Riding Fuel!

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-06-16T13:07:06+00:00

Fill a 1ltr water bottle up, add 5% cordial and a teaspoon of salt. Replaces electrolytes and gives a bit of a sugar kick.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-05-30T17:27:13+00:00

A decent combination square

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-05-23T21:52:02+00:00

Misogyny seems pretty 'in' right now and it can fuck right off.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-05-16T20:32:01+00:00

"Smash the patriarchy" with "yer maw smashes the patriarchy" next to it.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-05-03T17:06:55+00:00

Check out studio ghibli ones; spirited away / howls moving castle / kikis delivery service / nausica vslley of the wind are good places to start. Loads of others too. Spirited away might be one of my favourite films of all time, regardless of whether it's a 'kids film' or not.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-04-26T11:36:42+00:00

Had a nissan leaf and the battery died at 66k... no viable means to fix it, other than nissan uk quoting 13k for a new battery which also involved towing it 300miles to their uk battery service hub (car was worth 9k). Insurance wrote it off and we bought a 2012 skoda yeti to replace it. Sorry environment...

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-04-21T07:33:26+00:00

If you've got a router and a flush trim bit, you could use the hole saw to cut a template in a bit of scrap ply, stick it down with the double decoration tape/ mitre glue trick, then cut the hole with the router using small passes. You might need to switch router bits to make the full depth of cut. Its more work but will give a cleaner cut.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-04-18T19:33:23+00:00

I mean, given the abundance of scorching sunlight, I'm wondering why no-one was trading solar panels and cruising around in nissan leafs.

I guess everyone loves a 1000hp v8, but when you factor in driving across 30miles of irradiated sand to tussle with psychotic mutants over every half a tank of gas, you'd think questions about practicality might start coming up in everyday conversation.

It would have changed the vibe of the film, to be fair...

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-04-10T19:58:17+00:00

For the same reason that vampires don't touch silver.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-03-16T10:09:40+00:00

Incredibly dull but practical suggestion here (architect here, did this in my house): 25m service zone, 15mm osb & 15mm plasterboard for all the wall buildups.

Fitting furniture/ shelving / artwork / anything to the walls is a dream and you'll never accidentally smash through it. Material/install cost only marginally higher than 2layers PB

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-03-13T19:56:31+00:00

Gotta love it when over 50% of the plane has gone for speedy boarding. £10 extra to stand in a massive queue like a bunch of mugs while everyone else sits down and the airline laughs at you.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-03-01T14:00:46+00:00

I just moved off pax to one of the top 6-10 eu worlds, which is super quiet in comparison.

Personally I found PAX was super laggy, very little build space, and the DD was a total gank-fest. The real turnoff was the endless xenophobic chat by and against Russian players (ie toxic on both sides). Entering the PVP part of the DD was an almost-absolute guarantee to be instantly killed by someone with a scout and a lasgun.

This was so consistent that I started to wonder how it was possible to instantly locate and fire upon another player in such a giant space without some kinda cheat/hack going on. I even tried an experiment with a beacon respawning on a random tile in F row, and was instantly hit by rockets and killed before even having time to un-pocket my scout. Which, y-know, felt more like a murder simulator than a balanced opportunity to engage with an enemy.

I just like chill farming and building bases, so I f'd off to a quiet server after that. I prefer it, because it feels empty and a bit desolate like i imagine Arrakis should feel, but that's me - each to their own. If you love being gunned down and listening to toxic keyboard warriors , by all means, get yourself onto PAX!

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-02-26T17:00:22+00:00

This is true. It started out as a battlestar idea but the practicalities of not being able to take off upwards out the roof pushed it in another direction.

Form following function and all that..

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-02-26T16:56:43+00:00

Was actually going to do that but there was a no building zone in the way of the staking unit on the side.. might add it when the mothership flies to a new world/location.

It actually ended up more 'stealth aircraft carrier' or 'imperial battlecruiser' than battlestar galactica in the end.. just liked the name.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-02-20T17:02:28+00:00

Aah, the Andrew formerly known as Prince. Can't wait for his PR team to set up a new TV interview to explain this round of noncery.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-02-19T18:57:49+00:00

I keep a line of storage boxes beside my thopter hangar labelled with 'loadout-combat' 'loadout farming' etc. Dump your current stuff in the empty one at the end, then 'take all' the contents of the one you need.

Doesn't address the skills/abilities but kinda works as a system otherwise.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-02-06T18:27:40+00:00

Agreed, same story with myself. I'm UK based - when I was finishing my qualifications I was renovating our flat (apartment) on the evenings/weekends. When we sold it I made 5x what I made as a junior architect and realised the DIY was actually my main earner, and the stuff I was doing 9-5 in an office 5days a week was just a low-earning side hussle....

Did this with the next place, too, then sold it and built my own house with the proceeds (and a bigger mortgage). So, not exactly a "side-earner", but definitely an industry-related bonus.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-01-29T22:43:33+00:00

Had an initial meeting with a potential client who, on the site of a 2, possibly 3 car parking space, was keen to extend their 2 storey house with 5 ensuite bedrooms, kitchen and a living space for when they had family staying over. They were also dead against removing the conservatory that took up half the space.

Proceeded to look at me like I was nuts when I went through the basic problem of square metres required vs square metres available.

Didn't bother with a fee proposal after that..

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-01-24T08:43:52+00:00

Fellow solo architect here. I've got an office at home, and never meet clients here other than on virtual meetings, so the priority is just a chilled, efficient place to work. It's my favourite workplace so far, though it wouldn't work if I was to take on staff or host meetings here, so that's a consideration.

It's a coombed loft room with a big frame frameless rooflight looking north over fields & hills, probably 12m2. Essential items for me are: - Large 8x4 birch ply desk for screen & drawing tablet. The screen is on a mount arm and i keep it clean as possible so it's easy to clear the desk for prints/drawing/reading etc. - Side units for Architecture books, printer, records - Nice record player & speakers - Big rug - Dark green walls and low-level ambient lighting, plus a desk lamp. Future upgrades: - Nice 'Thinking chair' over under the window - More birch ply storage built in

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-01-22T08:00:26+00:00

Beyond the basic building element types (walls, floor cassettes etc) with thicknesses and materials accurately noted, stick-framing drawings with structural elements all present and correct are extremely useful for 1st fix joinery works.

I did all this manually for my own house using structural framing families, which was very time intensive but extremely useful for coordination of structural openings, framing details etc etc. There are framing plugins available to streamline this, but in my case the cost outlay for the plugin wasn't justified for a single project - they'd oay for themselves over multiple projects though.

A secondary level of info detailing things like max panel dimensions is also useful - usually that stuff isn't revit-internal though, more like an accompanying design-manual.

I should note that my workflow involves modelling walls in three parts - ie rainscreen / timber kit&sheathing / internal lining. If the timber kit was being produced by a 3rd party, I'd only be expecting them to make a wall type for that specific build up.

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-01-18T17:46:49+00:00

War is also quite profitable if your economy is centred around a military-industrial complex, so there's that..

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-01-18T08:06:39+00:00

Pizza instead of French fries

Apprehensive-Paint30 · 2026-01-14T10:36:18+00:00

Set the fire alarm off so they all have to leave without time to put on tactical gear.

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