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@PixelBandits Depends on your definition of "online". The place I was working at had an IT guy who setup a bunch of the cubicle PC's with DooM and we would stay after the overhead people had left for the day and do LAN parties. First online (over the Internet) would probably be back even further in the mid 80's - there were PvP MUDs back then, and being at college I had full access to the pre-web Internet over frame-relay circuits. Later (before the LAN parties) I would do PvP BBS games also.

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I post about a new cult term for rich preppers who seek to accelerate the "Event" or final crisis. NOT rapture-dopes, some are tech zillionaires who think a collapse -followed by their wise rulership- is for the greater good. An ingrate masturba-fantasy.
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/04

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6) do not paint when you don't feel like it. That's work, not hobby

7) don't compare your work to others' work. Compare it to your own earlier work

8) take pictures of wash, paint, ink, glue etc spills

9) don't drink paint water of too high toxicity

10) don't clean brushes in beverages too often

#10CommandmentsOfMiniaturePainting #Warhammer #wargaming #PaintingMinis #MiniPainting

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Some lore for you on Elmore’s “Dragonslayers And Proud of It”!

Keith Parkinson posed for a few of them

Both girls in the painting are a waitress from the restaurant Keith & Larry ate breakfast!

Photo taken when Keith & Larry went freelance & had a studio in Lake Geneva
#DnD

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I've been using one flavour or another of UNIX (including Linux) for 35 years and I still have this problem. (Not aided because the order of operands for ln and ln -s are mirrored: it's as infuriating as the meaning of || and && in csh compared to sh/bash, except csh is really of historic interest rather than in day to day use these days.)

social.kernel.org/objects/b48c

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Here's my latest #terrain video - where I make some modular river tiles for #dnd / #warhammer / #pathfinder etc.

They're made from paper and card - and the 'textures' come with and without the grid (depending on your preference).

Hope you like it :)

youtu.be/Lvo3ouCHl78

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Smoke and heat billowed from the crashed spaceship as Adam laid the alien he’d saved down.

They cough, then whisper to Adam. “You’re brave… here, take this.”

“Is it, a Green Lantern ring?”

They blink perplexed. “No. It’s a medkit. Help me out here, dumbass!”

@cstross No, please, stop resisting. You KNOW you want to write it as much as we would want to READ it! (Huge fan of both Dr. Phibes AND The Laundry!)

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I've mirrored the contents of the Mod Archive at TEXTFILES.COM. The original is up, but I thought it'd be nice to have a mirror. This is many, many, many different tracker music examples, available for all and the work of thousands of open-minded musicians.

modarchive.textfiles.com/

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My sister, who is a teacher, just discovered that a statement of opinion from a one Dr Henry Valdez, a professor at Miskatonic University, is present in the teaching materials that third-party content writers provided to her and all her other co-workers. It's presented as a real place, with real students.

She discovered it after a student of hers cited the source in an assignment. None of her co-teachers or her principal knew it was there, or even what it is.

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'Eavy Contrast is BACK and what a come back! Check how I painted the amazing new Striking Scorpions:

youtu.be/L9pwjDmHl5g

As always only using Contrast Paints plus highlights, went for a slightly more Oldschool vibe for the scheme.

#warhammercommunity

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Rejoice Citizens!

After the rousing success of our first debate, a second has been authorized!
The topic of today's debate will be: "I LOVE FRIEND COMPUTER."

Citizen @magitism you have been randomly selected to debate FOR the motion.

Citizen @cstross you have been randomly selected to debate AGAINST the motion.

Magitism, the floor is yours!

Warning: Failure to debate when called is considered treason.

#Paranoia #rpg
#ttrpg #game #games #debate

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