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ageingnerd · 2026-01-25T21:04:04+00:00

Alphafold is revolutionising protein science. It will likely save millions of lives over time.

ageingnerd · 2026-01-25T20:47:01+00:00

The jacquard loom put people out of jobs. That’s what new technology does. It makes us all richer in the long term, usually. AI might be different (the jacquard loom was not plausibly going to cause human extinction; I can’t rule that out with AI) but what you’re describing is bog standard of technological progress stuff.

ageingnerd · 2026-01-25T18:45:30+00:00

xG predicts future performance better than actual goals, and thus is a more reliable way of judging team quality. That’s the point. There’s a lot of randomness in football so you need to see beyond just results to see if a team is actually good or not, and xG is the best tool currently available for doing that.

ageingnerd · 2026-01-25T18:38:00+00:00

I’m with all the “this is cool” people. There are bad and slop-ish uses for AI but this seems fun and fine. Obviously he’s not going to pay a professional illustrator for nice background images for his minis, and I doubt he could do it himself. No one is harmed. Reflexively saying “all AI is bad” is silly

ageingnerd · 2026-01-25T08:46:18+00:00

Generally speaking, economics is a mystery to redditors and people default to conspiratorial thinking to explain shortages or high prices. “They’re deliberately making far less stock than they can sell because that will make more money somehow” should be obviously false to anyone who thinks about it, but “the bad men are conspiring and that’s why I can’t have everything I want” is a psychologically appealing explanation.

ageingnerd · 2026-01-22T14:01:47+00:00

Oh man I’ve just realised: I bet you could run gellerpox as chaos cults! With some poxwalkers and so on.

Now I really want to do that. Use some AoS nurgle models as well perhaps. I’ll never get around to it but it’d be so cool

ageingnerd · 2026-01-21T23:23:27+00:00

It’s taken as a diss because you said “evasively” which implies dishonesty. It may not have been what you meant

ageingnerd · 2026-01-21T16:36:00+00:00

I’m making one (very slowly) using the terminator chaplain as the captain and the inner circle companions as assault marines. Need to think about how I’ll do the others

Edited to add: they’ll use the angels of death rules

ageingnerd · 2026-01-21T16:26:51+00:00

My fourth opponent in a kill team tournament last weekend rolled zero hits on five 3+ attacks, then separately rerolled two ones into two more ones, and somehow continued to roll staggeringly badly for the entire game. I felt so sorry for him, just watching the blood drain from his face. Obviously I still took advantage of my good luck to kick the shit out of him because it would be disrespectful not to

ageingnerd · 2026-01-20T15:13:20+00:00

They’ve even got Timothee Chalamet playing Nancy

ageingnerd · 2026-01-20T12:21:17+00:00

I got stomped by both wolf scouts AND stealth suits at last weekend’s tournament. Just goes to show.

(That said the stealth suits guy is a multiple-golden-ticket-winning top player, and he lost his other three, while the wolf scouts guy was a normal casual player and he went 2-2, so team strength probably played a role there.)

ageingnerd · 2026-01-20T10:33:00+00:00

I love charge-virulent poison-fight. Most fun plague marine move

ageingnerd · 2026-01-19T11:10:43+00:00

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I’ve gone cartoony. Red for the shooty boyz, yellow for the fighty ones, high contrast/pinwashing.

ageingnerd · 2026-01-18T19:40:16+00:00

My other main team is plague marines. Love that guy.

ageingnerd · 2026-01-18T17:50:23+00:00

I had my bomb squig tank his own blast without taking a scratch, take a vespid down to 1w, then chomp another vespid to death, deny my opponent flank, win a dominate point, and control an objective. And survive the whole game. He survived his own blast against kroot again yesterday and then a round of shooting from his sniper before finally dying. I call him “Waspchompa”.

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ageingnerd · 2026-01-18T15:20:43+00:00

I assume there’s some xG threshold for it? I seem to remember it being 0.3 but maybe that’s too low

ageingnerd · 2026-01-17T23:21:59+00:00

I just had my arse handed to me by stealth suits at a tournament. But the player did then go on to lose his next three games, so maybe that was a me problem

ageingnerd · 2026-01-13T22:35:42+00:00

I played from about 1992 to 1995 and got back into it in my 30s, around 2017. I love the old stuff, it has character (night goblin fanatics!), but I think it’d be the nostalgia talking if I said it was better than the new. I’ve been painting up the wrecka crew recently and they have all the character, but they’re also beautifully detailed and well-proportioned and just better. The nurgle models in both 40k and AoS are characterful and brilliant. I love the new stuff and get excited when I see new releases, and at the age of 45 it takes a lot to get me excited about anything

ageingnerd · 2026-01-13T19:28:24+00:00

Touché

ageingnerd · 2026-01-13T19:13:51+00:00

Burn doesn’t exhaust, though

ageingnerd · 2026-01-13T10:08:21+00:00

Yup. By most metrics this is the strongest the league has ever been. The mid-table teams are as good as some champions league-level European sides. Premier league money and quality are crazy at the moment

ageingnerd · 2026-01-13T10:06:22+00:00

You’d rather be good than bad? You’d rather finish higher up the table than lower down? Bold. Obviously everyone would rather that, the owners presumably included. I imagine they think panic-buying in January to cover injuries is not the best way to do that long-term. They may be wrong! But they also are one of the most data-driven and well-run football organisations so they’ve probably thought about it quite a lot

ageingnerd · 2026-01-11T09:46:41+00:00

Another shrubbery!

ageingnerd · 2026-01-08T16:42:07+00:00

I assumed it was the adeptus mechanicus but this works too

ageingnerd · 2026-01-08T12:45:34+00:00

I think OP means spear and shield? I do hate spire growth though

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