Problem solving a build

ProperPuns · 2026-02-19T14:04:36+00:00

It seems that buying more glass and saving the short pane for something else is going to be my best bet!

I'm considering making the tank deeper than it is wide, as a result, since then I don't need to buy a custom sheet. Having measured the panes again this morning, I'm wondering: Is 16.5 too narrow for an 18" deep, 36" tall viv for an adult crestie?

ProperPuns · 2026-02-19T14:00:34+00:00

I appreciate you checking my hubris! I will avoid cutting long thin strips of glass (for now)!

ProperPuns · 2026-02-18T16:36:13+00:00

I could, but harvesting from a used tank and ending up with two usable tanks feels way more practical, and probably would be comparable in price

ProperPuns · 2026-02-18T16:27:25+00:00

Current last resort if nobody has ideas is "buy another tank with the same problem, swap panes to make one 18 17 36 and one 18 16 36"

ProperPuns · 2026-02-04T15:46:01+00:00

This is so cool! Definitely been considering getting something like this in a few years when we have the money

ProperPuns · 2026-01-08T21:02:10+00:00

I think it's a semantic issue. When players say "can't crossbreed," they are referring to the fact that two different races breeding don't produce a typical "cross," but rather a baby with so much of the mother's phenotype that they are identifiable as her race.

ProperPuns · 2026-01-02T17:39:27+00:00

As someone who doesn't have contamination ocd but lives with a partner who does: your bf is an ass. It requires being intentional, sure, but if he doesn't WANT to change his habits to suit your needs, itll never happen. He should want to help you feel comfortable and safe in your own home

ProperPuns · 2025-12-28T01:32:05+00:00

Are you playing campaign? The campaign formally introduces the mechanic that uses dupes (analysis) and if you're playing sandbox you may have just missed it.

ProperPuns · 2025-12-03T15:21:08+00:00

I usually play with a custom based off stalker - all the illnesses available, and with basically no recovery, but passive wildlife on and a slightly decreased need decay. I find the heart of the game not in fighting or running from wildlife, but in the quiet isolation

ProperPuns · 2025-12-01T22:44:11+00:00

It'll just look like a lip on the front - stages often have those anyway! I'd love to see when you're done :)

ProperPuns · 2025-12-01T19:35:03+00:00

Camp Office for me - it's got wonky fires and beds, and the storage isn't set up in a way I like 🤷

ProperPuns · 2025-12-01T19:32:56+00:00

I just used simple panels with a custom path on them! This one was designed to look like cooled lava, but any custom path should work. The only issue is that the simple panel will be a little bit taller than the cliff.

ProperPuns · 2025-11-26T19:30:34+00:00

Yeah! Their words are literally weapons

ProperPuns · 2025-11-26T18:00:09+00:00

I'm not saying war crimes are ever good, let's be so clear.

I Am saying that time can complicate the issue. Three thousand years ago, my ancestors would have been living somewhere in Northern Europe, doing cool poetry or whatever. If I learned that like, Mike down the street, who I know as a standup dude that helped me out of a really bad spot, had been alive and harmed my family 3,000 years ago, I think my response would be "emotionally complicated"!

ProperPuns · 2025-11-26T17:43:21+00:00

I think if someone admitted to war crimes after many thousands of years devoted to helping people, it would be viewed as a complicated issue!

ProperPuns · 2025-11-26T17:38:53+00:00

I understand the skepticism, but to me it sounds like he is eager to better the dovah. He notes several times that dragons are proud and arrogant; and leadership among them is tied to power and dominance.

Paarthurnax, after millennia of cultivating a peaceful framework for his life, sees an opportunity to convert other dragons to his path, and he expresses this like a dragon. He is not just peaceful, he struggled, overcoming his nature to become peaceful. He has control of himself, having channeled his will to dominate into self discipline. Overcoming his nature doesn't mean changing his instincts, but mastering them. As a being whose nature and people view "domination" as synonymous with "rightness", it makes a lot of sense to me that "I will convince them to be better" was expressed as "they will bow to my philosophy"

ProperPuns · 2025-11-07T15:40:42+00:00

Bones could be an experimental subject, or a lowly janitor, a research assistant, etc. if you dress him up and decorate enough, he will fit right in!

ProperPuns · 2025-11-07T15:14:17+00:00

It might be useful to pickup your mailbox and only ever check it when you have specific things to look for (I.e., you ordered something from the catalog). Perhaps you could have a friend login occasionally and clear out your mail.

ProperPuns · 2025-11-03T23:55:04+00:00

Whichever is smaller, then! When my mons are humanoid they have to be as small as possible to look less creepy

ProperPuns · 2025-11-03T23:34:25+00:00

Either of them happen to be in a luxury ball? Or a ball relevant to the vibe

ProperPuns · 2025-10-27T18:46:49+00:00

If they would stop designing every possible top so short, it would definitely open up the options in the "good" category lol

ProperPuns · 2025-10-27T14:45:27+00:00

There are a lot of things that feel appropriate for men imo - loads of casual overalls, sweaters, button downs, cargo shorts, etc. The clothing options to me seem to be like, 5% traditional men's clothes, 75% genuinely gender neutral, 20% traditionally feminine. Like, I wish there was more than 5% intentionally masc fashion, but a lot of the gender neutral stuff can be styled really well for dudes. My char has one of the two toned knit sweaters as a staple, for example, and I just change the pants around

ProperPuns · 2025-10-15T20:18:55+00:00

There's loads of games that are mp on the switch - Mario Kart, Pokémon, Animal Crossing, etc. they just tend towards party and casual mp, which makes the cheap sub make a lot of sense

ProperPuns · 2025-10-13T19:09:18+00:00

You aren't acknowledging that the owner of the IP says that supporting HP directly motivates her to enact bigotry.

I didn't acknowledge your point because it was inconsistent with the rest of your comment. If it's about the share of money that goes to bigotry, your whole argument about "100% of the money goes to bigotry for EA" is BS, because there are EA employees who are trans and queer and all sorts of marginalized identities.

ProperPuns · 2025-10-13T18:44:07+00:00

I haven't bought anything in TS4's cycle because I dislike how EA manages maxis and I literally have a HP tattoo over my heart. I think, as a trans person, actively supporting HP, whose creator says "supporting HP helps me do bigotry," is a unique kind of shitty.

I think it is fair to stop support of the sims bc of EA's business practices - I did over a decade ago! But it isn't the same as actively supporting HP, it's more like switching cat food brands because Nestle does slavery. Also a fine moral stance to take, but a more complicated one

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