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Thunderhelm
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I make video game, do 3d render, and/or fiddle with machines

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A picture of a dart monkey without upgrades, as seen in Bloons Tower Defense 6
July 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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While I wait for the AC to be repaired, have this fun picture of a bird me and my girlfriend saw going back to our apartment. Shes getting into birdwatching and has agonized over identifying them. my family is convinced its a plump robin, which she has conceded to
A picture of a bird sitting on the back of a chair with grass behind it. The bird is kinda blurry as the phone prefers to focus on the grass. Its pretty round and small, with brown/gray wings, a blackish face, an orange underbelly and some white feathers near the legs. Its legs are a little shorter than its body and its beak is small, being slightly taller than its eyes (which are also small). I would do anything for this goober.
June 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Artists & game devs, share your art app and 3 things you made with it 🐻
The Blender logo An individual wearing an orange and black jacket with a white undershirt and black pants. They have a helmet on that resembles a motorcycle helmet themed after a red panda. They are carrying a suitcase with two comically large wires connected to a laptop. They are posed slightly crouched down, ready to run, while looking behind them. They are attatched to a base of table top miniatures, which resembles a road made of tile. A teddy bear looking up at flowing yellow energy filling the air as the hold some of it in their hands. They are wearing no clothes, but have a sword on their back and rolled papers on their waist. The word LUX is sideways in the upper left, and 3 icons are visible in the bottom, with a larger 4th icon pointing to them. A stopwatch glowing and floating in space. The glass is cracked and it has two extra hands. No marks are labelled. Wires go around thr casing, and glowing crystals line the bottom left. The stopwatch itself seems to be blistering with blue light breaking through.
April 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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and this coke zero rig for my girlfriend. yes, this is somehow an upgrade
an old computer case on a messy desk full of wires. several wires are connected to the case. the case is missing its side panels, and in there place is a set of taped together coke zero 12 pack boxes. in the middle is a cardboard patch that reads "pretend you can see cool pc parts covered in tasteful black and red lights through a tempered glass window. and remember to drink coke 0"
March 31, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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favorite upside of getting old parts doing pc upgrades for people is being able to will a hacked together pile of parts, realize i dont have a case, and now everyone calls it my "bucket computer"
a media center with a bin in a cavity. the bin has a full computer propped up in it, including a gpu, psu, the whole mobo, and an ssd. the wires arw bundled near the bottom, with some sticking out to the left. the computer is currently on, as indicated by the parts glowing.
March 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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mmmmmm yummy chips
Balatro hand containing 5 ace of spades, each with the bonus effect, a foil effect, and a red seal. In the joker area there are 2 arrowhead cards (one in foil), an eternal blueprint, a brainstorm, and an eternal mail in rebate. It's round 27 on ante 10 with plasma deck
March 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Another basic foundation of the 36 total in a similar style to the lux one, its nice having some smaller scale projects again

#art #3D #blender #3Dart
and for my own categorization
#AncientAetherium
A teddy bear kneeling down on 1 knee in the middle of a bunch of crossbow arrows. Several arrows on the floor are broken, crudely glued together with arcane ice. The bear is holding a crossbow with an arrow loaded in their right hand and are using it to prop themselves up. Their left hand is holding an arrow with glowing ice being formed similar to the arrows on the ground, with a blue glowing smoke coming off the bears paw. They are also wearing a belt with a crudely formed ice hammer in it. In the upper left is text saying Frigus, and at the bottom is a large symbol representing the frigus foundation. An arrow points from the frigus symbol to the symbol for Arcane Guard, High Mason, and Illusionary symbols.
March 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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There are 36 discovered ways to manipulate arcana, lux being a pretty basic one

To get back in the swing im gonna be making some renders of magical styles in one of my settings for fun

#art #3D #blender #3Dart
and for my own categorization
#AncientAetherium
A teddy bear wearing a leather shoulder strap with an attached pocket holding rolled up papers, and a standard issue sword on their back. They have golden eyes and are looking up in awe at a flowing glowing gold set of streaks. Some of that glowing is flowing their their hands. Sideways text in the upper left says "Lux." There is a large eye representing the foundation in the bottom left, with an arrow pointing to 3 other symbols. The first is the foundation is for illusionaries, appearing as an eye with 2 pupils appearing like a venn diagram. The second foundation is for seers, and looks like an eye with 2 inner circles inside the pupil. The last one is for phantoms, looking like an eye with the bottom line missing, and a line horizontally over the pupil.
March 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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tornado warning, shelter time
A heavily tuned image of a small hallway junction between several closed doors, with one open on the left letting in artificial light. In the center of the hall is a folding chair a tv dinner table with a chess board on top. The chessboard has the bong cloud opening played, and there is large text saying "YOURE MOVE TORANDO"
March 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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An orea package with a backround comprised of brown guitar picks in a scale-like pattern. Ontop of it is a giant bold "POST" written in all black, with a smaller, goldish "MALONE" written in front of it. Under the tiny malone is the picture of an orea with a unique cookie design which i believe is supposed to look like a vinyl record with "Orea" and "Post" in the center label. The filling of the orea is exposed and it showes two spirals of the orea creme, with the package specifying that one spiral is salted caramel and the other is shortbread. There are several of these packages on display.
February 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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The custom nodes (CURRENTLY) are in three parts with placeholder icons, and I'm referring to this as layers (since the intent is to combine them all to make a dynamically shifting map) This image has their base details, and im likely to change them, but they worked better than I was expecting!
3 godot node icons (handmade, of questionable quality) with text next to each: 1, a box with an eye in the middle: Layer Mesh 3D "When a child LayerTrigger3D is entered the LayerMesh3D will show itself, and then will hide itself when the LayerTrigger3D is left. Hiding/Showing can be reversed with 'Hide On Trigger'” 2, a circle with an eye in the middle Layer Group 3D "When any child LayerMesh3Ds are triggered, the LayerGroup3D hides all other child LayerMesh3Ds. When the only LayerMesh3D gets untriggered, LayerGroup3D re-shows its first LayerMesh3D child." 3, an eye with four corners highlighted Layer Trigger 3D Fancy Area3D that is tuned to work best with Layer nodes like the 2 above. It’s main feature is simply to only emit a signal when the physics body entering is the client’s player. Below all three is a small outline of a godot scene, with a Layer Group holding 2 Layer Meshs. Each mesh has a trigger with collision, while one has an extra secondary mesh.
February 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Late post, but i have a small update on the custom map node things: I made some!

