The bone color choice was a happy little accident. I lacked a dedicated color for it in the paint set I had, so I mixed an old (color-separated) rakarth flesh Citadel paint I found with some matt white and daemonic yellow from my The Army Painter set.

I never really considered basing before (my frame of reference for miniatures has generally been the old 3.5e era D&D pre-painted minis which had neutral black bases), but the third miniature I painted had a sculpted base to paint and that did end up looking really nice. Haven’t posted that one because I simply followed a painting guide there.

The bases here came pre-attached (or rather, they’re likely just a single mold), otherwise I suppose a tile floor would work well for these. 🤔 I’ll have to think about what else could work here.

This was the second time I ever painted miniatures, following the little knight that came with The Army Painter starter set. Since it was five at once, I chose a fairly simple color scheme.

I’ve really been enjoying playing Diablo 1 with a gamepad using DevilutionX (which is mentioned in the article), so this is a welcome addition for me.

This is by far my favorite search engine when I just want to find something to read. It makes searching fun again!

Some caveats to take in account:

• It doesn’t serve the use case of «quickly finding some factoid, business or news article», but for now Google still mostly functions for that.
• English only for now.

It’s definitely a hard concept to get right. Perhaps even for the actual developers, given how they’re not really developing a Sims 5 and how we see people sticking faithfully (and with well-articulated reasons beyond mere nostalgia) to older games in the series.

Paradox already cancelled Life By You. I’m not sure how close Paralives is to release. So it’s at least impressive that InZOI managed to release something. The only other one I can think of that managed to release is Tiny Life, but that one’s way less ambitious.

I’ve been blocking a lot of communities in an attempt to avoid that.

I’ve decided that with this online presence of mine, I’d rather not be regurgitating doom and gloom. No matter how justified it might be.

I think people are really clamoring for some competition to The Sims. I feel that way myself.

But a lot of what I’ve seen of the game so far indeed feels so uncanny and off-putting. The generative AI feature I saw demonstrated in a video I watched, the texture generator, also seems like a huge step down from the Create A Style feature from The Sims 3, which I sorely miss.

Per Discogs, it’s Jimmy Cauty.

Personally, I try not to swear even when I stub my toe… but it’s quite difficult sometimes. When I do swear, I want it to be a deliberate decision.