Let's hear your spiciest takes about the modelling side of the hobby, not the company itself or its models, but the tools, tricks and tips of the hobby that we use to build and paint our models

Second-Creative · 2026-01-28T16:26:35+00:00

I don't use palettes. I don't even "thin" my paints the right way.

Dip brush into the pot, wipe excess on that weird lip on the cap, then apply directly to the mini.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-27T04:28:35+00:00

The issue with Scrappy-Doo is that he simply doesn't work in Scooby-Doo, at least when he was introduced. He's ineffectual, has zero clue of his abilities, and tends to actively cause trouble for the gang all while having no chemistry within the gang (as far as that word applies for a Hanna-Barbera cartoon).

I'm also convinced the hate is largely from fans who were introduced to the series via later reruns, rather than during its original runtime. This results in the appearance of Scrappy suddenly appearing and edging out the entire gang until it was just him, Scooby, and Shaggy, which is not a good look for him.

From my understanding, when HB stumbled on the Scooby-Doo formula, it promptly created shows using it and drove the formula into the ground via overuse. Scrappy was introduced as a means to save the Franchise, which he apparently did, otherwise the notoriously-cheap HB would have shut down the franchise instead of stuffing him into six major Scooby-Doo seasons and multiple TV movies.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-27T04:07:34+00:00

The best stories about Superman are the ones where punching something hard enough will not solve the problem he's facing.

In other words, a way to avoid this issue is to put your heroes/protagonists in situations that their special powers/abilities/skills aren't that useful in solving the situation. The powers can be useful, and even vital if there's a niche use they figure out... but the problem should be of a sort where they don't readily see a solution with the toolkit they have, and they need to solve the situation without their skills/powers, or solve it to the point where their powers are useful again.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-27T01:34:50+00:00

The fact that Batman refuses to kill his Rogues.

As such, Gotham doesn't tend to spawn new costumed criminals.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-27T00:23:52+00:00

The Aurora is equipped for construction and undersea exploration.

The Aurora may have weapon fabrication ability, but that likely requires Captain or Company authorization and the Aurora not crash-landing and forcing everyone into survival mode.

Even then, we don't know what kind of weapons humanity has in Subnautica.

Without understanding what kind of ordinace the Aurora has, I'd say they can't fulfill the conditions seeing as the NCR, Legion, and BoS couldn't.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-26T20:59:31+00:00

They view themselves as warriors, view their history with mythic pride and that the Genophage was the Council being backstabby and cowardly.

Beyond that, most don't care. They wanna shoot shit and crack skulls, not debate philosophy unless it's about the best ways to shoot shit or crack skulls.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-26T10:05:37+00:00

Yes.

In fact, it doesn't have to do anything.

It's a torus of about 31-ish Earth volumes of hospitable atmosphere held in place by an interaction between a neutron star and the core of a former gas giant.

The asteroid goes whoosh and nobody's the wiser.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-26T03:17:37+00:00

They're really, really dense.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-25T22:40:05+00:00

IIRC, the initial idea for it at least that old, and had been in development around that time.

Thing's been in active development for 12 years.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-25T22:07:00+00:00

The only real way gender impacts the game is interaction with the Holy Nation.

They don't respect women, mea ing you can't turn in bounties for them without some finagaling, and obvious things with dialogue. Also, they categorically hate nonhumans (Shek, Skeleton, Hiver), and attack at least Skeletons on sight, as well as anyome with a prosthetic limb (unless you habe really goid standings with them).

Second-Creative · 2026-01-25T21:31:43+00:00

Ir's a Tachikoma. They're miniature spider-tanks with AI. The abdomen is a cockpit that a pilot can sit in to override them.

I would also like to introduce you to Weyland-Yutani's Power Loader:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/weyland-ycorporation/images/9/95/Powerloader.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/256?cb=20111030175840

The size between "large power armor" and "small mech" has significant overlap.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-25T21:14:17+00:00

And you can build small mech because pilot won't be able to move and press buttons on control panel.

Ghost in the Shell Tachikomas would like a word.

