iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Halfway through the third act, Ganondorf gets redeemed only to later learn that without their conflict, the cycle will end. So he fights Link for the chance to grow up with them again in the next cycle.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

My Mercenaries Kickstarter came in. I'm ready for some Blåhatech. I desperately need Catalyst and HBS to figure out the licensing issue keeping the Bull Shark from having an official mini and record sheet...

Commemorative pin for the Battletech faction, Clan Diamond Shark.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

Right! My bad for not mentioning that.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

I say this not as a student, to be clear, but as admissions staff that has looked at about 30 programs similar to our own.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

In BioMed, you generally don't need a Masters to pursue a PhD. A bachelor's in a related field will usually work. Also, pursuing your PhD in BioMed usually includes a full tuition waiver and a livable stipend while going to school.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

I saw my first Cybertruck in the wild. The brushed steel aesthetic looks better on my dishwasher.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

This hits me where I live, only for layout.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

I just caught myself looking way too closely at how the hexes along the seams will like up. That's some really satisfying geometry! I'm curious to see the plate tectonic mechanics.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

I'm 3.75 hours in and the only special weapon item I've found has been *salt*...and that was five minutes ago. Having a blast, though.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

This is your brain on sotn.io.

The Alchemy Laboratory in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night but instead of special weapons all of the tubes are filled with floor chicken.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Why is it never the artifact stealing Christofascists that get taken down? I'm not actually super interested in the answer. www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03...

Clip from Beauty and the Beast where Belle is selflessly asking to be taken in exchange for her father, but "me" is crossed out and "Hobby Lobby" is written below it.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

The chipping is a nice touch!

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

"Not Your Sidekick" by C.B. Lee has a really cool post-post-apocalypse meets 4-color superhero vibe with lots of world building. a.co/d/j42LEDf

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

"Dreadnaught" by @aprildaniels.bsky.social still has me thinking about the concept of "Continuity of Consciousness." www.amazon.com/Dreadnought-...

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Holy crap! I think that was the same summer they aired Vampire Hunter D, Iria the Animation, Robot Carnival, Galaxy Express 999, and Armitage III.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Watching Rampage and living in Illinois was wild. Never enough corn/soy. Add that to knowing that the main character *should* have gotten hit with the Rampage Juice in the final act so a giant Dwayne Johnson could drop The People's Elbow from Sears Tower onto a kaiju.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Much better setup than the last batch.

An array of 19 BattleTech miniatures and a jump plume. Normally I would list the specific ones, but this is a lot. They're prepared on small scratch-built cardboard shelves inside a box affixed with a hair dryer.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Now with more cardboard!

The drying rack from the previous post inside a vertical cardboard box with a blow dryer made to pass through the bottom corner and sealed with duct tape.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Needed a drying rack and had a bunch of cardboard left over from an IKEA shelf. Look ma, no measurements!

A small drying rack for miniatures made of unpainted recycled cardboard.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Having seen this, I post a robot.

Custom painted Full Mechanics Gundam Bael from Iron Blooded Orphans, starkly lit with red light from the left, and blue light from the right.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Finished my take on Grant Abbitt's Dungeon Door tutorial. It was more time consuming than the other's I've worked on, but I really like the results. Pointiness-based procedural textures are fantastic. I do wish he had taken the tutorial all the way to the lighting stage, though.

