Finally! I've organised the stickers I collected. The entire book is full to the point some of you unfortunately are on the back cover. Pages 1 to 5. 1/7 #FanfestWOLExchange
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@bantermantra.bsky.social
Computer science and software engineer trying to prove we're not all cooked on the latest LLM
It was great to meet a bunch of you and curse your sticker collections with my amatuer serpents of Ronka! I've not managed to spread out what my haul contains but there is so much awesome art in my little goodie bag. #FanfestWOLExchange
on god why is every single "cosy game" some variation of "cute witch does menial task in europe" this whole market has to be AI generated at this point
Not normally one to anime post unless it's some gundam shit. And this is probably the most white dude opinion right now. Fuck Re:Zero is bringing the heat this season. Witch Hat Atelier is also doing some heavy lifting. All off the back of Dorohedoro. We're eating premium.
A little bit prepared for #FFXIV #FFXIVFanfest with some stickers of my blorbo and some custom art I did myself. I am not an artist, but I refuse to use the plagiarism machine. The garbage art is part of the charm right?!? The strongest serpent!
A number of UK towns and cities are about to find out what happens when you elect people who have no actual local manifesto to enact that isn't "hang flags because we're scared of brown people" and "cancel local welfare initiatives".
I honestly didn't realise there was a stable (tethered) jailbreak for the PS4 out there. I knew one for really old firmware existed but up to v13? Hell yeah. Not that there's a lot to do with it right now. Interesting Linux ports aside.
Getting recommended more and more "moderate" (actually far-right as fuck based on their output) Youtube videos. "I went to a leftist X" type shit where it's clearly someone cooked on GB News and Restore propaganda. Apparently the left is an existential threat but we're also fat and lazy?
Finding out a new Enter Shikari album dropped while I was settling in for a FF XIV ocean fishing session last night was wonderful. I think this thing is all killer. Strong opening track.
The whole ass AAA games industry really does just want to prove it's not sustainable doesn't it. Live service is a death cult and so many studios and staff are suffering in the name of "infinite" growth. And no, certain "sustainable" indie collectives aren't immune to the rot.
Watching the latest Philosophy Tube video (thanks @theabigailthorn.bsky.social!), and while none of the content is something I've not been aware of, having it explained and visualised definitely helps put it in perspective. I hope it reaches the right people as education is itself a weapon here.
Despite having beat the game a couple of months ago, I find it interesting just how often my absent minded thoughts just sometimes drift back to 1000xRESIST. It may not be a game that means the most to me, but it certainly left some kind of mark. The music sometimes fills in moments of no thoughts.
Fuck it's cool being able to play RE9 day one on my Arch install. The amount of black magic and human sacrifice they put into Proton paid off. Never thought I'd have seen this work so well. It is a shame the game didn't seem to let AMD GPUs use RT however. Even if it doesn't do much.
I've been running Linux for about a month now as my daily driver and it's been treating me well. All my issues have been self inflicted fucking-with-pipewire ones. Or known fiddly things like VR support. Installing most games is a breeze between Steam and Heroic. I use arch btw (had to, sorry 🫡)
Damn this PGU Nu Gundam looking kinda weird. Did a quick #gunpla kit to clean the palette after the MGEX. Not needing cutters to get EG parts off while still being clean breaks feels heretical. But it works! (Barbatos this is not your photo please put the cannon away)
Gave the Pragmata demo a spin. I am shocked at how well shooting and hacking at the same time works. I can see how this ended up in development hell for a few years, ironing out the feel on that must have been hell.
Finished the MGEX Strike Freedom #gunpla up fully now, decals and everything. Damaged a few of the decals in the process but it has spares which is great. Tons more tiny decals than the guide requires so you can go wild.
Finally finished the assembly on my MGEX Strike Freedom #gunpla A tiny bit of panel lining and some awful posing later. All that's left to do is apply the dozens of tiny water decals. It's a very nice kit to assemble and poses wonderfully. Under gates galore makes it easy to keep cuts clean too!
I still love how big and stupid these Unicorn Gundam kits are. I haven't really worked out how to pose mine properly but it mostly gets to aura farm through sheer scale alone.
mara@maraganger.bsky.social · 6mo agookay so posing it is out of the question, it is HEAVY
Cracked open a HGUC kit to get something quick done while I whittle away at the MGEX Strike Freedom. It's HGUC #003, a kit from 1999. I have never sanded so much in my entire #gunpla life. I genuinely cannot believe how much the design and moulding has improved. I think thing is getting painted.
it's pretty telling that most of the long "trailers" at TGAs year on year are increasingly gachashit. Everything truly is just gambling huh.
The coverage of the recent transphobic fuckass case in the UK once again shows the media is actively trying to get transgender people here killed. No BBC, her winning one tiny point in a case of nearly a half dozen claims of discrimination is not a "partial victory" she got fuckin sweeped you clowns
Stricken by the curse of the #gunpla MGEX Strike Freedom G45 part. Snapped off almost as soon as the wing module was attached. I wouldn't mind if the gold plastics looked good despite being soft, but the G runners don't even look all that gold. They're just soft.
Got so into 1000xResist that I've hit the low battery warning on my Steam Deck twice now. That battery might just be wrecked though.
It was good to see an SEAF squad doing their best to keep the peace at #mcmlondon today. The deployed Helldivers were everywhere but with their squad! Super Earth's finest? Bah!
Me sowing: I love static analysis tools, I'm going to make sure this code is high quality! Me reaping: *through tears* please I know there's 481 quality errors and 52.5% code coverage but this is legacy code just let me merge it
The recent goings-on with flag obsessed plastic patriots in the UK raising their tatty Temu flags and barely managing to draw a straight line as they gleefully chortle to themselves about "owning the woke" and how "rebellious" they are while spray painting random white surfaces is so fucking sad.
The number of talking heads on here who left Twitter because it was a nazi shithole, but who still run substack pages, another far-right nesting ground, never fails to astound me.