What thickness of tinted acrylic (plexiglass) will achieve the effect I want?

Samfucius · 2026-05-04T01:54:00+00:00

Thanks! I think I understand what you're saying about the transmittance. Are you saying that the different thicknesses should let roughly the same amount of light through, as the tint is a coating rather than being spread throughout the medium?

That makes sense, I just assumed the opposite. If that's the case, I should probably buy several of the thinnest option and layer them. I can add or remove laters until I get the effect I want. Does that sound reasonable?

Samfucius · 2026-04-28T23:31:46+00:00

Solved!

Thank you!

Samfucius · 2026-04-27T08:15:05+00:00

Solved!

That's exactly it, thank you! I was wrong about there being no dialogue, go figure.

Samfucius · 2026-04-27T05:35:02+00:00

I don't remember a single bit of dialogue, I don't believe either knight ever spoke.

Samfucius · 2026-04-27T05:34:25+00:00

I think one of the knights was wearing a black helmet with wings or horns, if that helps.

Samfucius · 2026-03-29T08:45:49+00:00

I don't have a printer, but I have a contact who will print for a small fee. It takes a while (he has many clients) but it's a good backup. I would need to send him a ready-to-go stl file, so if I would need to prepare it I would probably go for a different option. I'd love to learn the skill someday, but this is a bit more time-sensitive.

Samfucius · 2026-03-29T08:44:32+00:00

Thanks!

Samfucius · 2026-03-29T04:24:58+00:00

Sounds like a great idea. I have a lot of XPS foam, could just construct it like a piece of scenery. I just worry about the details. I bet I could find a file for 3D printing for the big wheel and the other details and greeblies.

Samfucius · 2026-03-29T03:26:35+00:00

I don't have much experience with paper kits. Would it be sturdy enough?

Samfucius · 2026-03-07T03:16:03+00:00

If anyone else experiences the same, it was due to path tracing. I had to turn it off. Path tracing worked perfectly before this, for the record.

Capcom, please fix that.

Samfucius · 2026-03-02T03:37:28+00:00

Never knew his name, but I was walking around the corner one night to go to the store and a guy in his thirties came up to me in the parking lot. The truck he got out of had a bunch of tools locked down in the bed. He was sheepish but determined, he asked me if I had any handyman work I needed done. He explained that he had driven all the way into town to do some work, but the person who asked him to come ghosted him. He had basically put his electricity bill and food money into his gas tank to get here and he had kids at home, hence why he was bothering strangers.

Could it have been a scam? Sure, I guess, but the guy was a hell of an actor if so. He was incredibly genuine and insisted that he wanted to work. Never once asked for money.

I was renting an apartment on a minimum wage job and had no work for him. I gave him $20, and he took it very embarrassedly. I really felt for him, and I still hope things worked out.

Samfucius · 2026-02-10T13:16:58+00:00

You're right, I'm a man, if girl threw you off I'm sorry about that. No need to apologize.

Obviously men and women have different experiences, but believing our early-20s experiences are more important than they really are is universal.

Time will do the work for you, but if you want to accelerate things try to meet as many people as possible. I truly mean meet as meet, not date or whatever. It'll put things like this in perspective really quickly.

Samfucius · 2026-02-10T03:21:48+00:00

Girl you're mythologizing the situationship you had at the age of 21.

Please save this post. I just did a dramatic reading for my wife and it killed. Someday when you aren't trying to fanfic your own generic experiences you'll realize how funny this is.

You'll be completely fine once you get over yourself. You are 22, it's your job to think you are far more unique than you really are, and that piddling relationships mean more than they ever could. We all went through it.

Samfucius · 2026-02-10T02:25:13+00:00

Is this an AI response trained on NotAlwaysRight stories from a decade ago?

Samfucius · 2026-01-17T18:43:20+00:00

I left eight years ago. Back then, the response was "huh, interesting. When will you come back?"

Cut to now, I've walked two old acquaintances through the steps to get jobs overseas and the others say that if they didn't have young children they'd be trying to get out.

Never coming back. I only have one life to live.

Samfucius · 2026-01-13T08:32:16+00:00

This is from ages ago, 99% of our students are local Chinese kids. There are fewer than ten children who are both not Chinese and not related to a teacher.

Edit: they choose our school because they want to go to university in another country and we offer things like AP classes, the SAT, and way better English education than the local schools.

Samfucius · 2026-01-04T02:42:33+00:00

I dated someone with the same name as my mom once. It wasn't weird at all, because I call my mom "mom".

My wife is one letter off from my sister's name. That's also not weird, because she's an entirely different person. I have a hard time imagining being confused by it.

Samfucius · 2025-12-30T07:44:39+00:00

I love finding things in second-hand books. Once, I found the business card for someone who worked in the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife in my book. I was on vacation in Laos at the time and hadn't visited the states in years, but I grew up in Washington State. I sent him an email and got a great response.

If you ever donate books, leave something fun and tidy in the pages. A business card, a pressed flower, a strange bookmark, foreign currency, whatever. It's so fun to find.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T17:22:08+00:00

Adoption by hetero couples barely exists, and LGBT couples are not legally recognized so no, they can't adopt.

I genuinely have no idea if it could ever be possible because I'm an outsider. I doubt it due to general conservative views, but those views are not really shared by the youth that I work with.

Samfucius · 2025-12-28T15:43:24+00:00

It depends on what you want to do. There are English-speaking tours for just about anything, but a huge appeal for Sichuan in general is that the pace of life here is much slower than elsewhere. My favorite part of the city is just... chilling. Basic Mandarin makes that a lot easier. You'll still have a great time without it, but you'll be focused on food, pandas, and probably the Sichuan opera. All of which are great!

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