@achronalart, you often know about paint/media oddities: do you know much about Windsor & Newton Pyrrole orange/azo yellow medium? This blogger's sunset nearly got ruined by some odd-sounding clumping behaviour (though it did turn out fantastic in the end).
My man is complete. Another Knight of the Flame to join the Chamber of Purity.
Look at him. He is all nice and shiny and full of deamon killing vibes.
Look at him next to his bro. His buddy oh pal.
Look at his staff.
Look at the fabric. It took me 4 hours to finish.
Look at them together.
The skull would have said hi but its shy. Maybe next time.
Look at the fabric when it was still a wip.
Because the orange and the yellow had been such a pain in my concave posterior I need a separate section on this post to adequetly describe my pain.
What the fuck is going on with w&n pyrrole orange abd azo yellow medium?
Like for the realzies as the kids say. I try to thin them down, they thin fine. And after a minute of them being left untouched and unbothered they begin to clump up.
I had to take this much out of the tube until I found paint that didn't have the consistency of dirt.
And at first things where fine until they began repeating bad old habbits like I didn't sqeeze the orange and yellow life out of those tubes 5 minutes ago.
So I improved.
Mixed in with glazing medium.
The paint told me to eat dirt cause it ain't gonna behave.
Mixed in with fluid medium.
The painy told me to eat [redacted] cause it ain't gonne bend to my demands.
So you know what?
I decided to turn around and tell it to bend over cause I ain't gonne give up that easily.
And the plan was for me to leave a decent glob of paint on the side thin a tiny piece of it on a different section of the palette and then apply the thinned paint immediatly before I guess the ghost of painting past comes and plays a trick on me again.
It worked.
But.
*goes very quickly to check the price of those tubes*
26€ for the pyrrole orange
18€ for the azo yellow medium
I won't even bother doing the math. Personally in my humble trashfire opinion I think that when a paint costs this much I shouldn't have to go through those painting gymnastics.
And you might say.
Wow. You are taking it way too personally bro. Calm your negative posterior and sit down.
And I will say no. Because I had to improvise on the fly and scrape off paint clumps from my mini and the blending was almost ruined four times because the paint gained the consistency of a dehydrated husk.
Imma calm myself now.
My boy came out well. The trials and tribulations were part of the journey.
The patience cultivation is needed because the future projects will be far more intense.
stop normalizing things we are running out of Weird Shit
I'm reminded that a good chunk of the Unseen University's purpose is to stop Wizards getting good at magic, because that tends to result in city-levelling magical duels and holes in the fabric of reality.
Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.
The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett
The trick I hit on was to always contribute. Always ask questions. Offer opinions. Clarify acronyms.
Surprisingly quickly I stopped getting invited to meetings I didn't need to be in.
normal day in tf2 casual
Normally these I end up with a vague sense of "I think I've heard this?" This one? Practically instant. The second note. I not only know what game this is from, I know where in the game it happens, what's happening, what the track title is, and how many tries it took me to get the good ending for the encounter - not the game, just this encounter. Burned in my memory.
sao fans invented a personality for kirito that he’s literally never had and then call reki a bad writer for… writing him with his real personality
It took all I had to not name the 'summary' tab 'black arts', because to most people it may as well be witchcraft.
That should change, hopefully.
Insurance on low-probability-large-payout events can be very odd, but often makes sense purely at scale. Not surprised there are specialists, dabblers would be taking massive risks - ironically, insurance companies aren't supposed to take risks. You really want to roll so many dice you can guarantee a certain number of natural-1s. Otherwise you can't plan, you can't hedge, you're just letting someone else gamble with all of your client's fees.
As far as I can tell there's never been a wacky caper movie about committing hole in one insurance fraud, and that honestly surprises me a little.
One of the earliest lessons I had in 'adventure pacing' for running RPGs was a game where the players got arrested. When told "okay, you're all in individual cells [GM describes cells], what do you do? Look for vents, try to pick the lock?" "Sleep. We've been in continuous action for 36 hours, this is the safest we've been since we airdropped in!"
With Half-Life being talked about again, I do want to reiterate that Gordon Freeman went to work at one morning and; aside from being knocked unconscious and put into stasis a few times; went without sleep for the next six consectutive days
What I mean when I do not control the hyperfixation.
"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
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