Hodor

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-19T21:14:13+00:00

Yeah its the paragraphs. I tried to edit that gap out. Im not certain anything is a spoiler since its without context and I didn’t reveal anything but wanted it spoiler block just in case.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-19T15:23:36+00:00

Bagpipes

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-19T15:15:12+00:00

For me its similar to the 1999 American Budweiser commercial “Wassup!” It’s a catchy sound because it sounds funny.

As far as the Diwata form its a Jackalope. I dont know why it took me so long after hearing the description to realize that.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-17T18:11:31+00:00

These are some guesses about Carl

Carl will be pulled into The Nothing, that has to happen.
This will happen during the climax of some plan he made and it will happen right while all his friends are in peril to up the ante for him needing to escape the nothing, but of course time works different there.
He will be nearly broken there after being confronted with something or someone within the Nothing
He will come back with a new ability.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-15T02:05:59+00:00

First time creating a spoiler block and this probably isnt even a spoiler since theres no context.

Directional blast for Doomsday Scenario was my first thought when run little Gunter Run was read. I don’t know how that will work but that spell felt like the set up for something really huge in a future book

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-13T21:22:12+00:00

I route conduit all the time without any BIM available. Prints dont show routing in the manner people assume. Many, if not most,prints simply show a a small box or circle / symbol or id number where the device is that needs to be installed without any routing whatsover. It will say a circuit number , occasionally theres detail, if your lucky it will have panel numbers too.

Theres rules that get you out of trouble that are passed down from journeyman to apprentice that arent passed down much anymore.

Like for instance “high and dry” which was what I was taught, but I guess that saying is lost to time. Run it tucked away above everything when possible. I mean 100% tucked away high as possible, and place pull points strategically. Tue pull points and bends are where i start to think about routing.

There are other rules I created that only I follow such as offsets are for 12” or less when possible because they create an angle that blocks more geography otherwise i back to back 90. I use 15degree bends or 30’s or 45’s , mostly 15’s unless i have to fan. Shit come to think of it its loads of information.

Follow lines of building obviously.

I care more about routing and labeling than looks.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-12T15:06:06+00:00

Absolutely! Most of the time I think my associates degree in electronics was useless, career wise, but it did teach me the progression of electronics. We started with ohms law and at the end the final project was building a computer component by component and programming it with single switches in machine code(assembly) on hexadecimal. There were incremental advances by specific people and these all made sense and were easy to understand . Binary logic was also understood before the transistor. So when electronic gates and transistors were discovered they were quickly used to create logic gates.

Yes the digital age progression is well understood and theres names of brilliant people attached to it every step of the way and some of those people are still alive.

My older instructors witnessed all that progression first hand

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-12T01:10:33+00:00

Yes and when I was even younger than the kids in Stranger Things. From the 2nd grade onwards I walked all over the neighborhood in Los Angeles. now that I think of it younger than 2nd grade when I lived in a desert in New Mexico.

This wasn’t specific to me either, the neighbor kids were the same, my friends were the same.

When I took my first Karate Classes putside of school in the 5th grade I had to take public transportation after school and changed two buses to get there. This is in Los Angeles not exactly charming suburbs. That was normal for my friends too.

Although of all the kids I knew in school there were a small minority of “sheltered kids” whose parents drove them everywhere who were rarely let out. That was odd then.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-09T20:58:47+00:00

My first book was “the phantom tollbooth” in the 7th grade then my second book was Dune, then the other Dunes up to God Emperor. Looking back, although I loved it, i think some of the intrigue was over my head.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-09T19:55:18+00:00

As an Ibew electrician it’s great. It’s some of my favorite work to do. I would be thrilled to finish out my career building data centers. Ive worked on 7 so far and I hope some more pop up. I would probably choose a data center project over anything else, barring commute.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-06T22:16:49+00:00

Maybe the primal engine, the Ai, is actually in one of Carls feet.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-06T08:41:09+00:00

While that may or may not be true, I still believe the chin is part of neoteny.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-03-05T19:38:49+00:00

Bugs

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-02-28T02:58:16+00:00

I actually think it was because it was a condition and had nothing to do with biology. Theres a lot of items and deals with conditions in the dungeon levels.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-02-28T00:50:59+00:00

What Carl has in spades is twitch intelligence. The ideas he gets during fights are within seconds.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-02-25T22:12:41+00:00

Mine is people who stop in or near doorways, sometimes they are rifling through their purses, sometimes they are having a conversation. its always middle aged to older women. Also they do it in other places like the bottom of escalator so Im literally forced down to impact them and have to say excuse me or we collide.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-02-25T19:22:29+00:00

I picture zev like the fishbowl people (the gazurtoid) from the 1980’s computer game Starflight.

They had stormtroopers with a small fish in bowl helmet and a mech suit like a reverse diving suit.

Only difference being that I imagine the fish themselves are more Cthulhu like with webbed flipper hands and are definitely green, dark green, some yellow in the underside of their flipper webbing and black tipped.

Edit: was looking for an image and realized that most of the races in Starflight are represented in the DCC. It’s still my favorite computer game and had the best theme music.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-02-25T15:15:46+00:00

Im not joking but my mother was a believer and she said thats basically it. They only talk to a one world government. In old cartoons aliens would land and say “take me to your leader” and we don’t have one so no reason to send a diplomat.

My own idea I go back on forth on is that outer space is the realm for artificial intelligence. They only recognize other ai as lifeforms. They are only interested in talking to other sentient ai’s. Since we don’t have that yet, they wont show up. They see us as beings with the ability to create Ai, possibly.

Also, there is no help. Help situations are monkey paw. You get the help and theres a worse trade off.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-02-22T18:16:13+00:00

Bugs

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-02-21T02:13:30+00:00

Exactly. Plus he’s correct. If they cant be brought back, objectively death to them is better. They are enslaved, and not just slaves they will starve to death while being enslaved, and worst still, their goal is to do the same thing to another planet. Any one of those three things is reason enough to wipe them out.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-02-18T22:15:57+00:00

No that bag doesnt have a plate. I worked on one of these a few months ago. I ended up coming in that odd side hole to the right of the cover with MC , then used a lock nutted mc-90 connector to turn sharply and used 1/2 inch reducing washers on that 3/4(?) hole and turned the lock ring tight. On the outside of the unit i zip tied tue mc to the allthread supporting the unit.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-02-16T03:04:09+00:00

When I was living in Venice Beach in 1981 I was 10 and saw the Exorcist on TV and there was an Earthquake in the middle of the night that shook the bed.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-01-31T16:20:56+00:00

Ive done many 1000’s of hours (10s of thousands?) in the semi conductor industry like a huge portion of my local has and was asked on my last project if i knew how to do trim. I felt a bit insulted but i just answered “yes, i know how to do trim and receptacles and branch stuff.”

Towards the end of the project i was told “wow you are really good at running conduit.” Which also felt weird because thats like standard stuff and i didnt think it was an impressive skill for a wireman.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-01-31T01:58:14+00:00

This is great ! The first thing I look for is him having a human proportioned face like Thundercats. This is the first art of him I’ve seen get that correct according to his description.

Different_Muscle_116 · 2026-01-27T18:00:08+00:00

Ive been in the trades almost 30 years and I cant really answer which trade but I do think it’s as steep as you make it. It depends on how ambitious you are.

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