics.

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UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE

geeknative.comUK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade hallsUK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.

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One thing they donโ€™t tell you about being a working artist is that every once in a while a picture is simply Haunted and, for reasons beyond the reach of man, simple things you have done a thousand times will be Very Hard and Look Bad and you will lose ten years of skill for the duration of that job

Very cool Preview! Everything looks really nice. Nothing immediately for me, perhaps, but good stuff all around. A bit curious to test the new paints.

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Too fun to just press Randomize in our new customization system in PIT OF GOBLIN! :D Most of the time you get pretty cool goblins too! #gamedev #gameart