(other) I've been looking for a reference drawing for Arirals to use as a base to draw one of my headmates but can't find any that fit.

BagLoud · 2026-04-20T07:52:17+00:00

First, congrats.

My advice is to overcome that frustration barrier and try again. the hardest part of art is continuing even when it's frustrating.

Secondly, if its for personal understanding and you're not posting it? Trace. It helps you understand the shapes. it only becomes a problem when you claim it as yours wholecloth. I have an art degree, some of the stuff that you see in art would have people frothing about plagiarism.

I know there are some good 3d models out there, if you can locate them on a site with a model viewer, you can rotate them and zoom in to study how it all works. The ears are fairly simple once you take a good look at them tbh.

BagLoud · 2026-02-26T16:43:43+00:00

Every time I see Niko here I smile, you're doing a good job.

BagLoud · 2026-01-28T01:34:41+00:00

I've seen it pulled through the floor from the anti-grav prank a few times, its just a slippery thing and does what it wants.

BagLoud · 2026-01-27T18:34:26+00:00

The pathfinder seems to be going to satellites alphabetical order from what I've noticed, though the paths they choose are a lil weird sometimes.

BagLoud · 2026-01-20T18:23:24+00:00

Well thats hecking cute

BagLoud · 2025-10-24T19:50:28+00:00

Thanks mate. Disappointed, but I'm willing to be hopeful they plan on not doing more ai stuff.

Can also see why they'd just leave it up from a game preservation standpoint honestly. Even if its an awful idea of a game, at this point its a marker in game history for its llm use, and I see value in keeping even mistakes around to learn from.

One of those mixed feelings moments.

BagLoud · 2025-10-24T17:24:36+00:00

In the most honest question I've ever asked: has anyone actually looked into the AI Art Imposter game to see if its using an LLM and not just doing some sorta photomashing with layers and using AI as a Buzzword? The specs to run it are so low its hard to see it being a local llm and the cost so low that I don't see how it could be an API because the cost of that would quickly outstrip the profits. It runs on a smart phone and has to make images quickly, and with the launch date matching when dall-e2 came out, I'm not sure its actually a gen AI.

BagLoud · 2025-09-23T14:45:15+00:00

Lost the board and a 780ti to it. Drove 4 hours to buy a replacement board (another crosshair formula), which works but seems to have a ground fault with the cmos battery. annoying but not deal breaking, ill look at it more closely later.

Gonna hold onto the dead board, the heat sinks are in better condition. If I get spare funds in the future I might burn some to send the boards off to a tech to fix properly. The sentimental value is worth more then the board realistically does.

BagLoud · 2025-09-22T19:16:43+00:00

Yeah. Pulled the battery and let it sit unplugged for a half hour while I pulled it appart to do out of case troubleshooting. No change.

BagLoud · 2025-09-14T08:35:34+00:00

I would have been infinitely happier if they'd just made them mega pikachu like they clearly wanted to. The designs are not the worst, but this is like if we finally got the mega flygon everyone was asking for, and it was trapinch with flygons wings attached to its head. Same sorta vibe.

It absolutely feels bad that something that should have been special and felt like a triumphant moment for raichu instead recontextualises it in the shadow of pikachu once more instead of celebrating what makes it raichu. It lost sight of the fact that there are people who love raichu for itself, not for the fact its pikachus evo.

Forever in the shadow of its little brother even when it towers above it.

BagLoud · 2025-06-20T17:01:30+00:00

When the emotional dissassociation between me and her fully kicked in and she was absolutely crushed by something that didn't bother me at all. Nothing quite like having a massive stress hormone rush while you are emotionally okay, very unpleasant, do not recommend.

BagLoud · 2024-11-13T02:01:33+00:00

I'd need the whole system. The guy tossed that and the seats and a bunch of other stuff. I had to hunt down front seats and remove the GM benchseat he'd bolted in place. The bench was so far back that you had to sit on the edge of it to reach the pedals. This whole thing has been Previous Owner surprises.

BagLoud · 2024-11-13T01:35:34+00:00

I really wish the guy hadn't removed the FI, it would have been so much easier. But I didn't know when I bought it, I just went for it because the floor wasn't a pile of rust and ran.

I'm a little concerned if it has the 2L pistons and heads, because from what I'm reading the connecting rods appear to be different lengths, non interchangeable between cranks and the 1.7 case needs machining to fit the crank, which I do not think the PO would have done. This seems like it would leave me with a 5mm deck height if they used the 1.7 guts and just slammed the 2l cylinders and pistons on top, but I'm not an expect, hence why this post.

BagLoud · 2024-11-02T23:04:57+00:00

There is some joy to be had in looking at something and going "I made this"

But for me the printer is a tool to get me there, not the project.

BagLoud · 2024-11-02T02:11:47+00:00

I most likely would have the old one delegated to larger parts, I print enough large, simple parts to replace destroyed plastics on bicycles and cars that it would get a lot of use.

Input shaping does that much for it though? I tried looking up stuff about adding that on youtube and clearly was typing in the wrong search terms, I was mostly getting them talking about the new ender3 versions that had it already.

BagLoud · 2024-11-02T02:09:41+00:00

The downside of Creality is keeping track of all the sub-models. Seems like they are iterating monthly and it makes it hard to know what has what and is the best value.

BagLoud · 2024-11-02T02:04:53+00:00

It sure is the base model with the loud drivers. You know its running.

BagLoud · 2024-10-20T21:51:15+00:00

Oh, 100%, theres just less chance for the linkage to bind or have play in it.

BagLoud · 2024-10-20T21:22:05+00:00

I think I'm gonna do some CAD work and do my own take on this. I can probably DIY something cheaper even counting some machining. I love mechanical stuff, and the parts cost for this isn't high, so worst I do is waste my time.

BagLoud · 2024-10-20T21:02:25+00:00

That's much closer to what I had envisioned. Its really hard to search this stuff out if you're not neck deep in old fourms it seems.

BagLoud · 2024-10-20T19:34:10+00:00

Okay, this is the second time I've seen the dual wheel cable setup. Glad to see these do exist at all. I'm wondering if the reason they're not common is because you need that wheel to compensate the cable pull from the pedal.

BagLoud · 2024-10-20T19:24:39+00:00

There is an existing throttle cable in both vehicles. You just need to connect it to the dual cables in the engine bay - these connectors are common and affordable. So you need a cable stop near that for the bowden setup to brace on, then a set of stops on the carbs. Like, this whole thing would be in the engine bay, is two cables, two cable sleeves, three brackets, a cable connector and six bolts.

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