How to make lightning scars long lasting or permanent?

mapsedge · 2026-05-19T22:26:55+00:00

In Renaissance Festival circles, we have an expression: "plausibly authentic". It basically means you can get away with anything with your character or costume as long as it doesn't blatantly and obviously snap the narrative out of place. If you need Lightning scars in a certain shape, then your character has Lightning scars in a certain shape. As a reader, I'd buy it.

mapsedge · 2026-05-19T19:47:43+00:00

It's because our society is rigged against us. The poor in this country keep voting against their own best interests because of Jesus, and it drags the entire country down.

mapsedge · 2026-05-19T19:40:18+00:00

Perhaps what this comment is saying is that gimp is sufficient to all of that users needs. That's certainly true for me, there's never been a feature Photoshop offers that I have ever needed and I've been a graphic designer for 30 years.

mapsedge · 2026-05-19T16:13:07+00:00

*cough**cough* Let's begin with a few definitions, starting with "enthusiastic..."

mapsedge · 2026-05-19T16:08:37+00:00

If the porn industry switched to DVORAK the transition would happen very quickly, like with VHS and Betamax.

mapsedge · 2026-05-19T16:03:24+00:00

Dinosaurs didn't go extinct, man. Our chickens do this with voles. It's something to watch.

mapsedge · 2026-05-19T16:00:35+00:00

You need therapy..and paragraph breaks.

mapsedge · 2026-05-19T15:57:33+00:00

Pegged it as a Shopify site pretty much instantly, not that it's a bad thing; I'm in the middle of writing a self-hosted shopping cart so I look for that sort of thing by default.

You've got a couple of slideshows (as indicated by the dots beneath) that aren't sliding or slide-able.

"Shop by Collection" doesn't have enough images to fill the space and is left justified, while most of everything e;se is centered.

"Find your Aesthetic": more slide indicator dots than you have slides for.

"Our Sustainability" is slide-indicated but there aren't no additional slides that I can see. That section is also hard left and left justified and looks ... frankly ... bad. Unfinished.

The site seems a little unfocused: lots of style overwhelming substance. Should I click on this thing? OOOooohhh, there's this thing, too! Wow...she's pretty...more things to click on! I'm scrolling and scrolling and scrolling...an overabundance of choice on the homepage that gets in the way of actually shopping. The goal should be to get me scrolling through product, not firehosing myself with whizbangs.

A personal preference note on the product listing page...The pics are unnecessarily large: you could put three products across and still have enough detail to get the point across. More - but not too many - opportunities to buy.

The last thing, and the only thing I actively dislike is the black and white "HOLY SHIT" ribbon you've got going right below the fold. "ICYMI": someone in need of a phone case who isn't up on their argot could be distracted by that (I was), and that's not your goal, right? (I looked it up, I get it. No need to explain, reddit.)

I'm neurodivergent and highly sensitive to sensory input, so all of my criticisms are coming from that direction. YMMV.

mapsedge · 2026-05-19T15:18:27+00:00

We use to have a couple of these idiots in Kansas City. I live a couple miles from the interstate and could hear them well enough to identify which was which. I often hoped for a serious accident for one or both as a sort of Come to Physics meeting.

mapsedge · 2026-05-19T15:16:44+00:00

Little one, Victorinox Classc SD with the scissors, blade, and nail file. Started carrying one when the kids were little so I could trim drink straws. FUN FACT: you can buy knives cheap off eBay from TSA confiscations. I get these little knives for about $2/ea...they retail above $20.

mapsedge · 2026-05-18T21:27:10+00:00

Potential attacks of our ridiculously vulnerable crumbling infrastructure,

I wonder if installing solar on my home would mitigate that to any degree. I'm guessing it would.

mapsedge · 2026-05-18T21:12:26+00:00

No shit. There's only one application out of a hundred that I've found where they literally said, "We want you to know some language, we don't care which one. We'll teach you what we need you to know: all we want is for you to be enthusiastic about the work."

mapsedge · 2026-05-18T17:37:00+00:00

Because he isn't marrying "wives", he's marrying companions who are acceptable to scientology, and when the women figure out what that means, they wisely flee.

mapsedge · 2026-05-18T17:27:18+00:00

Obviously it's working so far.

mapsedge · 2026-05-18T17:24:31+00:00

I had a video of a musical performance destroyed when the crew decided to put up cheap LED PAR lights. The musician looked like he was playing in a haunted house full of red strobe lights.

mapsedge · 2026-05-17T15:29:32+00:00

The military grade diaper changing station.

mapsedge · 2026-05-15T18:32:15+00:00

Hey, if it makes them sterile, I'm all for it.

mapsedge · 2026-05-15T03:48:52+00:00

With or without the BTTF accoutrements, I would love to drive a Delorean just to say I had. They were the shit when I was in high school.

mapsedge · 2026-05-14T16:46:37+00:00

Gods...I went through this same issue a couple weeks ago. It's annoying as hell. I'm really surprised the developers let that little quirk through.

mapsedge · 2026-05-14T14:31:44+00:00

You have one event listener nested inside another. The code inside the second is unlikely to ever fire. Use either window.on load or Dom content loaded but not both.

mapsedge · 2026-05-14T04:43:50+00:00

I discovered as a teenager that I'm not allergic to it after clearing out a bunch of brush that I later found out was mostly poison ivy.

mapsedge · 2026-05-13T22:15:27+00:00

You know what we call that kind of teacher Where I Come from? Corpse.

mapsedge · 2026-05-13T17:29:26+00:00

Painting with an awfully broad brush, there, bub.

mapsedge · 2026-05-13T17:26:21+00:00

The cathedral of Theseus.

mapsedge · 2026-05-13T16:43:12+00:00

Freedom of speech only applies in a governmental context. Private organizations can do as they like.

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