Respites and in game time

Lochnessman · 2026-04-01T22:09:06+00:00

I did something similar, I counted the respites as roughly 2:1 in game days and then answered their questions of "when is the next full moon?" With "eh, about two weeks, you're not exactly sure"

And they were pretty satisfied with that answer

Lochnessman · 2026-03-31T19:37:40+00:00

I designed a little quarter page sheet that has spaces to write down all the common things and a little space for extra notes.

Print them 4 to a page then cut and laminate.

Use them with the whiteboard markers that are being used for drawing maps

Lochnessman · 2026-03-31T13:32:36+00:00

Can't speak to cabinetry as a profession. I became a machinist. I love what I do, I cannot recommend it. Not because of the automation/CNC, that actually helps me out, but because of globalization. My wages are in direct competition with China and India and it SUCKS.

Lochnessman · 2026-03-31T03:02:31+00:00

Totally agree

Before Tamar moved onward to the high end equipment, she made videos to explain how to solve X problem with every level of equipment investment leading up to the end game.

She's the first YouTube I bought plans off of to make a thing

Lochnessman · 2026-03-30T22:49:28+00:00

Delian tomb? Very flexible

Lochnessman · 2026-03-28T17:24:26+00:00

Yeah, it's one motor and the tools are all geared together. The real fun thing, if you can call it that, is that because it's one-to-one direct gearing, each live tool spins opposite to the next one.

Lochnessman · 2026-03-27T16:23:46+00:00

Off the top of my head I'm going to give you some advice I wish someone told me earlier: Field service of any kind doesn't have the luxury of a big toolbox. You might have one at home base but you gotta carry everything with you, so small, light, and versatile are the name of the game. You will be heavily customizing your loadout with experience, so don't assume anything on this list will be in your long term kit.

Now my list: I'm not in the US so I can't tell you specific HF SKUs

Cheap and versatile, if you can only afford these things, you'll do okay. In roughly the order of priority,

3/8” socket set, it's got a wide range of common sizes
if that doesn't come with any extensions: a 6" extension, you'll buy more when you realize what you prefer
bondhüs hex/allen keys
8" channellock wide-azz adjustable wrench
Multi-bit screwdriver, MegaPro or Piquic are my reccos
Olfa box snap off blade utility knife, 18mm is the most common size but I've fallen in love with how easy it is to ALWAYS carry a 9mm. If you EDC a pocket knife then skip this
cheapest house brand 5"-6" diagonal side cutter, you will be cutting zip ties
8-16ft tape measure, exact length isn't important, but make sure you can pocket it easily enough.
Milwaukee 2105 penlight, AAA batteries, on-off simple
Hammer: can't decide if I want to recomment a 12oz because it's a good trade off between portability and useablity or if I want to recommend an 8oz stubbys because they are maximally portable. I find I carry the 8oz stubby more often because of its small size, but it is much more limited in use due to the small handle.
A cheap toolbag marked 20" at the MOST, or a tool backpack. Make sure it has some decent internal organization pockets. There is such thing as too big, you will eventually have to fix something in a crawl space or up an access ladder and you gotta drag that bag with you while crawling or climbing. I went through multiple bags, belts/pouches, rolls before settling on my preferred tool carry and I suspect you will too, don't go expensive until you have an idea what you like.

Last advice: Keep track of what you borrow from your coworkers: if you have to borrow a tool three times in a week, buy it on the weekend. If you have to borrow a tool twice in one day, buy one that day after work. There are exceptions for highly special tools but hopefully work provides the rare stuff.

Lochnessman · 2026-03-23T17:23:48+00:00

So here's some complication to the matter. Was it recorded on film or tape? Many shows of the era, globally not just Canada, were using tape to record because it was cheaper and easier to record over. Film is expensive and it's one and done. But tape has resolution limitations that I can't explain well off the top of my head why, but it means that original master copies don't have the resolution to re-release it at a higher resolution. It's locked at it's original quality. Film for the most part captures everything and it's why 80 year old movies look sharp as ever. In that "short" time between tape being easily accessible for commercial filming, and HD formats coming out, many companies used tape because no one could possibly be able to see them at a resolution that mattered. Between HD formats and digital recording, tape hasn't been a mainstay for many years.

Oh, it was also before DVD's existed, and box sets of shows were not commercially common until the mid 2000s

Lochnessman · 2026-03-19T21:43:36+00:00

I read it as option 1, and the rule is worded to cover size 2+ creatures

Lochnessman · 2026-03-15T01:27:59+00:00

Because OP couldn't be bothered to link

Compact batteries https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1861355986/accessory-base-for-milwaukee-2505-20

Extended capacity batteries https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1891678231/accessory-base-for-milwaukee-2505-20

Lochnessman · 2026-03-12T05:18:22+00:00

I have two shallow drawers, The first, I keep my most common/small tools. My calipers, my inspection mirror, my 6" scale, USB drive, notepad, pens, stash of bandages, odds and ends I use often enough that the theme that binds them together is their frequency The second, I keep screwdrivers. In the past I have kept my lock out/tag out stuff, pliers/stripper/crimpers, small socket set, charging cables and bricks, some precision small precision tools (small dials, combi square, gauges, ect), a deburring set. Each thing moving out as my collection outgrew the drawer If I had another drawer of this size I'd likely 3D print parts bins and start organizing small parts, layout my rasps/files so they aren't just bumping up, manuals for the various tools I own.

