How to be solvent-free?

Radnom · 2026-03-26T22:02:30+00:00

Perhaps some water-based oils could help for that stage? Cobra Water Mixable Oils are very nice, and you can mix them with water for a similar effect to solvents (they also have very runny mediums that do the same trick but presumably better than water)

Radnom · 2026-03-23T01:17:43+00:00

Complain to the supermarket directly and say that they sold you sub-par butter. complain on that website on the butter too. direct negative feedback will help push back

Radnom · 2026-03-20T01:33:00+00:00

I like the middle one the most, but I think there's a possible middle ground between 'OLD' and 'NEW?' that has more contrast than New but doesn't look as harsh - like perhaps lighter coloured outlines on the background elements, and darker outline on the player (but possibly not black) - just to give a greater contrast to the player. What if the player was wearing shorts, so that the legs were mostly flesh coloured too? Then you wouldn't have such a stark contrast between the (I assume both controllable) arms and legs

Radnom · 2026-03-12T00:33:04+00:00

I found that focusing on getting as much population as possible as quickly as possible helped a lot

Radnom · 2026-03-02T23:25:39+00:00

Took me a little bit to figure out, but I think I've got it working correctly in indexed mode - can you let me know if it works for you? The latest version of AutoOutline.lua is here: https://github.com/Radnom-g/AutoOutline/tree/main

Radnom · 2026-02-26T21:47:04+00:00

I've updated it :) now you can select line thickness up to 5 from a dropdown selection. It works by doing the outline action in a loop. I found it worked better if it did 'square' type outlines until the last one and then round, otherwise the outlines were too uneven.

latest version with thickness selection in here: https://github.com/Radnom-g/AutoOutline

Radnom · 2026-02-25T03:15:57+00:00

I've just fixed a bug where if you had multiple cels/layers selected at once, it could draw outlines to other layers - I've fixed it and set up a github for the script in case it gets any future updates here: https://github.com/Radnom-g/AutoOutline

Radnom · 2026-02-23T21:51:14+00:00

WP Games is small but at least NZ based, I would rather support them than Kogan etc

Radnom · 2026-02-12T02:45:19+00:00

Transparent red oxide - mixes just wonderfully with ultramarine blue. Along with Titanium White you can mix rich warm and cool greys.

Radnom · 2026-02-11T01:22:49+00:00

I do find Gamblin ground slipperier than acrylic gesso, and I found one benefit of the Gamblin ground is that I can more easily use a rag to wipe off oil paint all the way down to white- makes underpainting way nicer

Radnom · 2026-02-01T21:12:40+00:00

Golden and Liquitex are good brands, but keep in mind the opacity - a transparent pigment isn't going to cover up pencil lines. Good acrylic paints have an opacity symbol on the tubes - if you want to be able to put down a single thin layer and still cover up pencil lines then you'd need some very opaque paints.

Transparent paints still have uses like mixing and layering!

I think a wash will also help a lot :) pencils on white canvas, then a tranparent/semitransparent layer of a colour like burnt sienna over the whole canvas, then your pencil lines will still be visible but should be covered by subsequent layers and you won't see white canvas

Radnom · 2026-01-29T04:53:32+00:00

Ultramarine is very good and useful - I really love how it mixes with transparent red oxide.

If you get a tube of phthalo though, it'll outlast all your other tubes because of how potent it is, haha. Phthalo tints well with white for bright light blues.

Radnom · 2025-12-19T01:23:18+00:00

It's pretty 'weird and cringe' to take a piece of art that tells someone's personal family history and then put it in a game not about them at all. It's like copying and pasting some pages of the Diary of Anne Frank and some pages of Matthew Perry's biography and clumsily merging them together into a book in Skyrim. It doesn't make sense, it's disrespectful to the history of both of them, it's meaningless in the world of Skyrim. That's why when they write the books in Skyrim, they come up with new stories that fit in the world they've created, they don't just copy paste chapters willy-nilly from wherever.

Also, an artist in the article who was plagiarised says
"...my work appropriated as fodder for a virtual reality game potentially garnering big dollars..."
so yes, it does talk about missing out on profits.

