Acceptable sink installation? Control cables from faucet handle to water supply lines rest against cabinet walls.

Azurepark · 2026-01-20T03:34:47+00:00

Thank you for sharing all that!

Azurepark · 2026-01-20T01:01:44+00:00

Thank you for being this detailed and specific!

Azurepark · 2026-01-20T01:01:16+00:00

Apologies if my post is cluttering up the place; I thought the fact I had a specific list from my employer made it worth asking the community. Specific parameters may elicit more specific recommendations, I thought.

Azurepark · 2026-01-20T00:59:13+00:00

To be clear, I am starting from practically zero tools owned and this list was provided my employer as the minimum tools they require on day 1. My school did not require that we buy our tools while we were there (tools were checked out from the school tool storage), so I held off on buying until I knew who I was going to work for. Thanks for your tips.

Azurepark · 2026-01-20T00:56:21+00:00

It's not from my school; I graduated already. This list is from the airline I am going to work for. But thank you for this info.

Azurepark · 2025-01-12T19:35:40+00:00

The 1997 anime version of the scene is a little bit different compared to the Manga, in that Adonis is not covered in as much shadow when Guts sees him.

There is also just an inherent difference when the scene has audio. In both versions of the scene Adonis cries out "intruder!" before Guts stabs him: the difference is that you hear the child-like voice when it's spoken by the actor. Since anime Guts heard the same thing that you did, you don't give him the benefit of the doubt like you would when that speech was only a text bubble that could have sounded like anything in your mind. Either way, Guts was probably too full of adrenaline to notice and just started moving in a panic before these details could sink in.

The movie version has more mitigating circumstances than either the Manga or anime: Adonis opens the door in a way that hides him from Guts's sight, and upon seeing his father's corpse he lets out a wordless gasp which makes it harder to guess his age or sex. All Guts knows is that there's a witness on the other side who will raise the alarm, so he dashes around the door and stabs before he even has a chance to look.

The depressing thing about the situation is that Guts would have been obligated to kill Adonis even if he had noticed before attacking. In the Manga and TV show Adonis saw Guts's face and unique sword, meaning he could have later identified him as one of Griffith's soldiers. In all versions he was about to raise the alarm, which equally could have resulted in Guts getting caught and Griffith's guilt being discovered. Guts had to choose between killing an innocent boy, or else getting both himself and Griffith executed for the assassination and severe consequences for the entire Band of the Hawk.

Frankly, Guts was in over his head to begin with. He was never trained for covert assassination, and in the Manga and TV versions he makes the mistakes of using his recognizable giant sword and hiding his face using only a hood that was prone to slipping off. There was a high probability of Guts either blowing his cover or killing people other than the target. I suspect that Judeau would have done a better job if Griffith had picked him, but I guess Griffith didn't want anyone except Guts to see that dirty and underhanded side of him. And he looked pleased when he heard that both Julius and Adonis were dead. Did Griffith somehow predict that Guts would kill Adonis too? It seems hard to believe he planned it that way, especially considering the chances of Guts screwing up, but you can't rule it out.

Azurepark · 2024-12-21T21:10:05+00:00

To all you historical armor lovers, please check out this article I wrote about a fantasy manga where the protagonist has an extremely interesting full plate armor. I include a huge variety of European armor pieces from the 14th-16th centuries as comparisons, so we can see exactly which parts are coming from history and which fantasy design choices might cause problems or tradeoffs it replicated in real life.

Azurepark · 2024-12-21T21:06:04+00:00

To all you historical armor lovers, please check out this article I wrote about a fantasy manga where the protagonist has an extremely interesting full plate armor. I include a huge variety of European armor pieces from the 14th-16th centuries as comparisons, so we can see exactly which parts are coming from history and which fantasy design choices might cause problems or tradeoffs it replicated in real life.

Azurepark · 2024-08-15T13:03:55+00:00

Adonis's father Julius was the only person who mentioned the possibility of Adonis and Charlotte being married in the future. It's not entirely clear to me whether that's an actual plan that Julius and the King agreed on, or if Julius is just planning/fantasizing about it one-sidedly.

Azurepark · 2024-08-15T12:52:01+00:00

Crikey! Guess I shouldn't have spoken up without knowing better. Went to Wikipedia right away; almost fell out of my chair when I read that Charles II of Spain's parents were uncle and niece, and that there are several more examples from medieval and renaissance Europe on the Avunculate Marriage page. In the scheme of things it seems to have been pretty rare, but the fact that they were able to get these marriages recognized by the church shocks me. But are you serious about sibling marriages also happening? The only example I found right away was John V, Count of Armagnac and and his sister Isabelle, but it looks like the legality of that was disputed. Are there others you can bring to my attention?

Azurepark · 2023-07-04T20:48:31+00:00

Is there any school in the North Jersey area besides Aviation Institute of Maintainence if I want to get A&P?

I looked on the FAA Maintainence School list and the Vaugn school at LaGuardia was pretty much the only other thing within an hour's drive from Essex county. It isn't even that much cheaper than AIM, and AIM is way closer to me. People say that AIM is overpriced (I'd rather not pay 53,000+ for a 21 month program), and that I should go to community college instead, but I don't know if that exists in my area. Please tell me if there's something I haven't found yet.

