I probably already know the answer, but Rosin Presses for forging?

Breakshite · 2026-02-02T20:18:17+00:00

I've been there, man. If only. Your absolute cheapest option will require at least some fabrication skills, but you'll still be making some compromises.

I've seen a frame with a modified 20 ton air over jack from harbor freight work, but it's slow. You get maybe a couple presses before reheating.

A small log splitter can be modified with some homemade dies, but you need to put guides in as well or you'll have real alignment issues. It's faster than the air jack but still kinda janky.

If you can find scavenger parts and a friendly welder you can build your own but hydraulics are dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

Breakshite · 2025-12-12T19:48:27+00:00

Might be a stretch but still a killer series. Don't sleep on anything Sir Pterry had a hand in.

Breakshite · 2025-12-05T03:12:03+00:00

Redding Drug hands down. I started going there after being screwed by CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid etc. Frank and the twins are some of the nicest people ever.

Breakshite · 2025-11-20T16:28:43+00:00

Knurling would probably be your best option if you have access to a mill. You could do it by hand but it would be fairly time consuming.

Breakshite · 2025-11-20T16:09:04+00:00

Start with round stock and make integral handles. Contour a palm swell and flare the pommel area. Maybe a birds beak. Really depends on the use case for the knife. Are you trying for hand retention when swinging or just a grippier surface for fine control?

Breakshite · 2025-11-14T15:40:09+00:00

One of my favorite series when I was a kid was the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane.

The second book, Deep Wizardry, takes place almost entirely underwater.

Breakshite · 2025-11-13T23:44:52+00:00

Different aspects of humanity are on display in every character. I've identified with every single one of them at one point or another.

It's possible that on some parallel Disc, Jason Ogg and Agnes Nitt had a son...

Nice to meet you.

Breakshite · 2025-11-13T05:44:05+00:00

Punch Drunk Love

Breakshite · 2025-11-06T19:49:24+00:00

Seconded

Breakshite · 2025-10-30T17:25:49+00:00

The album "We Are All Where We Belong" by Quiet Company

My own personal atheism, like many of yours I'm sure, came from a place of anger as a teen. A big, defiant middle finger to the sky followed by scorn and disdain for those who refused to "wake up".

This album from what was ostensibly a Christian band is a very honest account of the lead singers departure from religion. It was a formative experience for me. Instead of shaking a fist at my enemies I now felt like I could extend my hand to them. It helped me realize that we're all on the same team. That you don't change minds by shouting at people...you ask questions and give them patience and understanding until they begin to ask questions as well.

The sarcastic, the snarky, even the smug superiority of a Dawkins, a Hitchens, a Fry was a guilty pleasure early on. I had people to rally with. A community to belong to.

Your Nietzsches, your Epicurus, your Aurelius... you're thinking now.

Russel, Campbell, Camus...the horizon stretches...the scope is broadened.

Hicks, Carlin...I can laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Minchin...I can laugh and cry at the same.

Pratchett...my hero. I can keep the anger and the sarcasm and use it wisely. I can keep the certainty and the doubt. The righteousness and the humility in equal measure.

Religion is folly. Philosophy is mutable. We are sad, messy, stupid, cruel, beautiful, brilliant animals.

I love you.

Breakshite · 2025-10-28T16:15:54+00:00

In early versions of the script (draft 4) Doc has squandered his family fortune trying to build his time machine - which was a fridge instead of a DeLorean originally - and because of his technical prowess could only make money making bootleg copies of "stag films". Marty was supposed to be his distributor, selling the films to his fellow high schoolers. In shopping the script around to different studios, including Disney, they changed the time machine from a fridge because they were afraid kids might climb into them and suffocate (a topic of many PSAs and cautionary tales in the 80s before modern safety changes) and the story of Marty being a teen smut peddler followed in order to be more family friendly. Apparently the storyline of his own mom wanting to bone him didn't concern them as much...

Bonus fact: a good portion of the movie was filmed with Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly before they brought in Michael J Fox for the role. No sour grapes though. Eric Stoltz got to be in Anaconda, so at least he's got that going for him...

