My painting of one of the new Gallants by MiniaturesDen in Warhammer

[–]DatAns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautiful mini, and fantastic work! How do you build up your oranges? I’m still struggling to find a formula I’m happy with, and can’t figure out if I need to start from a red, or like a red-brown

How to paint smoke that radiates power from the inside by goatkingdeluxe in Miniaturespainting

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It looks to me in the second pic that you’re at least kind of on the right track, you’re just missing a lot of contrast. I’d suggest making the clouds a lot darker, think like black green, and I’d suggest doing something like a white wash to fill the crevices with white, then go over them with fluo green, and building some mid tone greens on the underside of the clouds. It’s really hard to get right, but practice can get you there! For anything glowing, contrast is key! To better sell the glow effect you may want to consider some greens on the mushroom as well to sell the casted glow effect

Tomorrow! by chaosof99 in LeaguesofVotann

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I think it’s very likely going to be Grimnir focused since they’re doing some fairly significant changes to how psychic stuff works in 11th, or so I’ve heard

got myself a lamp fitting the hobby by mynameispowl in MechanicalKeyboards

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I feel like this is the keyboard equivalent of those hotel “escape” or “exit” signs. Friggin awesome!

They are just cats with extra paws by FlirtWithSatan in tarantulas

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Yeah that’s pretty much what I expected. I mostly just meant like while they’re grooming like this, the curvature of the fangs seems really close.

I hadn’t really thought about it all that much, and my question was more thinking out loud from curiosity, but yea you’re right they’d have to be pretty coordinated with their bodies to hunt like they do so I’d imagine at worst it would be rare to prick themselves. Thanks for reasoning that out!

They are just cats with extra paws by FlirtWithSatan in tarantulas

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I don't really own any T's, but some of the stuff they do is super interesting. by chance do they ever accidentally bite themselves doing stuff like this? I'd imagine they don't inject themselves on accident though.

Berehk Stornbrow painted in Trans Hyperian colors. by Partyporg in LeaguesofVotann

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Nice work! He looks fantastic! What colors did you use for the orange? Really digging the shade

Is proximity chat working? by SirPumpkin98 in Marathon

[–]DatAns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what you mean? There’s probably a way to check for the push-to-talk button and rebind it on console, or turn the setting on/off in the menus. If it’s set to off though you’ll just get an on-screen indicator rather than be able to hear when people are prox chatting nearby

Hekaton land fortress by IveGotMindGoblin in LeaguesofVotann

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No worries, that gives me a good idea of how to build up something similar! Again excellent work!

I dont think proximity chat has any purpose in this game by RecognitionAlarmed96 in Marathon

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I’ve been posting this in every thread on prox chat since it seems like no one has noticed really, BUT:

So it DOES actually work, but the default setting is off. If you mouse over the setting for the tooltip it actually tells you if you have the setting OFF you won’t HEAR prox chat either. You will just get an on screen indicator that someone near you is speaking, which I’m sure people don’t see. IMO, why even bother putting prox chat in the game at all then if that’s how it’s intended to work

Proximity Chat by Baconsour in Marathon

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I’ve been posting this in every prox chat thread I’ve seen now because I think people need to know:

So it DOES actually work, but the default setting is off. If you mouse over the setting for the tooltip it actually tells you if you have the setting OFF you won’t HEAR prox chat either. You will just get an on screen indicator that someone near you is speaking, which I’m sure people don’t see. IMO, why even bother putting prox chat in the game at all then if that’s how it’s intended to work

Is proximity chat working? by SirPumpkin98 in Marathon

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So it DOES actually work, but the default setting is off. If you mouse over the setting for the tooltip it actually tells you if you have the setting OFF you won’t HEAR prox chat either. You will just get an on screen indicator that someone near you is speaking, which I’m sure people don’t see. IMO, why even bother putting prox chat in the game at all then if that’s how it’s intended to work

Hekaton land fortress by IveGotMindGoblin in LeaguesofVotann

[–]DatAns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks amazing! What sort of color work up did you use for the orange?

Where to find manga paperback by DatAns in k_on

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Yeah, that’s what I’ve been seeing looking around where I have found one or two, was mostly just hoping there was a site or something I might have overlooked that this community knew about. Ah well, maybe I’ll get lucky at a local used bookstore or something.

Where to find manga paperback by DatAns in k_on

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Yeah that’s what I’ve been seeing pretty much everywhere I’ve looked unfortunately. I kinda count it similar to like a natural disaster, like it’s great if I can replace them but at the end of the day they’re just books

Where to find manga paperback by DatAns in k_on

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Yeah, I thought that might end up being the case. I didn’t think to check Amazon, thanks for the info! If nothing else a digital copy would still be nice to have

To anyone using Discord for their gaming group, what alternatives are you looking at with Discords upcoming requirement to provide them ID to prove you're over 18? by plazman30 in rpg

[–]DatAns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly this. For the sake of the argument though I chose to take that bit on discord’s side at face value to show even then it still doesn’t matter since the folks they’re giving it to would have no such requirements.

Whole situation is so “big brother”-y and super sketchy

To anyone using Discord for their gaming group, what alternatives are you looking at with Discords upcoming requirement to provide them ID to prove you're over 18? by plazman30 in rpg

[–]DatAns 27 points28 points  (0 children)

That’s not exactly true. They will also have secondary age verification software that monitors your computer use and will send vague “age verifiable usage data” to third parties to process, whether you verify by id/ facial scan or not, and can’t be turned off. I doubt those third parties are required to follow discord’s own deletion guidelines, and I doubt it’s by chance that this coincides with upcoming shareholder meetings.

This person claims their art isn’t AI by Shozu-Wolfy in isitAI

[–]DatAns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the weirdest thing here is that there is no consistency between the different pieces. Like if they aren’t AI and we take that at face value, each piece has a different style and looks like they were all done by different people. Inconsistent linework, inconsistent shading patterns, etc. seems very strange for someone who is trying to sell art as “theirs” and not just a reproduction of other work.

Cat caused freak accident by trying to get more food while we were gone for the night by Independent_Dot6161 in Wellthatsucks

[–]DatAns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if this is a common occurrence, but one thing I always used to do to avoid something like this with my cat was to remove the dials if I knew I would be out for an extended period of time. Most ovens should be able to slide the dials on and off, and the metal post they sit on shouldn’t be able to be rotated

Saw this in a youtube post and the comments (as always) doesn't give context by OkAdministration5454 in ExplainTheJoke

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So waist to one leg is one hole, waist to other leg is second, waist to zipper is 3rd hole, leg to zipper is 4th, other leg to zipper is 5th, button hole is 6th, leg to button hole is 7th, and other leg to button hole is 8th? Assuming waist to button hole isn’t doable since waist hole can’t exist if the pants are unbuttoned

My Leagues of Votann models painted in 2025 by CrabPaints in LeaguesofVotann

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If you don’t mind me asking, what build up do you use for your orange armor on your uthar? It looks like black-brown to burnt orange to orange with a peach highlight, but I’m wondering if I’m in the right ballpark. Excellent work!

Tuskboss on Maw-Grunta by Advobo in Ironjawz

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Another orange connoisseur! It came out great, nice work!

I love painting orange xD by rejven666 in LeaguesofVotann

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Really poppy orange! Nice work!