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Heretek
@heretek.bsky.social
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Paint minis, play card games, promote socialism. Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. He/Him.
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GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire

www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind? Guillermo Del Toro's reply: My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real. Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know? Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all. Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you. Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand? GDT: The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man. We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear. AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist. And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.” And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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marcswint.com
This seemed fun and felt very powerful.

A rare *glimpse*, actual VIDEO, of me acting. 😊 🎙️
September 8, 2026 at 3:25 AM
heretek.bsky.social
TradeMe, why do you even have an AI search? What is it adding to the task of searching listings?
Some sort of competition being run by trademe (a New Zealand site for buying and selling 2nd hand) advertising bonus entries for using "AI Search"
September 7, 2026 at 2:07 AM
heretek.bsky.social
Finally finished Phantom Liberty (because it broke my game when I first bought it, and I only just got around to reinstalling), went with the FIA ending for this playthrough.

All of Cyberpunk 2077's endings are bittersweet, but damn if that one's not heavy on the bitter.
September 4, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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theverge.com
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
www.theverge.com
September 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
heretek.bsky.social
I'd been using one of my Praetors as a Legion Champion for #horusheresy, but I've decided I need a more permanent solution.
Legion Champion for Horus Heresy made from the Loyalist Overseer Consul with the helmet from an Ultramarines Praetor and sword from the new Cataphractii Terminator kit.
September 2, 2026 at 6:18 AM
heretek.bsky.social
Comic's about Magic, but it goes for wargaming as well.

I was a pretty reserved kid, and I think that the hobby forcing me to leave the house, stand across the table from other human beings, and play a game with them did a lot to bring me out of my shell.
August 24, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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rookeryp.bsky.social
Ca-caw! The Rooks are gathering this weekend to celebrate the art & legacy of the late, great John Blanche. We're thrilled to be joined by writer, artist, sculptor & legend Jes Goodwin, who knew John well, to help us reminisce & discuss John's undeniable impact.

Join us!
youtube.com/live/Xzib97U...
Remembering John Blanche with Jes Goodwin (ItR Special 12:03)
YouTube video by Rookery Publications
youtube.com
August 20, 2026 at 7:52 PM
heretek.bsky.social
If you see this, post your riders!
Three Ultramarines on Scimitar-pattern jetbikes armed with multi-meltas
August 18, 2026 at 7:46 AM
heretek.bsky.social
The warping of "punk" to mean "powered by" is one of my particular bugbears, and I blame steampunk for it.
docvivileandra.bsky.social Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · Aug 18
A lot of bad discourse about cyberpunk (the genre and artistic movement) would be resolved if people realized the name precedes the reclamation of the term "Punk" and does actually just refer to criminal and ambiguously-criminal protagonists
August 18, 2026 at 3:15 AM
heretek.bsky.social
I honestly dont know anymore. I have no theory of mind for people who seemingly understand that climate change is real and happening, and still want more fossil fuels burned.

I can at least understand it from people who just don't believe in science.
theserfstv.bsky.social The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · Aug 15
It's sociopathic that neoliberal leaders are smiling through all this while proposing more pipelines.
They have the same access to information we do.

What's even their end game? All marine life dies in the next couple years but worth it for the money no one can spend?
August 15, 2026 at 11:06 PM
heretek.bsky.social
Nearly 10,000 votes for Binface. Clacton did not do the funniest thing, but still very funny to get nearly half Nige's votes with a bin on your head.
August 14, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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aftermath.site
Twitch says quiet part out loud: Amazon AI is opt out because "nobody would opt in"

aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amaz...
August 12, 2026 at 11:07 PM
heretek.bsky.social
I could care less about General Dynamics absolutely fucking the job of providing shells to the US Army, but this is still a fascinating read from ProPublica.
August 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM
heretek.bsky.social
Now, to be fair, that's an order of magnitude over their usual view counts.
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Aug 10
John Fetterman's appearance on WaPo's Make It Make Sense podcast—in which he spends a good portion of it trashing Abdul El-Sayed—has generated only 3,600 views in two days, despite getting a lot of play on Fox.