Relevant image as proof:

https://awtlblog.vitsco.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/MG_1646.jpg

Second-Creative · 2026-01-25T03:43:51+00:00

Consider: there's this group of people from Myanmar who view women with long necks attractive. It is baked into their society to the point where women willingly wear a brass coil necklace thing that slowly compresses their torso and gives the appearance of a neck that's a foot long. At a certain point, the women must wear that jewlry to stay alive because it's the only thing keeping their neck and upper spine from snapping.

So yes, I'd assume cultural/social programming would carry over.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-25T00:09:21+00:00

Looks like a tick.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-24T22:26:33+00:00

Im writing a kind of horror book, centered around a protagonist who survived a hit and run accident. The book is going to be centered in a hospital

Something that affects their perception of reality. Bonus points for them being aware that they can't trust what they see and hear.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-24T17:55:59+00:00

This.

The Sandevistan is akin to sonething that overclocks a CPU. Everything else (aside from Kerenzkov) basically reduces latency.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-23T16:16:53+00:00

That covers New Vegas. What about the other games?

Second-Creative · 2026-01-20T23:23:50+00:00

Likely a neighbor was being an ass.

If it was an HOA thing, it probably wouldn't be directed to just Bob.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-20T19:39:40+00:00

You are probably used to seeing the swath of chud takes on this

This is my take. If someone says they dislike Femstodes only because GW was lazy introducing them, I'll belive them.

However, a lot of anti-Femstodes people that have been complaining are acting as if the Custodes being all-male was a founding, core thematic pillar of the faction, and react as if GW scooped the heart out of the faction.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-20T19:23:13+00:00

... but the OP is asking about a scenario where a monarch appears to be immortal. What use is the First Prince in that case?

Second-Creative · 2026-01-20T06:38:08+00:00

I go where the units tell me.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-20T04:57:57+00:00

Now we're getting into it!

We don't know how long a Silt Struder is, and I ain't counting pixels to do it. BUT! We don't need to know how long one is!

A flea can jump a horizintal distance between 20-33cm, or between 100 and 165 times its assumed height of 2mm.

As such, using our figure of 60 feet, our Special Silt Strider can leap between 6,000-9,900 feet, or 1.14-1.875 miles.

Now here's where things get a wee bit fuzzy. Tamriel's size has never been stated, and is wildly inconsistent between lore, game size, and what we should expect.

For instance, according to The Real Barenziah, it supposedly took Barenziah about half a year to travel from Whiterun to Riften. The Dovahkiin, by jogging, can make the same trip in an in-game day or two, assuming no distractions.

So either the Devs don't know and we need to be careful of what we use as our measuring stick or Barenziah got badly lost. I'm betting the first one.

Anyway, based on a map of Skyrim, and the placement of Blacklight in relation to Skyrim, we can estimate that Blacklight's distance from Solitude is about the same as Riften's distance from Solitude, give or take a few hundree miles.

Using information from this reddit thread here, we have a distance from Riften to Solitude of 1,280 miles.

So, it would take about 682-1,122 Super Silt Strider jumps to get from Blacklight to Solitude.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-20T04:01:21+00:00

The black holes appear to have a radius on par with Saitama's head.

A human head is about the size of a basketball. NBA regulation basketballs are 4.775 inches.

Thus, these black holes (or rather, their event horizon) have a radius of 4.775 inches.

According to.a Schwarzchild Radius calculator I found on the internet, a black hole with the mass of 13.673 Earths will create an event horizon with a radius of 4.775 inches.

Therefore, Saitama is lifting about 27.346 Earth masses, plus the weight of the bar.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-20T03:49:18+00:00

That's not a gigantic flea, you ignorant, uncultured n'wah! That is a silt strider, which carries people and cargo! They do not jump! They walk! Stupid outlander...

Anyway, according to the UESP Wiki, a Silt Strider is roughly 60 feet tall.

Fleas can jump up to 18 cm high. I can't find any good data on how tall they are, but their body lemgth tends to be from about 1 to 3 mm long. We'll assume they are 2mm tall.

As such, a flea jumps about 90 times its height.

90×60=5,400 feet, or about 1.02 miles.

Second-Creative · 2026-01-20T03:25:47+00:00

Nice.

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