[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

Mass adoption did not end well for Earth.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 129 points 4 weeks ago

Here we go again. Even when he's literally found guilty, it makes no difference because there's just not the will to make it stick.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 72 points 1 month ago

Samsung and Google? Two companies well known for maintaining tech long term rather than getting bored within a few months.

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Individual photos with a better camera here: https://imgur.com/a/gYE7XH5

I painted these mostly with speed paints (and the equivalents from other companies). They came together quite quickly and I had fun with them, which is rather the goal of hobbies, isn't it?

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 66 points 2 months ago

The fact that you guys couldn't put an end to this guy's career is astounding.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 57 points 2 months ago

Oh joy. What an important cultural contribution that will be.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 75 points 2 months ago

What is fundamentally wrong with these people?

What is it that they actually want?

It seems like they don't want anyone except themselves to exist. That's clearly not a realistic thing that is going to happen and they're inexplicably angry about it. All the time. One might as well go through life wishing that the colour green doesn't exist.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 48 points 3 months ago

Ye gods, 18 years, 4 months for mine. You'd hope that they'd just automatically stop asking if I'm old enough to view store pages, right?

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 152 points 3 months ago

Ye gods, America, you had four years and an open-and-shut case and it wasn't enough to get rid of the orange ghoul.

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The dice makes me think of the bit in The Dark Tower film where there's a theme park that the residents of that world are perplexed by. Why's there a dice? No one knows - it's always been there. It's Dirty Down rust, if you were wondering: https://dirtydown.co.uk/product/water-soluble-paint-rust-25ml-pot/

I bought a static grass applicator and had fun making my own tufts and I'm pretty happy with the outcome. Unlimited tufts!

There's also the boxes - they're not as good as I'd like (the knees get in the way of painting!) but it's a bit of an homage to how GW boxes looked when I first got into the hobby.

I sculpted this lad but for now he's not available (he should be available at the Tenby Games Festival in December, in the unlikely event you're in west Wales! https://www.pembrokeshirewargaming.co.uk/ ) and then eventually he'll be up on Ramshackle Games' shop under my brand (Fox Box).

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 107 points 3 months ago

Join our Discord!

No, don't trouble yourselves, I'll just use something else.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 80 points 3 months ago

You're posting in Lemmy Shitpost. You're allowed to say "shit".

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Flamekebab@piefed.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works

I'm not sure if this is controversial or not - but I (mostly) don't like games that are primarily set underground.

There are a few exceptions to this, Dungeon Keeper and The Binding of Isaac spring to mind, but mostly I find it actively discouraging. Perhaps it's a desire to explore under the sky, perhaps it's that it feels claustrophobic, or perhaps it's the gloom.

I don't have a problem with the dark or claustrophobia in the real world, so it's not that. Anything that involves dungeon crawling immediately puts me off. I don't want to go down into the dark! I want to be outside!

I wasn't a fan of the Metro series until Exodus, I bounced off Recettear as soon as the dungeon element was introduced. Anything that wants me to spend an extended period underground with monsters is just a massive turn-off for me. Sewer levels and the like also have this, to a lesser extent.

Anyone else have this specific dislike?

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[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 54 points 4 months ago

How long are they planning to be hamstrung by the tech debt they've accrued? Sooner or later they're going to have to do something about it, surely?

Their games all look the same, in that it's always obvious that it's a Bethesda-engine game (whatever they're calling it this week). They're always janky, usually at least a console generation behind their contemporaries, and they always feel held together with duct tape and prayers.

Playing their games is an exercise in sighing and trying to ignore the jank. Everything always feels like it's wheezing along and trying to do anything beyond the obviously intended actions is likely to cause instability in the quest scripting.

I'm reminded of how Deus Ex players would try something only to find that the game was built to take that into account and allow for it. It's the opposite of how it feels playing Bethesda's games.

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I didn't mean to time this one for Orktober, but maybe it's just a happy little accident. He's an obscure Forge World mini from 2007 or so. I've recently been watching Masters of the Air and it made me want to dig him out of my backlog. No idea what I might field him as, but he's a fun sculpt.

There's a couple of more photos here: https://imgur.com/a/cmmgacE

There's a press release about the mini here, if you want to know more: https://ifelix.net/forgeworld-newsletter-171

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Gorkamorka Diggamob (piefed.social)

This crew of Ork-wannabes are my Diggamob. They currently don't have names, apart from the test model - Zagatha (back left). I mostly don't like the old Digga range, but there's a few exceptions, so I went with those.

I've no idea when I'll get around to fielding them in Gorkamorka, but hopefully at some point. I deliberately opted for no heavy weapons on the vehicles to field more bodies. Diggas have access to archeotek and can get some very fancy bits of kit - but to find them and wield them effectively numbers are required.

These are a combination of GW's original minis from 1998 and Red Nebular's Primal Raider range: https://www.myminifactory.com/users/Red%20Nebular

I mainly painted them using contrast/speed paints, but I didn't have the requisite paints when I did the test model, so the skin ended up being done the traditional way. I regret it, but it was too late to do anything about. I'm not overly fond of how they turned out, but hey, done is the best feature.

There's a few more pics here: https://imgur.com/a/07Mzj17

Also, just to pre-empt it, no, the faction aren't called "digganobs". They're called "diggas", you memelords.

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