Also, he'll apparently wear a suit for a podcast nobody watches -- but not for his job.
August 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM
heretek.bsky.social
If the Mikkelsen Method is making so much passive income, why are they trying to sell you the Method instead of just doing it themselves?

youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw?...
August 9, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel!

"There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report, August 6, 2026: Jeff Vandermeer's ABDICATION, the last novel in the Southern Reach series, in which an ornithologist exiled to a remote coast stumbles on a terrifying secret,  a self-proclaimed king pursues a mystery hidden in a strange weather station, and a man who can become a cormorant is tasked with a deadly mission through a future landscape transformed by Area X, for publication in October 2027, in a significant deal, to Jenna Johnson at Farrar, Straus, by Joseph Veltre at the Gersh Agency and Alex Kohner at Yorn Levine (world).
August 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
heretek.bsky.social
Post a magic user!

#nerdlings
Reaper Bones cleric from the Dungeon Dwellers range.
August 8, 2026 at 11:31 AM
heretek.bsky.social
It's early doors, but I think I might like Zero Parades even more than Disco Elysium.
August 8, 2026 at 11:28 AM
heretek.bsky.social
- Quintus Fabius Maximus to the Senate, 218 BC
diplomatofnight.com #StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · Aug 6
You never lose by just being chill
August 7, 2026 at 7:45 AM
heretek.bsky.social
Remember that Aotearoa is not the US: a vote for the minor parties isn't wasted, and gives them leverage in a coalition.

Will it bring about a dictatorship of the proletariat? No. But it'll at least stop National slashing the welfare state and giving cookers and TERFs access to the levers of power.
ahhmandah.bsky.social f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · Aug 6
VOTE
ahhmandah.bsky.social f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · Oct 12
vote, you little shits. vote because

- your landlord will vote
- your boss will vote
- every nasty little greedy bitcoin bro who thinks women should be assigned to men for sex will vote
- anti abortionists will vote
- evangelist christians will vote
- your racist uncle will vote

FUCKING VOTE
August 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
heretek.bsky.social
I mean, I wouldn't want to govern with Winnie or Seymour, either, but I also probably wouldn't say that *on the radio* in the run-up to an election where I'm absolutely going to need them.
misswhanau.bsky.social Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · Aug 6
He....... he knows he's the Prime Minister right?!
Luxon said the easiest way to avoid coalitions with parties that don't always have the same values or policies is to vote National - taking a dig at other parties in the process. "I feel like I've got responsible sensible ministers delivering...I've got amazing people doing incredible work who take it very seriously. "The question I keep saying is, I don't need some yahoo or numpty from some other party around that (Cabinet) table," he said. "I can do a lot more to get the centre-right agenda, centre being the operative word, done and out the door, so think about your vote on November 7 - it's really important."
August 6, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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emotion-engine.bsky.social
Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.
July 31, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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tuomaspirinen.bsky.social
My favourite article we've published thus far, by our theological consultant, Brother Nicholas: "Writing for Trench Crusade as a Cleric". www.trenchcrusade.com/trench-wire/...
Writing for Trench Crusade as a Cleric - Trench Crusade
In this Trench Wire article, a real-world cleric Nicholas Ceccarani talks about consulting on, and writing for Trench Crusade.
www.trenchcrusade.com
July 30, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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tuomaspirinen.bsky.social
The Trench Crusade Community License keeps growing! Scribor miniatures has announced their upcoming "Land of Sabre and Honour" campaign, featuring hand-sculpted models of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the TC universe. Check it out! Support indies!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sci...
Coming soon: Land of the Sabre and Honour -compatible with Trench Crusade
Original STL miniatures hand-sculpted by Scibor for a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth force. Trench Crusade Compatible
www.kickstarter.com
July 30, 2026 at 8:46 AM