A stylized dungeon door with dramatic lighting but no background. A demonic skull with ram's horns and glowing eyes sits on the keystone at the top.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

With that said, recycled billboard vinyl is pretty easy to acquire and use for things (other than flooring). Common uses are tarps, garden/pond liners, and absolutely ridiculous slip-and-slides.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Everything Everywhere All At Once is as good as the hype. Holy shit.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

I can absolutely see that. Vengeance took up so much of her headspace there wasn't room for much else. I had a hard time fully appreciating her character but I can see what the writers were trying to do and I respect it. Should have had more time.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Am I alone in feeling like he had ace vibes early in the show. Even (or especially) when he was living next door to a brothel. Season 4 Amos gave me whiplash. Either way, my favorite character in my favorite TV show. Flawless casting.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

The coloring begins! I'm digging this method of procedural colors for a couple reasons: 1) My brief foray into UV unwrapping wasn't great (room for improvement, for sure). 2) Using the sharpness modifier and gradients feels a lot like using washes and edge highlighting on minis. #b3d

A stylized 3D render of a dungeon door. The angry looking skull on top still does not have any color.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

And with this, I'll be able to start coloring stuff. It was on this step that I realized Abbitt provided his own sketch for people to work from and hadn't intended people to use their own...but I've enjoyed making this door mine.

The final piece of the previous images that did not have a texture, the lock, now does.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Last thing to get sculpted will be the lock, then I think it's on to colors!

The same door, but now the metal bits have rivets and look really beat up.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

And yeah...I'm aware that opening a door on a tilted hinge is going to be a problem. I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Here's a closeup of the door. I'm really impressed by how Blender renders something with no texture and one light...cycles is nuts.

A closeup of the door showcasing the wood grain...albeit with no texture at all. Everything is porcelain white.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Tonight's Dungeon Door progres before bed.

The same dungeon door from previous posts, but now with wood grain.

Grainy close up of the now sculpted skull, bearing way more detail than the original sketch would imply.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

8v8 classic BattleTech, tonight, on 4 adjacent hex maps. Finally taken this over-embellishes over-washed Griffin for a spin.

A Griffin battlemech that looks like it sat in a barn for the last 50 years, but was well loved before that. A pinup is painted on the shoulder pad, barely visible under the grime.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Progress before I stop for the night.

A texture-less crudely sculpted dungeon door....now with textured rocks.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpYh...

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Part 1 of Grant Abbit's "Dungeon Door" tutorial done. Need to put it down for a bit to work on a different project but so far I'm really happy with it. I definitely overcomplicated it by sketching out ram horns and a latch/padlock rather than just a ring handle. (This is my third Blender tutorial).

Crude 3D model of a dungeon door with no textures in front of the sketch it's based on.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

This is relatable content.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

And now the body horror has set in and...wow.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

We're about half way into Color Out of Space and it is way less campy than I expected from an HP Lovecraft movie starring Nicolas Cage with special guest Tommy Chong.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

When I say I got that dog in me this is the dog in question

Cú Chulainn from Irish mythology. I should note that I'm neither Irish, nor particularly heroic or fierce...but I am stubborn and will eat basically any food given to me.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Artorias the Abysswalker from the Dark Souls board game for @spockle.bsky.social.

Painted miniature of Artorias the Abysswalker from the Dark Souls board game by Steamforged games.

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Bram De Buyser @chton.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Anything piloted by a human that needs some reaction speed, and be flexible in use, makes sense with a human body plan. Our brains literally have a billion years of evolution to be good at piloting this body config and no others. Everything else is either more mental overhead, or less flexible.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Prescient of Bubblegum Crisis (1987) to call the #1 threat to public safety "boomers."

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

I wish I wasn't addicted to HoloCure. There's lots of other games I want to play. But between it, Vampire Survivors, and Death Must Die, I find it hard to let there be a bullet heaven game on Steam for which I haven't collected ALL of the achievements.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

I grew up on these streets

Screen capture of "Skitchin." An Electronic Arts game from 1994 (before we knew how toxic the industry would become) about rollerblade racing on busy highways, grabbing cars to pick up speed, and beating your opponents with pipes. True sportsmanship. Also it has a killer soundtrack.

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Vandal @tanaroc.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

In retrospect saying "radical left" feels like stolen valor, but that could be the imposter syndrome talking. Either way, black lives matter, end genocide, eat the rich, teach the arts, and radical bodily autonomy for all.

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