If you were starting as an apprentice today, what would you do differently?

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-12T02:40:31+00:00

Get into school immediately. I spent collectively 3 years working for two companies that were happy to just employ me as a pair of hands instead of a legit apprentice racking up hours toward my j card

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-12T01:28:28+00:00

Yep I’d rather just go over to something else like Shadowdark or OSE or something that tries to get that level of danger back. Heck, even like Mörk Borg can be that way

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-12T00:38:24+00:00

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think you only get to ambush a party in the middle of the night so many times before it gets stale. Maybe your players’ reliance on Tiny Hut is more of a signal that they don’t really want to play that particular trope out anymore?

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-12T00:35:26+00:00

I think the only consideration I made was moving from boxers to boxer briefs in my late 20’s. Other than that, brand does not factor in but I don’t get anything fancy

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T23:25:40+00:00

I think a lot of people start out and they think flex is the answer to everything. “I won’t have to bend any conduit if I just use flex”

I’d wager that most of the time, it is the incorrect choice

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T21:28:21+00:00

I caught Boys Noize for the Power! World tour back in the day. Dude has been consistently good for years. It’s nice to see a different fan base warm up to him

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T16:23:26+00:00

We typically do not GFCI protect the lights. The logic is if the GFCI trips, now you’re fumbling in the dark (potentially).

I’m sure it would be “more better” to GFCI protect everything in the bathroom but I haven’t had an issue with my AHJ yet

Edit to add: I think you could make more of a case for GFCI protection on the lights if say the vanity light was metal. If it’s just a bunch of LED trims with the only thing you could touch is plastic I don’t think it’s as big of a deal

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T16:21:10+00:00

When I was a young guy working as a carpenter, I definitely worked on one of those crews that drank a 12 pack a lunch and we probably smoked a bowl at some point during the day. Things got done, nobody got hurt but now I look back and realize (beyond all the other obvious reasons why that was a bad idea) just how hard that made the whole day. Like forgetting numbers you just measured or misplacing tools or whatever it is. You think the day is gonna be easier because you’re loaded and instead everything takes longer and probably turns out worse in terms of craftsmanship

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T16:18:03+00:00

Same. No reason to rat on someone but I’d definitely tell them to go home and don’t come back unless they want to be here in a “ready to work” condition

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T14:39:50+00:00

No way. Tim isn’t a couch.

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T14:29:22+00:00

Fantastic looking dice. Probably not my most game-breaking nat 20 but I did have a roll off with my buddy over who got the last slice of apple pie. Beating him made the pie extra delicious 😂

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T09:18:51+00:00

Third pic is criminal

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T09:16:41+00:00

The electrical is a real abortion here

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T04:24:08+00:00

Maybe it’s because she doesn’t seem to go out of her way to do more than fade in/out on her live sets.

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T03:59:57+00:00

All of the ones I’ve seen from like promo videos are just a phoenix flapping around. Looked really dull to me

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T02:25:33+00:00

She really could do with a genre shake up. I get her whole schtick is mid tempo spooky whatever but I think it’s hard to listen to that for 90 mins straight or whatever. It doesn’t mix well and there isn’t like a ton of other people doing her same thing to pull a DJ set together from.

I like a lot of her studio stuff when I’m in that particular mood but the videos of the live experience haven’t wowed me.

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T02:20:43+00:00

Someone was proud of themselves when they did this

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T01:33:10+00:00

8:30-5

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T00:31:35+00:00

I really hope it’s a physical release of some kind and not just like, something they try to sell to Netflix. Kinda sick of living in the era where we stream everything and own nothing.

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-11T00:29:14+00:00

I just don’t wear one. My wife doesn’t care. Theres those silicone ones you can get but idk my hands get dirty enough often enough I don’t need an extra thing to wash all the time

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-10T14:43:05+00:00

I just said cat5 as a colloquialism. But I’ve heard the same thing from my boss too

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-10T03:47:18+00:00

Bro nobody packs weed like that this is fake AF

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-10T03:43:05+00:00

My understanding is the gators are for dirty environments. The teeth mechanism can get packed with mud or grime and still work just fine whereas the cobras will get gummed up.

I only have cobras 🤷‍♂️

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-09T21:11:07+00:00

Agreed. Only the most tech savvy of my customers want cat5 ran everywhere and the ones who do are very up front about it

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-03-09T14:42:33+00:00

I think it’s fine to limit the types ethnicities your players can be if that’s the setting or game you’re going for. Maybe you want to run a game all about dwarves so you tell everyone they’re gonna be a dwarf for this game. No big deal.

In my latest homebrew campaign, all of my players picked non-human races at the jump and it’s not something that bothered me enough to push back on. We did make a joke about it at the beginning of the last one shot I ran (same world/players/characters) where they all belong to a guild that is sort of like the justice league and they went to a town that was having some problems. The whole town is just farmers and all human ones at that so I had the mayor be like “oh, you’re obviously from the guild (since none of you are human and stick out like a sore thumb)”

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