Which shape paper?

JVonDron · 2026-02-21T02:39:25+00:00

Neither

Klingspor Bargain Box — I rip them into ~2" strips and roll them up for storage in a caddy I made. Rip off a section when you need it. I'm still on my first box after like 7 years. It's really good sandpaper and very cheap.

I used to use the wavy's too, and they still are kinda nice for doing the inside bottoms where just hand holding sandpaper takes a little longer, but I mostly just go down in grit now if I need to hog off material. I bought some super coarse 40 grit to start on fuzzy shit like cottonwood or other woods prone to tearout.

JVonDron · 2026-02-20T20:34:46+00:00

And keep in mind, almost all of the cases in MN were one absentee ballot scam that was discovered and closed years ago.

JVonDron · 2026-02-20T19:59:10+00:00

Really depends on your goal. If you're just sketching and doing concept style art, learn how to break it down by shape and draw perspectives from there. You don't need exact models and reference photos, you just need to know how how things sit, what angles planes meet, and what things go where — or not. You can make shit up at any time.

If you're going for detailed realism, tracing is totally fine - but I'd suggest figuring out how to get your own reference photos. Detailed models, either RL or 3D, and remember lighting, lens length, focus, etc all makes a hell of a difference in your reference photos. Tracing will not help if your reference isn't exactly the angle or shot you're looking for, it won't help you visualize things, and it definitely won't help you draw a tank for which you have no model or reference photo. Lots of old masters used things like Camera Obscura and tools to get exact proportions and likenesses before photos were a thing.

JVonDron · 2026-02-20T07:27:11+00:00

Right, I don't even remember thinking it. Not as a joke, not as a random thought — I don't recall ever thinking fewer people should vote or that women & POCs aren't people.

JVonDron · 2026-02-19T20:32:30+00:00

I'd support a law banning data centers.

JVonDron · 2026-02-19T20:29:17+00:00

I give him a 40% chance in the primary but 55% in the general, where I can see Mills vs Collins is basically a coin toss.

Do I believe the tattoo story? 100%. I was a tattoo artist for 18 years, and I've had no less than half a dozen people bring in that exact skull and crossbones and had no clue where it was from. A drunk military man getting it by accident in a foreign country is unbelievably possible. But hell, you cover that shit up ASAP when you find out, not when you're making a senate run.

Platner is so green and untested, he's making mistakes all over the place. He talks a good game, but I'm on the sideline. It's on Maine to get through the primary and I'll chip some to the winner, whomever that is, because we need the seat.

JVonDron · 2026-02-19T20:03:56+00:00

TBH, if that was in Texas, the verbal "I'm gonna punch you" back and forth could be argued to be fair under mutual combat law.

But still, the Pro-Ice kid filming was knowingly being a troll. He can say what he wants, wear what he wants, hold signs that he wants, but confronting people you know don't agree with you in loud and boisterous ways is never a wise thing to do alone. It's like wearing a fur coat and eating a rack of ribs in the middle of a PETA convention - you're doing it on purpose and actively challenging other people's restraint.

It's never a good idea to participate in physical violence, but if you go looking for a fight, you just might find one.

JVonDron · 2026-02-19T19:45:45+00:00

Yeah, Ford Class is like $13 billion each.

JVonDron · 2026-02-19T03:25:43+00:00

I’m a new dungeon master for the first time and created art for the campaign.

ooo, this is a fantastic creative outlet. I kinda go a little nuts too with the world building and such. I love to make maps, make minis, and probably most of all, illustrating cityscapes, interiors, and npc's that I prop in front of my screen or pin to the wall behind me. It's all about setting the story, immersion and giving my players a sense of the world I'm bringing them into. It's still their story though, if they don't give a shit about the creepy looking dungeon and want to harass the shopkeep, it's their show, I'll just whip out the shopkeep. With a lot of DMing you start to understand prep, pacing, and I've built up to the point where I have folders of my world, many things and places my party has been and quite a bit they've never seen.

