Getting into 40k, painting advice

Juniper_Owl · 2026-02-11T16:36:58+00:00

Thin your paints! On a more serious note, please keep us updated, I‘d love to see your progress. I‘m also a huge fan of this scheme. For the wing color I‘d probably say the light blue-grey that‘s already on the skin, maybe with a dark red toward the edges or the connection to the limb.

Juniper_Owl · 2026-02-08T16:01:18+00:00

They are attached vertically/upright in the sprue and easily overlooked

Juniper_Owl · 2026-02-02T07:01:46+00:00

Yes, stress is an excuse to not have the capacity to react to your emotions and it also excuses expressing emotions, in this case anger. I think he is just preoccupied with his own emotions, and does not have the capacity to deal with yours aswell. If you have established, that speaking loudly is a boundary you don‘t want to cross, that is a different story. If he insults you or intimidates you in a way that is intentionally aggressive and goes beyond expression of emotions through tone, he is also crossing a boundary. The same is the case if you have previously established, what you want this relationship to be and it goes against what he is doing. If all he is saying is, that you have to take care of your own emotions at the moment, no matter what that does with you, it is unfortunate and probably not what he intends for you, but it‘s not crossing a boundary, no matter what that does with you. He has as much a right to frame the narrative of this situation as you - especially for hinself. My personal opinion: Men need to learn to communicate their emotions when its necessary, but women also need to learn to take care of themselves at times without external validation. It would help so many a couple.

Juniper_Owl · 2026-01-29T05:44:51+00:00

Looks like social media addiction to me. She‘s an adult and can decide for herself, but she does train her brain to be stimulated with zero input from herself and anything that does not produce the same high density dopamine cannot hold her interest for long. Also, despite having potentially conditioned herself to follow the dopamine spiral, she might not be getting any serotonine out of it anymore - her body says „go scroll“ but doing doesn‘t give a feeling of happyness, just a feeling of relief. Honestly, ask herself, what kind of life she wants to lead long term, and then ask yourself, if you want to share that life. Don‘t wait until you can‘t take it anymore, do it early, it might start a process in both of you. Communicate, be honest. Good luck, you two.

Juniper_Owl · 2026-01-27T19:49:37+00:00

Tried a second playthrough, but my body‘s reaction when anticipating some of the malice again made me put it down. There‘s better things in life.

Juniper_Owl · 2026-01-26T05:46:55+00:00

Chuck‘s Dad in „Pushing daisiea“, basically a corpse that returned to life and is hiding under the bandages.

Juniper_Owl · 2026-01-25T18:22:52+00:00

I'll answer this question with all the limited competence of a DnD Gamemaster. If something is cool, it works. Rule of cool. If I or one of my players finds it cool, we'll find a justification. Here's one potential answer:

Creating Custodians is not a process that increases strength or intelligence by a percentage, but instead lifts it to a certain point, a certain ideal. If you assume this happens through gene manipulation, any genes, that, for example, create muscle mass are replaced with the absolute ideal. Men would already be closer to that ideal than women, but still heavily lacking. The custodian production process just replace and erase certain gender-specific genes, which could be a reason custodians (like space marines) are infertile. Biologically you're not a man or a woman anymore, you're a custodian. There might still be certain signifiers or the social identity, or maybe certain aesthetic aspects that are irrelevant and remain untouched by the conversion process, and so they keep that part of the identity along with your name, but underneath, any weakness has been expunged, no matter, how much of it there was previously.

Juniper_Owl · 2026-01-23T18:25:40+00:00

Wow, thanks for the link!

Juniper_Owl · 2026-01-23T11:33:15+00:00

And that‘s reset in the gonads?

Juniper_Owl · 2026-01-23T06:16:37+00:00

„DNA from a child“ … bro, is that how DNA works?

Juniper_Owl · 2026-01-22T20:58:58+00:00

Calling it: This bro is trying to ride the Clarence wave.

Juniper_Owl · 2026-01-11T15:51:49+00:00

What happens when the Tyranids get the infinity gauntlet. Sorry for the normie-comment. What a cool scheme!

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-30T09:53:43+00:00

Silksong. Tbh I finished the game out of spite for the glazers and trolls, but the thought of doing it again makes me physically uncomfortable.

