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A notorious anti-immigrant party /seem to be/ be losing votes (some 3%, which is a lot since we have 8 parties sharing the 100%). Surprising if you model your expectations on e.g. Germany rn.

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So far not the Swedish election result I was expecting to develop (50% votes in). When a party is firmly geared a certain way and there are some pretty exotic international developments and concerns butting in, maybe that siphons voters off... I don't know.

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Or rather, the extra stuff used map coordinates too, but there was some kind of formulaic address truncation of the map address space into a smaller distorted shape... a limit which likely much came to dictate how the puzzles worked because the designers then couldn't place stuff just anywhere.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's interesting to do these without holding them in memory (other than the tiles on & around the current screen). BBC Exile apparently calculated everything based on just the tile coordinates, with exception lists for block-offs, hand placed tiles, and items which used a fast lookup method (hash?).

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Car is going a bit sideways here because the magnet taped under isn't centered. With a string (preferably thicker than the sewing thread I used here), it's best to rubberize the belt driving drive wheel for friction. I had to add a rubberband into the belt for tension. It often snags.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can you motorize N-scale cars with just garbage? Yeah, kind of. The tricky part is getting them around the loop-wheel at the ends. It might work best to use a wider turn, and maybe dangle the metal/magnet on a drag-line so the belt can be all-belt.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One thing I don't quite like about digital brush engines, here Krita, is how crossing lines get this distracting dot in them--something which is less pronounced IRL I think. Haven't found a tweak for it despite looking. Might have to do with the physical structure of paper & how deposits saturate.

Test in Krita using a pressure sensitive Wacom tablet.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There's such an over-eagerness to fill empty surfaces with constant meaningless, low-vocabulary babble. No place to rest, which I'd often rather. Details can be useful commentary. Foundation is basic form; relations within designs. This seems a shroud of neither.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My experience as a concept artist apparently in the industry is being on mood boards everywhere unknowingly and finding out years later from someone with the actual job. I guess I've been... replaced.

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From what I can tell the numbers aren't too bad. Makes sense for a mech to be about tank-density, and then you can also say they can float or sink depending on mood or some extra add-on. Of course, a spindly interpretation would be taller than a chonky one, but it's within margin of fuzziness.

(M1 Abrams might be about water density in my rough calculations.)

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I wonder what the density values work out as. A mech should be roughly 2.5-3.5 times itself as a cube. If an 50T Enforcer is 11.5M tall, and 3,2 times itself as a cube, then that's (11.5/3.2)³ = nearly 50m³ or the density of water. Sometimes in games Ton is volume and not weight though.

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Whenever I do a project I try to limit myself to the earlier installations lest I be overwhelmed but content and lore patches and sub-canons. But usually I pick something I like from the newer stuff. Cyber-cats?

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I kind of used varied solutions. The knee either goes as a bulge on the thigh or shin, is missing, or a seamless extension of a plate, or it's a more complex articulated third part. I guess in reality metal robots rarely had articulated knees due to the weight/sagging.

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The designs are mainly from TRO 3025, early print. I don't know much about the BT/MW universe though. It appears there are no heights given, only tons, which is smart if you want to avoid giving bad estimates. Given how mass scales, these designs are likely samey-sized. 20T -> 80T is x1.6 height.

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For my re-designs here I'm thinking of using three design rules: > Limbs generally have a smaller front facing area and wider side facing area, i.e squished. > Limbs have more mass closer to the torso, though foot area can still be big. > Die-cast enamel painted toy feel.

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Battletech sketches, going more for the vintage look, less trunky and square-plated. There's quite a bit of difference between the early designs and later "refresh", which I think became greeble and silhouette homogenized close to its detriment.

I'm writing this hidden message from my jail cell deep under Fort Boyard. Please send some earplugs the squids are making a terrible ruckus outside.

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Right robot, wrong painting, but now I'm not quite sure if the painting I saw even existed as it seems hard to find.

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Not quite sure where they came from, but it's safe to say she's influential. That style hasn't been too uncommon, except for in the late 80s, 90s and 00s. Made a bit of a comeback later I think. They kind of work in the movie because it suggests The Company is cost cutting everywhere.

I'm quite sure it's the Trebuchet. Still looking for the painting. It's not the one with people in the foreground though. The more I think about it, the less I'm sure I'm not creating a false memory of it...

Ah Victor... Trebuchet... not really sure because of the differing presentations. The painting I saw looked like this iirc. I scrolled by it so fast and really only noticed the helmet.

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I think it looked something like this... very Darthy, and from that era when they weren't so bulky.

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It's so hard to tell because the designs fluctuate so wildly with era. I'm not seeing the painting in that gallery though.

What's the name of that battletech mech with the Darth Vader neck-guard helmet? Possibly late 1980s design. I saw a painting of it but forgot to save...

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sometimes reasonable men must open Deluxe Paint III and push some pixels.

Hard to find good ref of this thing in its early intact state.

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It's up atm. If you can't reach it and know it's just you, it could be a DNS issue on your end. It can be fixed by adding a fallback DNS. You can check if a site is up by having another site ping it, like downforeveryoneorjustme

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I got Wargame Construction Set because it sounded creative, kind of like SEUCK, but it didn't even have a pixel editor for the units and just ran on some ugly SSI engine. Did have a really nice cover though. Hugo was a bit embarrassing but I guess fit for purpose.

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"Dr. Mengele made a potentially huge medical breakthrough. Nazism is very exciting right now."

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I remember getting games based on just the title even. Sometimes that was all you had to go on when ordering from tiny font ads/lists in magazines. It was also the case with Public Domain floppy disks, though sometimes you had a little bit of text description for those.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"How exactly were the Nazis bad?" "The death camps? The war and the destruction?" "Yes, but besides that, how exactly were they bad?" "Uh..." "You can't even think of a thing!"

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Yeah that arcade game was the first that came to mind, but I just couldn't remember its name. It looks quite nice indeed.

Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Were early 80s diving games the only good underwater games? Anyways, wanted to pixel plop one in DPIII. Ah, there were those sink bomb ones too. I can't remember which ones I played--it was so long ago now.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'd probably get booed off a stage if I mentioned all of mine, but it's a lot of the absolute classic, foundational 90s and early 00s games with a story focus. I was never much for having my path, expression and creativity controlled and limited in games and that period felt quite focused on that.