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cj.shearwood.games
Wargamer, Software Engineer, Game & Miniature Designer, one half of https://epigram.games, Mad Scientist they/them
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Year of the Bigature phase one is progressing nicely. Now the build is done (mostly, the turret came out badly and I want to replace the guns on it) I am enjoying it a lot more. There's probably one or two more evenings blocking it out left and then it's detail time!

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

There is no greater modern (very minor) horror than “your parcel will be delivered by Evri” Farewell carpet samples, never had I known thee.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Howling Griffons aren't known for being sneaky, but just before the Badab War, they were deployed to a night world and covered up their famously bright armour. #Nerdlings #Warhammer40k #WarhammerCommunity

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Today is brought to you by cold. Despite weather outside being warmer than it's been in weeks, and the house being objectively as warm as it was yesterday, I just can't get warm today. Damn you busted thermoregulation.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

submitted 4 days ago • 289 comments

KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053

submitted 4 days ago • 227 comments

I feel like one thing I need to add to this is that regardless of how the industrial revolution affected workers in England, the development of the factory provided part of the economic engine used to justify chattel slavery and the continued economic domination of British imperial nations.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Still thinking a lot about luddites, and as much as the prevailing narrative is about automation displacing skilled workers with cheap (often indentured) workers, the thing that my mind keeps coming to is the underlying thing that enabled it was financialisation.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Spent some time this evening trying to write an opening for the Luddite RPG. The goal is to provide something of a potted history of the Luddite uprising, to give players some rough background knowledge but also drive home that this is very much a story of people whose two choices are resist or die.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I had a small moment of genuine sadness today at something very niche and almost certainly very boring: I have a habit of taking photos whenever the odometer on my car hits a palindrome. It's being replaced on Saturday, so the Sir Isaac Newton will see no more palindromes with me.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I am having thoughts about how specialist online spaces end up becoming beginner focused over time, and inevitably lose their utility to the very people who they were initially created to serve, but it’s too long for a bsky post, but not really enough for an essay.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

“What’s the dumbest thing you ever got in trouble at school for?” Typing with my eyes closed. Teacher said that it wasn’t right and that I had to look at the keyboard, otherwise how would they know I was actually typing. Detention when they came back around and I was looking at the paper instead.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Operation STOP BURNING THINGS is approaching stage 2 as I prepare to exchange Sir Isaac Newton (my fiat 500) for a shiny new electric car, who needs a name. Newton was named because she leans aggressively when cornering (which scared the shit out of me first time) so lets see what the new car wants

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Not a good start to the morning when you discover that your eggs have gone off only after you have carefully prepared an egg based breakfast and sat down to eat it. A back up Sunday morning breakfast of hot chocolate and croissant has been deployed

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The Reave Killcar is (provisionally) complete! Took some inspiration from a captured houthi humvee for the turret in the end. Will be available by the summer from hypersteelnightmare.com #nerdlings #hypersteelNightmare

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

As much as I love working on my existing projects, there is something very freeing about sitting down in front of a blank text editor and starting something new. I had a dream a few days ago about a Luddite role-playing game and I’ve started trying to write it. It is very fun to just write.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The Reave Killcar is (provisionally) complete! Took some inspiration from a captured houthi humvee for the turret in the end. Will be available by the summer from hypersteelnightmare.com #nerdlings #hypersteelNightmare

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

More progress on the next Hypersteel miniature. Moving on from the blockout to detailing specific parts. There's no real order to which bits I do first, but I was streaming for some friends and the rear wheel was done so I could make a point about mouldmaking. #nerdlings #hypersteelNightmare

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment