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Firefox's page loading bar is just theater. I know my connection is completely cut, but that bar goes like... making progress... making progress... almost done... almooooost... just a little bit left... alright, here's the connection error page.
I was trying to think of a small flat plastic tile that to hide board game reveal-tokens under to protect them from patina/wear (for something like Afrika Tähti), and 2x2 flat LEGO tiles might work? 10=1$ tho. Round or square. Could probably work for bulking up print&play military game units too.
Another idea is using "fleas" from that dexterity game, but those come in different colours.
Coins/dimes usually have irrelevant heraldry and revealing patina.
Small slottabases usually have a lot.
Decided to do some Man o' War rigging (lateen).
First I tried using 0.2mm wire, melting it into the plastic, but this this brave approach brought a ship too close to the sun, and the aft starboard oar section took a damage marker, prompting some repairs.
In the end I drilled holes in to the (hollow) hull center, then used thread and glue dots. This also allowed me to tension the ropes by tugging them into greenstuff under the hull.
Paintjob needs a bit of touchup as I did it back in the day.
Wrote this for my F.Gordon-like story. Didn't steal from anywhere.
— "I pledge allegiance to the banner of lightning, and to the Empire for which it stands; to the world under our God's chosen, Zing the mighty — its immortal heart who gives liberty and justice to us all; to the noble strife, as I endure tears at the graves of our patriots. Yes, I pledge my allegiance, and I pledge my blood to Mongorica, to its soil, to this world of the free — may God shed his grace on thee."
*moist eyes*
I was musing a bit about bicycles a while back, and how far back in time they could conceivably have been feasible and practically useful (i.e. earlier than 1820). I was imagining the difficulty of making it lightweight with pedals, rubber tires, a comfy seat, etc. Would need good roads too.
Well, maybe doesn't really need all that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukudu
A regular bicycle might be less practical in some ways. Maintenance. Cargo capacity.
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Experimenting with some rocky edges. Looks too homogeneous though, so I need to come up with some form of tinting.
Square-ish sail rigging. Unsure about colour scheme. No top flag yet. I don't want to do big flags, keeping the scale more realistic, so I maybe I should scan the existing flags and scale down, print out. Hand painting micro stuff might be a bother.
Sigh. Put my laptop to sleep, realizing 1 second later that I hadn't saved the last 2 hours of work in my text document. Linux Mint has like a 1% chance of not waking up after sleep and of course it does it this time. Document gone. Documents gone, as I had tabs open. Wouldn't happen in Mac Textedit that autosaves. Should I attempt to reconstruct, or just abandon the project altogether?
Edit: Abandon. I really hate trying and failing to redo difficult to remember work.
Found some '70s / '80s books up in the attic.
# 1. The Lion Men of Mongo.
# 4. The Time Trap of Ming XIII.
# 5. The Witch Queen of Mongo.
# 2. The Plague of Sound.
# 3. The Space Circus.
Seems I missed out of the other 6. Maybe they were never translated.
The Alice in Wonderland one is weird because it reads like Bollywood dialog with English randomly sprinkled in. Appears to be some kind of teaching method. 1955.
The Gallivants is one of those fictional fantasy society picture books.
I just remembered that time I tried to play a Metroid Prime game and there was a trudging tutorial level and boss. I didn't make it past the boss. It was one of those invulnerable ones with regenerating shield blobs to deactivate and then you have to do a specific secret thing otherwise you get stuck in an infinite loop.
I prefer when my bosses just take missiles into their brain and go skRWEEEee! thankyouverymuch.
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One man said he only actually recently picked up on the "kitty crime stuff" after discovering a recommended video by "Doctor Professor Socrates" showing kittens allegedly misbehaving in social settings. "I never knew kittens were such menaces, but after doing my own research watching Doctor Professor Socrates recommended videos, suddenly it feels like the rest of the world is inverting black and white. He plays Imprison Them a lot in his videos so I think he knows what he's talking about."
I plopped in my Jason and the Argonauts DVD and was surprised to see Patrick Troughton (aka my fav Doctor) in the intro credits. He plays Phineas who has his food stolen by the harpies. Almost unrecognizable.
Slightly related, Troughton has a bunch of sons and grandsons with the exact same nose, eyebags and mouth corners.
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Found the audiobook of Flash Gordon - The Lion Men of Mongo on archive:
https://archive.org/details/FlashGordon-TheLionMenOfMongo-Mp3Audio
The Swedish version drops bits of description, yet adds the part where we get a view of the surface via the preoccupied and self-assured Zarkov.
Game idea, maybe stupid:
Tic-tac-toe, large grid but with some random noise (a boulder landscape tossed onto the board) blocking some cells. Win by getting 4 in a row. The loser gets one final "revenge move" and lose if they can't also get 4, but win if they can. This means the first/leading player actually has to make blocking moves which perhaps shifts the dynamic back and forth and also disrupts the landscape.
Played a game against myself. Went on for a while, but might be predictable.
I was thinking of some scenarios for a story and just realized that I've apparently never thought about the possibility of childbirth in a modern prison and the dilemma it imposes. Do you imprison the baby too? Apparently so in some places.
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Ah, I can actually do a physical timer, using an LDR and a sun-dial mask. The earth's rotation serves as the timer.
Some progress (not really).
Fold, and soak, roll tightly and let dry. When unrolled you get these kind of bulges along the "cloth" seams. However, as soon as you curve the overall shape of the sail in the other direction they mostly flatten out.
I think one would have to also curve the roll while it dries to get it to settle with both curves. Maybe roll it up on a thick metal wire and bend that without somehow crinkling.
Square sails also bend inward along the corners where the ropes attach.
Was there a game before The Matrix that used time slow down as a power up? Max Payne came out 2 years later.
I'm thinking an arcade shoot 'em up might have. There were plenty of games with time freeze or just sprite slowdowns of course, but bullet time?
I call this the eclectic shelf. This sets it apart from the random shelf, the jumbled shelf, please clean me shelf, and books that can't fit standing normally shelf.
The most read book is the AMOS Pro user manual. The least read books are the thick ones that aren't science fiction--these just look good on the shelf if someone sees them.
I wish I had copies of all all the Hal Clement and Simak stuff I read in the library as a wee lad.
Went over the worn corners and edges with a spoon to flatten them, fixed up with PVA glue, and painted over the damaged areas here and there. Visible up close but not from a distance. Might be even harder to spot if I apply a bit of gloss coat.
Though... fixing up books kinda detracts, making them seem less read.
Though 2#, I'm not sure how far into these I can last as they're not that engaging and a bit schlocky.
Flashy G is possibly public domain this September.
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@yora@mastodon.gamedev.place Either case would bum me out, but in different ways. I think I'd just angrily drop and forget the project if 2 hours was all of it.
If it was the last two hours of e.g. writing a book, that would be worse. Imagine having jumped through the script making edits everywhere, feeling pleased, then coming up with a neat punch for the opening and closing paragraphs, then it's all gone and you know the errors are back in and you absolutely can't remember what you did. Can't publish that.
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@aetios@sns.minovsky.space No, I'm so used to Textedit saving a temp copy that I rarely do it out of habit. I don't see anything in a .cache dir.
Libreoffice autosaves, but I only have 4GB and prefer lightweight editors for writing.
Edit: mousepad might do it.
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@yora@mastodon.gamedev.place Would be true for programming, but not for creative work, which can simply be impossible to recreate if you can't remember that little neat piece of wording etc. It's like redoing a drawing... sometimes it's better, but it can also get much worse because when you wrote it an nudged everything into position you are in the most informed state. Reconstruction from fragments is much harder, prone to tangling up. Even if you can somehow do it, it's still a blow and loss of time.
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@kirtai@tech.lgbt Looking it up, there were six books released in the '70s, ending with War of the Cybernauts.
I think these might have been translated because of the movie release in 1980.
Then a few more books were released, but kind of as their own thing (only loosely flash gordon) by a different entity.
So basically, it's possible that War of the Cybernauts is the only one missing.
Yes: Found it on a list of Wahströms books >>>
2280 Robotarnas krig – Alex Raymond, 1983
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@kirtai@tech.lgbt Supposedly it continues with:
- The War of the Cybernauts. (sounds fun)
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- edit: followed by a different collection - - -
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- War of the Citadels.
- Crisis on Citadel II.
- Flash Gordon.
- Forces from the Federation.
- Citadels on Earth.
Price tags on mine were 9.90 SEK (Obs! market), lowered from 29.50 ~ what a bargain. Might have gotten all in one go.
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@dereisenhofer@metalhead.club Yeah, I sand down a wine cork. The board helps because you can hold it firmly at an angle and let the cork dust fall off. Probably don't want to breathe in cork dust though. I use really rough sand paper grit--too fine flock is not useful and will clump anyways when dying.
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@dereisenhofer@metalhead.club For grass flock, I recommend gluing some coarse sandpaper onto a little board like the one I posted earlier, then use sanded cork (the larger particles filtered out). Sawdust tends to look like sawdust. Cork doesn't have fibres in the same way and looks slightly nicer, I think. It's a good idea to make a few hues and mix.
Dying and drying is a bit finicky though as it has to be stirred as it dries or it'll clump up.
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@dereisenhofer@metalhead.club The tiny trees are made from a 1cm wooden splinter. It can be cut from a matchstick or toothpick or any piece of random wood. I sharpened one end, pushed into styrofoam along with a wood glue dot. Browned with some water colour.
The leaves are clumped foliage flock torn into shape. I think it's made by wetting normal foliage flock with some diluted glue, not sure.