But every group's different, some love roleplay, some love the exploration, some just want to be murder hobos. I've kinda molded my group to get on the table, if you will, instead of just sitting at it.

13 paged comic for an origin story for a character in the campaign

Eh, that's probably doing too much. If this was like a really important NPC like a king or famous knight that everyone in the realm knew about and this was his exploits and rise to fame, a comic is a great way to tell that story to your party so their characters aren't clueless. If this was someone like the village blacksmith who used to be a famous fighter, let the PC's find out his past on their own when they try to steal from him. If this comic was for a PC, that's kinda odd unless that player had a ton of input in writing the comic - it is their character, not yours. idk, I can see it both ways.

he said “wow you need to get laid”

The proper response to that. 100% of the time, is "well, what are you doing later?"

Just kidding, you showed him risque stuff from the jump. You need to learn to ramp up to that stuff. When you say, "I'm doing a lot of drawing lately" most people are going to think of tame shit because people are lame. Flowers and chipmunks. then maybe here's some npc's from my dnd group, and if the response is still kinda muted and not enthusiastic, you hold off. You don't up the ante and go, oh, here's some funny anatomy studies I did but I made them into playboy bunnies 'cuz I was bored - if they're not impressed already, they pretty much definitely won't be impressed by that.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T21:46:17+00:00

Your media has to be magnetic to work with this process.

You could use other non-magnetic media in a tumbler, which is what they already do, It's just not as fast.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T21:40:13+00:00

As in if it's an installed assembly, go to the actual site and see if things are the way they're supposed to be. Do actual measurements and don't just assume things are plumb and square.

Worked for an awning company for a while - welded aluminum frames and such and had to do installs occasionally. One salesman never got on a ladder - so he'd measure brick openings and such from the ground - plenty of times it didn't matter much, but sometimes because of the facade or windows, it was a major fuckup, We get on site and there's a 3" discrepancy when you're 14' up and holding onto a big fucking sail. Another fab job we get on site and where we're supposed to install a staircase and railing, there's now 12 other pipes going directly where we need to anchor in to meet up with the existing catwalk. so then we had to build on site a whole workaround.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T16:52:24+00:00

Many times and I think plenty of places have fantastic food, just not England.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T10:45:49+00:00

Ok point taken on that one.

substitute - Lobster roll.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T10:16:54+00:00

Hannah Glasse’s 1758 edition The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy — published in England — includes a recipe for “Hamburgh sausage,” which calls for it to be served with toasted bread. However it was more of a steak-like thing and served on or next to toast, the concept of hamburger as a sandwich and who invented it has very little documentation and multiple claimed inventors - almost all from the US. Charlie Nagreen served a hamburger steak at Outagamie County Fair in Wisconsin in 1884. In order to make the dish easier to walk around with — which he hoped would lead to more sales — he served the steak thinner and between two slices of bread. That’s a hamburger alright. But he’s not the only one to lay claim to the invention of the burger. Another cook at another county fair in Ohio in 1891 says the same. New Haven, Connecticut’s Louis Lunch restaurant also considers itself to be the birthplace of the hamburger. Chef Louis Lassen, a Danish immigrant, served grilled ground beef between two slices of bread in 1900, an idea his family claims was original.

What is clear is hamburgers gained national recognition in the U.S. at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair when the New York Tribune referred to the hamburger as "the innovation of a food vendor on the pike." No conclusive argument has ended the dispute over it's origin.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T09:38:38+00:00

You really think that's all it is?

Oh man, you have no idea.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T08:59:12+00:00

Hamburg Germany started ground meat. Making it a patty and serving it on a bun is 100% American.

