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On 2023-12-09 at 5:31 PM, Yrkul said:

I had freckles to about half-way into my teens. I was cute back then. :3

You can be cute now as well, looks isn't everything :3

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On 2023-12-04 at 5:26 PM, Yrkul said:

I would like to add, that some of us don't get freckles. Instead, we keep a ledger.

Freckles are cute, and then there are people trying to get freckle tattoos

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17 hours ago, Yrkul said:

That is actually not bad, compared to the prices in Copenhagen. Then again, I've seen houses for a tenth of that countryside. It all depends on if you want to live close to modern ameneties, or where you'll need a car to get around in a reasonable amount of time.

I can just look at some of the newer built areas here, similar size, double the price. And yes, I am aware it can get way worse, not something I will go anywhere near. I like the quiet and not being crowded

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20 hours ago, Yrkul said:

That looks really cozy. A restored and converted windmill, if I'm not mistaken. Dutch?

It is actually in my local area, which I found quite surprising. It is cozy and looks nice on the inside, but the asking price is oof, 3.000.000 kr and 180 m²

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Found this house that reminds me of some of the others @Yrkul have posted

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5 hours ago, Yrkul said:

From an old fishing family here, so one man's Terror From The Deep is another man's nom noms.

For example, these are yummy:

Same goes for shark, octopi, squid and so many things from under the sea, under the sea...

An old sailor recommended orca at one time. I'm not sure about that one though. Seem a little too smart to serve as food.

The only thing I eat from the sea is sea salt heh

Orca and their recent boat shenanigans, though impressive animals.

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On 2023-09-15 at 12:40 AM, Yrkul said:

 

The ocean has so many weird things in it, plenty of nightmare fuel in the deep sea

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13 hours ago, Sporthand said:

Right...

 

lol, read again

 

2 hours ago, Yrkul said:

Looks like it's time to use one of the functions on this forum again. Always a sad day, the few times that I had to.

At least the option is there

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On 2023-09-03 at 11:00 PM, Yrkul said:

There's are reasons why I've been training martial arts and weapons training from a young age.

Right now my main priority is teaching my oldest nephew some of my lessons without having to bleed for it. The boy is into Krav Maga, and at that age you are all but immortal. Luckily I got scars and stories to scare the sh*t out of him, and hopefully keep him out of trouble. Luckily his brother is a little more mellow.

I think I would either like pepperspray/taser (but law says nope), so it is just running.
It is good to get in the message early, though it can be hard to learn

On 2023-09-07 at 4:15 AM, MagPrime said:

Sneak hug best hug

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2 hours ago, Yrkul said:

Yep. I was lucky, so I got shallow cuts and minimal scarring. Hard to see them after more than three decades of healing. My scars from sparring are easier to spot, and more numerous. 😆

Oof, that doesn't sound nice but could have been a lot worse. Cutting my finger is bad enough, I can't imagine what a knife attack would be like other than scary as hell.

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On 2023-08-31 at 8:58 PM, Yrkul said:

Astronomy? Where did you go? Hogwarts? 😆

Blimey! I did go on one of the more prestigious gymnasiums, so they were a bit... traditional in their choice of subjects. Then again, that was probably also a bit further back than your time. As I said... I feel old.

I'm looking at a manual roller for making sheets and wire from metal. I'm already casting in metal, and with one of these, I can make sheets of soft metal for modelling everything from damaged armour plating and hand made shields, to banners and drapery. Still, I need a new futon, and my old CRT tv is on its dying leg... Sooo, one more thing for the list.

Technical gymnasium, right in the middle of the big round island in the middle.

Most likely correct, this was in 2012-15. I am far from retirement unless life decides for some unlikely and unfortunate boogaloo.

That is a quite nifty thing, you would make good use of I imagine. Metal casting is neat, I always thought about it doing it with aluminium from cans and such. I know that feeling, fix/replace one thing, and then something else breaks, and the cycle continues.

On 2023-09-02 at 2:27 AM, Yrkul said:

Thoroughly inebriated and close to going into a rant about the tenth man doctrine, as well as online posers trying to teach you about knife fighting. Might be a bad idea.

