Stephen Lea Sheppard

Not to be all “Uphill, both ways!” but, like.

I just ordered something online two days ago and it was delivered today.

God, shipping times are so nuts now. Once upon a time when I was a small child, I convinced my parents to order a Lego set for me from one of their catalogues. We had to pay by money order, which we had to mail to them, and then they mailed the package. The turnaround was like two months.

Boss with glowing easily-burst pustules but actually they're little tumors; blowing them up makes the boss stronger, and you have to beat the boss some other way.

To be clear? Dropper bottle paint is *also* fine, and in fact most paint lines that sell in dropper bottles are of higher quality than GW paint. I like dropper bottles a bit more! The take isn't that paint pots are good; the take is that they're *fine*.

I used to hate the pots and then I went through the trouble of moving them all to dropper bottles and what I learned was, boy do I hate pot paint that's been migrated to bottles.

It's also easier to get smaller quantities of paint out of a pot than out of a bottle; with a bottle you need to take a whole drop at a time while with a pot you can scoop out as much or as little as you want on your brush.

Citadel pots are fine. Citadel paint is much thicker than most dropper bottle paint, because you're supposed to thin it with water on the palette; this makes up for the difference in quantity between pot paint volume(14 ml) and dropper bottle paint volume (typically 17 ml).

Unpopular take about miniature paint:

slow down and fix stuff

I miss Comixology.

I do kinda wish I felt more free writing Ao3 comments, though.

LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

My two-plus-decade practice of only posting under my own full name and trying never to post anything that would bum out Freaks & Geeks fans to learn that I’d said it (except bigots; I’m fine with bumming them out) is finally paying off. You’ll never get me, Cardinal Richelieu!

One thing an unfortunate number of people get stuck on is there are no final victories and no final defeats. Things can always get better and things can always get worse. Politics never ends.

Shh. It’s subtext.

Also there’s no relationship between your symptoms and the symptoms of whoever infected you, and symptoms are often progressive but not always.

Rage virus zombies but it’s a spectrum, so a few are asymptomatic, a few are just like, more easily-agitated versions of who they were before infection, some are just themselves with super bad tempers, and some are full on mindless rabies victims.

Somewhere out there is a very sensible woman who thinks she and her husband have a cozy six figures in an index fund, but her boy has made *changes.*

Ladies, if your husband happens to be huffing the AI fart machine, this is a great time to make sure he can't unilaterally alter your retirement accounts.

All that AI CEOs claiming that AI is replacing everything any second now are just searching for the greater fools.

This is NFTs all over again. They've got wallets full of very expensive apes and they need to move them before the jig is up.

An image of the above skeet, but I can’t see what it’s quote-skeeting because I have the original poster blocked.

I very much enjoy how this skeet appears to me.

Look, I'd be lying if I said I was super educated about the politics of the region, but I do feel like I'm losing my mind reading sentences like "Keir Starmer has condemned Iran's retaliatory attacks on neighbouring countries after joint strikes from the US and Israel earlier today."

It occurred to me today that if one had access to the golden apple of discord (A mythological object, not related to the chat software), it would do more damage to this administration than any other in living memory. Toss that thing in the west wing and they'd tear each other to pieces.

Stupidest thing I have said so far today is asking some fellow attorneys how young a jury has to be before you address them as "Chat."

Yes, clearly.

sorry, i'm still working my way through the first 39,999 warhammers

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

on March 3rd, you will be able to see the full worm blood moon lunar eclipse, which is about the closest we will get to a real world natural event title that sounds more like it belongs in a soulslike

Somewhat embarrassingly, KPDH may have unseated Millennium Actress for “favorite movie period,” but that could be a temporary hyperfixation thing.

-Serial Experiments Lain (formative, best single anime to watch if you want to get me as a person) -Vampire Princess Miyu (OAV, not TV series: covers Weird Horror in general) -Millennium Actress (likely favorite movie period, not just favorite anime movie or favorite animated movie) -Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (favorite Miyazaki movie) -Eminence In Shadow (covers trash isekai; Slime Datta Ken may be a more honest fit for this slot) -Ghost in the Shell (Oshii movies and SAC/2nd Gig; covers sci-fi tastes) -Record of Lodoss War (OAV and TV series: covers fantasy tastes and preference for its era) -Bubblegum Crisis (original and 2040; covers less intellectual cyberpunk) -Macross Plus (more sci-fi and shows with music by Yoko Kanno, plus preferential giant robot anime) -Apothecary Diaries (covers modern anime: kinda tied with Frieren; To Your Eternity would be another potential choice for this slot)

Are we doing that “ten anime to understand me as a person” thing?