When I’ve been playing for 5 hours and needed a piss for 3 hours.

My entire D&D group. Thanks gang!

Welcome to the hobby! These look brilliant.

i like turtles

The comments on this post are such a joke. The name of the community is literally ‘fuck cars’ and people are getting bent out of shape because we’re posting about our dislike of cars.

I’m not interested in changing people’s minds. I’m in favour of literally telling people to stop driving because the fucking planet is on fire. If that adds 30 minutes to your commute, so be it.

Meanwhile I live in a city with good public transport, such that it only takes 15 minutes longer to get around, but 95% of people still drive. That absolutely justifies regularly reminding people that acceptable alternatives are available every time they listen to the radio.

Railing against anything that reminds you of cars is not the path to systematic change.

Yes it is. That’s why this community exists: to discuss alternatives to car dependency.

Why does public transport need to be exactly as quick as driving? I leave myself an extra few minutes to walk to the bus in the morning with no negative consequences compared to driving whatsoever. It’s not the end of the world if getting from A to B takes a little longer. This is exactly the type of dogshit logic that makes it next to impossible to get anyone to do anything differently.

No, I’m not over thinking it. I’m just thinking about it. Neither do I think it’s a plot. I work in environmental research, so I think about systemic issues like this quite a bit.

The reality is that my country has set out to reduce carbon emissions by 51% by 2030, which is an incredibly ambitious target. In order to reach that goal, we need to adopt a Dutch transport model that reduces car dependency significantly. That means that people who drive everywhere need to be told to use active and public transport as an alternative to driving all the time.

Using state funded media to get that message across every half an hour during traffic reports seems a fairly obvious way of doing so.

One time when I was 11 we were given a tour of our city’s zoo by two ladies, who were retired zookeepers. They showed us around the zoo’s museum, and told us that the tiger pelt hanging on the wall belonged to their favourite animal, who they’d both looked after.

I put up my hand and asked why they’d skinned it and nailed it to a wall if they loved it so much. They both got really fucking mad, but I stand by what I said.

This is disappointing. I collect a firstborn Deathwatch army, and there are a couple of units in this list that I had planned on adding to my collection, specifically bikers, and a land speeder storm.

For base coating and washes I use cheap synthetic brushes like Royal & Langnickel, which you can pick up in bulk from art stores.

For everything else I use Kolinsky Sable brushes, specifically the Raphael 8404 range. These cost about €20/25 each from the art store, so they are pricy, but I wish I’d started using them sooner. They’ve completely changed the quality of my painting compared to hobby brand brushes.

Be sure to use brush soap for the expensive brushes, and I wash my synthetics with isopropyl alcohol. That way they last for years.

1/2 a mile to the gallon and $600 to fill up. Produces as much C02 as Luxembourg. New EV version out next year!

Hideo Kojima’s games are bad.

For context, when I was 11 my friend told me that MGS was incredible, so I went to his house to play it. It was fucking tedious. I spent hours shuffling around grey corridors, interspersed with painfully long dialog and cut scenes that were mostly about nothing.

Then, years later I decided to go back to MGS V and give the series another try. I had the exact same reaction to it as the original game. Endless waffle about characters and situations that meant nothing to me, uninspired modern military aesthetics, and boring locations.

They were clearly very well-made games, and I appreciate that people have massive regard for them. I just don’t like them at all.