Oldnerd

I don’t know how to break this to some of you, but a system isn’t what you think it does, a system is what it rewards and punishes. So a system that treats common gutter bigotry as normal but punishes snark about a suburban chain restaurant isn’t misguided or confused. It’s operating as intended.

Your Spidey ‘67 Villain of the Day: The Fakir. - Not the Super Swami. - Not that different from the Super Swami. - All the accents and stereotypes you’d expect. - Levitates things with his flute and does robberies. - As with most gadget villains, he loses his gadget and gets the webs.

Wow, that new Notifications tab here is some hot fuckin’ garbage. Everyone who comes to the community center is great but the landlords are complete asshats.

When she wasn’t doing this for like 90 whole seconds before trying to murder her brother, Kimch’s spent the entire day insisting we open the catio for her because this time it won’t be 40’s and rainy even though it was 40’s and rainy 30 seconds ago.

It’s funny to me that I did three of these, all of them have been blessed by the dice in the past five months, and I didn’t notice there were three of them when I posted the second one. RNG Vault #8 (4/19/22) is definitely the last “Alien Vs. Predator” early Dream Match pics I did. #toyphotography

Fun facts! I like how the pavement cracks in #3 turned out (but also my eyes are garbage so…) I feel like this gag is semi-inspired by Bluey pretending to be a boomerang. I thought about making one wide pic with all three panels but then I remembered what Bluesky would do to it after I posted it.

Give me three days in a room with the iOS zoom lens programming team and a sack full of oranges and I could improve so many lives, especially my own.

I don’t, for a wide variety of reasons, but if anyone can throw a rec Robert’s way…

Can someone sneak Takei on the Secret Billionaire Medicine Plan ‘cause I’m petty and really don’t want Shat to be the last one standing.

GOT: Boomerang! What, I’m not gonna get a deep cut Spidey comics villain? Please. At $30 a pop it may end up being MOST of what I get from Legends. He’s Meets Expectations Hasbro. Spidey can’t old a dude by the ankles though and Hulk was near the top of a bin. #toyphotography #actionfigures

This is the most stark reminder yet that every Clip Guy has an agenda and will exaggerate or downplay aspects of both the clip and their summary of it to fit that agenda, even if that agenda is just to provide the kind of thing that does the biggest numbers. Even your faves. Especially your faves.

Your Spidey ‘67 Villain of the Day: Dr. Noah Boddy! - Get it? - No, seriously, get it? - It’s very clever. Because of the invisibility, you see. - Beaten when, after 15 minutes, Spidey realized he could just web in the direction of the stuff floating in mid-air. - Als JJJ is in this a LOT.

Wait, The Cut? Did they Mina’s New Theme Song that shit? Because it’s a lateral move at best.

Look, it’s my favoritre movie. RNG Vault 324 (12/ 4/24) is from one of my earlier series of Spider-Verse scene recreations, prompted by the Across wave release. I still like how most of these turned out - I was getting the hang of Affinity by this point. #toyphotography #actionfigures

I don’t buy Four Horsemen products for the articulation. If I see, say, a long snake torso and a long snake tale that could easily incorporate ball joint segments/swivels/bendy wire, I don’t assume those are there, because Four Horsemen. So when I discover they did that shit? REVELATORY SURPRISE.

Me and the regular group who likes my posts

I may have tapped into a bit of the forbidden weekend cold brew to power through an early afternoon of shooting. Shhhhh.

Can’t crack it open for a couple of hours but damn if the weight of that Medusa box isnt VERY satisfying.

Why am I an atheist? Because your “loving god” put capsaicin receptors at both ends.

Your Spidey ‘67 Villain of the Day: Miss Trouble! - can bring mythological statues to life. - Uses this power to try to get a gig as a mythology columnists for the Daily Bugle. - That’s not a joke. - May be the only female main villain of the entire show. - Defeated when her magic box goes poof.

You shouldn’t get to call your faction The Last Outfit unless you all wrestle buck naked.

RNG Vault 925 (4/22/26) is one of a long series of pics I did for my second Mezco fig, Tangerine: Badass For Hire. I based all the pics off the lyrics to a Sifl and Olly song. Making the dashborad into “velvet” was on of my early experiments in applying texture. #toyphotography #actionfigures

👀👀 (When we first found out about Sunday Sauce, Parner pointed out that we have plenty of kitchen appliances in various scales. Then she saw the other bits in person, and…)

Ha, I’m so used to restaurants throwing the phrase “ghost pepper” around and not really meaning it that I didn’t think twice about ordering a “Korean Chicken Sandwich” that damn near took my head off.

