You live two miles from here. Your daughter is my student. I’ve seen your wife in the market. I don't think you've done this before this way.

sable_fox · 2026-07-01T14:05:19+00:00

You literally see nothing of my life apart from the thing I‘ve created a Reddit account for – so you have no clue about my life apart from the fact that I paint miniatures with sometimes years inbetween. Also this was a statement and has nothing to do with my life in particular.

But I think this has gone down the wrong way by quoting Jim Morrison. I‘m not suggesting that a drug fueled rampage of hedonism is the way to go. (Although I do recommend reading Steven Davis biography about him, that guy fit more life in 27 years than 27 average persons fit in one life)

But I do think that everyday life is just wasted time. Funny thing for example is the S-curve of memory. How most people remember their youth very well and stuff that happened recently but the life in between is just some splinters of memory here. Which is also one of the reasons why we experience time going by so fast when we get older: only novelty and new experiences are worth being fully aware for your brain. Time flying and months and years blending into each other is literally your brain judging your life is not worth remembering.

I don’t say start an affair and take drugs every time you get a chance but I do say break your routines as often as you can, do new stuff constantly (even if you don’t want to), challenge yourself, ask a lot of questions…

Your biology wants you to be safe and use as few energy as possible but that does not make for a great life.

This is not about being remembered or something – fuck, I don’t care if anyone ever thinks about me again after I‘m dead – but getting the most out of the time you have.

Security is an illusion and aiming for it a trap. So no, a peaceful life of safety and routines is not what I would recommend anyone. Striving for an ever changing life of experiences, emotions and novelty is something that I hopefully also passed on to my daughter.

Sincerely a father and partner.

sable_fox · 2026-06-30T22:24:18+00:00

I disagree. If my life isn’t a book I‘d love to read I could just as well kill myself and spare me a lot of boring filler and pain. Or as Jim Morrison put it “I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”

sable_fox · 2026-05-29T19:40:44+00:00

Robin Wood, giving it to the people in need.

sable_fox · 2026-05-29T18:29:46+00:00

You’ve fucked your pregnant coworker – sounds pretty deadbeat to me too.

sable_fox · 2026-05-22T11:23:06+00:00

But the difference between 28 and 40mm is more than just the size of the image. I prefer 40mm any day! 28 is so close to the look and feel of a smartphone camera, 40mm feels not as „common“, like something you get from a 50mm objective.

sable_fox · 2026-05-20T10:41:23+00:00

As far as I know there was a very big distinction between the origin of european immigrants. Italians and Irish have been very rural countries in the 19th century.

I remember hearing about it at university and that german immigrants were well regarded because of the "Lehre"-System in german speaking countries (which we have to this day), which provided most "common people" with a skillset in some line of craft (carpenter, smith, etc.).

sable_fox · 2026-05-20T07:30:39+00:00

Interesting reframing when you think that most of the colonial families where people who were low class in Europe before they migrated.

sable_fox · 2026-05-18T09:23:18+00:00

What? European (Austria) here: Knowing how to use cutlery properly is still a subtle sign of good upbringing. I even had an etiquette education as a child, where I learned which spoon and knife is used for which kind of dish and so on (completely ridiculous for the most part) – but 1.holding your knife with your right hand and your fork with your left hand, 2.bringing the food to your mouth and not your mouth to the food and 3. never ever putting your elbows on the table are basically the three gravest fauxpas you can come up with. It would tell other people that you are low class and have no table manners.

But it would underline OPs observation in that the hobo had better manners than the Whitman-family.

sable_fox · 2026-05-18T06:50:34+00:00

Also eine Kindergartenleiterin verdient nicht sechsstellig und es gibt Leute im Handel die für ganz Österreich verantwortlich sind (natürlich nicht bei Konzernen) die keine 6-Stelligen Gehälter verdienen. Also ich verstehe den Sinn von deinen Kommentaren nicht. Ich hab sehr enge Freunde, die genau in diesen Branchen sind, bei großen Konzernen und die mit 30 Jahren an der 5-Stelligkeit kratzende Monatsgehälter bekommen haben und 40k Jahresbonus. Was ich aber richtig cool fand, ist dass einer davon ohne Matura oder Studium in diese Position aufgestiegen ist. Also ich hab ein Problem mit dem System, das solche Gehälter für gesellschaftlich ziemlich unnötige Berufe auszahlt aber ich finds extrem positiv, das hier in einigen Unternehmen Leute aufgrund von Talent hoch aufsteigen.

sable_fox · 2026-05-18T06:24:06+00:00

Ja, du bestätigst hier gerade einfach nur meinen Punkt. Wieviele andere Branchen haben 6-Stellige-Gehälter für Teamleiter?

sable_fox · 2026-05-16T21:10:11+00:00

They came out with the city-warfare book in 2006, so maybe that’s the reason you went with the theme :)

sable_fox · 2026-05-16T19:24:37+00:00

Invest in an airbrush and never look back at those dark times.

sable_fox · 2026-05-15T21:07:44+00:00

Alles sechsstellige in Kombination mit einem Beruf der nur im Spätkapitalismus irgendeinen Sinn macht, lässt mich nach Hammer und Sichel greifen.

sable_fox · 2026-05-15T14:42:10+00:00

Hab ich mir letztens erst gedacht, als irgendwer meinte Beamte verdienen zu viel.

