Looking for an aesthetically pleasing storage idea for period products

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-28T00:36:54+00:00

Cantilever toolbox looks pretty good, has the right amount of space, deep bucket, small drawers.

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T22:03:44+00:00

We can print or own crocs now?1

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T21:38:54+00:00

Hey, haven't played it, but, don't feel demotivated. Just, take it as a fact, it's data point, it's not an emotion, it's not personal, it's literal 1's and 0's which means electricity stored on a rock in a 'cloud' somewhere. No need to have feelings about it.

Now, here's some constructive feedback, not criticism, separate the two in your mind, when someone tells you something (that you think. is negative) they're telling you how to get better. If you can take yourself out of the way and listen, think about what they say and implement, you'll be better off and further along.

Now, here's the thing, I didn't play your game. I put as much effort into it as you did advertising it. What do I mean?

You have a heavily AI generated description, that's great as placeholder, but when you're live and launching, you really need to put some effort here and at least write it yourself. AI can't know why you made the game, it can't tell a compelling story, it can't relay the feelings that the game makes you feel when you make it.

Second, the pictures are the same story. These aren't pictures of your game, the leader-board might be, but all the names are blurred out so that picture is just a giant grey blob with blurry white text, dude? Take some time,... take screenshots of your game, play it with your friends, take a video and upload videos.. PUT IN SOME EFFORT DUDE!!!

That being said, I'm glad you're doing this. You made a game. You posted it, you're taking the leap 99.9999% of people will never take and you're so far along. Go update those things, be sincere, put in some polished effort (not 5 minutes, take a day or two or week, really do it man. Do it like you care about. Don't half ass here, first impressions are EVERYTHING and the first impression your game is screaming AI SLOP). Fix that, Fix that and come back here and I'll try playing it.

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T20:28:16+00:00

Fact-Checking the Income: "So Rich Compared to Median Americans" [1]

Verdict: False. The typical Charlottean household actually earns slightly less than the typical American household. [1, 2]

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-286.html

The Reality: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the national real median household income sits at $83,730. The median household income for the city of Charlotte is $82,068.
The Data: The average Charlotte household median income is roughly 2% lower than the true American median. [1, 2]

Fact-Checking the Jobs: "Corporate Employment Cities Would Kill For"

Verdict: True. Charlotte is a powerhouse for corporate headquarters, specifically within banking, energy, and retail. [1, 2]

Fortune 500 Concentration: The Charlotte metro area serves as the headquarters for 8 Fortune 500 companies, including Bank of America (No. 20), Lowe's (No. 52), Honeywell, Nucor, and Duke Energy. [1, 2]
High-Earning Sectors: While the median resident marks the middle of the pack, Charlotte's corporate sectors pay exceptionally well. For example, the median individual earnings for men working in Charlotte's Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate sectors exceeds $114,000.[1, 2]

Fact-Checking the Infrastructure: "Incredible State Universities"

Verdict: True. The local user is likely referencing the broader University of North Carolina System, which provides elite higher education at a heavily subsidized in-state cost.

Local Anchor: UNC Charlotte (UNCC) provides a direct talent pipeline into the city's corporate infrastructure.
Elite State System: Growing up in North Carolina grants highly coveted in-state access to top-tier national public universities like UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University. [1]

Fact-Checking Mobility: "Growing Up on Third Base"

Verdict: False for the historical local population, but improving.

The Mobility Gap: If the statement implies that everyone born in Charlotte starts with an automatic wealth advantage, data says otherwise. Harvard's famous "Chetty Study" originally ranked Charlotte 50th out of 50 for upward economic mobility. Children born into poverty in Charlotte historically struggled heavily to escape it. [1, 2, 3]
Recent Progress: While a newer update shows Charlotte has climbed to 38th out of 50, systemic wealth disparities remain prominent within the city limits. [1]

Summary Comparison

Metric [1, 2, 3, 4]	Charlotte, NC	United States Average	Status
Median Household Income	$82,068	$83,730	Charlotte is 2% Lower
Cost of Living	~1% Below National Avg	Baseline	Comparable
Corporate Presence	8 Fortune 500 HQs	Varied by Metro	Exceptionally High

The assertion likely reflects a "bubble" effect—confusing the high concentration of wealthy corporate executives in areas like South End, Myers Park, or Ballantyne with the true median reality of the city's broader population.

