Grumpy Piece Of Shit

You're literally admitting that capitalism cannot be sustainable.

So it's been 3 years and I'm still alive!

I completely burned out of the hobby after the start of 10th because noone of my friendgroup had much fun with the edition and we all just sort of moved on, I legit haven't touched that heavy weapons squad since then, it's still on my painting table collecting dust...

I have however done some occasional painting here and there over the years, never much, just whenever I was able to motivate myself to it, which is the collection you see above. All DRG boardgame minis which are actually pretty fun to paint.

Recently I finally had it with GW paints, because of the constant breaks I always had to revive the damn paints that dried in those horrible pots, so it took even more windup to do anything, blocking me even more.

in 1999, an italian named giancarlo pasquini released a europop song under the alias dave rogers called Deja Vu. this song was picked up as the theme song for the above anime. it in turn became a meme, a shorthand for drifting and Cool Moves as a concept.

in 1983, air canada flight 143, a full sized 767, ran out of fuel halfway to edmonton, alberta. this is not something you want to have happen to a huge airplane. the flight chose to try and make an emergency landing at a nearby decomissioned airforce base (as they were falling fast and could not make it to a proper airport), where they ran into a second problem: they were falling out of the sky at 500 feet per mile, but reached gimli (the base in question) while still too high to safely land. normally a plane would just do a big loop-de-loop to lose altitude, but they had maybe three minutes of airtime left before they hit the ground: not enough time to make any kind of circle. the pilot, therefore, decided to execute a side slip to lose speed and altitude. this is Not a move you want to do with a massive 767, because airplanes are not built for that and if you screw it up that plane is hitting the ground at a high speed at a weird angle and breaking into a million pieces. nevertheless, the captain tried it... and succeeded. the plane landed perfectly, and there were no major injuries! (a couple of people did get minor injuries when evacuating the plane after.) he did it so well, in fact, that the plane was refueled, flown out of gimli a couple days later, and continued to fly for another 20 years with the nickname "Gimli Glider."

what is a side-slip, you ask?

it's drifting.

the guy goddamn drifted his 767.

in 2008, the tv show Mayday: Air Disaster featured the gimli glider with full reenactments as an episode on season five of their show.

and so, in conclusion, the thing i have been giggling to myself about all weekend:

Did a bunch of Turnip28 kitbashing today. First is the finished Toff for my Turnip28 Garden Gnome army which I've decided to gname the 3½ Warty Madcaps. I am very happy with his giant mushroom hat, I think it will stand out great for this army.

The other model I worked on is my Knight of Shellwood. The Snail model is from the company Scibor Miniatures while the Knight is converted from a Halfling Blood Bowl player and a bunch of bits I had. The Snails shell is covered in extra armor and more importantly food, weapons, and alcohol for long slow journeys through Cist.

I'm really happy with how this model turned out. The posing was inspired by Necron 99 from the animated movie Wizards.

In the grand tradition of custom Masters of Execution (Moe to his friends), I put this guy together from leftover parts from another kit, and some Blood Warriors bits.

The first-edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, declared, “Vegetable shortening may be the best lubricant, since it is not only greasy but also digestible”[4] Such a statement perhaps gives new meaning to the companies boastful declarations that “Its digestible” and “Crisco has been making life in the kitchen more delicious for years.”  Similarly, in the 1978 sex manual The Advocate Guide to Gay Health, Crisco even earned an entry in the book’s index.  Discussions of the shortening’s use as an anal lubricant indicate its popularity, with statements such as: “The lubricant, typically the cultic Crisco, must be copious.”[5]  In fact, Crisco was so synonomus with gay sex that discos and bars around the world took on the name, such as Crisco Disco in New York City, which was one of the premiere clubs during the 1970s and early 1980s.  Other clubs or bathhouses, such as Club Z in Seattle, even featured murals with Crisco.  Thus, Crisco was conversely also one of many things that led to the formation of gay identities during the 20th century.

from this essay: http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html