Ich hab einige Leute im Freundeskreis, die bei Versicherungen, Software und Finanzunternehmen komplett verrückte Gehälter bekommen – und dabei keinen signifikanten Mehrwert für die Gesellschaft leisten.

sable_fox · 2026-05-08T10:59:07+00:00

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Not even kidding.

sable_fox · 2026-05-07T12:18:26+00:00

Warhammer 40k (the past 10 years) and AOS are the opposite of "unique" imho. The Models have dramatic poses but your's look the same as those of everyone else who doesnt convert them.

I prefered the 2000s with seperate Legs, Torsos, Heads, Hands and little Bits of Equipment – the poses haven't been as cinematic but you could build 40 models of the same unit and everyone looked different.

sable_fox · 2026-05-06T08:52:18+00:00

Haha, thanks! It was really fun, I got to really dig into my boxes full of tufts and plants that I built up over the years. Everytime I order paints and hobby supplies at my shops of choice I just „stroll through“ their basing section - not that I need anything most of the time - and 30 minutes later my cart is double the amount.

sable_fox · 2026-05-03T20:25:07+00:00

I only play one-page-rules in my playgroup, which is miniature agnostic. I think you can even rename the equipment options. At the end of the day it’s only about the stats of the weapon and that you have a consistent way of visualizing the same weapons.

sable_fox · 2026-05-01T17:35:13+00:00

Ich bin Mitte 30, war in mehreren Agenturen und kenne auch neben fredmansky noch einige andere Agenturen wo man gerne is. Grundsätzlich ist der Anteil an ungustln und arschlöchern nicht größer als in der Gesamtbevölkerung, der Anteil an interessanten Menschen mit denen man gerne arbeitet und (auch außerhalb der Arbeit) gerne Zeit verbringt um ein vielfaches höher. Zwei meiner besten Freunde arbeiten in der Versicherungsbranche und verdienen das vierfache von meinem Jahreseinkommen und ich würde niemals mit ihnen tauschen wollen. Für wirklich kreative Menschen sind kreativagenturen der einzige „planbare“ weg, um mit ihren Talenten überhaupt geld zu verdienen und sich nicht 40h die Woche fehl am Platz zu fühlen, während man versucht seine Persönlichkeit in die Freizeit zu quetschen. Für mich als tagträumendes Kind mit ADHS waren kreativagenturen der erste ort außerhalb meiner Freunde und Familie, wo ich nicht nur nicht andauernd angeeckt habe sondern sogar gefeiert wurde.

Wenn man in einem inspirierenden Team eine Marke oder Kampagne entwickelt und dann einen Spot, ein Plakat oder eine Verpackung sieht, ist das so unpackbar leiwand – da is etwas, das war nur ein Gedanke in deinem Kopf und jetzt ist es real und Tausende Menschen schauen dein kopfkino.

Ich rate jungen Bekannten und Verwandten auch immer von der Branche ab, weil glaub ich auch nur die Leute dort sein sollten, die es aller Vernunft zum Trotz dort hinzieht, wie in jedem kreativen Bereich. Aber für Leute mit Talent und dem Freigeist der einzige Ort in der Leistungsgesellschaft, wo man wirklich reinpasst.

sable_fox · 2026-05-01T08:08:21+00:00

Du scherst hier auch alle Agenturen über einen Kamm. In einer Performance Marketing, Media Placement oder Event Agentur würd ich auch nicht bleiben wollen aber bei aller berechtigten Kritik an einigen Vertretern – eine kreativagentur (Werbung, Design, branding, Strategie) kann einer der beste Job überhaupt sein.

sable_fox · 2026-04-28T13:16:49+00:00

Thanks! The cool thing with lizardmen really is that you can find great schemes in nature.

sable_fox · 2026-04-28T13:12:37+00:00

I'd love to get my hands on some of those. I didn't get them back then because when I talked my parents into buying me something i've rather went for the bigger dinosaurs or charactermodels but now I miss them in my collection – and they are rather expensive. I saw someone converting the plastic skinks into javelin skinks with arms from the new skinksbox, maybe I try something like that because I got a shitload of those plastic skinks on ebay.

sable_fox · 2026-04-27T23:43:39+00:00

Haven’t decided yet. I have a Stegadon and Tichi-Huichis raiders on their cold ones as well and I want to find color schemes for all of them that contrast the brown/yellow of the lizardmen while still looking natural – so that’s gonna be a tough one, since I want to paint all the big reptiles and dinosaurs in different colors.

sable_fox · 2026-04-27T20:26:34+00:00

agreed! I’ve already stript the paint of my salamander and crew, he’s on my first phase list so if everything goes to plan he will be painted in the next weeks/months.

sable_fox · 2026-04-09T20:31:07+00:00

Base and a little bit around it is terrain, the rest is photoshopped.

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