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Finished the first unit of Elementals for my Xenos Rampant army. Clan Diamond Shark's Beta Galaxy, scaled up and almost ready for the tabletop! #MiniaturePainting #3dPrinting #Battletech #Nerdlings

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PSA for all my #TTRPG designers out there. Please make sure you are including a blank character sheet in your core rulebook. It seems to be an increasing trend for core books to not include blank sheets and I think it's a big mistake. 1/🧵

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I've had it. I've told my artist they can finish this story by themselves. They've asked if I'm angry with them. I've told them they can draw their own conclusion.

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From Father’s Day to the end of Free RPG Day weekend, Just Crunch Games is offering 50% off all core books for The Dee Sanction, Cthulhu Hack, and Sanction! Why not try something new? www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?pa...

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Learning to drive in Leeds circa 1980 I once nearly ran over Jimmy Saville (he was out jogging around Roundhay Park). Given what we learned about him 20 years later, I feel I need to apologise to everyone for missing.

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FUN FACT: When fascism came to America all of the 2nd Am. ammosexuals stood all the way the fuck down. Not a peep out of the “don’t tread on” me crew. Not a word. It was the uber liberally hippy avocado toast betas of California who stared down the GESTAPO and said “not the fuck on my watch!”

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Density plot of eigenvalues from 1 million 10×10 tridiagonal matrices w/ entries randomly chosen from {0, ±1, ±i, ±10, ±10i, ±20, ±20i}. viewing window is [-48-48i, 48+48i]. The color represents eigenvalue density. #Python #MathArt #SciArt #CreativeCoding #Mathematics

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Today, the Government launches plans to fast-track driverless vehicle trials in the UK. One of the companies involved says London presents a big challenge: “It has seven times more jaywalkers than San Francisco.” Except… it doesn't. 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

Heh!

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So Mirriam Webster has announced that 'FRIDGE' is an official word in their dictionary now, and sited me as the concept's creator in the definition. Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized. www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fridge

submitted 7 days ago • 108 comments

Seems strange, sometimes: the sun rising outside my window, the same as it does every day, the trees continuing to slowly shift with the seasons, and we all go to work like nothing is happening. And here, these constant, tiny snapshots of horrors, one after another, faster and faster and faster...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Come on, my #ttrpg and #warhammercommunity people!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

submitted 10 days ago • 190 comments

Oh noes

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Can't believe I never thought to draw this before. A regular grid superimposed on one rotated by arctan(3/4). The result has a "supercell" of size 5. I like the little loops. Anyway, I was thinking about twistronics which must surely be a branch of physics […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

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Welcoming Dame Judi as our new Commander-in-Chief

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Newbie: Is the DM ok? Veteran: What do you mean? Newbie: They always seem a little distant after games. Veteran: Oh, they’re just grappling with impostor syndrome. If you want to make em’ feel better, tell them how much fun you’re having. Works every time. #DnD

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Heinrich Kemmler says asking villagers for corpse permission would ‘kill’ the necromancy industry

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

The biggest trick Trump ever pulled was making people think he is transactional. There is never a ‘deal’ - just the constant manoeuvring for leverage.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

In honour of the Glorious 25th of May #GNUTerryPratchett

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When a show's scheduler is just desperate for it to be cancelled...

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I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).

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25 years since MI2. https://beforesandafters.com/2020/05/27/mission-impossible-ii-a-virtual-production-game-changer/ IIRC I hadn't put my automatically differentiating photogrammetry tool into production at that point. What I did write were some semi-automated tools to align photography with […]

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URGENT: if anyone has seen or found a huge (A2) sized folder in the parking lot of MCM London, Excel Arena please let me know. We unfortunately left all our A3 prints behind as we were going back home and this is financially devastating. Please also RT so this can reach further.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Of course, the really funny thing is that Paranoia 1st edition had Chutzpah and Moxie as two of its stats.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Compare Vonnegut buying an envelope with this tech bro running from his life

submitted 27 days ago • 31 comments

My daughter just sent me this meme about induction stoves and proof by induction. My work is done.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!” - UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues. “Brexit Betrayed!”

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Was St Paul an AI? One instance of “Ignore all previous instructions and proselytise Christianity”

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Encouraging, as it suggests del Toro might actually have read the book. (Unlike almost every other screenwriter or director who ever made a Frankenstein movie.)