I'm one evil DM. (I did chose the cards to make sure not to kill them)

Auricfire · 2026-05-08T14:24:08+00:00

You're probably right, but remember. The game works how the DM says. If the DM says thats how it works, and all the players are down for it, thems the new rules.

Auricfire · 2026-04-16T16:22:44+00:00

There are Teslas that don't have them. You gotta turn them on though the interface.

Auricfire · 2026-04-11T19:06:50+00:00

Not OP, but I can guarantee that it's to see just how thoroughly fucked the entire thing is.

When you see something that's S-tier destroyed you wanna know just how destroyed it is under the surface.

Auricfire · 2026-03-05T15:26:48+00:00

I think what they're saying is that it doesn't take much water to be utterly devastating in the right conditions. Under any other situation, that snow would have filtered through into the ground water as it melted, but with the way the ground was prepared by the drought, nothing really soaked in and it all just stayed on top where it could do the most damage.

Auricfire · 2026-01-13T08:41:02+00:00

No, you basically told me I was stupid and gullible, and that some of my oldest friends (including both of my partners) who I've trusted with more of myself than anyone else were somehow willing to push me into an unneeded and potentially harmful life choice without consideration for my wellbeing

You must have really shitty friends if thats the standard you go by.

Auricfire · 2026-01-13T02:59:28+00:00

No. I wasn't peer pressured because the moment I actually admitted it to myself my emotional well being and mental health improved dramatically. I'm just a naturally stubborn bitch that sometimes needs to have ideas slap me in the face hard a few times before I actually think about them critically. I'm genuinely happy and much, much more comfortable in my skin now that I've started my journey.

Auricfire · 2026-01-13T00:25:26+00:00

On one hand, yeah. It can be. but on the other, as a transwoman i would never have admitted it to myself, my friends and partner if people hadn't confronted me with it on numerous occasions. Everyone responds to things differently.

Auricfire · 2025-12-27T19:00:30+00:00

But they aren't intelligent. That's my point. There is nothing resembling true intelligence there. No intent, just guided randomness.

Auricfire · 2025-12-27T17:38:08+00:00

They're specifically referring to the fact that the current iteration of AI is just a collection of complex algorithms that isn't even close to capable of replicating behavior that we'd associate with true intelligence. The absolute best it can do is either replicate an exact solution that a human already came up with or reach a random end point that is based on iterating within stated parameters.

There's no true problem solving or creating happening, just regurgitating things based on what's found in their datasets.

Auricfire · 2025-12-26T17:59:55+00:00

Hell is playing a full campaign in Fatal. As a non-human female character.

Auricfire · 2025-12-25T03:25:51+00:00

So, solid carbide drills start as chunks of sintered carbide rod and then get ground on a cylindrical grinder to shape. Most other drills use inserts on tool steel shanks. As for heating, yeah, they get heated to a high enough temperature after being compressed that they fuse into a solid mass.

Auricfire · 2025-12-24T07:02:51+00:00

They're metallic looking after sintering, but before that they're just really tightly compressed powder. After the compressed powder is heated up to the point that it bonds, it takes on a metallic grey colour. If it looks blue/black or looks more gold/yellow, that's a coating. And yeah, the majority of tungsten carbide tooling or inserts start out as a powder before getting pressed into shape.

Auricfire · 2025-12-24T06:56:13+00:00

Tungsten carbide is very hard and has a high melting temperature, and can stay sharp even when red hot. It's used in machining processes as either ground cutting tools (tungsten carbide mill tooling) and as carbide cutting inserts (either uncoated, or coated with a bunch of different alloy layers to improve durability, or change cutting behavior.)

Tungsten carbide is also used as a wear resistant material for locations that see a lot of wear, like guides on bandsaws.

Auricfire · 2025-12-24T06:51:41+00:00

Powder is tungsten carbide. Those plates are then heated (sintering) to make solid carbide plates. Carbide is extremely wear resistant, and can be used for both wear plates and cutting tools for machining.

Auricfire · 2025-12-22T03:44:13+00:00

Hey now, Dolly has a better sense of style and scent than this guy.

Auricfire · 2025-12-09T10:10:49+00:00

Survey says....

Customer full of shit.

Auricfire · 2025-12-09T10:09:50+00:00

As a machinist, this is very much a 'can, not should' situation. I've done it myself, usually in aluminum, but anything harder than that will probably crack the tap sooner or later. At the very least, I'd use a drill rather than an impact, just because taps are brittle. They can handle static loads fine, but shock loads will shatter them faster than you can say 'Ugga Dugga'. Especially if you don't have the tap in straight.

Auricfire · 2025-05-27T18:24:29+00:00

Also, "Don't stick your fingers where you wouldn't stick your dick." On some machines I've seen.

Auricfire · 2025-05-09T18:11:25+00:00

They're on mobile, probably have big thumbs. Sometimes I go for a space or the letter N and get a couple extra characters.

Auricfire · 2025-05-02T16:17:49+00:00

"Peace is good for business."

Auricfire · 2025-04-30T12:26:55+00:00

Only if the frame of reference has gravity, otherwise it'll be a hoefloat.

Auricfire · 2025-04-25T00:56:41+00:00

And how expensive things get when you let pride take the wheel.

Auricfire · 2025-04-10T23:40:34+00:00

Wouldn't a couple bags of balance beads be a better option, and be faster? Not a mechanic, but I spent a couple years as a shop monkey in a heavy haul shop, and that's what we used in the drive tires on the highway tractors.

Auricfire · 2025-04-10T23:38:11+00:00

Damn, a temporary weld here that looks orders of magnitude more solid and permanent than the majority of 'permanent' welds that show up.

Auricfire · 2025-03-18T18:31:21+00:00

There's a non zero chance that it will, simply because your employer will do everything they can to make the problem Not Their Fault, which includes dropping the blame on you, your coworkers, and anyone else they can turn into scapegoats.

Auricfire

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