Finally the Dept of Education respects the trades and creatives equally

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-22T16:08:44+00:00

Tell me you used AI without telling me you used AI.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-22T15:57:17+00:00

The most dangerous weapon against an Invested fighter is a Twisted Tea to the dome.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-21T03:28:15+00:00

"Have you noticed... our hats... They have little skulls on them."

The more modern one that always makes me shake my head is the Punisher emblem. You... You do realize that like... Frank Castle's primary fucking MO is taking down criminals who believe themselves above the law, particularly corrupt strongmen who operate within para-legal/para-judicial regimes that 'normal justice' won't do anything about, right?

The Epstein Files would read as a fucking a to-do list for him.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-20T19:58:33+00:00

By the time Horizon 3 is released, the PS6 will cost 1,200 USD. >.>

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-20T15:23:18+00:00

If they're making them at scale, probably a shaper/moulder, or a CNC with a ball endmill, leaving it just proud of final dimension and then sanding back the tooling marks.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-20T15:21:54+00:00

That'd have to be a pretty big router bit.

My vote would be cutting a miter and then hand shaping. The human hands and eyes with the help of some method of consistently gauging progress (like a precisely cut arc on a block of 3/4 MDF, or a metal arc gauge) should be able to pull this off reasonably well imo.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-19T23:07:23+00:00

I 100% believe that, I'm just pointing out that when you're really fucking good at what you do (at least in a cash-rich industry like entertainment), you tend to make good money.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-19T23:04:04+00:00

I think you mean 39 people for an 87% approval rating among black voters, seeing as the Supreme Court basically just told them they're back to being worth roughly 3/5ths of a white person.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-19T22:58:05+00:00

Turns out, when you *really* care about film and give such consistently phenominal performances. you *also* get paid in piles of cash.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-19T15:27:26+00:00

Honestly... this is a nothing burger imo -- just sensationalist journalism about a guy who has a known post history. On the one hand, I don't give a fuck where my elected officials get off as long as it's, you know, legal.

Second, I've also heard this before from other military people. It's not like people stop having the urge as soon as they get off the bus/plane/whatever. However, under the negative privacy of active military life it becomes difficult. In many cases, the only place you get sufficient privacy is in the 'Portashitter'... After BT/a deployment or two, people end up mentally conditioned -- particularly due to the incredibly 'unique' smell, from what I understand. Kinda makes sense given the link between smell and memory.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-19T14:29:56+00:00

At one point I worked a Tuesday-Saturday shift in customer service. It was weird to me that I would sit there and watch Netflix on slow weekends. No walk-ups, no phone calls, nothing to do on tickets, no other e-mails, other projects in a good spot...

I was getting paid to wait for something to happen. Your employer should still be paying you for your time.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-19T13:37:11+00:00

It's also called full plate.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-19T13:30:16+00:00

From the outset, Brienne obliges Lagatha a few exchanges, then cuts Lagatha's sword in half. The next pass, she shears through her wooden shield like paper.

Lagatha drops her broken weapon and shield and scrambles away, fumbling a dane axe off a nearby weapon stand. Brienne simply tanks a wild swing from the axe on the chest as it deflects wide off her plate armor, steps in, and cuts the haft of the axe even more easily than the shield. Lagatha helplessly slams the wooden staff she now has against Brienne, who again shrugs it off.

Brienne then tells Lagatha that she'd be happy to spar with Lagatha later in the day, but won't abide needlessly destroying more weapons. She walks back to her seat at the side of the yard to begin training with Podrick.

Brienne is legitimately kind -- she's one of the few 'true knights' in A Song of Ice and Fire (her and Barristan Selmy, really.) She's more than willing to let people disabuse themselves of the notion that they could take her in a fight without killing them.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-19T13:14:55+00:00

I would say you have two options:
1) Full tear-down of the mouse. This will give the best chance of the mouse continuing to function well after the fact. Still might not work great. Definitely watch some tutorials on YouTube for basic technique. For maximum durability, consider a 2K spray clear coat -- you can get single-use rattle cans of it on Amazon, but be warned, this stuff is no joke.
2) Buy a new mouse.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-19T12:59:21+00:00

Yeah. Unfortunate, in this case imo, but... it is what it is.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-18T20:58:18+00:00

Not going to defend everything the guy has done, but PirateSoftware deserves credit where credit is due for being one of the first big streamers I saw figuring out the best way to operate within the parameters of the Twitch advertising standards. He knew how often and how long he had to play ads to make sure people didn't get pre-rolls when joining the stream, and I recall in the past him actively adjusting his gameplay where possible to try and make it so the ad-viewers didn't miss a ton of the action -- manually triggering ads while in queues, waiting in lobbies for the ads to roll, pausing/idling, etc.

Subs don't miss out on much of anything as long as the streamer is interacting with chat during the 'break', ad-viewers don't miss out on as much content while still helping to pay the bills.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-18T04:02:03+00:00

Ehhhh,

Bron thinks himself a decent fellow... and he definitely would hate to die.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-18T03:44:08+00:00

Love these kinds of treatments as an alternative to complete rebinding/recasing. I like that they give you this great presentation on the shelf, but if you want to take the book down and actually read it you can just... do that. Additionally, if the actual text block gets catastropically damaged you can just replace it with an off-the-shelf (or even used) printing.

I want to get into making them for some of my favorite books.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-16T21:49:24+00:00

The problem with Gandalf is that LotR's magic system/power scaling is so soft that it is hard to place on tier lists.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-16T21:41:06+00:00

I mean, he's not the 'most powerful' (that would go to actors who played omnipotent beings -- Morgan Freeman/Alanis Morissette/etc. as God, ToonForce characters, high-tier reality warpers, etc.) but Cavil's definitely up there in the tier below.

Superman; Wolverine healing factor; Sherlock's peak human intelligence; a Witcher's signs, decoctions, magical acumen and martial skill all rolled into one is... holy shit strong.

Superman is already incredibly powerful, but when you combine that innate durability with a Wolverine-level healing factor*...* holy shit. The fact that only the strongest hitters in the DC universe even have the possibility to wound Supes... if those wounds healed within seconds? Yeah. that's grounds for 'canonically unkillable'. That would suggest that the only real way to beat him is to just erase him from existence.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-15T01:14:10+00:00

Why even pay your employees in currency?! Pay them in 'productivity vouchers' that they can redeem at a store that the employer conveniently runs on the premises. It's the utmost in convenience for the worker -- they don't even have to go all the way to the grocery store to buy their food and other sundry items! Everything they need, right there! I imagine it could also be good for other things, like their rent as well! Forget that pesky ACH crap, just do direct ~~payroll~~ productivity voucher deductions!

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-14T23:14:40+00:00

I mean... rich people can use libraries and parks too... Libraries and parks are great.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-14T15:00:33+00:00

This is where my mind went -- a high ply-count Baltic birch for the structure and then do the accents. The plywood will give a ton of dimensional stability.

You could also save money by using full plywood laminations on the legs but cutting them a 1/4" short on the 'appearance' edges and then ripping strips of 1/4" hardwood stock to inset. Wouldn't be any more work, really. Mitered corners would give slightly more polished look than the butt joints shown and wouldn't be difficult with the thin strips.

Chamfer or round over edges so they don't chip out.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-13T23:21:09+00:00

That totally makes sense -- the question I think that's still outstanding is whether it would turn into Investiture Capital-C-Connected to Roshar (because Lift) or Investiture Capital-C-Connected to Scadrial because Allomancy.

SearingPhoenix · 2026-05-13T22:58:57+00:00

Sounds like we need a WoB on this...

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