I'm gonna give them flair, but they allow me to control the fore and background tracking what makes sense to be visible when. I'm curious about how using them will actually go...
(Adding details in reply)

#godotengine
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Remaking a map for a game im working on (prototype one) and its been fun reapproaching some of it. there were several parts of the old one that were... boring, and trying to make something more dynamic is proving interesting. Going to keep expanding the new one and add some visual interest too
The new iteration of the just the lobby area. There are several paths into nothing where new wings will end up being, as well as a layered design. There are no more corners to get trapped in or dead ends (excluding the missing wings) The old version of the map's lobby with some of the extra parts of the facility of the map. I had problems with this being very flat, with several dead ends to get trapped in. Everything's very same-y
February 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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So about that poorly constructed executive order...

It's not a yes, but it looks like there a possibility for this to effect selective service if you push for it
Email sent to Selective Service System asking if Trump's recent sec defining executive order would allow for unenrollment from the system. Response email from the Selective Service System telling me where I can start the process of unenrolling, implying that the executive order has given grounds for unenrollment
January 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Wood fired mud machine
December 14, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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A friend of mine has opened for commissions, wanted to share here!
3 figures, one is a sketched outline, one is in grey scale, and the last is in color. Prices are listed. $15 for a full body, $10 for a half body, $5 for a headshot, $2 for a sketch, $10 for monochrome, and $15 for color. Her handles are listed in the bottom right as @SomeNerd354 on Instagram and Discord.
November 4, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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I've made some steady progress after a programming-energy drought, and I got this weird little ping system going on. End goal is to make you see foot steps in the dark, so this is just a little closer. Some strange pink placeholder pings which you can only see when close-by
October 27, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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Actually, it looks worse with the flash on at night, so have these instead
The top of a black office chair ontop of the bottom of a different black off-brand racer chair. The remains of the top chair have been strapped to the bottom one by a set of camo ratchet straps. The top of a black office chair ontop of the bottom of a different black off-brand racer chair. The remains of the top chair have been strapped to the bottom one by a set of camo ratchet straps.
October 27, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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It's currently a gray unthemed void with no actual icons, but I had a good time making this weird little rotate-y menu thing. No idea where it's actually gonna end up in the layout, but I'm hoping it'll make the cut if I clean it up
October 26, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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Remembering when I wanted a bunch of dogs in a minecraft smp, so I breed a bunch in a hidden room under my home, but I ended up making too many, so I dubbed them "Nommunists" and scattered them across the spawn-town
A ton of minecraft tamed wolves inside a wooden room, all sitting. The floor is not visible.
October 21, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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Got to play some Panda Royale today (picture below from board game geek), and gotta say it was a good time, definitely recommend. Me and my folks layed all the dice out after playing (since pulling dice is random) and I'm very curious to know how they picked how many of each to have
The box for a board game named Panda Royale surrounded by the dice used to play the game, ranging in colors and side number.
October 21, 2024 at 7:40 AM
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I've been playing Lego Star Wars again on the PS3, and among other things, I forgot how much I like this menu. Something about this XMB specifically hits my brain right and I can't tell how much of it is good memories and how much of it is me genuinely liking it
An image of the PS3 XMB home screen, with the game category selected, and a PlayStation 2 disk as the active item. Image is not from me.
October 20, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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Mini i tried to model, and am hoping to print (despite the fact it would probably be hell to clean)
A statue style 3D render of a character in orange, black, and white outfit, and a helmet styled to almost look like a red panda. They're holding a laptop and a suitcase that are wired together via a red and blue wire passing under the character's jacket. A statue style 3D render of a character in orange, black, and white outfit, and a helmet styled to almost look like a red panda. They're holding a laptop and a suitcase that are wired together via a red and blue wire passing under the character's jacket. A statue style 3D render of a character in orange, black, and white outfit, and a helmet styled to almost look like a red panda. They're holding a laptop and a suitcase that are wired together via a red and blue wire passing under the character's jacket.
August 24, 2024 at 6:41 AM
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Hello! Back from the dead to show this thing I made a while ago!
January 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Need a test image for loading levels (preview kinda like gmod is the goal), so i made this master piece
September 14, 2023 at 3:39 AM