Blocking in the colours on Captain Carrot. Partly to check the colour combos (trousers were too light and needed a chestnut wash) but also to check layering and order of painting.
“But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look.”
Terry Pratchett; Going Postal #Discworld#SunaksElectionPledges#AllThatGlitters#ToryLies#NeverTrustATory
To celebrate the Glorious 25th of May, here are some Discworld pictures.
I'm so excited about starting #Discworld II tomorrow night <3 in the meantime, enjoy the art of the game, and a foreword from the incredible Sir Terry Pratchett.
In case you were wondering (and because Hooded Horse had the audacity to ask on Twitter) Llamedos village is growing well!
The view from Herwere's Hill just manages to get it all in. Three-ways Farm is doing well, the market is bustling, and we're looking to expand into Millfield!
Hello all! I read a piece indicating there's an audience for political rants, and I do have a distinct take on that stuff. In my first post, I talk about the way the spook agencies shape the narrative by controlling the entertainment. Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks got induced cancer, Eddie Murphy had to stop being smart in public, and Bill Cosby got a voice because he validated white racism.
Another evening, another mammoth reading session. I actually went ahead and purchased Bookly subscription. We'll see if it was worth it. If not, I'm happy to support the dev.
Not quite 25% tonight, but pretty close. At this rate, I'll finish the book tomorrow!
On my lunch today I began a new settlement in Manor Lords. I could think of no better inspiration for the village name (and lord o' the manor) than Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld, which was suggested during our stream.
Llamedos is growing nicely. Even if it does seem to rain near incessantly
Ok, inspired by @rincewind.run and @ursulav over on bsky (I don't know Micah's handle here?), here are 10 US Kindle copies of Terry Pratchett's REAPER MAN. Which I have, and have read, and love. As always with pterry, I'm going to babble a bit, because the world is so much worse for his loss.
pterry was a genius. He understood humanity, deeply and thoroughly. And he could convey that in writing. That's double-genius, or at least 1.5.
Isn't it funny, I don't remember being impatient to get home to watch TV when binging series. But now that I'm reading more, the last couple of hours at work I just wanted to get home and read the next book in my Discworld binge.
Discworld fans know the irregular clock in Lord Vetinari's waiting room.
I just found out that there are building instructions out there how to build such a clock yourself - the source code is here https://github.com/akafugu/vetinari_clock
But it made me think: why don't we have a kernel patch that does this? Anyway I'm now reading up on the /dev/rtc class, NTP and PTP, wondering what would be funnier to do.