Thanks! The wings were the first thing I did, felt most comfortable for what I was going to do with them and how, having done similar for other daemons in my army. Knocked that out quick. I spent the rest of the paint time being indecisive on how to do the skin, heads, greebles, and ya know, everything. Repainted soooo many times while avoiding touching the wings with all might

If I were, would I know?

Ty! I picked up a brush for the first time ever last year, there’s an eternal pile of sick arts and crafts waiting for you to get back into

I wanted a lord of change for my thousand sons army cause big bird demon wizard is too cool not to include, but was told kairos is only 10 points more and better so I slapped on the second head. One day I’ll hopefully be able to try the game and figure it out for myself~

Nice to know, but it’ll really come down to VST support. I can relearn a new DAW, but I can’t magic up new libraries. I also don’t really wanna have to learn futzing with Linux when I have enough hobbies. As much as windows sucks, it’s convenient that their product supports everything I want out of the box. Once a Linux distro can do the same for my needs, I’m all in.

No, it’s for horses 🐴

Not pictured; she spared herself the shame by having an actually good opener that referenced something in my bio

I met my fiancée on Bumble 4 years ago, but I also created this from my experience on the app:

Losing Ableton and all my VSTs are dealbreakers with Linux for me. Would be fine with the games I play, being all mostly single player indies. I could relearn a new video editing software, and I assume Citrix will work fine for all my work programs, but maaaan I’m not losing my favorite VSTs.

Ah man, perhaps I’ll revisit again. Thanks for your input!

At one point I had it as a super fleshy pink thinking that might sell it better, but ended up reverting it. Thought keeping the colors close would help me more. Maybe after sculpting some broken armor around it I’ll give that another shot

Ah that makes so much sense, hopefully I can sculpt something convincing, prime it, and glue it on. Thank you!

Stoked for these changes. As much as I’m loving the game, it sucks to lose constantly in the high stakes runs due to pure rng of only being offered garbage.

Still keep firing up runs despite the rng cause it’s that fun, so yeah, stoked.

Sounds a like “I can’t breathe” during a certain period of time

People who don’t wear helmets are cowards. What are they so afraid of? Really gonna risk permanent brain damage on the off chance some other loser doesn’t think safety is fashionable?

I’ve beaten the game with 7 characters and I can’t wait to do it with 7 more

Ooooh yeah Factorio and I are well acquainted, think I’m probably close to 500 hours on that. Definitely closer to Frostpunk than AtS

Pretty much how I felt too. I looooved Frostpunk and wanted more games like that. 100+ hours and loved every second, but eventually gotta move on. Tried Anno 1800 and liked it but not as much, got maybe 50 hours out of it. Tried Against the Storm and after 10 hours of not feeling anything I uninstalled. Really don’t get why Frostpunk and Against the Storm get lumped together, other than both having mechanics of building buildings and assigning workers. There’s sooooo much more to Frostpunk beyond that.

I better start studying up then for if/when I eventually find 3 other folks willing to play it with me~

I was able to release on the 14th, maybe a few minutes after 12 their time. One of the lucky ones!

And yep all the small ones were impulse. I’ve never played any version of Splendor but heard great things about duel, and at ~$13 pfft that’s basically free.

I did scoop up Ark Nova before ever having played it lol, the deal was nuts. I did get a chance to play it at my LGS the following week and immediately felt good about the purchase. Grand ol time.

I didn't look at any of the authors while reading the books, but while reading Thousand Sons (now finished) I was seriously wondering "does this author even like scifi/fantasy?" he has Magnus speaking like you'd imagine some uncaring Hollywood accounting suit would write while pumping out a minimum effort script to cash in on some familiar IP. Magnus and Ahriman alternate between moron and genius as the plot demands. Worst of all, as you said, it's just boring as hell until the end. Checked the author partway and saw he also wrote False Gods, "yep that makes sense." Horus is moron for plot in that too, with all the dialogue someone who doesn't like scifi/fantasy would write to make fun of it.

I wonder if TS is so fondly remembered just because the last 10% is actually good. The Sons coming together for a final stand despite the betrayal of the Emperor and their own primarch, that's all super interesting! If it started at the Council of Nykea chapter, TS would be a great novella.

Do you have any proof? I can’t find any evidence of Tesseract crowdfunding anything nor any discourse talking about any drama. Something like that would definitely have ended up on the progmetal subreddit

Are you sure you're thinking of the right band? I'm not finding any information regarding a scandal like that.

huh?

I alternate between kindle and audiobook for maximum efficiency, thanks Emperor for having the options!

I'm glad you enjoyed Thousand Sons! The size and different flavors of the 40k Novelverse is part of the excitement.

The Sons being up their own asses and not being nearly as smart as they think they are is apparent, my gripe is that we're beaten over the head with that fact for half the book before anything interesting happens.

This full sequence happens 3 times in the first third alone (entering the mountain, the titan, and tentacle hugs):

1. Ahriman watches as handsome and sexy genius Magnus does something everyone thinks is suicidal/insane
2. Magnus is in trouble! Thousand Sons onlookers scream/cry/freak out. All is lost! Sexy Primarch-san noooooo
3. Cut to Magnus’s perspective: “hehe I’m so smart nobody knows how smart I am but me”
4. Magnus is okay! Rejoice! Ahriman cries tears of joy.

Then the scene where Ahriman and Magnus exposit to Lemuel so we the reader can be spoonfed the history felt like a scene that should've been left in the rough draft. I can't believe self-important Magnus would take such an interest in a rando mortal, even if they are Ahriman's pupil, and so excitedly regale them with the tale of the bird pieces.

I'm powering through and nearly done, it really picks up after the council of Nykea. IMO, the book should've started there as the rest could've been an email. Until then, all on-screen Thousand Sons all horrifically unlikable and not even in a fun way like the Sons of Horus.

Also not arguing and it works for folks. Magnus being an ouroboros of head-to-ass should've worked for me, but McNeil's dialogue pains me even when not trying to make an inherently unlikable person seem sympathetic. Hopefully Abnett can flesh em out in Prospero Burns.

Legion sounds like my next stop after 1K Sons series, but should I read First Heretic->Battle for the Abyss first, or go straight to Legion then Know No Fear?

Angron books are something to look forward to then!

At least Siege of Terra is something to look forward to, eh?

They’ve been teasing us with studio photos since 2020!

Tesseract and Periphery have both in my top 5 bands since their debuts, Hail Stan was my 2019 AOTY but P5 is my least favorite album they’ve ever put out. Reeeeaaaally hoping for some good Tess to claim it this year.

Can’t speak for defaults or large subs, just anecdotal stuff from the few times when I browsed on desktop since Friday.

One of my favorite subreddits /r/progmetal is still private with a message to join the discord instead. Glad they’re staying dark.

Others seem like business as usual, but I don’t have any data obv.

Thank you! Thousand Sons more like Thousand Corrections

Thank you! More color for sure, it’s daunting to learn all this color theory stuff but super fun to experiment.

Any recs for bases? I think I really stepped up my game between dudes, rubric ghosts first, then rust terminators, daemon prince last. Feel like the daemon prince one is solid, but not sure what to do for my next round of sorcs.

I don’t know what I don’t know, there may be glaring noob errors that seasoned painters may immediately spot. Never painted anything before these guys.

My biggest problem is all the tiny detail. I’ll correct something, but then need to fix another color, which then needs me to fix the previous, back and forth doing micro corrections until completion. Painting some exalted sorcs now and the trim is killer.