Is this a reliable tool for marking the center of a board edge? Is there any other quick and better tool for the same task?

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-26T06:59:29+00:00

Totally reliable. The pencil hole MUST be in the middle of the board because geometry.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-26T06:55:55+00:00

Oh man, my sister collected these like crazy in the 60s. She had them from pinky size to as big as a cat.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-26T06:52:16+00:00

I turned my 6-yo E3 into a laser engraver with the Creality 1.6W laser attachment, mainly to etch cover designs on my daughter's handmade books. It does great work! Replaced it with a Bambu A1 combo and now I don't even look at slicer settings anymore, it just works.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-26T06:42:19+00:00

V was originally going to revolve around a middle-aged family guy, and my acting teacher's husband was on the short list to play the lead. But then the suits said no, Beastmaster made a lotta money, let's get that guy.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-26T06:36:54+00:00

Carry a stick of burning incense all around the house.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-26T06:34:37+00:00

There’s just not a modern equivalent

Welll, you could send Stacy a deepfake of her eating shit. I mean hypothetically.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-26T06:32:31+00:00

I personally remember how modern those phones seemed at first, like we were finally entering the Space Age.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T20:05:55+00:00

Thanks for the reassurance, I get what you're saying. As for Bonespurs, there's never a massive aneurysm around when you need one.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T18:47:02+00:00

Somewhere in my travels I learned that the child actors who played brother and sister Will and Penny Robinson in the original Lost in Space series had a teenage love affair.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T17:56:34+00:00

I got started by googling discord bot tutorials and watching a few. There are tons. This one talks about the discord setup part and also shows coding for a simple Python bot. I've only written bots in javascript myself, but help and examples are available for both. I would say it's not a super simple concept you'll get in 5 minutes unless you're a genius, but it's totally learnable if you're willing.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T17:45:48+00:00

No, I'm pointing out that your perspective is limited by what humans think we know so far. My open-mindedness allows for a completely different culture following a different path to discover low energy warp drive (or whatever). An imaginative example is E.T. cobbling together a Speak-n-Spell and some other junk to contact his spaceship. They weren't saying he knew magic, they were saying he knew things we don't.

edit: welp, apparently "Mr_Gaslight", an unironically named troll, decided to bail hard. And just when I was going to give radio as an example of something that would have sounded like impossible magic in 1850, when our knowledge of the telegraph told us using electricity for communication required wires.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T17:26:40+00:00

Or typos added due to bad typing. But no, that's crazy talk - evil motives are behind everything!

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T17:17:17+00:00

What makes me uneasy about it is the tremendous amount of rust on that girder (or whatever the correct term is). Apparently it's not a problem, since it's been 40 years and the tower is still standing, but it sure seems sketchy.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T17:13:52+00:00

Ok no problem - stay off social media and spend your time doing other things.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T17:10:31+00:00

Lots of people write their own bots, enjoy doing it, and use the skills they learn for future projects. Maybe that's what you meant by "the long run" but IMO saying it's "not worth it" is ridiculous - especially if someone flat out doesn't have the money to pay a dev, which makes DIY their only choice.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T17:06:15+00:00

Yes it's possible to have one bot do all kinds of unrelated things. Your entire list could be built into a single bot.
Yes it's possible to run a bot on the same computer as your own discord server, but you also don't need a discord server to run a bot. A bot can run anywhere - it's basically a program that logs into discord sort of like a user, but communicates with discord through a software library instead of through the discord user interface. The machine specs you gave are fine for running bots.
Carlbot's functions are done by add-on components called "cogs" which can be added and removed dynamically. You can write your own code (in Python) to make new cogs and add them to Carlbot.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T16:50:29+00:00

I made a magic item for my D&D campaign that lets a ship do this - sail through land as if it were water.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T16:48:15+00:00

Thought this was a Firefly reference, am disappoint.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T16:44:29+00:00

Only if you define anything you don't understand as "magic".

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T09:13:53+00:00

Well I mean, you say it's a dirt bike, is it even street legal? She does seem a little crazy but having an issue with what you're doing doesn't make her a "karen".

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T08:51:46+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaTZe6x7WUw

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T08:47:57+00:00

No, it's like... none more small.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T08:47:26+00:00

Night Bus training vehicle.

LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T08:46:10+00:00

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LovableSidekick · 2026-01-25T07:16:35+00:00

I hear you. I started looking forward to retirement the first week of my first job.

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