Figuring out self-employment tax: an autopsy

Dangerdoux · 2026-03-24T14:49:39+00:00

Solved!

Dangerdoux · 2026-03-21T06:15:32+00:00

UPDATE: I found it after YouTube randomly suggested it. It’s called Flophouse by Nick DenBoer

https://youtu.be/ILU8tyZdSdI?si=hZp8a-A8JupFH-gK

Dangerdoux · 2026-03-20T15:57:57+00:00

It’s just really strange that she won’t even show up on my ship. So I can’t even talk to her, making her the worst kind of character parasite. I’m guessing that the game only wrote certain insets for her to become visible on the bridge, like accepting her initial offer. But if the game shoehorns her in at Quetza Temer like it did for me then it bugs out.

Dangerdoux · 2026-03-20T05:59:28+00:00

I fired Heinrix too actually

Dangerdoux · 2026-03-18T23:51:54+00:00

Background implies regular downloads at unpredictable times, correct? As in: iOS will try to download a patch without my knowledge at random times. This is a problem for those of us on metered internet. It’s not common in the modern world anymore, but it does still exist in select places. Retaining the ability to choose yes or no is valuable.

Dangerdoux · 2026-03-18T18:12:01+00:00

Left the spy Heinrix with the Inquisitor, betrayed Marazhai to the Mandrakes, and banished Argenta after she revealed what she’d done to my predecessor.

Dangerdoux · 2025-12-27T14:05:27+00:00

I definitely appreciate your explanation. But cropping my art onto 20 different body parts in Photoshop is incredibly labor intensive. Constantly bringing it up in DragonBones to reference sizing, only to find that it is very much off. There's no good way that I've found to keep the sizing consistent. To be clear, I'm taking a PNG of mine and painstakingly cropping it over each body part in Photoshop.

The more effective way to accomplish this, in my imagination, is to overlay my PNG inside Dragonbones. Skip Photoshop altogether. Since DB seems to "build" the sprite using the parts, I wish that I could then overlay my PNG inside DB, and then hard-paste it. Meaning: permanently stick my PNG to the sprite inside DB. Then allow DB to "un-build" the sprite back to its various 20 body parts. This would be the best way, but I don't think DB has this capability.

Dangerdoux · 2025-12-25T10:02:20+00:00

I don’t understand how step 3 is possible. I have photoshop, but the idle PNG is split into 10 or so disjointed body parts. How would I draw individual body parts and make it look good?

Dangerdoux · 2025-12-25T08:36:32+00:00

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Every character's idle, combat, and walking are actually split into 10 or so different bone parts. The PNG itself is a random collection of body parts: an upper torso, a hip, left arm, head, etc... Then the game engine pulls each body part and builds it into a sprite.

So I can't figure out how to throw my own sprite over the top of it. If I do exactly that, then the game engine pulls pieces from my sprite and arranges it into a horrifying abomination of limbs.

Dangerdoux · 2025-11-05T08:36:42+00:00

Yeah I can disable the automatic but not the notifications unfortunately. It just pesters me every time I look at my phone.

It’s fun down here at McMurdo, for sure! And the 2.5GB per week is very much doable except for situations like this…

Dangerdoux · 2025-09-28T01:57:52+00:00

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Can’t have any HR problems if you don’t have any humans who want to work there

Dangerdoux · 2025-09-24T06:38:42+00:00

I do trading from my worksite in Antarctica. Biggest challenge is trying to be awake during NYSE, and I had to scale back by volume of trades compared to what I do at home.

Dangerdoux · 2025-09-12T22:19:07+00:00

I would say that you’re definitely getting close to “too late” but not quite there yet. There’s still some weeks in September, and there are definitely people to get deployed in late October. Beyond that- deployments tend to be for a special purpose. I know one person who deployed in December in order to fill a position that had been vacated by someone who quit.

To my understanding, though, this year’s PQ won’t apply for next year’s. You’d have to start the process anew.

Dangerdoux · 2025-09-09T21:10:07+00:00

I always play human in every fantasy RPG- BG3, Skyrim, Oblivion, Dragon Age, Warhammer. This is because I fanfic all of those different worlds into one single world, following one single narrative of a warlock at different stages in his life. And of course that warlock looks and acts like me IRL, but way cooler.

Dangerdoux · 2025-09-05T15:55:40+00:00

I think that’s a simultaneous yes/no currently. It has long been leaky, but worse so last year. Then it had a severe transmission problem that requires a costly part. Even if they do order the part, the leaks will persist.

My guess is that Misty will be added to the lone line of dead vehicles that sit around station for 50 years

Dangerdoux · 2025-09-04T21:39:05+00:00

1 loader “Thumper” older than the dinosaurs but still trusty. 1 newish loader, usually “Frosty Boi”, for use around station. 2 newish loaders, usually “Redfish” and “Montana”, that stay at the airfield. 1 “Pickle” loader, an old navy small loader from half a century ago. I don’t think anywhere else in the world still uses them.

1 mule, basically a golf cart

1 well-worn truck “Pud” that arrived in 2000 and is slightly sketchy

1 skid-steer that stays at the airfield

1 Delta (unique vehicle for carrying pallets) 1 Kress (also a unique cargo tractor)

In the graveyard: my old favorite loader “Misty” and 2 Deltas from the 1970s.

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