I'm always on the left and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Nerve pain is fucking bullshit FOOT Y U NO STAY FINE?

Ah yeah, that's a good point. I was never into those settings where Dark Elves were literally dark skinned (I've never played D&D). That's probably why I didn't notice.

Oh weird. Here I thought allowing Ukraine into NATO was completely apolitical. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Journalism has always been this way under capitalism. Journalists lied about Iraq. They lied about the Black Panther Party. They lied about Vietnam. The term "Yellow Journalism" came about in the 1890s to describe the inflammatory newspapers of the era.

Journalism has always been like this. The Edward R. Murrows and Walter Cronkites are the exception, not the rule, under capitalist news reporting because the entire industry relies on selling what sells, instead of broadcasting what informs.

Why are his eyes gold and looking in two different directions? O.o

I think maybe I'm ignorant, but it seems like all this discourse around evil races came up only when this movie was released and it compared orcs to minorities. Like people never associated minorities in real life with fantasy monsters. The closest thing I can think of is True Blood having vampires be an allegory of LGBTQ+ people at a time when gay marriage wasn't legal.

Maybe I'm out of touch and there have always been racist connotations that continued after Tolkien. It just seems like those connotations stopped with The Hobbit and only recently were revived with Harry Potter and then Bright.

I think deep down they know it's wrong so they lash out

I think so, too. It always has similar vibes to racists being called out on their racism. Rather than fix the behavior, they double down. I always think of that guy who was like "Do you know how expensive slaves were?" when people were pointing out him waving around a Confederate flag was racist.

The anti-vegan carnists do similar shit with their all beef diets.

Naw, they used to be one party, the Democratic-Republican party. They grew out of the Anti-Federalist Party and outlasted the Federalists. In the 1824 election, they were the only party in the US. They ended up fracturing in two, creating the Democratic party and the Whig/Republican party.

The full severing of the political parties would occur just prior to the Civil War where Whigs splintered over slavery while Democrats supported it. Anti-slavery Whigs and Republicans consolidated together as the Whig factions further separated from each other.

So the "Grand Old Party" is a splinter faction of a splinter faction that can trace its roots back to the original parties of post-Revolution America. Republicans and Democrats are technically the same age.

All the videos on this channel that I've watched are great

You seen the Blanche interviews? They're hilarious. People instantly recognize his work and can name where it was first featured. Blanche himself on the other hand? He's all:

"Don't know much 'bout dis one. I fink it was for some game back in da '90s. Just like paintin' and paintin' space marines (tho they kinda hard ta draw proper like n' such). I fink they should 'ave black armor cuz it looks neat. Don't like paintin' elfs or orks tho. Too hard. I fink I painted some orks once, I dun remember."

"I was born in Isreal!"

Then what the fuck are you doing outside of it lmao....almost like these Elmer's glue looking fuckwads don't belong there 🤔

What always cracked me up about it was one of Trump's campaign people said something along the lines of "We're looking into it" like there was a possibility of a pee tape. Didn't just refute it and move on, but instead acted like it was possible Trump made said tape.

Really bizarre campaign considering what politicians usually do. Obama didn't acknowledge the birther stuff for years because it was absurd.

That's of course what people like about Trump. He's "an outsider" who does and says the most heinous shit and liberals get themselves worked up over it.

Real "My dad works at Nintendo" energy, but I know some people that were in Washington at the time who said Hillary was throwing shit at Bill and the secret service had to intervene before he lost an eye or something.

Then there's the rumors she got absolutely piss drunk in 2016 after she lost and that's why she didn't make an appearance at her campaign HQ.

I wonder how much money is made outside the US just by selling 5.56 lol

A lot of black Boomers straight-up took bullets for civil rights or shot klansman and cops. It's often overlooked in generational discourse.

Something that really hit home for me listening to Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City was that I'm around the same age as Kendrick Lamar and yet his experiences of the '90s were awful. I've known about the Rodney King riots because I was alive at the time, but GKmC put it into perspective there were people whose childhoods were affected by those same riots. Columbine was a shock, as well as the Oklahoma City Bombing, but it doesn't compare living in a place at the height of the Blood-Crips feud.

My point is how it's utterly bizarre generations get lumped together while ignoring other factors. Kids who grew up in Compton in the '80s and '90s have more in common with kids who grew up in New York during the 1920s and '30s than they do with kids the same age who grew up in suburbs. Lumping generations together like this seems bad for even capitalists. They're leaving money on the table when they market products towards a generation without considering how different experiences can be within that generation.

Ok memes aside "com" is short for "community" (I think). So badposting is a comm, Main is a com, chapotraphouse, etc.

It depends on what I'm doing. My go-to is a 50/50 mix of Aves Epoxy and kneadatite (a.k.a. greenstuff). Aves cures into a hard, brittle shell while greenstuff is more like rubber after curing. Mixing them makes the best of both worlds. You get a hard sculpt with sharper details that's easy to work with.

Oil-based polymer clay is what you want when doing a whole piece from scratch. Super Sculpey is really nice for mini making. It won't cure until you bake it in an oven. This means you can work on it indefinitely. You can also use it on minis that are entirely metal, since the pewter won't be damaged at the low temperatures for baking the clay. You just want to make sure the mini is lead-free, especially if using your home oven, so you don't accidentally release lead fumes and poison yourself.

Milliput is what I use when I want a grainy texture that can flake and is easily carved once it cures. It's also cheap, so it's useful for covering large areas after you fill in gaps with paper/foil/garbage/whatever. It's what I did for the giants' furs and is the lighter color putty you can see in the pictures. I also like to mix it with greenstuff or Aves or both if I want to make it a bit more stiff. It's easily soluble in a bunch of different liquids (mainly water, alcohol, and plastic cement) that allows you to do some neat things.

I've recently started using brownstuff/greystuff which is similar to greenstuff but it's a lot smoother and less sticky before curing. It turns into a stiff and rigid rubber-like material compared to greenstuff, making it ideal for cutting and creating sharp edges.

All of these can be sanded and filed after they cure. Aves and milliput are more ideal for that, though, since greenstuff and brownstuff will want to chip and flake if you're not careful. Polymer clay you have to be really careful, because it will want to crumble if sanded/filed too hard.

Something I haven't tried yet is a 50-50 mix of polymer and greenstuff, which gives you a long working time and will still harden without needing to bake it. The epoxy heats up as it cures, which actually "bakes" the clay.

Lastly, Das air dry clay. It's my go-to for gap filling large areas or making large objects. You can sculpt something like a treeman using aluminum foil, then coat it in air dry clay to make a bark texture. Now with your main shape, you use your epoxies and what not to keep working. Another useful thing is to make textures for mini bases. I think I uploaded the orc wagon WIP pics here somewhere and you can see the base was coated in air dry clay. It can be baked at low temperatures (under 400°) if you need it to become bone dry.

u mum lel lmao gottem'

As a kid I thought nothing of it but as an adult a lot of the stuff in Pokémon is sus lol. The James inflatable breasts cut from the American version of the show was funny but they shouldn't have Ash and Brock always trying to spy on Misty in the bath.

The Electric Tale of Pikachu is GOAT IMO and I wish the series had continued.

Cover of volume 2:

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Ash's battle with Misty for the Water Badge:

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An Ivysaur takes Ash's Pikachu and Bulbasaur on a tour of a town guarded by an ancient Venasaur spirit. Bulbasaur doesn't think the spirit is real:

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Ash loses control of his Charizard in the Indigo finals and forfeits the match so the other Charizard isn't harmed any further:

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Series only ran for something like 4 or 5 volumes in 1997 to 1999ish, coinciding with the anime's release in North America.