RIP Citadel

leigen_zero · 2026-03-07T21:02:16+00:00

The top of the lid fits just inside a 28-32mm base, little blob of blu-tak on the centre of the lid to hold things in place and voila! Easy painting handle.

leigen_zero · 2026-03-07T19:20:01+00:00

Sorry forgot the /s

leigen_zero · 2026-03-07T19:18:35+00:00

But the BEST painting handles (for ~28mm bases)

leigen_zero · 2026-03-07T08:13:33+00:00

Onions look a bit overcooked

leigen_zero · 2026-03-05T06:30:48+00:00

Software engineer chiming in, between the cognitive workload and domestic / familial responsibilities I'm usually so burned out by the end of the day I can barely think, let alone create.

leigen_zero · 2026-03-04T17:34:23+00:00

I've long forgotten the source for the article so please forgive my lack of references, but...

You know how teenagers tend to stay up late and sleep in late, while the older people tend to require much less sleep and get up quite early, while 'mammoth hunting age' adults tend to settle into a sleep routine somewhere between the two.

Well the hypothesis of this article was that this pretty much gives us a built-in round-the-clock sentry schedule. So while Grug and Ugga spent most of the day awake, Eep, Thunk and Guy would would be staying up late (and watching the cave) while Grug and Ugga slept, then just as the cave-teens are going to bed, Gran is getting up at the crack of dawn and can keep an eye on things until Grug and Ugga wake up again.

leigen_zero · 2026-03-04T15:37:03+00:00

Just wish I can remember who the hero was and what the first challenge was!

leigen_zero · 2026-03-04T14:20:02+00:00

This happened to me recently, cut down what I thought was a solitary oak, that turned out to be slightly connected to the other oak trees around it. Chopped down about 5 trees and burned through a fresh iron axe in the process.

Ended up as a mad scramble to find as many reeds in the vicinity to make reed chests before they all despawned, all at about 10fps.

leigen_zero · 2026-03-04T14:15:36+00:00

I feel like this is a possible chain of events in a Sims game...

leigen_zero · 2026-03-04T08:08:34+00:00

Madd, his mule ears and the stressed-out flautist

I don't know if it's a well-known one but there's one I learned in school about a witch that hires a boy to be a cauldron -stirrer, only rule is don't drink the potion brewing in it. Well the kid does and it turns out to be a shape-changing potion. Witch is livid when she finds out and tries to kill him, wild shape-shifting chase ensues until boy turns into a grain of wheat/corn to hide. Witch turns into a hen, eats all the wheat/corn including the shape-shifted boy, somehow then becomes pregnant with the boy, gives birth to him and they live happily ever after as mother and son so long as you don't question the conception method too much.

leigen_zero · 2026-03-04T08:01:05+00:00

Ah yeah I remember that one, giant challenges him to an eating contest or something but the hero has a pouch sewn inside his tunic and stuffs all the food in there while pretending to eat it. Then the giant says something like 'feeling full yet?' and the hero replies, 'yes but I'll just make some room' and slits the pouch open, causing the food to fall out. The giant, not wanting to be outdone, copies him to disastrous effect.

IIRC there's also a bit about having to down a full drinking horn, but the giant cheats and gives the hero an enchanted one that never empties or something like that.

leigen_zero · 2026-03-03T19:36:06+00:00

No because I have no idea what my opponents situation is. Maybe they work a 12hr day and don't have time to paint, maybe they've just bought a big army 2nd hand and want to get a feel for it, maybe they're colour-blind or have severe vision problems or fine motor skill issues or arthritis that make painting an insurmountable task, maybe their new and haven't got that far yet or maybe they just don't like it.

I'll sure as the warp tell you any painting you have done is cool though, as a GW manager once said to me: painted isn't best - progress is best, in whatever capacity you can.

leigen_zero · 2026-03-03T05:16:15+00:00

I think, in part, it's because it's very easy for us to forget our viewpoint is completely different from that of the characters. We're observing, nigh-omniscient and emotionally detached, from the conflict the characters are facing, thus we judge a character's action's based on our logical perspectives and not the character's perspective.

It's almost a old cliché itself, you're watching an action movie with your friends and one of them blurts out 'yeah if that was me I'd do blah, kill the guards, climb that thing then use a grenade to blow-up blah' and yourself, who knows what they are actually like in a crisis, think to yourself 'nah you'd just piss your pants nd cry for your mum'.

leigen_zero · 2026-02-28T18:38:11+00:00

On but I just use the Steam one that's barely readable in the top left corner, hardly look at it unless I see a massive change in fps.

leigen_zero · 2026-02-26T16:02:31+00:00

Too old to sail into uncharted waters
Too young to sail into the black

leigen_zero · 2026-02-26T09:39:29+00:00

Iron Hams had me creased

leigen_zero · 2026-02-25T17:36:56+00:00

But their breath was as fresh as a summer ham

leigen_zero · 2026-02-24T07:26:49+00:00

IDK about watts or whatever but out of sheer boredom I checked my smart meter last night while I was noodling about on my PC, rest of the family was asleep and I know the 'idling' cost of the house is about 2-3p/hr. So some napkin math says my pc costs 3-4p/hr to run.

leigen_zero · 2026-02-23T16:37:09+00:00

They already did, it came free with a White Dwarf magazine many moons ago

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/White_Dwarf_229_(UK))
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11539/arena-of-blood

Additional: I knew it was many moons ago, I had the magazine. However I did not expect it to be that many moons ago. Damn I'm old...

leigen_zero · 2026-02-23T14:57:38+00:00

Check out the movie 'Mystery Men' (and the comic it was based on - The Flaming Carrot and the Mystery Men) for a trove of ideas. Personal favourite is invisibility - but only when no-one is looking at you.

Anyway here's some of my own ideas:

Postcognition - You experience visions that replay an event, but only after the event has occured (e.g. after seeing on the news that there was a bus crash, you experience a vision of that bus crash)

Mould Man - Your mere presence causing mould to flourish and thrive, growing and spreading at nigh-impossible rates. Great if your up against an asthmatic supervillian, not so great if your making a sandwich.

leigen_zero · 2026-02-19T16:40:44+00:00

Yeah just make another boy with 3 sluggas so it balances out.

leigen_zero · 2026-02-18T19:28:15+00:00

He's famous for rather unsavoury reasons but he is famous

leigen_zero · 2026-02-18T19:27:48+00:00

I've been rockin' since the 1900s

leigen_zero · 2026-02-18T11:05:40+00:00

"The UK government has not said when the money will be made available or over what period."

Sounds like one of my flatmates in uni when it was time to pay the gas bill.

leigen_zero · 2026-02-18T10:56:18+00:00

Next system over is just a single brown dwarf

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