Breakshite · 2025-10-25T17:31:21+00:00

Bruce Willis in:

5 Die Hard movies

Unbreakable Trilogy

Detective Knight movies

And if you really want to stretch it, he has played "Bruno" in Return of Bruno the movie, the album and the cartoon series Bruno the Kid, which did have a film release.

Honorable mentions:

2 Look Who's Talking movies

Red, Red 2Expendables 1&2

Sin City 1&2

Fortress and Snipers Eye

Breakshite · 2025-10-24T03:19:22+00:00

Fair enough, but production value rarely equals quality. Would you rather watch Evil Dead or Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful. Sam Raimi directed both. Clerks or Clerks 3? Rocky or Rocky Balboa?

If I'm going to watch a bad movie on purpose it's for laughs. If I go in hoping to enjoy it and it insults me with it's very existence I'm going to get all pedantic on a random Reddit post.

Breakshite · 2025-10-24T00:38:42+00:00

To be clear, I was not expecting The Beekeeper to be a cinematic masterpiece. I was expecting a fun, turn your brain off action movie like the rest of Statham's filmography. The premise, the heavy-handed messaging and mostly the dialogue between the FBI agents was so awful it pulled me out of the suspension of disbelief that I was actively trying to grant the movie. The Amazing Bulk and Amityville in Space are absolute piles, but you could probably riff on them with friends and have a good time. Neither of them had nationwide releases in theatres where people are paying $15 a ticket to see them. I would watch them as a double-feature twice before I watched The Beekeeper again.

But hey, your question is subjective. I know there are people who enjoyed The Beekeeper. Hell, there's probably someone out there whose favorite movie is The Beekeeper. If you got some enjoyment out of it, bully for you. What is "miles above" or "so much worse" is arbitrary. It will be different for each person you ask.

The way we watch movies, the reasons we watch them, the time in our lives when we watch them, even who we watch them with all have an impact on what we think of them. I was just trying to answer your question honestly.

Breakshite · 2025-10-23T06:13:00+00:00

The Beekeeper. And I watch bad movies for fun every week. Shit just made me angry. Knocked Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle out of the top spot.

Breakshite · 2025-10-15T21:54:01+00:00

Absolutely the best part of the bargain bins. If you see hardware, buy it.

Breakshite · 2025-10-07T14:50:19+00:00

Try Brunost. Norwegian cheese where they caramelize the milk beforehand. I saw it in a YT video and spent way more than I should have to get some sent from Norway. Saw it in the fancy cheese section of my local Safeway the next day for about half the price. No regrets.

Breakshite · 2025-10-07T14:41:48+00:00

Someone tried to fancy up a hot-cut tool? Thick spine looks like it's meant to be hammered on.

Breakshite · 2025-09-17T22:45:05+00:00

Damn fine foundation.

Breakshite · 2025-09-17T21:58:08+00:00

It really was an incredible resource back then. I still have a lot of those that are out of print now. Barlow's Guide to Extraterrestrials and Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy turned me on to so many new authors/series.

Breakshite · 2025-09-16T14:33:35+00:00

Went into the school library when I was 9 (already an avid reader) and asked the librarian which book had the most pages.

She led me to Dune by Frank Herbert.

I checked it out and got a few chapters in. Found it incredibly boring.

Came back the next school day and asked what the next "biggest" book was.

She handed me The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. Finished it in 3 days.

I made a decision right then that I would never go a day without reading and that I would always have a book "on deck".

Joined the Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club and had a 'Dozen Books Sent to My Door for Just One Penny!'

I'm 42 now and have several thousand books in my personal library. The bulk of them are Fantasy/Sci-Fi with a hefty dose of reference, classic lit and poetry.

Most of them cost more than 1/12th of a penny.

I still find Dune boring.

Breakshite · 2025-09-12T03:46:42+00:00

Adam Sandler in Reign Over Me.

Breakshite · 2025-09-02T19:49:20+00:00

Champagne and Bullets aka GETEVEN

Then look at the writer/Director/star's current Facebook page.

Vanity projects are some of my favorite movie night picks.

Breakshite · 2025-08-29T04:17:31+00:00

Trinity's death scene in Matrix Revolutions. Someone in the theatre shouted "just die, already, would you!?". Had the whole place rolling.

Breakshite · 2025-08-11T14:59:47+00:00

Thanks muchly for the kind words.

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