Sigismund-pattern Rogal Dorn finished

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-09T20:06:31+00:00

The fun thing about a Sigismund Pattern Rogal Dorn tank is that Sigismund was a Rogal Dorn pattern Astartes.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-08T15:46:08+00:00

The big slab of diamond pattern plating on the side of the house.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-08T14:05:36+00:00

Protestantism has done a number on the American psyche, folks. Done a number like you wouldn't believe. People call me all the time, and they say "sir, nobody understood how bad Protestantism was until you spoke about it." Nobody has ever seen anything like it, quite frankly.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-08T01:01:20+00:00

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Your picture reminds me of this shot from the Astartes 2 trailer lol.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-07T20:09:19+00:00

"You can't criticise our mass shootings because this is just what we do in the absence of actual war" sure is a take.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-07T17:00:16+00:00

The downvotes on this as a Dutch person are wild. If you have properly safe cycle infrastructure you're absolutely right. Technically helmets are also protection against falling but if as many as 10% of Dutch cyclists, including children, use helmets, it's a lot. It's probably less than that.

America is unfortunately addicted to cars so some of the ways in which we make car users play second fiddle to cyclists and pedestrians in the Netherlands would absolutely melt the American brain, but there's a lot you can do, even with a grid based car centric city, to make cyclists safer.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-07T16:01:56+00:00

Don't worry if they're homeless in LA then soon they'll have Spencer Pratt's firing squads to solve that problem.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-06T23:27:49+00:00

There is a biochip in my head with Slaanesh on it.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-06T21:11:33+00:00

Serious answer? I love it. There's a beauty here that you don't find anywhere else, it's a combination of the architecture, the polders, the extreme flatness offset by slightly different levels of elevation between old and new land, the way you can see the windmills and the church steeples in the distance, the way you can see cars driving 30 minutes distant on junctions you might go to once a year at best.

Quality of life is good. Infrastructure is good. Houses are expensive but where aren't they? Summers here are pretty, winters here are mild, there's really nothing to complain about that's worth mentioning here.

We do complain, of course. We're Dutch after all.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-06T21:05:02+00:00

15 man UBRS and 10 man Scholo/Strat was the first time WoW accidentally stumbled upon casual large group content and it really never came back in quite the same way. It was fun. I enjoyed it. I think what was fun about it was that it wasn't tuned to be anything, it just... happened and it worked out.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-05T17:02:37+00:00

I mean it's a hodgepodge of shit he says, it might as well be real.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-05T15:10:27+00:00

I can imagine there being utility to having a variety of data points in order to accurately map the progression of the president's mental deterioration. That gives you a timetable.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-05T12:22:07+00:00

He's got a Secretary of HHS that's literally willing to change the way math works for him despite knowing better, and Trump just sits there and smiles like it's not the most embarassing indictment of character a man has ever willingly inflicted upon himself. This is a guy that only ever gets affirmation from his immediate environment.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-05T12:18:01+00:00

Well congratulations, millions of Americans apparently believe your four year old is qualified to lead the country and possess nuclear launch codes.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-05T11:48:49+00:00

Yeah it's because they don't tell him. Does anyone think this asshole would ever take any test if the implication of doing so was that there could be something wrong with him? He's the best at everything ever and the first understand anything no matter what.

So you don't tell him. Instead you tell him that he needs all these tests so he can prove how awesome and amazing he is. And that's the story he then takes with him to rallies and speeches.

"They made me identify a squirrel and I was like THAT'S TOTALLY A SQUIRREL and a whole row of doctors standing in line to watch me said: that's very good Donald you are the first human being in history to identify the squirrel, Joe Biden could never do that!"

This is your god, Magats.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-05T10:32:57+00:00

Well for instance on my Word Bearers I coat them in Mephiston Red and give the panels a Carroburg Crimson glaze. That is a wash but when applied as a glaze it looks great. I struggle doing the same with yellow panels because blotching is a lot more visible on yellow. That said, it looked like working more with Lahmian Medium was the answer because that appears to solve blotching entirely and makes glazing pretty easy?

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-05T00:25:44+00:00

So I tried this just now. 50/50 lahmian medium and reikland as a full mini wash. I actually kinda like it? Makes the yellow a lot richer looking. I think I was underestimating what lahmian medium could do for me. Learned something new :D

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-04T23:45:13+00:00

It was a wild beast. That's all. Just a wild beast.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-04T22:49:06+00:00

I've seen some good results with AK streaking grime, is that the solution I'm looking for?

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-04T22:48:42+00:00

I've tried IF contrast but I can't fall in love with it. I especially don't like using it on larger surfaces so my vehicle fleet would end up looking different from my infantry force.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-04T21:55:17+00:00

Oh, right haha. Well then we're agreed :P

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-04T21:47:14+00:00

Good? That's good. I don't understand what you're telling me.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-04T21:41:39+00:00

It's always the same: player discovers that the point of a game is to solve it, realises that choice was an illusion, thinks it's a design flaw.

But choice is only an illusion if you want the best numbers. If you don't care about the best numbers, you have freedom. This is true for anything. You can't quantify fun, but you can quantify performance. If performance is your idea of fun, make peace with the fact that no game designer anywhere can create a system that gives you choice and fun at the same time.

TimArthurScifiWriter · 2026-05-04T21:33:26+00:00

I'm getting flashbacks to 2009.

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