Case closed, boys

I’ve never seen the movie. Is the Chihuahua, by chance, from Beverly Hills?

That poor kid. I already was upset thinking about them having to see Mom get arrested. I didn’t even consider the fact that the youngest is probably blaming himself.

Did I miss anything?

Cops are usually chill and laid back, but they get tired of the monotony of their job sometimes and appreciate the use of erratic, unpredictable movement when interacting with them. They also like someone who is proactive, so instead of waiting for them to ask you for your licence and registration, just jump right out of your car as soon as they step out of theirs and pull your wallet out of your pocket as quickly as you can for them. You’ll never have an issue with the cops again after this.

We Americans are very paranoid about things we think are “too good to be true” (don’t know if that’s a phrase everywhere). This may be looking too deep into things, but I honestly think our country’s history of taking advantage of less informed peoples has influenced this - we know what happens when you take the bait, so it’s best to just accept the norm (ie paying your own metro fare) vs risk finding out what happens if they come back looking for what they “gave” you.

I actually sat and thought on this for a second. If someone walked up to me and tried to give me a $100 bill, I’d probably ask a few questions first, mainly, “what do you want?” If they seem genuine in that they just felt like being nice to someone (or even if I got the “social experiment” vibes), I’d probably take it, and ask if I could buy them something small with it (like, if this were outside the grocery store, ask if they wanted some snacks or a drink or something).

I think if I were in a group setting, someone approaching the group trying to give us a $100 bill would probably would be quickly closed out of the circle, and everyone would get quiet and look away until they left, at which point everyone would talk about that weird guy trying to sell us something.

I honestly love it when such profoundly misinformed statements are put forward with absolute authority like this.

a single history

You know that half the country went to war with the other half, right?

a single government

In California, you can order weed through an app and get it delivered to your front door. In Idaho, get pulled over after picking up for the month, you’re a felon.

a single language

Single official language sure. At my work I’m the only native English speaker and a majority of our customers are foreigners who speak little English.

This could vary depending on the situation, but as someone who works in healthcare in the US (pray for me), it doesn’t really matter if you’ve got proof of traveler’s insurance, unless I’m able to bill them directly and get a paid claim for it. In every case I’ve dealt with traveler’s insurance (admittedly not a ton, but these things are usually handled similarly across the industry), I’ve been instructed by the insuring company to bill the patient/ client, and that the client will be submitting a claim.

If it’s something relatively inexpensive like medication, you’ll probably be charged at the pharmacy, pay out of pocket and get reimbursed.

If, God forbid, you need to stay at a hospital, or dare to mention the word “ambulance”, you’ll be given a bill for $1 million, which you’ll forward to the insurance company. They’ll handle paying the hospital, then follow up with you on any kind of copay you’re meant to be left with.

That’s how I used to play guitar, too. I got a cheapo sound pedal with a bunch of effects and premade back beats. Try to play some songs that I know. Sound bad. Keep doing it until I get bored or it sounds kinda cool once. That’s enough for the week.

Am I ever gonna be anywhere close to decent? Nope. Do I care? Nope.

Awesome highlighting.

Thank you! A bit of advice that has stuck in my head re: highlights is, always take it one step further than you think you need to; if you think the 3rd shade lighter looks good, 4 will look great, 5 will be too much.

I was happy at around layer 4 for the front, so I started bringing some bits to almost pure white. I don’t know if pure white was too bright, if I didn’t thin it enough, or if I started getting sloppy with my brush strokes, but those pure white spots were so distracting to me that I just skipped the last highlight on his back.

I wanted to challenge myself to not copy a premade color scheme, aiming to create my own to hone my eye. After this, I think it’s a little too early for me to try to make my own pallets entirely from scratch for all of my figures, but for random minis and throwaway figurines that I don’t have any attachment to, well, I think it looks better than it did in gray!

Your Pikachu example has me wanting to paint something in that color scheme, though. I’m picturing a dark golden brown cape with a bright gold fringe and yellow underside. Normal iron/ silver armor, but with yellow highlights, and a yellow skirt, some ruby red studs, a traces of black detailing here and there. He might even have a trident with electric arcs between the poky bits.

Oh yup. Just checked out their Instagram, this is definitely the best one but the other comics are a good start (looks like they only started doing comics earlier this year). I hope they keep the art style consistent, its hilarious.

Thankfully they only placed tariffs on covfefe imports.

A stranger on the internet took the time to write out some really helpful constructive advice to something you’re struggling with, and you’re blowing them off with a pedantic clarification? If you really don’t think there’s anything to take away from that comment because they didn’t get your exact example perfectly right, that could be another reason people are trying to escape conversations with you. It doesn’t sound like you want to have them.

This is some phenomenal advice and I’m afraid the person you gave it to isn’t going to appreciate it in the moment but I want you to know that it’s giving me some thinking.

Oh man! This guy is spicy. I’m in love with the red-to-yellow blends, especially on the sword inlay. Incredibly impressive. The purple gems are great eye-catchers too, well done

Oh, I actually love your idea of some sort of marking to indicate they’re of the same army. In the campaign I made these guys for, the orcs are being manipulated by a white dragon. It would’ve been so cool to have like a frosty blue-white slash going across their face or maybe like 3 white lines on the shields.

Brilliant advice. Thank you. If I ever get around to painting the fire orcs they might get a cool indicator because of you 😉

As long as you are putting in a little effort I find it doesn’t matter how things turn out. The guy I posted here has a face not even a mother could love, but I had fun painting under these constraints and I know I did about the best I could with what I had, so he’s awesome!

I’ll try to remember to snag pics of everyone’s creation.

Seems like people got your questions answered. Just wanna say that those machines (Prusas) are very nice, and not generally cheap, so even if it was a throwaway for someone make sure to get em a 12 pack or something! That’s an awesome gift!

but if he was “restored” by whoever made this mess

I already knew exactly what this was going to be just by reading your comment from my notifications. That was a simpler time.

God, it really does look awful zoomed in like that 😂 that’s ok! The next one will totally be better!

Ha! Yikes. Yeah, the face definitely could’ve been better.

Thanks for the kind words! I’m sure that with a little practice you could crank out something comparable. Grab yourself some dollar store army figurines, the cheapest variety pack of acrylic paint you can find, and see what you can make! You’ll be surprised how good things look when you’re the one who made it.