Moonworm

joined 2 years ago
[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's gonna be in middle english and I'm stoked

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's only an acronym if you can pronounce it actually. Otherwise it is just an initialism.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a feral hog that shoots bullets out of its nose. Highly dangerous and a little absurd, but that's Qud for you.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Pirashku was an adventurous mutant with lightning in his veins and a want in his heart. He felt a kinship with artifacts and how they too coursed electric inside, so he grabbed his cherished electrobow, Cyclops and set off to learn their secrets in the Jungles of Qud.

He fell in with a tinker in the salt marshes and quickly proved himself worthy of introduction to the cult of Baruthram. He even made it to their doorstep with a collection of treasures from the time of the eaters in tow. But, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as he was, the slugsnout's leaden eruption was still faster than he.

 
[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago

Made sense to me at the time, but two years of genocide on I just don't care anymore. There's something to be said about the pushing of the symbol as part of the zionist project, too, but honestly I don't even think that's really important as more than an academic point. It just feel gross to be precious about this this far along.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Rocking out silly theme builds in Caves of Qud and then drawing some of them. I keep trying to make professor pikachu work, but he's just so squishy.

The game still has the weird tension of wanting to play like a roguelike with permadeath but also having a central storyline that takes time to complete. I've got a roleplay mode and a pretty survivable classic character that I got past Golgotha with if I want to keep going further into the game, but for whatever reason now I'm just enjoying rolling up new mutants and seeing how far I can get before I get sleepy or too cheeky trying to rob the chest behind half a dozen turrets.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could do some interesting stuff if there's a section of vampires who aren't required to participate in violence to enjoy the benefits of their condition, while another number has to perpetrate it in order to reproduce their number. There's a perverse ethic to it, that some number of people have to be literally fed to the monster, but this enables more and more people to have lives of superb luxury and safety. Add a wrinkle or two and you've got a nice short story or novella right there.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Absolute fucking horseshit when we're talking about massively expanding our energy use to fuel AI datacenters and total surveillance. It's like scolding people for not recycling while increasingly making everything single-use plastics.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

These are scary internet pedophiles, who are inherently othered as opposed to the good ol' boys on your local schoolboard or whatever. I don't think the willingness to ignore heinous things when expedient socially or politically precludes being disgusted and outraged by them otherwise.

As for what comes from this, I don't really know though. More control and surveillance of internet activities is in accordance with broader goals. I doubt that they'll come up with anything that particularly helps with online grooming or abuse, but it will look good probably.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

I liked this build a lot but I didn't realize my character would steam itself shooting fire while in water.

 
 

Game's real good for giving you weird little guys to draw.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 48 points 10 months ago

It's a very positive profile. The quote is from a section where the interviewer asks him for thoughts on a series of people.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

classic Grindr

Also yeah this sounds like a bisexual guy with a girlfriend

 

doin shading exercises and it's pretty remarkable the effect vs effort

 

What a lucky day it is!

 
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Lakeshore ice (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Moonworm@hexbear.net to c/earth@hexbear.net
 

Did you cats know about this? The ice gets pushed around by the waves and keeps refreezing so it forms a bunch of peaks and valleys. You can walk on it but you really shouldn't. Hard to tell where the ice is weak. Sometimes it forms little "volcanoes" where the water will splash out the top and stuff.

What are some unusual natural formations around you?

 

I drew a guy with a mustache and just kept going.

 

rides a dinosaur in a sci-fi style, part of a great horde that stretches across the alien steppe.

 

He turns into a bear when he gets hurt.

Messin around with diferent hair stuff. Don't really love any of it. Axe is too high on the neck. Line weight is more even though. Hands are less terrible than previous.

 

In the course of drawing this I realized that I could have been using the selection lasso to mask areas to paint the entire time I have been using this fucking program. I don't know why it didn't dawn on me before that that might be really nice for these watercolor brushes.

Anyway these ladies claim to be literal descendants of the Sun. Maybe they're right, I dunno.

Messing around with the gradient was fun. I still think my backgrounds are mostly bad, but at least there's something kinda cool going on.

 

This guy is a thunder priest who also turns into a bear, also he's one of the larger and stronger humans called a Chud. It's pronounced like chood though I think. The previous character, the Son of Heaven, is also a Chud, but he's part of the settled side of the Rus, whereas this is a woods type of guy.

I'm really enjoying this little project. I can feel my confidence with these brushes growing a lot and the successive drawings going much more smoothly and faster. I let myself get a little more fun with the pose since the last one was looking pretty staid.

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