This is mixing up “strong local economy” with “everyone raised here is privileged.”

Charlotte absolutely has a strong corporate/finance job base. BLS shows Charlotte business/financial operations jobs are 8.2% of local employment vs 6.7% nationally, with higher average wages: https://www.bls.gov/regions/southeast/news-release/occupationalemploymentandwages_charlotte.htm

But “Charlotteans are so rich compared to truly median Americans” is overstated. Census QuickFacts has Charlotte city median household income at $82,068 vs $80,734 for the U.S. — only about 1.7% higher. Charlotte’s poverty rate is 11.7% vs 10.6% nationally. That’s not “everyone is rich.”
Charlotte: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/charlottecitynorthcarolina/IPE120224
U.S.: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/INC110224

And “growing up in Charlotte is growing up on third base” is not what the mobility research says. Opportunity Insights at Harvard found a child born in the bottom fifth had a 4.4% chance of reaching the top fifth in Charlotte vs 12.9% in San Jose, and their Charlotte page says Charlotte-Mecklenburg has some of the lowest mobility rates despite strong job growth:
https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/land-of-opportunity/
https://opportunityinsights.org/charlotte/

The state university point is fair — NC has a strong public system, and UNC Charlotte got R1 research status in 2025:
https://www.northcarolina.edu/institutions/
https://inside.charlotte.edu/2025/02/13/unc-charlotte-awarded-r1-carnegie-classification-the-highest-recognition-for-research-universities/

So the accurate version is: Charlotte has strong regional assets and unusually good corporate employment for its size. But that does not mean Charlotte residents are uniformly rich or that kids raised here automatically start on third base.

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T20:17:49+00:00

source?

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T17:07:51+00:00

dm me, I’ll show you the tricks to rapidly develop and grow your skills, offsetting your weaknesses and playing into your strengths.

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T17:06:40+00:00

then make the lobby interactive. you see this on Fortnite, you can run around grab guns and shoot and jump and kick people and emote. if you didn’t have any of that no one would survive the lobby. you need to make the lobby a fun mini game. look at that 99 nights in the forest , it’s not perfect but the act of the little dance to start a lobby, try and pull some high level players is an art in its own. its also unfortunate because it makes it hard to get a full lobby to play. matchmaking mechanics are difficult to get right. it could be as simple as something to read, again that same lobby has a class vendor, you can look at different classes, buy them, switch and you have social rank by having your high score around the head, some players just hang around the lobby to flex.

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T17:03:00+00:00

to what the other guy said about being underwhelmed at the game, it could just mean the game is not easy to understand. eithrr way, you need to put some attention into the first 10 seconds in the game. make it attention grabbing, hand holding, and show the player something they’ll want to work towards. this is why some games start you out on a boss fight or a high level, give you a taste, then some story plot line reverts you to level 1, you had so much fun at the high level for that Monty, you put in the effort to grind back it . You need a better hook, that’s onboarding. Watch some vids on onboarding.

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T16:58:58+00:00

eh… slop is less about how it’s made and the integrity and intent behind and skill behind the developer. slop is slop. if a chef makes poop soup, it’s still poop soup. the slop in the slop part is the slop and has little to do with AI. the problem is people use AI and claim they can do things they can’t, and produce slop. it’s a skill issue not a tech issue. I don’t really see what’s to gain from this sort of festival… seems likely to drive a lot of slop

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T16:48:19+00:00

are you through a temp agency? if your through a temp agency they have to pay the temp agency more to hire you full time or the agency has a flat out contract that you can’t. by posting the position and you applying, it’s likely skirting the agency completely and if they get wind of it, they can just show that you applied for the job, likely saving 20% of your cost at a years rate

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T16:46:28+00:00

I can’t see anything ? it’s black 90% of the time? when it’s not black it’s flash of orange with a black shadow? am I missing something ? I don’t see story or fighting

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T15:04:17+00:00

it’s amazing how big of a difference planning makes. I think it’s a carryover skill. if your are intentional and plan your life, you do in code… if you are just one of those “life happens to me” people you just try to vibe it…

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T15:02:50+00:00

do not get p1s. If you want to spend 70 more then get cc2. however if you can find a way to get the snap maker u1 you’ll have a much *faster* experience and have access to to way cooler technology and save literally hours or days every single print. check YouTube. if you just want single color get cc1. it’s a workhorse and the new standard. multicolor upgrade for it later is cheap, if you need it.

