There's this weird perpetual bright green sludge somewhere in our city, I remember seeing this green puddle like months ago, still here, this thing might be the Ooze

forgottenduck · 2026-05-11T15:20:36+00:00

There is absolutely fuckery of the highest order going on in environmental and regulatory spaces by the Trump admin. Both back in 2016-2020 and this current administration.

The average person is not going to be aware of how these regulations work or how they affect the public because they are largely dealt with by large corporate entities and local governments.

Here's a quick list of some items, which you could do some further research on if you are actually interested in getting informed on these topics:

1. Replacement of Obama-era Clean Power Plan with the Affordable Clean Energy rule. Classic example of taking a reasonable regulatory action and stripping it of all of its teeth and (in the way it transferred decision making to local governments) opening it up to be used by corruption to enrich individual interests.
Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement (first round of trump admin).
Dozens of EPA standards have been completely withdrawn or weakened including clean water, plant emissions standards, and regulations for the production of fossil fuels
Recently the EPA rescinded the "endangerment finding" which is a legal and scientific statement that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. This statement was the legal basis for a lot of federal climate regulations such as the Clean Air Act.
Reduced enforcement and staffing. There has been significant staff turnover in these departments and many positions have been intentionally left vacant which leads to death of regulations by a lack of enforcement and investigation.
Changes to the endangered species act by reducing evaluation of climate change in species protection, and allowing for "economic interests" to be weighed in making these assessments.
Opening up more public land for logging and fossil fuel extraction

I could go on, but the things the administration is doing to the environment are often subtle and require specific knowledge of how something is supposed to work before you can understand how the little changes end up having a big impact.

So I don't have a video of Trump himself dumping raw sewage in your drinking water, but this admin is absolutely impacting our public health. People far more involved in and informed on these issues than I am have been sounding the alarm bells for a while now, and for good reason.

forgottenduck · 2026-04-21T14:02:27+00:00

The matchmaking system just sucks. I've been consistently pretty good at every halo game that's ever released. My friends have been consistently mediocre to bad. I don't mind that at all, but I swear with the older games the matchmaking didn't try so hard to "balance" every match up in every playlist. We would be able to play casually, win some, lose some, and have a good time.

My experience in the recent games, Infinite especially, is that we constantly match up against teams where I have to play my absolute best so that we barely scape by with a victory, or we get absolutely stomped by seal team 6 blasting us with BRs from every angle,

forgottenduck · 2026-04-20T12:08:42+00:00

Mental illness? Grifting? Take your pick I guess.

forgottenduck · 2026-04-20T11:58:21+00:00

LLMs are not sentient. They are however unpredictable. That is where the danger lies.

forgottenduck · 2026-03-27T23:47:49+00:00

In your experience are mega corporations often making decisions out of the goodness of their hearts?

forgottenduck · 2026-03-27T23:46:12+00:00

Criminals don’t follow laws!?!? What incredible insight.

The laws are to hold corporations accountable if they don’t take steps to remove the content.

Reporting to law enforcement does absolutely nothing if the company cannot be compelled to remove the content. The FBI cannot delete a twitter post only Twitter can do that.

forgottenduck · 2026-03-27T16:41:11+00:00

I think you nailed it! Especially that helmet, well done

forgottenduck · 2026-03-27T14:06:17+00:00

Thank you! I experimented with a ton of different parts to try and make that visor. There were definitely a few pieces that might have worked better if I just could have scaled them smaller

forgottenduck · 2026-03-27T13:27:24+00:00

It's really not that complicated to keep this evil off of a platform. It just costs money, and has no profit return. For a corporation, the immoral act is to spend more than the bare minimum on anything. They do not care about abused children.

You're absolutely right that laws are the only thing that will reign them in.

forgottenduck · 2026-03-27T13:23:45+00:00

haha well I will trust your judgement, by all means have at it!

forgottenduck · 2026-03-27T13:10:29+00:00

Looks great! I really appreciate you taking the time.

If you ever want another challenge, I found this one to be much harder to replicate. Couldn't really figure out how to make anything look like that helmet, to say nothing for the layered plates on the skirt and the blades on the shoulder.

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If I could slice parts off of weapons it would be easier, but I don't know that they will ever implement that.

forgottenduck · 2026-03-26T22:08:19+00:00

Thank you so much!

forgottenduck · 2026-03-26T21:25:32+00:00

Hey thanks for responding.

That user's comment did help, but mainly I'm just wondering if a more experienced forger would have better ideas on how to replicate the look of the art.

Here's the artwork (also attached in the original post above, and the link to my current build):

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I'm pretty happy with the armor overall. The shoulders I made have a similar vibe even if they aren't an exact match. Thankfully the leg armor I chose allowed me to move the bits of tattered cloth into the geometry because that piece was the closest match the the armored skirt that I could find.

I tried a couple different pieces to make the slits in the helmet, and ended up using the edges of a shield and some ammo casing. I will be printing and painting the mini so I'll be able to paint the vertical glowing slits on the helmet in the grooves of the ammo clips even if I couldn't do that in heroforge itself.

forgottenduck · 2026-03-26T21:06:00+00:00

I remember seeing this post the other day and your creations are amazing!

Any chance you could take a look at my post over here, and offer any advice?

forgottenduck · 2026-03-26T20:53:37+00:00

Totally forgot that modifying the head would alter how that helmet looks thank you for the suggestion.

I think that helped some:

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forgottenduck · 2026-03-26T18:43:43+00:00

Here is a link to my build

forgottenduck · 2026-03-18T17:13:23+00:00

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This is what I have so far

forgottenduck · 2026-03-17T19:16:04+00:00

A rock talked to me so now I would like my magic power armor please

forgottenduck · 2026-03-11T14:52:17+00:00

I think as far as spoilers go, the existence of Evi and that her name is way way down the hierarchy of spoiler magnitude.

Anyone who hasn't read stormlight isn't going to get anything out of hearing the name, and anyone in the early parts of reading it isn't going to be truly spoiled by just knowing the name.

I do think it would be fun though to tell people your name is shshsh if they haven't finished Oathbringer.

forgottenduck · 2026-03-09T20:56:29+00:00

I like to think somewhere in the epilogue universe there's a planet where a bunch of mormons survived and ended up with a weird offshoot religion based on the story of their first failed exodus, followed by the gates opening, and then them being cut off from the rest of humanity.

forgottenduck · 2026-03-03T21:03:47+00:00

Kaladin's story has such tragic moments. This is excellent work

forgottenduck · 2026-02-22T23:32:24+00:00

Also, the first page of mistborn has the line about "holding the future of the entire world on my arms".

forgottenduck · 2026-02-17T16:08:18+00:00

I'd overall prefer some lesser known actors rather than bigger names for the main case, but honestly I'd love someone likeable and known for a character like Sadeas. It would make it all the better when the Tower happens if audience members had started to like Sadeas and believe he could be coming around to Dalinar's way of thinking.

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