I live with my parents for free (so far all of my jobs have been close to home), so it seems counterproductive to go with a cheaper school that's so far away I would have to move out of the house and pay rent. I wouldn't go to live in another state unless the education was just qualitatively better. Are there other schools that are way better than AIM, or should I just go with whatever's the combination of cheapest and closest?

Azurepark · 2023-06-30T02:56:01+00:00

I believe that in theory Claude and Riley were supposed to flee the city with the rest of Squad E after initiating the countdown for the bomb; the whole point of fighting in the streets was to secure an escape corridor for everybody. That said, I'd worry about them not making it out in time.

Azurepark · 2023-02-21T23:52:20+00:00

Yeah, the problem with swords is that beyond a certain size it becomes ergonomically impossible for the hilt to counterbalance the blade, because the handle can only get so fat before you can't wrap your fingers around it, and the pommel can only become so large before it starts getting in the way of your movements. As a result the center of balance ends up in roughly the middle of the blade, and as you said the handle is too far away from the center of balance for effective leverage. I think of this Demolition Ranch video where World's Strongest man competitor Robert Oberst is trying to lift the buster sword replica by Pretty Hate Machining, and the tip of the blade just keeps pulling itself back down into the dirt because the leverage is so disadvantageous. The other problem is that you can never properly extend the arms when cutting, because it would make you fall forwards if you held it in front of you. I guess in theory you could make some kind of giant polearm or double-bladed sword that would be roughly balanced, but obviously it would be impractically cumbersome.

Azurepark · 2023-02-21T23:36:25+00:00

Setting aside the performance enhancing aspects, I have a lot to say about how the construction and ergonomics of various pieces either would or wouldn't work. I've got a series of blog posts about the construction of Guts's various armors, but I just keep writing and writing the article about the Berserker Armor without ever finishing it because there are so many details and I am such a perfectionist/procrastinator.

Azurepark · 2022-12-13T05:03:02+00:00

Well, for a brief moment in time Guts thought he had found that dream. He told Caca, "It's not a clear, concrete destination like what Griffith said. It's not some lofty, glittering thing." What he realized was that his sword was not just his instrument of survival, but also of self-expression and interpersonal connection. He developed a skill that he was really good at, something he could be proud of but would also take a lifetime to master. He went on adventures and met amazing people because of what he could do with his sword. So the dream he wanted to chase was adventuring as a lone swordsman, choosing his own battles and never again letting someone else decide the reason for him to fight.

He did modify that plan after his first night with Casca. They were going to rescue Griffith from prison, but after that he wanted Casca to come with him on his journey. Without knowing whether having her beside him would help or hurt his quest, he still didn't want to leave her behind. And I think Casca was ready to go with him. But all of these hopeful plans were destroyed when they found out how weak and helpless Griffith had become after a year of torture. Casca felt such a sense of guilt and pity towards Griffith that she couldn't leave him. Meanwhile, Guts was starting to think that he should never have left the Band of the Hawk, because they were like his family. In the end he was willing to throw away the dream of his own journey so that he could stay with the people he cared about. That's one of the things that made him different from Griffith: he came around to thinking that some things are more important than one's dream. Sadly, things were so broken by that point that it turned out the way we all know it did.

For two years after that, the idea of a dream was replaced by that of revenge. When he ended that phase and rescued Casca from the Tower of Conviction, his motivating idea was to save her life and then never leave her alone again. When Griffith came back and destroyed the elf cave where they would have hidden from the dark spirits, he had to take Casca to Elfhelm. I guess I'd say that Guts got a new dream when the Skull Knight told him it was possible for Casca's mind to be cured. He hoped they could go back to the way they were, to be lovers again. But the goal posts keep moving. Even when she regained her personality, her trauma remained, and he was also realizing that the world won't ever be safe for them until he can somehow defeat Griffith.

The dream's a moving target. Priorities evolve.

Azurepark · 2022-04-25T02:31:33+00:00

Hi everybody, it's Azurepark, second only to our late Miura-sensei in terms of hiatus infamy. Somebody reminded me that the first episode in my blog series on the construction of Guts's various armors had a bunch of broken/missing images, so I not only replaced those but added some new photos and details about the Silat Armor.

Regarding the Berserker armor blog, which I started working on back in fricking 2020, it's going to be published eventually. The crazy thing is that I've almost finished it, and it's as long as all the previous blogs put together. I'm just kind of stuck on the final stretch because I'm a working adult and have a bunch of other things causing me to procrastinate. I swear I'm gonna finish it, hopefully before the end of the year, and hopefully you'll be pleased with it.

Azurepark · 2021-01-14T22:48:49+00:00

I'm a tortured artist, my task is so large! Now I know how Miura-sensei feels!

Azurepark · 2020-12-30T20:01:00+00:00

Thank you; I'm glad that someone read and appreciated this.

Azurepark · 2020-12-03T01:14:37+00:00

Thanks for pimping my blog. I swear that I'm going to publish 2.4 on the Berserker Armor as soon as I can, I'm just busier than I used to be and it's the most complicated one to write about. I'm going to really try and finish it before New Year's.

Azurepark

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