captainhat.bsky.social
Just a weird neurodivergent lefty nerd trying to be a decent human being and make, modify & fix things. What kinda things? More or less anything. Art, models, games, cars, society. You know, things. He/him/his (mostly).
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100% important IMO. I try hard to post about the things I find difficult, though recently that's mostly been mental health problems & other stuff because I've not been well enough to paint.
I work to a standard not a timeline so how it manifests might be different for me but it's always there.
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Grief. Reminds me of growing up in the 90s with an Iraqi grandmother. So many psychotic jokes about Iraqi people around Desert Storm. They sound like absolute bell ends.
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I got some really nice comments on a couple of my Gaslands builds from a car guy who found them by searching for car-related terms that were only ever in the alt text of the photos :)
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I appreciate it :)
If you want to be reminded, you can go to "settings" then "Accessibility" on Bluesky and you can switch on a toggle that will remind you to d it every time you post an image.
It helps with accessibility and it also helps people find your work-
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Still, that's quite speculative on my part I guess; in the meantime, we do what we can.
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In fact, my personal hot take is I'm starting to think that separate diagnoses for ADHD and autism (and other neurodivergent conditions) are not, in the long term, going to be possible to maintain.
I could be wrong, but the more I learn about them the more they feel like facets of the same thing.
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Tzeench is tricky like that! :p
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A lot of old cars you could get into with a flathead screwdriver and a little finesse regardless of how good the locks are without even breaking anything- the rear windows on a lot of cars would just pop out without much effort.
I learned that getting cars ready for grasstrack racing when I was 11.
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It's not a mistake, it's a storytelling hook.
They've been cast through an Empyrean mirror or something.
Exposition (much like repetition) legitimises.
(with apologies to Adam Neely for the misquote)
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I had a similar thing happen. I know I'm on a couple of starter packs but I don't think I will have been added to any new ones recently- I made the account to post minis but almost everything I've posted recently has been vaguely advocacy-adjacent.
I dunno, I guess? Feels weird but ehh, whatever.
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London is simultaneously the best place in the world and the worst place in the world, like, it is literally perfect for explaining what "Ambivalent" used to mean.
I love it but also I hate it.
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This was Broadside Wargames show in Medway, Kent- organised by Milton Hundred Wargames Club. It's on every year & IMO well worth a visit if you're anywhere nearby.
Also, Dan Abnett is a really lovely guy, we had a really good conversation about the ways incidental detail can really sell a story :)
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This was last Saturday.
It was WAY TOO HOT to be wearing that greatcoat :p
(but also a very cool day).
Got invited out to a show with the rest of the 601st Cosplay Group, we've got pages on Insta and FB. Also met @miramanga.bsky.social there, it was a good day :)
#Nerdlings #WarhammerCommunity
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Mate, that looks really, really nice :) The detail work is excellent & the face is great- fleshtones are hard to get right, and faces are usually worse but you've nailed it!
The one thing I will say is that if you could include alt text when you post that'd be amazing :p
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My dude, you're putting some really fine work in here and it shows; it's really not easy to get filigree lines that clean and the chest detail looks amazing too. The only parts that look like they need work are just standard WIP bits.
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That really does look very, very nice :). The only thing I can think to suggest is a dark green wash on the laurels but given it's a WIP I kinda figure you were going to do something to add colour depth there anyway.
As for spending a week on one miniature, that's more or less my entire thing lol.
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Hey, look, honestly genetics have nothing to do with it, my grandmother was Iraqi and the moment I went outside today I started melting.
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Too early or not, that filigree is looking really nice :)
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I specifically remember completely misunderstanding the assignment when the store manager paired me up with a newbie in about '06 and just flat out demolishing his Tau in two turns flat. Dude ran into me like a spiked brick wall, never saw him again. Every time I remember it I feel like a dickhead.
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it's more important to be a decent person than a good player anyway. By a lot of metrics I wasn't a good person in 2005, and regardless of how good I was at the games I'm sure I left a lasting negative impression on a lot of people.
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Anyway, my point is, you're not that bad, and you might just be playing at the wrong level (by which I mostly mean you may be building an army you like instead of meta-chasing, which is a valid way to play but you need to be on the same page with your opponent about that kinda stuff)
And also
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Sidenote, at least one of the absolute worst players in the store from back then has since become a massive right-wing shithead, which kinda tracks because he always was an arrogant, abrasive dumbass even by nerd standards.