Don't try to disarm someone with a knife. It will get you killed. Just run.

As the saying go, you will get stabbed, no matter what, and it gets ugly, quick. In general, running is the best option.

19 hours ago, gamingchair1121 said:

finally

My SO would approve of this level of orange dedication

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22 hours ago, Yrkul said:

You had machinework in the gymnasium? Now I really feel old. All we had was... math! Ok, kidding a bit. We still had arts classes, but the majority of classes were foundational for getting into academia, like physics, chemistry, history, languages and, well, math. I did take basic metalwork after the gymnasium (machinework, smithing, electrics, plumbing and welding), so I should be able to keep pace in practicality and versatility. Tried milling a blade for a twohanded sword, but that... didn't work out.

Yes, it is one of several you can choose from on the last year IIRC, other being electronics, textile working and some others I don't remember. I wasn't the best student, but it was interesting to work with, and ever since I have dreamed about owning a lathe and a milling machine, though for wood and not metal (as metal is way harder and more expensive to work with).
Just like they also offer Astronomy as an elective subject, if there are enough students for a class.

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On 2023-08-28 at 10:59 PM, Yrkul said:

And that's what is most important about it, finding a look you find yourself at home in.

I still have a few lighter colour shirts/t-s for certain social interaction, and my old smithing/welding/carpentry clothes are mid-blue (because when that lathe sends a piece of metal your way, you want to wear a colour that shows blood). Sometimes function>preference, after all.

Indeed, being comfortable with what you wear is the best. I remember working with lathes from gymnasium, clothe choice matters a lot, and in that case better to be safe than sorry (or in the worst case, dead). Just like garden work or doing stuff with the car, it gets dirty quick.
 

On 2023-08-29 at 5:38 AM, (XBOX)AntiCaesar said:

This is still going?

Threadnought Prime is stronk!

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17 hours ago, Yrkul said:

Oddly enough, the amount of people with my taste in colour in my social circle through the years can be counted on one hand. Family and friends are usually clad casually or for outdoors. My mom was mostly into earth colours and purple. So many things in my childhood got painted purple. 😄 One of my ex's loved canarie yellow. So I can't say I absorbed colour preferences from those around me. And I was wearing primarily black ever since I started buying my own clothes. Had a love for camo a couple of years, and when I was bodybuilding/weightlifting, I had a hard time finding clothes in black that were big enough. But apart from that...

 

In my childhood I used to wear all black, but that has changed with the years, now I limit black to mostly pants. Even more so now that I found the right path for myself

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On 2023-08-24 at 10:00 PM, Yrkul said:

The connection is probably a shared colour palette with the new Barbie movie.

Personally I'm more into black and deep reds. Total edgelord, I know.

Everybody has their preferences, I like vibrant colours and contrast

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I don't see much barbie there, but the colours are pretty

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On 2023-08-18 at 10:15 AM, Yrkul said:

 

What a cute fussball of chaos, precious little beans

On 2023-08-19 at 6:27 PM, Yrkul said:

I'm squeezed into a little over 40 square meters here. I'm sleeping in the living room and use the bedroom as my study. I had a full size training bench with pulldown and leg extention, but after I got book cases on all walls I had to downscale to a compact bench. Add spinlock dumbbells, kettlebells and calistenics, and I make do on what I have spacewise. Hopefully I'll get a 3-room apartment at some point, though with a girlfriend I might need 4 rooms instead (especially if she's creative/researching etc).

Now, a rowing machine... THAT is taking up space. 😆 More than the elliptic machine I'd like to have easy access to. Would be nice to have enough space to swing a sword or indian training mace without taking a chunk out of the furniture/ceiling, but that's perhaps asking a bit much, unless I'd be willing to move out in the middle of nowhere.

Reminds me of my study dorm, it was small but very space efficient with its layout. I do have plenty of space for single person, I just need to utilise it better, but the layout is a little annoying.
Honestly, I find 3 rooms a minimum, as I want to isolate the bedroom due to how dusty it gets in no time.

