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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 8h

It's Speed Freekz by Alex Boyd

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I struggled to paint these last weeks but I finished my first Questing Knights. #warhammer #TheOldWorld #Bretonnia

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Me too I want to try some of these paint. 😄 Mainly the rich yellows.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Planescape Torment ❤️

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sometimes I feel like the only one, but I don't dislike painting pots. 🫣 I have a lot of dropper bottles too and I find pros and flaws in both designs, but maybe I'm weird...

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

While reading Bjorn the Fell Handed book by @justinhillauthor.bsky.social, I wanted to build the kit I have on my shelf since years.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

T'ES PAS COMPLICE DE QUOI ED ???

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Il est pas complice de quoi?

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Et les images c'est pour quand ?

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A noter que si tu avais 3 Francs 6 sous en Avril 1975, avec une inflation cumulée de 498.4%, ils devraient valoir maintenant 3€ 6 sous (donc 30 centimes).

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Si on part du principe qu'un sou vaut 5 centimes de francs et qu'on repart du taux de conversion de 6,55957 Francs ça donne 55 cents. Auxquels on rajoute l'inflation, donc 3 francs 6 sous de 1999 ça fait avec une inflation de 57% jusqu'en 2026, 86 cents. A vue de nez quoi.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The SHCD green box is EXCEPTIONAL. Even better than the original game.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today I wanted to see if the castraferrum could bend the knee with some work. It's doable. Not easy but doable.

Side of the castraferrum legs with knee working.

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Jorge Rodríguez @jorgertg98.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Risen Dark Angel comm for @ragnamarkndroll.bsky.social! Really proud of this one

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

En tout cas ça fait rêver de pouvoir investir dans un télescope.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Je trouve ça ignoble perso...

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Une companion app... EN BIG 2026.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

C'est ignoble bordel...

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

No page 69. You have to read the whole issue to discover the true price behind this offer. 😂

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/drie... I'm too fast for you. 😎

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There also was a limited offer: buy 3 get one for half the price

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The number is not on it but it's page 114.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fatigué mais ça va super. 😂

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Franchement,le nombre de choix de merde de cette boite quand même...ça commence a faire beaucoup.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ils sont toujours dans les choix de merde c'est fou.

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electriceve (ICantThinkEm) @electriceve.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ak interactive appear to be using ai in their box design. just another reason not to buy ak products 🫠✨

The box design for AK quick gen metallic paints

A close up of the box design for AK quick gen metallic paints showing particularly suspicious gun design

A close up of the box design for AK quick gen paints

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I thought it was a map of Westeros.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Et moi, seul sur cette terre, je veux un Might & Magic 11.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Congrats for getting it anyway! Me it would have needed a plane ticket and a night at the hotel at least... So it was definitely not worth it. They managed the release very poorly.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm still disheartened by that book missing on my shelf. 😢

All Siège of Terra LE books bar 1 (The End and the Death Vol 3).

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My son has started watching Bluey again. I'm honestly amazed by the writing of this kid TV show each time I watch it with him. Some episodes honestly make me shed tears.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I finished reading the Jarnhamar trilogy. I started reading Hive.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

First time I manage to take pictures of lightning. I'm quite happy.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Joyeux anniversaire ! 😂

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Didier Deschamps Magnétiques @ddmagneto.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Suboden Khan, capitaine de la première Confrérie des White Scars. #whitescars40k #whitescars #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity #subodenkhan

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