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Modern tabletop miniature painting is dominated by contrast paints and airbrushes. This is especially true of small time commission painters.

I personally only use my airbrush for priming, and only use contrast paints for intensely limited purposes like glazing. For the vast majority of my painting I use methods taught in the 80s and 90s.

I personally like the results, and I like to think my methods give my pieces a "voice" that helps me stand out from other local commission painters which deliver interchangeable looking results.

I don't dislike airbrushes (which I know were used by certain niche painters back in the day, but weren't in common use generally) or contrast paints. I know some people take the time to get good results with them, however I think the majority of people applying them do it in a sloppy manner and the effort it would take to prep or clean up the results to a standard I would accept seems like more work than just doing it traditionally.

Looking down on manufacturing jobs is so cool.

Nope. Three ring binder with page protectors for the important stuff. Some of the page protectors have stickers with descriptions on them. Most of the papers have additionally been scanned and put into an external drive that is decently organized.

Scattered paperwork drives me nuts.

All I've got is the tablet and the phone for work. Gosh either I'm an executive or not all workplaces and job types are alike.

What's weird about video games is there isn't a library of stock prop games. It doesn't take a ton of time to make something in a free engine. I'm sure studio VFX departments have people who could whip up a few demo sized "games" that can actually be controlled and played but don't have failure states so actors can actually "play" them while filming without having to be too distracted from the scene itself. It would also ensure no rights issues come up with game studios about showing the footage.

Instead we get actors often overenthusiastically wiggling controllers around and insert footage of games that don't match the motions at all.

The movie telling us that Teslas can be remotely hijacked feels like it should counteract any positives about automatic driving.

Then again this movie starts with an armed warrant execution for posting a YouTube video critical of the NSA, so the values are bit catawampus.

Something that you missed, which became increasingly amazing as the movie went on was the elastic nature of time.

It took the same amount of time for earth to globalize its military, fight the tripods successfully, have the tripods break into data centers, disable all the military technology, and put the military on the defense as it did for a car with his daughter in it to drive a mile.

I liked him in 28 Weeks Later. The movie itself had a lot of issues, but I think he was a good choice.

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.

It's a readymade interactive art piece. That will be 30 million dollars.

More people should play ATOM RPG.

I think those categories are so broad that they disguise how many systems exist.

I don't think I'd for example call DND extremely crunchy when systems like GURPS exist. And GURPS also has derived systems like Traveller.

Then you've got the various Gamma World editions that vary from "basically just reskinned DND" to "I took a bunch of ketamine while watching math tutorials".

You've got insane systems like FATAL, where even wholly putting aside the gross content, the actual system is actually insane in how it insists on statting basically everything. EVERYTHING. So it takes like ten hours to create a character.

More playable you've got games like Inquisitor which are almost more skirmish wargamey in rules and require the players to push the RPG elements themselves. Yet at the same time the homebrew Inquisitor community has popularized "Inquisimunda" rules to make the game even more wargame like. Is that more or less crunchy? Kinda both I guess.

You've got sibling systems like Call Of Cthulhu and Pulp Cthulhu which people sometimes interchange depending on the session or they mix-n-match to make some kind of hybrid homebrew creation.

complete lack of understanding of personal responsibility

I feel fundamentally uncomfortable with sois vide using plastic.

I was talking about criminal bench trials. I skipped right over civil because there isn't a guilty verdict as an outcome. Yes, I know it is very nitpicky.

[US] I'm trying to think of common cases where a judge is the one declaring guilt that would warrant a massively expensive lawyer.

You have informal hearings on things like traffic court where the judges decide, but really a cheap lawyer that specializes in traffic stuff will have a decent chance of getting a ticket reduced. Probably because the lawyer is willing to make reasonable asks to the prosecutor rather than the judge for a reduction and the judge just signs off. Technically still pleading guilty and being found guilty, just of something lesser. People who represent themselves in traffic court seem to want to go straight to the judge rather than negotiate with the prosecutor and when the usually lame story gets told they get found guilty.

For criminal cases, normally it is a jury deciding. Expensive lawyers can put on a good show and do more research but the decision of guilt ultimately goes to the jury not the judge. I guess you could sub in a jury for the judge in the comic and I'd see it a little more. Expensive teams can also sift through for details such as what happened in the Alec Baldwin case to find something that got the case rightfully thrown out. The judge did that but it was less declaring not guilty as it was throwing out the case based on prosecutor misconduct.

People can ask for a bench trial, but unless somebody can point to a connection between a bench trial, expensive lawyers, and getting a higher not guilty rate I don't see it. It does seem, merely anecdotally, that pro se defendants seem to move for bench trials more than represented defendants, and they tend to lose. That seems less about expensive lawyer and more about having no lawyer at all and then just verbally farting in court until the verdict.

Civil cases don't have "guilty" or "not guilty" outcomes.

From what I've perceive of the average everyday non-sensational case, a public defender or a reasonably priced lawyer can do the job. The biggest hurdle is a combination of defendants' inability to shut up to the cops and court, and if there is other damning evidence the stubbornness of a defendant to take a reasonable deal and insisting on going to trial with bad facts against them.

Anyway too much dissection of silly internet comic.

This started as a smear paper for another painting. I was dabbing my excess yellow and orange paints onto it. I realized I could do something with it beyond it being a throwaway and refined those colors. Then I dragged black ink across one end and sponged white on the other.