Decisions decisions, the options certainly are there, just have to be smart about it. I like rowing machines as they target a lot of muscles in "one go", but yes, their size isn't super practical, at least they aren't wide as well

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3 hours ago, Yrkul said:

Personally, I prefer drawing on paper, then either shade or colourize with inks or watercolour, or I scan it and work on it further with Illustrator, Photoshop or other software. I've been looking at some artist touchscreens to make that part of the process more organic/natural feeling, and I would also like to learn how to work in 3D.

I would love to have a garage or other room for a workshop. I can do a bit of leatherworking and making/repairing smaller items in wood, metal etc, but enough space for a bit of painting, pottery, larger dioramas as well, and a bit of training space would be nice.

I can relate to that, digital distances the sensations, I just don't want to use too much paper and such. I have tried some drawing tablets, it is rather intuitive but takes some time to get used to for sure.
I could use a rowing machine for when the weather doesn't play nice, but apartments aren't that ideal. It can work, I just need to be better at my space management

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On 2023-08-14 at 6:03 PM, Yrkul said:

I painted monotone when I first started. Now I use everything from 12-tone buildup and directional lighting to surface glossiness control and painting iris/pupils like a baws. :)

It all depends on if you like what you do, and have the patience/tenacity to elevate yourself from your current level to the next. Whether it's academics, martial arts or creative pursuits, as long as you love what you're doing, you can only get better and better and better.

Fun fact: Girls who collect/play Warhammer 40K tend to start out with either Sisters of Battle (very feminine nuns with guns), or Tyranid (mindless swarms of devouring tides of fleshy monstrousities). Granted, I believe Warboss Shy started with an Ork army, but she's... special.

Soooo..... Tempted?

Makes sense, painting the different layers, details, accents and so forth takes time to learn. Seeing a finished product knowing all the time and effort put into it, it is a great feeling :)
I agree, liking what you do is the key to improve and continue, else it just becomes a chug/chore and you won't want to do it.

Not for WH40 and the likes, I may get into digital art one day. If I had a house, I would love to have a garage/space for woodworking

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On 2023-08-13 at 5:13 AM, Yrkul said:

Someone painted his tyranid army in a coconut crab pattern. I won't say I was tempted to start a tyranid army... but a model or two would be fun to paint.

 

That would be quite the challenge for my perfectionism, though I have no skill in paiting heh

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6 hours ago, Yrkul said:

The tyranid are here. Prepare your biomass.

Coconut crabs are some interesting buggers

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On 2023-08-07 at 8:23 AM, Yrkul said:

Like talking to a wall by now. Or an AI.

Yup, that is the same observation I get.

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On 2023-08-01 at 11:01 PM, Yrkul said:

The net is teeming with ex-GW employees telling about how abusive Games Workshop is towards their staff in general. I once thought it would be cool working with my hobby at that place. Not so much anymore.

And it is ironic GW is throwing their lawyers around, seeing as both 40K and their fantasy precursor were amalgamations of well known and easily distiguishable intellectual properties. Everything from Heinlein and Tolkien's works, to Mad Max, Dune and Alien being blatantly ripped off as inspiration is apparent at a glance.

GW even tried trademarking the word "pauldron" at one time. That's... worse than Disney.

Yikes, honestly just sad to see knowing it could be so much better.

Trademark abuse can go to hell to be honest, so annoying.

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17 hours ago, Yrkul said:

For Syama it was apparently a dream come true, doing what he did for a living. When Games Workshop went for other channels, it was viewed more like an attempt to strongarm creators either to fall in line, or to silence them. A lot of animators felt put off and intimidated by GW's behaviour, and most of them simply stopped, rather than risking lawsuit. GW is known to have become increasingly litigious over the years, as ironic as it may be.

SODAZ made a nice short animation as well.

 

I certainly have heard negative things about GW, but I can see why they would accept that kind of deal.
Sounds like Nintendo, they sure like throwing lawyers at everything

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3 hours ago, Yrkul said:

"laughs in space marine"

 

Too bad what happened to Astartes channel and their content. Their work is excellent and I am not into Warhammer.