AdAstraGames

white knight in the woods with a dragon hunting him

a collection of my landscape paintings

character concepts from the last of us part 2

character concepts from a catan expansion

Hey all I'm looking for work!
I'm experienced in character design and costume for games and film as well as illustration for books and TTRPGS. I'm based out of BC Canada looking for freelance or full time. My portfolio is linked in the first comment, thank you for shares!

Op standing of entheogen tapestry featuring a moth. In a white mushroom shirt. She’s wearing cannabis collar, which she is pulling. Long straight dark blond hair and thick rimmed glasses.

I hate having to ask like this, especially last minute. The funds I expected didn’t come through and the person who was going to help can’t. Haven’t gotten EBT either.

Trying to get a few groceries and do laundry tonight after covering major expenses.

Info in bio. I sell content too

#mutualaid

If someone wants to help other way,aka no commission or donation (not asked for) I wanted to remind that im selling some of my stuff. Maybe someone would find what they like.

A top-down view of the somewhat stealthy Marauder fighter; it's wedge shaped with two guns pointed forward, conformal missile bays, and is gray with two huge staged engines in the back; it's mostly metallic gray with purple highlights and two green pentagons on each of the wing-foils.

A top-down view of the Rookery Mercenary Armed Troop Transport. It's a reddish maroon in color with engines on pods that can pivot, and the art direction was "Imagine if the Corax and the Razorcrest had an _ugly_ baby." It has a very obvious large bridge up front, is mostly cargo capacity, and has juuuust enough guns that it could be dangerous. It's a slow-moving brick of a transport. Surprisingly nimble for turning, though, and has an extensive FTL drive array for getting out if it doesn't look like the crew will get paid...

The art that came in...

Tweaking ships as art comes in, and helping someone set up a playtest.

Some days, the job is awesome...

Michael Woods is a colouring MENSCH!

He's making every panel of Dan Dare: First Contact SING!

Support this graphic novel on Kickstarter
www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

Longtime friend of the company, and the person who redid the Ad Astra Games website in 2014...has updated the Ten Worlds star map for us!

starmap.cuthalion.ca

And losing the hour of sleep on the fourth day at that. On pack-out day!

When you're already going "I'm so glad I made tiered packing lists because my brain is mush."

FYI, a sale of a boxed game or two would cover most of our bills comfortably.

Browse here! Everything's in stock!

www.adastragames.com/products/box...

FYI, a sale of a boxed game or two would cover most of our bills comfortably.

Browse here! Everything's in stock!

www.adastragames.com/products/box...

Lesbians of colour! If you are interested in working with me on a TTRPG project, please comment on the post below ⬇️

Based on a spike in sales, someone said something nice about Architect of Worlds recently. If anyone knows who or where that was, we'd love to know to promote the review!

Denys Cowan, Hannibal Tabu and Morgan Hampton celebrate The Dakota Incident at The Comic Den

Generations of Black comic book creators! @denyscowan.bsky.social media and @moellennial.bsky.social celebrating the launch of The Dakota Incident! #blacksky #addtoblacksky

We've got a couple of bills due on March 2nd that are minor, but would be much much simpler to pay if we sold, oh, about $45 worth of stuff on Wargame Vault in the next 6 hours. (Basically, we can pay them via PayPal debit rather than put them on a credit card.)

Links to our titles below!

Did Guardians of Order pay you when they were supposed to?

(Still salty about McKinnon and the people he stiffed.)

196) Both of those fusion types require vastly greater temperatures and pressures than D-D fusion does; 11B-H will get minor amounts of D-D sideband fusion, spitting out neutrons, and D-3He will produce even more.

If someone tells you aneutronic fusion is easy, be skeptical.

195) And that fusion was messy old D-T fusion, which produces 80% of its energy in a terribly inconvenient neutron spray. Lots of SF assumes there's an effective way to make 11B-H fusion, or D-3He fusion, but somewhat ignores the incidental neutron creation from side reactions.

194) A lot of SF still uses "cheap, small, aneutronic" fusion reactors; they're there in Niven and Pournelle's stuff, BattleMechs use them, and they still show up in SF through the 2010s.

Fusion is tricky; it was 2024 when we got *an* instance of inertial fusion producing better than break even.

193) Bussard ramjets were a staple of hard SF from the 1960s and 1970s. They fell out of favor in the late 1980s.

Why did they do so? Because the drag of the magnetic field through space needed to accelerate the hydrogen into the fusion reactor was greater than the thrust that could be generated.

Of course, the tricky part is getting to the last post in the thread -- any tricks people have on that?

It’s so nice that the way a person makes a shape or puts a line down on a page can still delight me so much

One hopes that as the terribleness is known, the importance lessens.

Hopes, but perhaps have grown too cynical to expect...

192) I slipped a decimal place in this reply 6 months ago:

7% of light speed is still the threshold where you get 1% relativistic mass adjustments, but it's about 20.8 km/sec.

191) The Chinese are figuring out how to actually *cook* things in space as part of their research. Cooking things in microgravity is tricky! You need a radiant element, and fans, and heat doesn't rise, it soreads evenly. Chinese taikonauts on Tianlong Station recently roasted spiced chicken wings.

190) Modern ISS research teams have microwavable meals, and a limited supply of treats; astronauts are asked to taste test the meals they ask for in their meal plans for their stay.

189) By the time of the second crewed mission, NASA sent up re-usable water bottles, and let the astronauts choose more of their own food, while the stuff the astronauts had no say over borrowed research from the Army's MRE development program, which happens to be "low residue".

`88) The water station on Skylab was cleverly builtand someone got an award for it; it had a hood and a capture filter for water droplets with an intake fan.

It also lacked stirrups, the button was stiff enough that astronauts would shove themselves up into that hood and have to bite the water.

187) On the first crewed Skylab mission, everyone was constipated. This came about for two reasons: The first was that NASA wanted to maximize nutritional density and all the rations were, er, high protein. The second is that Skylab's lower air pressure made eveyone dehydrated.

186) The process by which you pee in microgravity looks a lot like hooking a vacuum cup over your genitals so that a fan can suck the flow to the tank. Similarly, defacation means pooping over a suction intake.