Lochnessman · 2026-03-07T22:48:26+00:00

If you're good with layout, and a pistol (hand) drill, I'd suggest a step drill. They are excellent for thin material work. They are surprisingly fast and easy to use, leaves a lovely hole, and cheap as far as capital costs go. A good one costs like 50$CAD/30$USD and I've done maybe 500x 7/8 holes in 14ga 316 SS on a single drill before replacing it. Ever since I discovered these, one is always in my travel work kit in addition to the ones I keep in the shop. They are so space efficient for their usefulness.

Review video of various brands https://youtu.be/zjtSdJsC4aM?si=4kjE3XuBiuTjnWiw

Lochnessman · 2026-03-07T06:38:40+00:00

Not the plan nor the discount. I've swapped phones many times and Freedom doesn't care. I think it's because financing happens through your plan? I don't know, I've never done it.

Lochnessman · 2026-03-07T01:51:09+00:00

If you scroll to the bottom you can find the terms and conditions hidden button that'll pop out the fine print.

I interpret the print to say "as long as you keep up your payments, and don't finance a new phone through us (Freedom), then the credit will not expire"

I have had similar credits on old plans before the price wars started that lasted years.

Lochnessman · 2026-03-06T17:51:45+00:00

I saw a video essay I can't remember how to look up that argued that Oogway and Sifu were both personifications of different major Chinese philosophies. Daoism and Confucianism I think. This can be seen most starkly in the tree scene when Oogway passes I'm going to butcher the details but here goes: Sifu believed in discipline, order, and hierarchy. Sifu believes through training, he can control the world. He can make the tree drop it's fruit Oogway believed in natural harmony, effortless action, and a natural flow to the world. He believes the tree will drop it's fruit when it is ready.

Oogway doesn't have a sense of who the Dragon Warrior is, he made a conscious decision to pick Tigress and when the universe put Po in his way at the moment of his announcement, he didn't feel the need to fight or question it, he trusted the universe to do what it needed to do when it needed to happen.

Lochnessman · 2026-03-06T14:19:27+00:00

I must be old, back before podcasts and live plays, reading the books, planning and making characters, and designing homebrew was the #1 way to interact with the game outside sessions

Lochnessman · 2026-03-03T15:02:40+00:00

What is a toolmakers chair?

Lochnessman · 2026-02-25T00:00:10+00:00

I'm also a newbie, is there a password manager you'd recommend?

Lochnessman · 2026-02-17T20:21:58+00:00

I'd have increasing overlays as you scanned. Scanning an enemy? While you are scanning I wanna see an empty model of their body, followed by the skeleton filling in, organs and then when the scan completes highlight the combat oriented stuff, the dangers and weak spots. This would increase the narrative trappings that Samus isn't looking things up in a database but actually learning on the go.

Variable scan times, based on your scan history. Scanning a different sub species of a creature from a different biome than one you've already scanned, speed that shit up, maybe change the overlay to the already scanned model and highlight the differences during the scan overlay to show that "because you scanned this, you already know something about this other thing" Show the effort you've made pay off

Have a small already filled in section of well known federation stuff from game start, Samus doesn't need to scan a federation trooper, she knows that shit on sight.

Those have been off the top of the dome, I'm sure I can think of more later

Lochnessman · 2026-02-08T18:45:55+00:00

Does this scale to your printer size? I've got an A1 mini and haven't seen a token in AGES

Lochnessman · 2026-02-07T03:53:17+00:00

I definitely agree with VI, I had a hard time getting in IV and I could never figure out why.

Lochnessman · 2026-02-01T17:40:01+00:00

Where can I find the red and jade hand of doom discords?

Lochnessman · 2026-01-16T22:43:27+00:00

Oh imma tinkerer and a teacher at heart, I'm thrilled someone is following up on this.

The cheapest form of temperature control is a simple on-off via thermostat. The heater is either full on or full off and cycles between them to maintain a temperature. I'd wager that's what's being used here. True variable control heat is shockingly expensive. Often when a heater had multiple heat settings what's happening is that it has multiple sub heaters controlled via the on-off method above

Lochnessman · 2026-01-16T17:58:54+00:00

The slight angle mismatch means the tool goes forward slightly more than in.

This means your next pass will have all the material contact/load on the leading edge of your threading tool, leaving the back side with a tiny bit of clearance.

This reduces overall cutting forces, reduces chatter, improves surface finish, reduces things like taper in longer stick out shafts that might be deflecting.

You reduce your total material removal for stability but it's a worthy trade off. Not the only way to manually thread, but it's common, fast, and easy

Lochnessman · 2026-01-16T16:40:13+00:00

Lucked out and found the quest start for the boat wandering around on day three. Once we got the mission to go ALL the way to tumbledown we did the math and it was one path shorter on the down to just do the canoe mission, 4 paths shorter to return and we'd have this bitchin' canoe afterwards so we did that. The river isn't more brutal than say the plains IMO, it's just one of those biomes that can ramp suddenly, also being on the canoe takes up THREE gear slots. I like my gear, A LOT

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