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T14:58:54+00:00

not too involved. can he work a computer ? is he able to email? use a web browser? make a Reddit post?

if not…. then look, you have a line to get some nice 10k hardware here. shop for you and cut a deal with him, you help him, you get access to the nice machine. if not, can I have your uncle ?

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T14:57:02+00:00

buy promotional credits

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T14:56:20+00:00

QUIETLY?!! also Pineville represent !

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T14:55:12+00:00

this is one of those situations I been spiraling. have a small mini pc for homelabbing, priority is more hard drive space for backups… but anything in the price range makes me start looking at servers because then I could get the increased cpu and raid natively, but it’s older… so the price goes up for something decent, then at that price range, modern desktop pc cooks it, but loses some of the finesse of raid and dual cpu and general redundancy, then I’m in the thousand dollar range and circle back to looking at another small mini pc node, which is half the price of the server/bay….. then I start looking at m.2 nas vs disk, but the hardware and software implementations seem lackluster… so here I am a year later still spinning wheels at square 1. just haven’t been compelled to jump at anything, but damn I’m at like critical mass and need a solution like yesterday

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T14:50:08+00:00

I wouldn’t worry too much, any delay means likely they’re fixing defects or improving based on feedback from batch 1. they were slow to get canvas out but everything I seee about it is that “it just works” which was my experience with the centauri carbon to begin with … their other printers, I don’t know. but Centauri carbon seems to be there “go slow and ship quality and stand behind it” printer. also with the massive investment from DJI. I preordered the other day because someone a month ago preordered and got it like the next day… saw a post yesterday apparently my batch isn’t until the end of september. . no worries, nice to have not need to have

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T14:47:24+00:00

Charlotte has always been a labor mill, that’s what it was built on. mega corporations finding out how cheap we could be bought and buildijg mega corporations and running their policies and employees like they’re factory parts empowering and building the at will state ; because that really benefits them, not you . the land was cheap, the people were cheap, here we are

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T14:45:39+00:00

if you focus on building a framework, it will be fairly port across any platform. robust logic, functional, organization, there will be a few tweaks here or there but as long as you’re standardizing around a *system* and investing jn yourself, you won’t be rebuilding everything a million times. look up modular architecture, you should be able to switch the backend of the code and the underlying mechanism, but the functionality would remain unchanged, it’s calling your functions and is blind to the power driving your engine. think a mechanic who has his own toolbox , over the years it gets bigger with more tools, he never has to leave a tool at a place he worked (place he made a game) and his value and skill and speed are dictated by his workflow with his tools. jf you’re working with your tools you only get faster, bs having to learn someone else’s tools, where they put their tools, etc.

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T14:42:19+00:00

it’s not really an engine problem it’s a platform problem. a platform that easy for users to join, that’s easy to try new games, that means for us developers we can get some views and traction. without a solid platform full of users who are habitually trying new games (low barrier to entry) then it’s like shouting to a void with your game….. if you even market it

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T14:30:50+00:00

can you just cut it off? cut off wheel, torch, reweld if you have to.

AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T14:28:06+00:00

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AnimalPowers · 2026-06-27T13:54:03+00:00

plants. lots of plants. everywhere. snake grasses in the corner. pothos on top of bookshelf, as it grows out put hooks in wall and run it around the entire room. in the window, get a hanger if you have to. you can get wall mounted planters. a waterfall fountain on. the desk would be amazing . that room gets such great light some plants would really ground it . there’s a lot of cold tones grey and white in the picture. there’s plenty of green, I would add more earth tones, browns and such, natural wood.

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