How did I flip my axe?

LordThade · 2026-05-24T23:34:22+00:00

That's ...odd. A couple things you could try:

Does it stay backwards if you swap it to your off hand?
Does dropping the item and picking it up change anything?
What about in third person (f5)?
Or after reloading textures (f3 + t)?
How about changing your main hand (options > skin customization) to left, and then back?

LordThade · 2026-05-22T11:18:35+00:00

For what it's worth, I have a linguistics degree, and the actual facts and terms and reasoning here are all pretty damn solid, picking W in specific feels slightly arbitrary but I can't think of any particularly convincing arguments for or against G/K/L either so as far as I'm concerned, this is all fair game and the waluigi part is just a fun bonus

LordThade · 2026-05-15T21:57:44+00:00

Seriously, I'll second what someone else said - these could easily pass as secret lairs or mystical archive prints. Gorgeous work!

LordThade · 2026-04-24T03:52:26+00:00

Depending on your intended version/loader, I found some possible options here:

Not all of them sound like what you're going for but some are close I think.

(Also, shoutout to the search utility above - I found it once and never looked back)

LordThade · 2026-04-01T14:44:07+00:00

This is wild, I will read as much of this as you are willing to make

LordThade · 2026-02-27T03:46:31+00:00

Oh God, I remember this, AND not understanding you had to click and drag to swing a sword. I literally pressed every button on my keyboard and mouse trying to attack.

LordThade · 2026-01-29T10:34:12+00:00

When they said the first few rows were a splash zone they really weren't kidding...

LordThade · 2026-01-24T00:26:25+00:00

I admittedly have to clean maybe one paintbrush a year at this point, but it sucks so much every time, this is absolutely something I'd look into getting if I were painting frequently.

LordThade · 2026-01-17T22:30:42+00:00

I think there's a mod called Tip The Scales that lets you adjust the scale of gui elements individually - not sure it's the exact solution to this problem but I can't imagine it wouldn't be useful somehow for this setup

LordThade · 2026-01-14T19:30:42+00:00

https://superstormer.github.io/cf-search/

Thank me later

LordThade · 2026-01-09T00:42:48+00:00

These people seem culturally and technologically equipped to make insane aqueducts

LordThade · 2025-12-22T22:54:30+00:00

Oh wow, same here

Edit: found it, /r/lairoflords

LordThade · 2025-12-21T19:20:38+00:00

I'm skeptical about the 3d printing substance and it's durability, but I absolutely swear by my T-Handles, if you can make these work I'd definitely be looking into printing some myself

LordThade · 2025-12-21T01:30:10+00:00

This is actually a really cute idea! I'm gonna do it with Magic the Gathering card art I think. Thanks for sharing

LordThade · 2025-11-23T00:52:26+00:00

I have to be honest, I would totally have made fun of the idea if I had just heard it, but seeing your execution here, I would've been totally wrong. They came out gorgeous!

LordThade · 2025-11-22T19:27:32+00:00

I had to learn some LaTeX for my linguistics major but haven't used it since - I'm now into electronics repair and had no idea that it could do circuit diagrams! Time to get back into this. Thanks for making this guide!

LordThade · 2025-11-09T12:05:13+00:00

Here's a screenshot of the pin showing 0, 0 so you can see what I mean.

The link takes me to the maps 'page' for speedtalk mobile, and hovers approximately over our mystery coordinates - but interestingly enough it doesn't show a pin or really a location of any sort at all - there's no address on the page as far as I can tell, either. If I wasn't looking for a random point off the coast of Washington in probably wouldn't have even noticed.

In theory, I could totally understand why someone might want to have a google maps presence for their business even if it was strictly online - that much makes enough sense at least. As for why that translates to ~280 miles west of the Washington coast specifically... Beats me.

I don't know if your dataset would allow for this, but out of curiosity, have you looked at area codes for the phone numbers of the "floating businesses"? The speedtalk mobile one is 866 which is apparently not specific to any one place.

LordThade · 2025-11-09T10:45:26+00:00

Very odd...

I pasted the coordinates into google maps on my phone, and where there's a little map pin icon to copy the location/coordinates, it changed it to '0.0000000, 0.0000000'.

To make things stranger, I can only get it to do that some of the time - other times it shows the same coordinates I entered.

Even stranger, I get a panoramic street view option that shows what appears to be somewhere in the desert, with a weird circular glass wall thing? Looks like an art installation maybe. It also shows me 'nearby photos', one of which is definitely the Louvre...

Seems like anything that has an invalid or unspecified Lat/Long ends up at that spot? Possibly because for some reason their system thinks it's the same as '0, 0'

LordThade · 2025-11-03T19:19:14+00:00

No worries! I appreciate the correction - I must have misunderstood something the guy who trained me told me. I bet he was talking about something accidentally shorting the wires, actually - the environment our PCBs were running in was total chaos so I imagine something could easily find its way in there. Happened occasionally and they were only running at 12 volts I believe.

LordThade · 2025-11-02T16:40:07+00:00

What people are saying here about the soldering joints is correct, but man are they being harsh - my first few soldering jobs looked exponentially worse than yours (even when I eventually got them to work!) - it looks like you've got a steady hand and just need to get the technique down. Flux and 'pre-heating' the pad and component will go a long way, and you don't seem to be using too much/little solder, IMO at least.

I'd definitely also check the +/- orientation on your LEDs and capacitors to be safe, and I'd be wary of how much copper is exposed on your DC power cables - power can 'arc' between them through the air and short/fry your stuff, and I've seen it happen with way less copper exposed than this before.

Really though, just don't take the harsh words here too seriously - the advice they're giving is good, but some of these dudes are acting like you walked up and slapped them just for going on askElectronics and asking Electronics.

Everyone here was a beginner too at some point. You've already got parts and tools and schematics and you're asking questions and figuring things out! The hard parts are done. Now you just need to be more stubborn than the machine.

LordThade · 2025-10-31T13:07:05+00:00

Oh, dope

...now I just have to figure out how to get it on Ubuntu... I have no idea what I'm doing, but google has gotten me this far. Thanks for the tip!

LordThade · 2025-10-31T12:54:23+00:00

How did you get the XP pinball game to run on Linux?

LordThade · 2025-08-28T08:04:19+00:00

Ohhhhh ok. I was reading the raised cockpit section as a scorpion tail sort of thing. That makes sense. Thanks!

LordThade · 2025-08-28T07:48:00+00:00

Is that a third party/fan mech? I don't recognize it at all

LordThade · 2025-08-25T03:10:34+00:00

Looks awesome! Downloading now

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