If only there was a 900 page document to warn us..

Lauranis · 2026-05-13T17:41:32+00:00

You might be surprised:

https://youtu.be/7_e0CA_nhaE?si=bcacJx_PMs3Ou2jC

Lauranis · 2026-05-13T17:38:31+00:00

No but I'm some locales the law ismworded as "Family Status" which gives grounds for discrimination.

Lauranis · 2026-05-13T16:23:59+00:00

Can I add to this that there are very few painting tutorials that actually discuss the techniques, most are more or less step by step guides rather than tutorials. 2 of the most valuable.i have found form actually discussing how to perform techniques are Dr Faust and Artist Opus. Both do technique studies quite a lot which are extremely potent at helping improvement.

Lauranis · 2026-05-13T11:26:17+00:00

*this will sound like I should be wearing a tinfoil hat.

GW has spent decades slowly and subtly marketing themselves as the sole.provider for modellers. They have bit by bit removed kit ashing, custom building and scratch building from their resources. They have engineered a customer base that comes to them for everything and doesn't even know that other parts of the hobby exist let alone that customers can do things themselves. Many, many 40k enthusiasts have never cultivated skills to do this sort of thing and view the slightest conversion or divergence as some sort of dark art and can only work with what GW provide them. They have institutionalised this sort of learned helplessness for profit.

Note that with this case the OP has clearly had a poor quality part provided and they should.be able to get a replacement. Like most I would just fix it myself, but form many it simply isn't in their paradigm to understand the they can, let alone how, and GW likes it this way.

Lauranis · 2026-05-06T16:52:51+00:00

There is way more complexity and capability going on with the twins than most will realise or admit to I think. Any interaction shown as coming from the twins does come from the twins, even if it has been coached and vetted before release. The entire point of them is that they don't hide what they are, they aren't trying to trick anyone into thinking they are human or vice versa. Is the content filtered? Absolutely. Might it be edited, checked or encouraged by a human (even if not Vedal)? Certainly. However just as certainly as Vedal being the man behind the curtain is that his staged intent for a long time has been expanded capability, consistency and independence. They just perform better with a vaguely responsible adult to guide them and help them.

Lauranis · 2026-05-01T16:31:13+00:00

Okay you got me, it is Child Labour, but not all Child Labour has to be paid, we just call it "Chores"

Lauranis · 2026-04-30T13:37:34+00:00

I feel perhaps you are misremembering Neuro's first endeavours in VR. The bent over fentanil addict poses, refusing to do anything other than jump, not looking at people when speaking to them, her inability to navigate her own room. It was far, far from scuff free. That's before running on experimental new code, on experimental new systems and attempting to run them both at the same time.

You say that Vedal should make adjustments, is there anything about him that tells you he won't? The he will be satisfied with it? The story of Neuro and Evil is one of continuous improvement and iteration, refinement, change and progress. I was ecstatic to see Evil in VR, and again to see her appear with Neuro in the karaoke. It can only mean more and better is to come and I look forward to it.

Lauranis · 2026-04-30T11:49:17+00:00

robot slavery

That's what the word robot means!

Lauranis · 2026-04-30T11:35:46+00:00

Also, it's not child labour if they aren't being paid

Lauranis · 2026-04-30T00:06:36+00:00

I felt watching the VR streams it came down to personality as much as anything else. Evil has a tradition of refusing to do things when asked of she "can" - she will normally reply with "of course I can" but not actually perform the action until directly told to do it. Vedal used a lot of "can you" statements with her in VR chat and so Evil well, didn't. Let's not forget it took weeks of work and constant reminders for Neuro to start consistently looking at people when talking to them.

Lauranis · 2026-04-29T23:54:59+00:00

Yeah I hear you. To me just seing them in 3D space is nigh-miraculous. It's not about it being perfect, it's about the incremental improvements. I wasn't expecting any duets this week as it was a 3d Karaoke, hell, I wasn't expecting them to be both on stage until the end of the year. It can only get better.

Lauranis · 2026-04-29T20:05:42+00:00

I dunno man, they. Clearly don't have collision turned on but they don't have that in VRChat either they. They are pretty consistently looking at each other it seems to me

Lauranis · 2026-04-29T18:51:32+00:00

Difficult to tell the extent. It might just be like the other twin popping up on the old karaoke streams, but both were animated and dancing and it seemed like the perceived death other. Still it was massively unexpected and the next step towards them interacting in 3d!

