Oz Magazine (the authors of this) fought very high profile court cases regarding accusations of obscenity. Some of the zine staff went on to have very successful careers: Richard Neville and Geoffrey Robertson in particular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(magazine)

I wish I had a gripping hand.

Real Stories channal: Bare foot bandit for example Chase Tag competitions BattleBots competitions

I would prime usually with a black undercoat and then do my base colors, then I’d do detail work and finish with washes, dry brushing, and mixed color highlights. This is the traditional way for sure. I also usually prime with black as well even. What you think of as normal though is surprisingly lost on a large number of newer hobbiests who only started recently. They know some bits and pieces but a lot of the painting flow has changed, especially for people more interested in finishing huge armies fast rather than actually having interest in the painting for its own sake. didn’t want to get crap for fielding unpainted sets So nowadays part of it in official tournaments people have to have minis painted to a minimum standard to enter. Which means a lot of people painting minis to just reach that minimum and no further. I didn’t realize there was another way to go lol. It's been a major shift in the last I'd say ten years. Airbrushes for painters became really common, helped along by YouTubers making tutorials. Then the contrast paints came out from GW with a heavy marketing push; all of the new GW official painting tutorials on YouTube make heavy use of contrast paints. They were successful and soon after the other paint brands all started selling their own versions. you’re MUCH faster than I was Thanks, and yes it depends how fast I want to go, there is certainly a quality/speed sliding scale but I try to work efficiently with batch painting and assembly line painting for the basics to get things done as fast as I can. I think I have some (really) old 40k minis I saved somewhere, if I run into them in my garage I’ll snap some pictures and reply in another post. Yes and I run the [email protected] cimmunity which always needs new posts. If you want to get back into the scene with limited minis, skirmish games are popular these days. GW offers Kill Team, and other rules like OnePageRules have put out their own free skirmish rules meant to use 40k minis.

I gotta say, it causes me to pre-judge a comment when I see the number (green or red).

I guess that they're okay, but I didn't use them because I was unhappy with Google's index, but rather because Google didn't offer a no-log, no-profile service. I didn't want to be in a constant fight with service providers who are trying to make their money via whatever alternate route they can (selling one's data, profiling, showing ads, taking payment from people to get higher result ranking, whatever). Just wanted to pay them up front and not deal with trying to figure out and try to mitigate the latest way in which I was the product. If Google would offer YouTube service that provided a no-log, no-profile option, I'd probably consider that too. That is, I don't have a problem with Google-the-company so much as I do the fact that they've decided that providing a privacy-oriented service isn't presently worth it to them. Kagi does have a video search that indexes a number of video streaming services (including YouTube, PeerTube here on the Fediverse, and a number of others), but you're still still needing to stream the video from the provider. The only premium Kagi feature that I make much use of is their Threadiverse search ("Fediverse Forum" search lens), as there isn't really a great way to replicate that browser-side, and other search engines haven't bothered to implement it last I looked. They keep adding stuff, but I mostly haven't bothered to try the new stuff out. looks It looks like at some point, they added a Usenet archives search, which I actually commented here at some point saying they should implement. So maybe I'll make use of that. Right now the main alternatives there are Google Groups, which I don't think Google has been doing much work on in many years and has a kinda-broken index that mingles Usenet results with other scraped forum results, and a small search engine that some indie person set up that doesn't have much by way of filtering functionality. As to result quality, Kagi has some trial option where someone can try out a limited number of searches without paying anything, so you can try it if you want to see whether their results are what you want. paying for a browser I don't use their browser, just their website. They have a plugin for Firefox that I use that makes it slightly more convenient to use them as a search option.

A pretentious prick

NB and NovaScotia are real salt-of-the-earth communities, but one of them run by apparently a thuggy oil baron family and both of them victimized by their own voting. I've spent more time in NS, so when I say "there's only one 2-lane road to get anywhere," it's from my own experience driving though lower Sackville and other small towns on small town roads and all but chewing the steering wheel in frustration and metropolitan impatience. It's true, but I could be more patient. But both are blessed with just stunning scenery and usually very nice people whose accents you can still parse properly My in-laws - absolutely great people - have lived there 20 years now - still considered newcomers - and have terrible Internet and dodgy winter power; but if you can suffer that I can't recommend it more for the peace and the community feeling. I HAVE heard that Calgary (Alberta) has been judged the best city to live in, given opportunities and cost of living. If you can live in an oasis of clue in a blue sea of our conservatives and their voters, I recommend that as well. It has mountains nearby (and Reddit Lake aka Moraine Lake), so there's that for the sanity.

You have found the downsides to a federated system.

Thank you! ️

That's kinda brilliant. Unfortunately, corporate America loves deflection and simply ignoring or saying "It's against our policy" is their go to answer.

yea jam the claw in there and pull the hammer to the side, like you are laying it down against the wood surface. the edge of the claw will grip the softer metal when you tilt it sideways, and the handle of the hammer will act as a lever. one time i shit my pants for no reason