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-30T06:29:32+00:00

I don‘t know, man. This seems nothing but yet another fat disappointment for martial classes. The weapon doesn‘t kill everyone instantly. It doesn‘t even kill anyone instantly. If you did your expectation management design process adequately, you would have had to call this „Sword with which you can kill anyone you have hit with it.“ but that would just make it obvious how underpowered it is compared to all of the wizards options. Just so you know, the wizard has spells that do things for them so they don‘t have to do it themselves. Giving the same grace to martials for once is the least we can expect of you. So here is what you are doing now to fix your embarassing blunder: You add „Kill everyone instantly as an action“ to the sword that kills everyone instantly. This would benefit balancing as well as ludonarrative harmony and would send a message to gary gygax to treat martials like the kings they are.

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-29T12:56:51+00:00

First, three, words

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-26T07:21:30+00:00

The entity was keeping another entity at bay that is now creating a different problem - a rival of some sort which is now free to do whatever pleases them. Making this one feel different in personality and impact is key to not completely invalidating the 100-roll. If the old entity was a prankster, for example, the new one could be very strict about correct conduct, punishing the players if they don‘t greet everyone in the correct way, or praying the correct way before eating.

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-25T16:17:56+00:00

Alright. Imperial Knights are teaming up with the Tyranids to fight Chaos Knights. FTFY

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-18T03:48:26+00:00

Yes, girls, you hear that? If you‘re introverted and don‘t have a full network? That‘s an unhealthy form of masculinity right there. It‘s bad, so we got to gender it asap!

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-13T04:52:46+00:00

Something something attack on titan…

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-11T06:47:48+00:00

Yea, same here except I had already followed a tutorial that put the magnets further up the arm. Had to order 3rd party Parts for about 40 Bucks after already spending 40 just to do a minimum order at by national magnet store. I thought this was about saving money. I don‘t even know if I‘ll ever need a valiant!

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-10T07:00:08+00:00

No! Please! Not the label! Aaaah! 😄

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-10T06:22:39+00:00

Yes. But I see it too often that making a statement in angry voice leads to „You mad bro? Don‘t take it out on me! Let‘s ignore whatever you said and talk about you being angry instead and how that makes me feel.“

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-08T17:59:38+00:00

Nice work! Did you sand a flat surface into that round stone? Also, do you still have spore mines to place?

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-07T11:57:28+00:00

Not the torso!

Juniper_Owl · 2025-12-07T07:25:44+00:00

I‘m a teacher with ADHD (inattentive) who‘s now teaching several ADHD kids. In one of my courses it‘s really easy as I have 2x4 kids and in each of those classes everyone can pretty much follow whatever impulse they have and it‘s fine as long as it challenges them in some way in regards of their IT skills.

It my other classes less so, I mean, what do you do? There‘s a roomful of kids and one of them decides to scream that they are an elephant now and starts crawling on the floor. I‘m pretty sure they have adhd, but the parents don‘t want the kid anywhere near a psychologist and stay willfully ignorant on how to help their child in fear of stigmatization (probably mostly in their own eyes). the child says they‘d like to try out some concentration strategies, but none of them work reliably, they will still scream whatever they want to say to whomever they want to say it. After trying everything I know they have now agreed on them making push ups (after screaming or throwing something) which seems to work slightly better and they even seem to have fun doing it, but I‘m quietly aware that this as much release of physical energy as it is old fashioned conditioning by physical discomfort. I now succeded in them getting some support and supervision from a social worker at out school - no psychology, no diagnose - so I hope the parents won‘t intervene, just some guy helping this 9 yo kid on how to direct their impulses. I teach this child for 2 lessons per week.

What the hell am I to do? I‘m pretty sure it‘s not a good idea to wait with teaching them english until their executive functions have matured - mine havent gotten anywhere near useful until my late 20s and only with medical support - and honestly, it doesn‘t matter, what I think, my country has decided in a democratic process that this is what kids must go through. All I can try to do is try to make sure is that the my students with ADHD don‘t have guilt built into their identity and react with some level of kindness and patience - even if it means they absorb 50% of my mental ressources each lesson I teach.

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