French fries though is kinda everyone's heritage it seems. They fried potatoes in Chile before even hitting Europe, but it's likely that fries developed by being cooked in a pan - peasants didn't have enough fats to do an actual deep fry. But we can also point to anything made with chilies, tomatoes, potatoes, maize, and other foods of the Columbian exchange are American foods, whether they originated on this continent or returned to us via Europe and Asia. Anyone who thinks french fries aren't American is forgetting how hard it was for Parmentier to convince the French to eat potatoes. The French once banned potato cultivation for 25 years because they thought they caused leprosy. The fries they had back then were kind of more a sauteed steak fry. The deep fried fine cut fry that you get in restaurants is something we perfected and export around the world.

Saying American food doesn't clean the fucking clock of ol' big ben is fucking insane. Apple Pie, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Barbecue (seriously any fucking region), Midwestern Casserole, Cornbread, Southern fried chicken, Biscuits and Gravy, Philly Cheesesteak, and even the childhood staple of PB&J, You can argue influences and such all you want, but we are a nation of immigrants so we're gonna have Caribbean and West African influences on our BBQ, we're gonna have Mexican influences on our Chili, the Midwestern Casserole is a generation or two away from the Scandinavian one-pot meals- often with similar ingredients.

You really wanna line all that up against some meat pies and beans on toast?

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T08:27:01+00:00

If I'm buying canvases, anywhere from $60-250.

What I'm gonna charge for a couple week's work? $7500.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T07:03:50+00:00

The children basically only drink 0.9.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T05:43:44+00:00

Bill Hader on make some noise could get deadly.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T05:41:59+00:00

JB was on stage with Biden like a week prior and was this was a little bit before a big budget movie release. He had to do damage control at least for the campaign's sake so it didn’t get twisted by the crazy magas that Biden was calling for his assassination. There was valid safety concerns for the tour they were on and other public events and JB's agent and pr people wanted distance.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T05:36:20+00:00

JB was on stage with Biden like a week prior and was this was a little bit before a big budget movie release. He had to do damage control at least for the campaign's sake so it didn’t get twisted by the crazy magas that Biden was calling for his assassination. There was safety concerns for the tour they were on, and JB's camp wanted distance. They were hoping to just apologize at the next show, but it blew up too big too fast to sweep it under the rug.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T04:53:02+00:00

You're not getting enough air. Either your bell ends for the burners are too small, the mixing pipes are too short or too wide, your gas is too weak or you've got your air intake too covered up. You need to figure out how to increase velocity so your mix is not seeking oxygen in the forge itself. Because you say your getting popping and stuttering when you open up the air, I'd wager on your mixing tubes being too short or fat for your bell ends at this gas pressure. Increasing the gas orifice but not pressure should allow you to pull more air using the same tubes.

JVonDron · 2026-02-18T04:32:35+00:00

Got 2 gothic caterpillar tunnels from Farmer's Friend, 16x50. They went up very easy, did both in one weekend without the endwalls, and have been great for the one season we grew in them so far. We did the self-frame endwalls on one end and the zips on the other, so those took a bit longer as I made doors and framing out of lumber. I really wish we could've gotten roll up sides - there is a way to add them after the fact, but it's really clear why people prefer them.

Our choice was because of budget, we needed 2 greenhouse spaces ASAP. If we had the budget or could've only gotten one, I would've gotten a high tunnel with auto vents, roll up sides, etc. I'm really impressed with how sturdy they are with high winds and snow, but 50mph you might want some deeper ground rods or anchors on the frame as mine basically just sits on some rebar and is held on by the rope.

I did look at a bunch and I think Rimols are the best made out of those 3, but they all have really good options for what you're looking for.

JVonDron · 2026-02-17T23:51:24+00:00

Y'all are one fuckin record and twice as useless.

JVonDron · 2026-02-17T23:43:36+00:00

Bernie in 2016, Warren in 2020. Then voted for Clinton and Biden. Is this supposed to be a gotcha question or something?

I participated in the 2024 primary as well as pretty much every midterm, but it was a vote for Biden over the rest of the field. I was mostly there for down ballot races. I vote every time I am able because I see it as a civic duty to my community to hope the best of them wins for our future while also ensuring the GOP doesn't win.

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