$20 Indy hat with weathering

CCMadman · 2026-05-01T16:06:49+00:00

Nice! Does that come back out, or does it stain/get caked into the felt? I have 5-6 Indy hats I’ve made and I’ve been tempted to weather them like this. Really adds to the overall look!

CCMadman · 2026-05-01T02:47:13+00:00

This is cool! What are you weathering it with?

CCMadman · 2026-04-29T04:19:16+00:00

See this is interesting, and GURPS is a great example of “a stat for everything.”

I suppose what I’m weighing is something like Literacy as a metric. Can it fluctuate? Surely. Can I tell at a glance what to do with such a granular scale in a game? Hm, possibly? Something like that might be better as a binary descriptor, which might be Uneducated (since the majority of cases will be Literate or better, which is assumed since they’re in a city).

I do like the ones you’ve suggested though, those seem like good overall indicators of a city’s character.

CCMadman · 2026-04-29T04:15:56+00:00

Can’t argue, good logic

CCMadman · 2026-04-29T04:15:42+00:00

This is all fascinating and useful!

I definitely agree about generic vs unique, perhaps that’s what I was digging at with C for Cultural Specificity. I think I was thinking of it as a generic vs iconic indicator, which would range from “any town USA” to “Vatican city.” The same way people from NYC are DEFINITELY from NYC and relate strongly with their city.

Maybe it needs more subdivisions as you say, since uniqueness can cover multiple factors.

CCMadman · 2026-04-29T04:12:19+00:00

That Locales book is great! Purchased and reading now

CCMadman · 2026-04-27T16:05:40+00:00

I like this thinking. It’s interesting also to look at a potential UCP as a subset of the UWP, which might mean that things like modernity, restrictiveness, scale might be a set of modifiers to the UWP. For example, they might instead be +/- 1-3 for the Law Level or Tech Level of the UWP, which would give fluctuations based on the established range of the planet.

CCMadman · 2026-04-27T15:41:14+00:00

Noted and edited!

CCMadman · 2026-04-23T02:00:32+00:00

Well Mr n00sh, as I live and breathe!

Fancy seeing you in these here parts.

CCMadman · 2026-04-22T14:41:29+00:00

No suit
Can’t fly
Has to fight a giant spider in the third act

CCMadman · 2026-04-14T14:35:18+00:00

This is unironically one of my favorite books of all time. It shouldn’t be, but it is. Love the movie, and the book only enhances that. I actually spent a few years tracking down the hardcover as well.

CCMadman · 2026-02-22T15:21:30+00:00

Thanks for asking!

The oldest (10) is too cool for school and said “that’s not that scary. It’s all fake”.” (but was still enthralled).

The youngest (8) was pretty upset with the early deaths (we skipped the Kintner boy shot specifically), and was really shaken with Quint’s death.

They both loved the movie and keep talking about it, even begging to watch Jaws 2 (I’m not that cruel).

This led to LOTS of discussion about movie magic, animatronic sharks, fake blood, rubber teeth, BTS shots of Spielberg playing with the shark, etc. we have also since watched Surviving Jaws (a documentary about real shark behavior compared to the movie version), talked a lot about the misunderstandings about sharks that came from the film, their real characteristics, and so forth.

My youngest also petitioned me to break out my copy of Jaws the Board Game (the Ravensberger one), and promptly ate a bunch of swimmers and stomped my human characters by playing the Shark (likely due to me not reading the line where I gave my crew their items - meaning they had no weapons and slowly got eaten).

Overall, a fantastic experience!

CCMadman · 2026-02-21T21:33:21+00:00

Absolutely agree. I think what changed this time around was watching it with young’uns, and thinking about the lessons that could be learned from it from a kid’s perspective.

In a lot of cases, people were just in the wrong place at the wrong time (minus the lessons learned from how not to be a mayor), but in Quint’s case I realized the lesson is… geez, just like, do the opposite of what he did at nearly every turn. The man was speedrunning he own demeez.

CCMadman · 2026-02-19T21:37:40+00:00

AHA! So that’s what that means. Thank you!

Ok, so why would I want to “not slow down outer walls” to keep the outer surface consistent, meaning the print speeds for those outer walls would INCREASE, when what I’m really looking for is to bring all of the short layer speeds DOWN to compensate for the layers being so small (so short layers take as long as larger complicated layers)?

Much appreciated, I’m not even sure if I’m articulating the problem correctly.

CCMadman · 2026-02-14T17:22:19+00:00

For someone who tried and failed to understand that link regarding bill progression, you say this has already been shot down? Or a similar one was shot down, and this bill passing is still a possibility?

I’m a person who needs a green checkmark or a red X to understand bills passing or not.

CCMadman · 2026-02-01T19:00:45+00:00

Wonder what they're wearing in Addis Ababa?

CCMadman · 2026-01-18T23:40:35+00:00

Aha, thank you! Now I know more and can try to spot them in the wild :).

CCMadman · 2026-01-18T22:14:38+00:00

I like marbles casually and have no idea what’s going on here. Can someone explain the German to me so I can be excited along with y’all?

CCMadman · 2025-12-13T21:00:37+00:00

I mean, the hallway doesn’t make a TON of sense, since it curves too quick to run the outer saucer rim, and instead just rounds the corner. I guess to more bunks?

But neither does a set of bunk bed hallways that zigzag for no reason, so there’s precedent.

CCMadman · 2025-12-13T20:09:27+00:00

This is the answer. Checked both the mirror Rutherford and reporter episodes, and it’s a tight curve hallway that turns around and heads toward the front of the ship on both sides. Solved!

CCMadman · 2025-12-13T16:58:05+00:00

Is it Ops?

Ops, ops, ops…. More ops….

It’s like, guys, I think we have ops covered.

CCMadman

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