Fun facts! This is a NASA Artemis IIpic, but I moved the Earth to the left because it was behind the toys. I need more space monsters. I can’t use him for everything? I was seconds away from posting it without painting out the clear twist tie I used to get the tentacle to wrap around properly.

Finally got enough of the post-vacay Pile of Loot put away that I could start pulling out stuff and start on my Halloween pic. There should be enough time.

GOT: Roxy London! Look, I’m mad at the hips. I don’t like the hip movement at all. I’m disappointed by the hips. The belt that doesn’t stay put? That I expected. The look is fantastic, all the other joints are fine or great. And I need more toys in this style. #toyphotography #actionfigures

The hour spent completely reorganizing the garage upright freezer: Sucks Is cold Infinitely satisfying Will be eating all the stuff labels fell off and all the vacseals that broke this week Will be utterly undone within a month.

Your Spidey ‘67 Villain Of The Day is Villains! - From the ep “Night of the Villains” - Blackbeard steals gold from a ship, Jesse James robs a bank, and The Executioner Of Paris tries to kill Spidey. - Defeated because they’re just wax figures under the control of Parafino, aka That. Fuckin’ Guy.

RNG Vault 75 (2/4/23) is a weird’un. It’s a New Adventures of He-Man Sagitar that Partner’s mom found thrifting and sent me. He has 2 arms, 2 legs, and 2 that can be both. He’s that part trash part insane type of old fig and no I don’t know where in the house he is right now. #toyphotography

Does the report ay whether or not he also had his dick out?

Fun facts! I found Badzt-Maru Rodan starting at a buck on eBay and won it for a buck. I aldo tried shooting on a red backdrop to get the “natural” lighting for the beam and knock it back in all the places I didn’t want it, and nah - I’m gonna go back to doing it my old way.

GOT: Shredder as Mechagodzilla! Bluesky’s giving me eyestrain, I’m still numb from replacing two fillings this morning, and this pic ended up compromised. The plan was to put them behind the bridge, but that didn’t work, so I punted rather than starting from scratch. #toyphotography

Your Spidey ‘67 Villain of the Day Charles Cameo! - One of several evil actors/showbiz types in the series. - Impersonates a prime minister to steal a bunch of loans/gifts he cons JJJ into convincing… the government? To give to the foreign country? - Has a gadget cane. - Useless without it.

When I said GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT I wasn’t fucking around and I think they realize this.

Through Episode 2 and into Episode 3 and I think I inadvertently lied. There must have been a playthrough a couple of years ago when the most recent console versions dropped where I got a tiny bit into Ep 3 because all this seems a tiny bit familiar. Managing with only a tiny bit of savescumming.

RNG Vault 494 (1/10/25) shows an occasional problem. I liked The Acolyte. I like Osha. I like this lok and this figure. But “what does she DO” is a question the character and the look of the character struggle to answer. She had a tool so I had her fix something. #toyphotography #actionfigures

Fun facts! To match a pose, you need to get the body in the right position and shoot it from the right angle, and when I say I’m bad at them, I mean they don’t come easily or naturally and I have to make up the gap with a lot of trial and error, or settle for close enough.

I wasn’t an NES guy but “Tengen” is still a word that’ll always make me smile. (I was working at EB during the NES era so I was Familiar With The Scene, heh.)

Ruin a song by adding “I guess” to its title. Beethonven’s… 5th, I guess? Symphony.

It’s weird and it’s impractical and there’s no way it’ll happen but right now my feeling is that Dragunov should never join a faction, temporarily ally himself with a faction, or even participate in a tag team or a multi-man mosh. Never even put him in a story situation where he “needs friends”.

GOT: Mark Sterling! “Hey, Bryan, you make a lot of pics. What specific qualities make you think of one as a resounding success?” See pic below. Especially the match to the reference pose, which involves a bunch of things I’m bad at. Solid deep cut from Jazwares. #toyphotography #actionfigures

Your Spidey ‘67 Villain of the Day: Dr. Magneto! - Pronounced “magnetto” - Is mad at not being honored by the Science Hall of Fame. - Uses his cute little magnet gun to commit minor mayhems around the city until it gets wrecked by “anti-magnetic webbing”. - Does successfully pull off that cape.

And now I’m a -lot- irritated that they made a much better one but that’s not what I got.

Oh, shit. At some point we’re gonna get Dragunov vs. Takeshita, aren’t we? That’ll shake the pillars of heaven.

A little irritated that AEW Dragunov looks so much cooler than my Mattel Dragunov action figure.