I tore it into the shape of the complete tree crown and split the bottom open so it could be attached to the trunk.
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@dereisenhofer@metalhead.club Torn little pieces, then dyed? Haven't tried that myself. If I were to try to make clumped foliage, I'd probably use diluted wood glue, let it soak into the foam bits, maybe pack into a small container so it's slightly pressed together while drying. Or spray/dash onto the foam then press it together.
Trying to do tree crowns with individual foliage flock is a nightmare because it keeps falling off. At 1:900 you can't really do branches either and only have the vertical trunk.
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I wonder if it's possible to use a physical switch... like a leaf switch that heats up in the sun, makes contact, then cools and retracts. What DIY material do I have that expands in the sun that I can use for DIYing a switch? A sealed tube with water, and a flotation contact?
Thermal switches seem to be a thing you can buy. some are be fluid expansion based judging by pics.
I actually do have a few thermal switches. They're found in egg and water boilers, but might be the wrong temp.
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There are low power timer ICs but my 555s are not one of them, using several milliamps. An MCU can go much lower strangely. It just needs to wake up and poke the driver transistor. It's just a hundred bytes or so of code, out of a generous 1024 for the ATtiny13A.
The LDR light sensor can be read by the MCU, or a temporarily powered comparator can be used, which is what I did, connecting the output to the transistor.
But there might be a better cooling solution for bird houses. Reflective coat
My favourite MtG artist back in the day was probably Douglas Schuler. I think he did the right amount of detail for that picture size and never overcomplicated the designs.
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@tithegha@mas.to That intro box was a little strange because they sold a larger variant and they just kept adding more termagants and marines. Not sure if GW has ever done a sampler box.
This new 11e box seems to be a 2e nostalgia thing with a touch of 3e landspeeder. I was surprised they didn't add cardboard L ruins...
Not sure what the price will be, but whale territory wouldn't surprise me.
SUPER FOOD SYSTEM
Lin Yun woke up. Wow, I have transmigrated. But isn't this a world of starvation of trillions?
-"Host, this is the Billion times food return system."
Huh, I just place anything into my space, like a rock, and it converts to one billion food items?
It worked! This hamburger is great! Yum yum. A-grade wagu beef is GO! Yum yum!
Everyone around me sure are starving though. It's a good thing my system is secret so they don't find out.
Yum yum--this 1-foot baguette is SO CRUNCHY!
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I guess since I distance check stars as they are created to prevent near overlaps, I can make each star store/remember a neighbour or two or three, and save a few clock cycles during constellation gen.
This has to be iterated & reconstructed backwards though, since the second star placed is only aware of the first, whilst the last star placed definitely knows its nearest neighbour.
Die Hüter des Gesetzes
/ Robotarnas Uppror (1973)
Hans Kneifel
From reel to book in one operation
Wahlströms BOOK-O-MATIC (R)
Look at the wobbly types here. Afaik there's no practical way to get this organic effect in modern DTP print.
Swedish page about the custom 1976 BOOK-O-MATIC
https://www.scandbook.com/sv/om-oss/historia/pocket-bocker-sprutar-fram-pa-lopande-band/
Basically type-in to paper tape, photosetter and plastic type etching of some sort.
However, in my 1973 book here it certainly looks like sloppily placed lead types.
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Looking on ebay, thermal switches can be bought normally open and closed, at most Celsius temp ranges. Painted black they might trigger at 40-50 degress or so. Just a few quid each... but in a land far far away.
Can also get a 30 degree one and put directly in the bird house, triggering the fan. Once cool, it shuts off. Might result in teetertottering and battery drain though.
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@playmedusa@mastodon.gamedev.place The crash was hard, no screen, no life at all. Had to reboot by holding power button.
Apparently other people have also requested a recovery feature in xed. Might be a text editor out there that does it. Mousepad possibly.
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@Ailantd@mastodon.art Yeah, sometimes it's more convenient to start on the other end, though in my case it might be difficult because of my existing code and data structures. I'm not sure if I can generate from two ends at the same time.
Right now I'm thinking I'll grow the constellations from seeds, counting down as new stars are grabbed into the figure, then figure out a way to remove excessive lattices.
Perhaps an initial pass pairing the closest stars or barring the farthest will create natural groups
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Like, they do all these unique models, but it's all specific poses and not as useful as seeing more of the world, I think.
There are 61 models in the box incl. 3 vehicles. Some ork sprues are doubled.
Original 2e box had 80 (20 SM, 20+40 orks) iirc.
I'd make it like 5 characters then a basic squad of mostly cloned guys: 5+5 SM, 5+5 IG, 5 SoB, 5 Eldar, 5 Tau, 5+5+5 Ork, 5+5 Nid, 5 Necron. And some cardboard walls. Then they skirmish a bit in various configurations (some scenarios perhaps).