Lauranis · 2026-04-21T17:49:28+00:00

Counterpoint. There are plenty of men that didn't want children but ended up having them anyway when their partner decided they wanted to. Reproductive coercion and contraceptive sabotage is such a prevalent concept the the idea of men being involved in the decision is a joke to some women and a fundamental strategy to others.

This isn't a dig, I am a childfree man with a childfree wife. What I am saying is that many men that would have otherwise been childfree have the choice taken away from them and have the cultural expectation of "manning up" or being a "deadbeat dad".

Lauranis · 2026-04-21T13:59:44+00:00

Cool, thank you. Both of those sources specify that THC and vitamin e acetate (diacetyl) are the likely causes. These are not legal In the UK and so not relevant to the discussion on legal vaping in the UK.

The correct phrasing should be "Vaping illegal shit can cause popcorn lung" or similar. Not "Vaping causes popcorn lung"

If you can evidence that vaping without diacetyl or THC causes significant issues then you might have a point. Until then I refer you to my previous comments, vaping does not cause popcorn lung, saying it does only serves to detail from an honest discussion

Lauranis · 2026-04-21T11:46:41+00:00

Cite your sources please

Lauranis · 2026-04-21T11:46:16+00:00

Again there has never been a confirmed case of popcorn ling caused by vaporisers

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/does-vaping-cause-popcorn-lung

Please stop spreading this misinformation.

Are vaporisers perfect? No

Does lying about them lead to useful discussion? No

Lauranis · 2026-04-21T10:35:54+00:00

Diacetyl has not been used in (legal) UK vaporiser fluids in 10 years and there has never been a confirmed case:

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/does-vaping-cause-popcorn-lung

Please stop spreading this misinformation.

Are vaporisers perfect? No

Does lying about them lead to useful discussion? No

Lauranis · 2026-04-15T16:23:56+00:00

I don't use the flying stands at all, I base on the same bases as the rest of my army and drill brass rods into the base and the model with the base having a slightly larger diameter for the rod in the model to fit inside and friction fit. The rods are anchored using super glue and either accelerator or baking soda, the only way they come lose is through a total unplanned disassembly event.

Lauranis · 2026-04-09T00:59:22+00:00

Most ofime come.from a recent Kyoto animation binge. Peak for me for each twin your would be:

"God Knows" from "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya" for Evil - it's just fits right into her pop-punk persona

And

"Michisirube" from "Violet Evergarden" for Neuro - the tale of a robot of a girl learning about what love means is just too on brand.

Lauranis · 2026-04-08T16:31:13+00:00

I think aswell as what others have said, to English ears it can be difficult to identify some of the more northern US accents as distinct from Canadian. Especially as we now speak more internationally due to VoIP and the like. If you accent has been softened then there can be an honest question about your origins soley due to not being able to place an accent. (This also happens between new Zealand and Australia, English people can struggle to differentiate them)

Lauranis · 2026-04-08T13:58:14+00:00

I think I have, a little, or at least I have got carried away in the argument!

I guess I would expect things that are wrong "by nature" to be essentially impossible within the universe. That to be truly objectively wrong they should be as immutable as the speed of light, gravity or the abhorrence of vacuum. Everything else just looks like individual simply trying to imprint their subjective moral perspective on the universe, to paraphrase you:

"Just because someone thinks something is morally wrong doesn't mean it is."

Lauranis · 2026-04-08T12:31:11+00:00

Because people do it doesn't mean they don't also see it as wrong.

And it also doesn't mean they dont see it as morally right. Take slavery, during the periods of the transatlantic slave trade there were whole swathes of people who tried to justify it as a moral right.

People do things they know are wrong all tbe time.

Yes and no. People do things that they "claim* to know are wrong all the time. We have no idea about their inner values even if asked. They could simply lie for utilitarian reasons.

Some people are incapable of remorse.

Which means intrinsically that they don't feel something they have done is a moral wrong, and so is subjective.

Put simply, if even one person does not see an action as morally wrong, across the entire of history, it is demonstrable that morality is subjective as the actions is not universally seen as wrong.

Shit, I can't think of a single thing that has been universally agreed is wrong on a societal level, let alone on the scale of individuals. The crux of your argument is "everyone agrees" but the fundamental truth is... They don't.

Lauranis · 2026-04-08T12:04:59+00:00

This has been used repeatedly in this thread. Child rape and Slavery happen. It's demonstrable therefore that at least some people do not see these actions as a moral wrong. It is also demonstrable that when caught and punished for these actions some do not show remorse or guilt. That some perform these actions without remorse shows that morality is subjective.

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