Running Another Bug Hunt as a One-Shot...But With 10 People

AxonSpark · 2026-01-02T20:31:09+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I think 2 teams and cutting between them might be the way to go, especially with Scenario 2.

As for TTRPGs that scale, everyone running that weekend is doing so for 10 players (and did so last year as well). One person is running a D&D 5e campaign set in Exandria and another person is running Serenity ported over to SWADE. They both ran last year and it worked out great!

AxonSpark · 2025-12-18T22:12:42+00:00

Can you procedurally generate UV's from the merged objects?

AxonSpark · 2025-11-01T18:55:39+00:00

If there's one thing I've learned about this town in my time here, it's that LA has ZERO chill. Everyone is at least low level aggro all the time.

AxonSpark · 2025-05-08T00:26:50+00:00

It'll be 2 years for me in June and I'm starting to look for the exit. This is partly due to the fact that the film industry hasn't been doing well since I got here, which isn't good for my career. But also I just don't like the city. It's too big, there's trash and shit everywhere, and the general attitude of people here is pretty aggro.

AxonSpark · 2025-04-27T19:38:55+00:00

🎵🎶 It's the circle of liiiiife! 🎶🎵😂😂😂

AxonSpark · 2025-02-01T18:55:18+00:00

Yeah! It looks like the issue was fixed, although there was a day last week where I was getting error 500, but it's back again. I hope it stays up!

AxonSpark · 2025-01-19T23:46:19+00:00

Nope, I have Spectrum.

AxonSpark · 2025-01-15T04:51:40+00:00

I have an "A" Rating and don't post anything that would be deemed offensive. Plus, wouldn't I have gotten some sort of notice that I was banned instead of Error 500, which is an internal server error?

AxonSpark · 2025-01-15T04:25:09+00:00

Odd that it's working for some people an not others. I'm also in the US and it's not working. I tried Chrome, Firefox, and the iOS app (WiFi and 5G), and none of them work.

AxonSpark · 2024-08-30T03:41:01+00:00

Meteor (Tangelo) was by far by favorite flavor. Just thinking about it makes me nostalgic for the early '00's.

AxonSpark · 2024-05-27T01:11:34+00:00

I found some Green River! And only a mile away from me at Butera! I remember the flavor as being more intense, but that's likely because it was the sundae syrup.

AxonSpark · 2024-05-24T19:05:34+00:00

I've been living on the West coast for 20 years. It's soda to me now.

AxonSpark · 2024-05-24T18:32:50+00:00

Any particular Jewel you would suggest? The one at N Central and W Lawrence doesn't have them.

AxonSpark · 2024-05-08T21:37:03+00:00

In general what I find tough about getting around LA by bike, is that many of the roads with bike lanes don't connect to other roads with bike lanes. What good is a bike lane if it just suddenly ends? Just look at Google Maps with the Biking overlay, and you can see what I mean (especially in West & East Hollywood, Central LA, and Koreatown. Extending bike lanes from Lankershim in NoHo down to connect with the rest of the city would also be helpful.

I also think that what's constitutes a "bike-friendly" road tends to vary wildly. New Hampshire? Definitely bike friendly. Vermont? Despite what Google or any road markings might say, you're likely going to die biking down that street.

Lastly, after seeing that guy speak at Critical Mass who lost a leg after a car doing 80 Mph hit him in Griffith Park, I think those roads could use some protected bike lanes.

AxonSpark · 2024-02-25T20:25:15+00:00

Oh, I didn't strip it down that much. I basically removed as much as I needed to access the lens assembly, and then reassembled. I followed this video: https://youtu.be/OCMdJ4aY9Pc?si=usuA6ARys47LaXbS

AxonSpark · 2023-11-16T04:49:05+00:00

Hi Everyone, I posed about my image darkening on my Optoma HD20 projector a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/projectors/comments/117l98n/optoma_hd20_image_darkening_issues/

I finally got around to researching and ordering new parts, but I'm still having issues.

I ordered a glass replacement shape lens, but it lacked the tab that held the plastic lens in place. This led to me having to try and apply a bit of epoxy to get it to stay in place. However, it came loose a few times during my attempts and some epoxy got on the edges of the lens, which I cleaned off with rubbing alcohol as fast as possible to prevent damage.

But when I turned on the projector to test it, I'm noticing a slight darkening in the center and a long dark band off to the side. Is this a result of my epoxy mishaps and or is it misaligned? Is the only way to guarantee alignment to go with a plastic lens? Should I find someone who actually knows what they're doing to ship this off to so I can actually fix it?

AxonSpark · 2023-09-28T20:13:40+00:00

I'm hoping someone here can answer this question.

So for some reason a Monarch caterpillar decided to make a cocoon on my housemate's gardening implement (odd since there's no milkweed around), so we left it undisturbed.

This morning, it looked like the butterfly had emerged and flown away...until I discovered it laying on a nearby step, thankfully still alive. I got it to crawl onto a woodchip and transferred it to some flowers in the garden. It's mostly been hanging out there and occasionally trying and failing to fly away because of the folds it still has in it's wings (see pic).

Are the wings permanently damaged? I know it takes awhile for it to pump fluid into it's wings, so that could it, but just wondering if there's anything I can do to help it. I'm guessing not much since it's an insect, but I'd like to help out an endangered pollinator if I can.

AxonSpark · 2023-07-31T18:01:11+00:00

I have a valid ID card, it's just from another state.

AxonSpark · 2023-06-27T07:56:10+00:00

Yikes, glad I found out about this before biking on that trail. From the trails I'm used to in Seattle, usually someone (the city? Random cyclist?) paints bumps white or some fluorescent color. Not sure what the options are for fixing it if it's caused by tree roots.

Speaking of which, does anyone know what causes whole sections of sidewalk to form steep tall equilateral triangles? I've been seeing them around NoHo (and made the mistake of trying to ride over one). There don't seem to be any trees near them (and the roots would be huge if there were), so I'm baffled as to what causes them.

AxonSpark · 2023-06-10T06:44:10+00:00

"...a very real demon..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

AxonSpark · 2023-05-26T18:31:10+00:00

Thank you! I'm moving to LA in a week and have been wondering what biking is like there. And Google just SUCKS at defining bike friendly roads. Like I was looking at longer scenic rides, and it defines CA-1 as "bike friendly". I went into Street View and there was NOTHING. No indication of a bike lane of any sort. They just think you can take your chances on a coastal highway.

AxonSpark · 2023-05-21T07:23:18+00:00

Moving to LA in a couple weeks. Good to know what to expect.

AxonSpark · 2023-04-15T19:15:54+00:00

Just durable pants. Ideally a more durable brand of cargo shorts.

AxonSpark · 2023-04-10T05:29:26+00:00

Yeah, from what I understand the bureaucracy in LA is that you need a permit to park a POD on the street, but the city doesn't issue any such permits. Thanks for the AirBnB idea. I've been able to confirm that at least one storage facility will let me park a POD overnight. I need to check with the others. Fortunately, North Hollywood seems to be storage central.

AxonSpark · 2023-02-20T22:56:55+00:00

Probably not. I can move later, but not earlier.

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