I tabled his Ork fleet too, I think I lost a frigate?
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Absolutely not true.
I once tabled a Necron player at Battlefleet Gothic (2k point game) with Imperial Navy for very minor losses and there were two other players at least that incompetent at the store. They will always be there.
I've seen your battle report videos; You're not nearly that bad.
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These should be the lines along which arguments are drawn in modern society.
Anyway, Makita gang for life. Ryobi is fine but if you're a B&D or DeWalt stan MARK MY WORDS I-
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Probably a bit late for this time around but I have a motor & drive gear in my workshop that would make a nice upgrade for the Son if you still have it. I'd DM you but I think yours are closed on here (sensible) & I don't want to log back in to the other place. Lemme know if you're interested, aye?
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Not that that's the truly just & fair solution either, but at least it wouldn't involve tens of thousands of people being wantonly murdered and so on.
At a certain juncture you have to start thinking the cruelty might actually be the point.
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Of course if they'd put all the money they've poured into Iron Dome into social outreach & infrastructure projects for Palestinians in the West Bank & Gaza Strip instead (and not continued settling Palestinian land) they wouldn't have to be worrying about improvised rockets & mortar rounds either.
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It's designed to defend against slow-moving improvised rockets and mortar rounds. It's OK at that.
The regional power they're poking for some stupid fucking reason (who doesn't want WW3 amirite) has access to modern fast-moving ordnance with onboard ECM.
They are not comparable targets.
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Thanks, I appreciate that.
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I'm just venting a bit and maybe publicly mourning my own losses as I try to walk forward. If I'm imposing on your space by posting it in your thread I apologise, I can delete this if you like. I just didn't realise how much it hurt until I started writing about it I guess.
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But it still hurts to see people I was raised with and had previously looked up to my whole life take a path of not just disagreement but one that feels like genuine malice and I don't know how to steer them away from it.
I'm not expecting you to solve my problems or trying to claim I've got it bad
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And, like, overall, fine, right? My complaints and family integrity are small beans next to the effects of systemic problems on the genuinely marginalised. I'm not saying "my family breaking up is worse than racism" or any silly bullshit like that.
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I don't know how to deal with any of this at this point.
If this is the thing that finally gets my parents to wake up that might be a good thing for me at least but my extended family's always been close. My Grandad died last week & I'm not sure if our family relationships will survive an election.
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My Mum (who has voted Conservative since the 80s) doesn't understand why her American (evangelical Christian) friends have voted for Trump, a man she is convinced has an above 50% chance of being the literal Antichrist.
My aunt and uncle (her siblings) might realistically vote Reform.
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Unfortunately I live in the single most successful coloniser state in global history. I guess the UK isn't founded on native genocide as such (except in Ireland) but a lot of its wealth comes from genocide as economic policy everywhere else.
Even my conservative parents are scared of Reform.
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You're the second person I've seen post that this week.
Seeing it from the outside is terrifying, I don't know what it's like actually being there.
I want to do something to at least try to stop it from happening here too but I don't know what.
All I got is trying to find community with people.
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Nice! :)
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I'm sure she'd find the idea of being a "celebrity" laughable (and maybe a little scary?) but I've probably put more hours in with WTYP, KJB! and TF in the last four years than anything by anyone more broadly known.
Also not sure if she's actually used it yet, she does seem quite busy these days.
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Ahh! Well, fair enough lol
I'm sure you don't actually need me to tell you to thin your paints :p
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Have to say the design choices you've made here are spot on though :)
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Looks good as always :)
Though it does look like you had issues with paint thickness on the stripes? Summer heat can be a pain like that, I guess!
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Came here to say more or less exactly this.
"We don't know what's wrong but it probably isn't severe enough to justify treatment" is a frustrating dead zone sometimes.
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AuDHDer diagnoset two years ago at 40.
It's a whole thing, eh.
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No, honestly, that does make sense :p
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What I'm saying is, there is a worse option. You could have a pathological aversion to using decals at all.
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Look, I'm absolutely not claiming this as a point of superiority (it's a hellish way to live, don't be like me) but I have used a decal on a 40K miniature literally once, in 2001, and I've never touched them since.
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Ack! forgot to include the artist credit in the alt text of that one ( @KatalystComics , which is on the image to be fair)
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