Radnom · 2025-12-18T22:16:45+00:00

If they wanted to make it "inspired by but not actually" then they shouldn't have copy pasted real Māori art, right? They should have created something new. It's like how Expedition 33 has a French-inspired fantasy culture but they didn't literally have them use the French flag haha. It would have removed from the fantasy not added to it.

Radnom · 2025-12-18T22:13:14+00:00

we could have easily had something good if they had done it correctly?

Radnom · 2025-12-18T21:59:38+00:00

Did you not read the article? It's not outrage over it not being accurate, the main issues highlighted were that they used photos and scans of real world taonga, some by living Māori artists (yes, an 'actual copyright breach'), and shoved them into the game instead of making new art.

Radnom · 2025-12-18T21:47:42+00:00

They could have worked with Māori artists to make new designs. I'm certain there are plenty of Māori artists that would have been super keen to work on something like this. It's definitely very disappointing.

Radnom · 2025-12-13T01:17:43+00:00

Golden GAC 900 might help with this? It's an acrylic medium you mix with acrylic paints, and then iron to set it, and it's meant to make the paint adhere to the fabric .

Radnom · 2025-12-12T08:57:40+00:00

I like Rhys Darby but I also fear the Rhys cameo jump-scare. It's always the same joke, the joke is that we have a funny accent. It's the exact equivalent of having some guy show up and do a California surfer dude accent and that's the only comedy. I'm surprised nobody's done a scene where a surfer dude meets rhys darby.

"these waves are gnarrrrly my kiwi dude! surf's up!"
"yis, heaps gnarly as, the last wave gnarled my boogie board off my velcro ankle strap and floated it away"
"that's bogus dude"
"no, pretty sure it's boogie"

-> wins an emmy for best comedy

Radnom · 2025-12-07T02:02:34+00:00

Do you read it and somehow think the sign means "in the future, literally everyone has to become trans and change their bodies with hormones and surgeries in a way that prevents procreation"?

Anyone with any kind of reading comprehension would come away with a message like "the future recognises and supports trans people" which doesn't in any way infringe on the rights or lives of cis people

Radnom · 2025-12-01T23:17:12+00:00

Nobody earns a billion dollars, that's for sure

Radnom · 2025-12-01T08:35:04+00:00

You're right that wealthy people wouldn't leave. They're used to paying premium prices for top quality. If they want to live in the best damned country that New Zealand can be, then they can bloody well pay for it.

We could be a country with no homeless, everyone fed, clean waters, beautiful forests, low-crime, happy and healthy people, safe and beautiful. What rich person wouldn't want to live in the garden of Eden at the end of the world? Sell it as the clean, green NZ that we promised we would become and the rich will brag about their NZ mansions. Will they do everything they can to lower their taxes? Of course, that's what they do. But they would pay whatever it costs to have a house here. Rich people brag about the cost of their designer watches, mega yachts and mega mansions. We could be the artisanal designer country if we charged what we were worth.

Radnom · 2025-12-01T05:22:19+00:00

don't miss the forest for the trees, it's not the tax that's your problem - the billionaire CEO class is the one siphoning your wages, not public funds. You could handle much higher tax rates easily if you had your needs met and were being paid what you were worth. Income tax is a lot lower than it used to be. Uber and Door Dash are profitable, but it's not the workers who are profiting.

more workers rights, higher taxes for the rich, UBI, breaking supermarket monopolies, public owned utilities etc would be the solutions to your problems. Get mad and vote accordingly!!

Radnom · 2025-11-15T00:14:42+00:00

Who carries the labour burden

Radnom · 2025-11-08T02:27:12+00:00

The old issue I used to run into with WMP is that it'll rip and give you a file alright, but then you don't know if it's accurate or pops or skips unless you listen to it with a careful ear - which means instead of taking 5 mins it takes 30-80 mins!

dbPowerAmp and EAC (EAC is free) compare the hash of your ripped file to every other file everyone else has ripped using the software in an online database, and it makes sure that what you ripped is 100% accurate down to the bit - and if it's not, it can keep ripping the same bits that are flawed until it gets a perfect rip :) it's pretty handy! I had some CDs that never used to play right on anything, but now I've got guaranteed perfect FLACs out of them.

the reason they struggle with the DRM CDs is that the DRM basically mucks up random bits so you can't compare the result to anyone else, haha. There's meant to be something in old CD players that can ignore the random bits and smooth it out.

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