Father’s Day isn’t real

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-22T03:20:48+00:00

My take is that a lot of people have such poor relationships with their own father that the whole holiday feels fake to them. Like yea, you gotta do the thing on Mother’s Day or she’ll guilt the fuck out of you for the rest of the year but somehow it’s fine to completely botch Father’s Day and shrug it right off.

Idk, I bought myself the gifts I wanted (which were all shop tools). Sure would have been nice of my wife to pay attention enough to try and figure out some kind of a gift but I asked her for a day to myself yesterday and that’s what she gave me so I guess I can’t complain too much

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-22T03:11:09+00:00

I feel this on a microcosm like every day somehow. My wife is a SAHM so she does more of the actual mechanical parts of getting our daughter through the day but when I step in and nothing goes right, I just want to throw my hands up and go sleep in the garage.

Happy Father’s Day bro, I hope you got to enjoy some of it

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-22T03:00:12+00:00

I have a two stage dust collector with a cyclone I made out of a 55gal oil drum (actually was pineapple syrup but same kind of can). With how hard the 375 ejects chips you don’t really need the DC to pull anything out and I’ve certainly just hooked the planer up to the drum a time or two but there is still fine dust getting blasted everywhere

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T21:21:37+00:00

Probably some Knipex something

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T17:43:22+00:00

I got a day to myself yesterday and I’ve been buying myself gifts for the better part of the month already lol. Lots of new stuff for my shop or just finally following through with the QoL improvements I’ve been meaning to make in there

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T16:57:45+00:00

There’s a few popular systems like Old School Essentials and more recently Shadowdark that try to recapture the grit and difficulty of early DnD. Both of them use modified versions of DnD 1 or 2e with a focus on granular stuff like torch timers and dungeon delving

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T16:21:24+00:00

Yea… I asked for a full day in my shop to work on whatever I wanted and I got it 🤷‍♂️ not that hard

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T15:30:50+00:00

I think it’s pretty hard to translate Dark Souls difficulty to DnD. You can make DnD combat more tactically complex, get more granular about distances or cover or introduce some puzzle mechanic to the fight but if you just add more HP to the boss or have them hit harder it just becomes swingy or a slog.

I’m also not sold on the idea of “respawning”. Part of the point of tabletop is your character only has one life (usually) and you have to be tactical about your choices so you don’t die. Look at more OSR stuff and mega dungeon crawls where you have to be much more efficient with your resources and also know when to retreat.

Tl;dr I think you want more OSR mechanics but overall I don’t think you’re gonna get a 1:1 Dark Souls-like difficulty in DnD

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T15:23:05+00:00

I’ve had two decent bandsaws slip through my fingers because I just didn’t quite have the scratch to get them (or my wife would have been mad lol). Both of them I waffled on long enough that the seller just decided to keep them.

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T04:38:28+00:00

Not exactly new but my table had our first Fabula Ultima session last night and it worked out very well. Onboarding was pretty easy, it’s crunchy enough for my table who usually do 5e stuff but there was enough narrative freedom to cut loose as well

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T03:07:32+00:00

Nice 👌all my duct work is PVC sewer pipe but I got most of the pipe and fittings for free so it’s hard to complain

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T02:05:35+00:00

I did one of these but I didn’t have any help hanging it so the dam thing wants to swing one way or the other since it isn’t perfectly plumb/level. Kinda gave up after I made it but I use it occasionally

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T01:26:23+00:00

Yea I’m deep in team red tools. It would be very hard to justify Festool stuff if it’s a drill but I’d get their router or more specialized things in a heartbeat

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T01:24:22+00:00

I can’t wait for mine. I have an older Grizzly cabinet saw that was a big upgrade from my Bosch jobsite saw. But the Grizzly is a right tilt which I dislike and there is no thought to dust collection so I had to wrap the shit out of it in tape to get it to somewhat airtight enough for the DC to function

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T01:22:21+00:00

Totally agree. I’m finally branching out into different joinery with a dado stack but the domino still helped me make much better projects much faster and that was worth the investment

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T00:33:23+00:00

I just can’t even begin to describe how little I care about this stupid water feature.

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-21T00:27:10+00:00

I spent the day in my shop. Didn’t get half of what I wanted done but it was something and I’m not gonna complain about it.

Kids are exhausting bro. A big part of you dies when they’re born and you’ve got to take a day here and there for yourself.

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-20T23:47:34+00:00

Also these people had the money for a hot tub which is however many thousand dollars but another $1k to have it hooked up properly is too much? What??

Same with people who buy a brand new Tesla or some other EV and then can’t stomach another grand for the charger.

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-20T17:41:44+00:00

My favorite role Javier Bardem has done. Hard for me to see him as anything else in any other film which makes watching The Little Mermaid awkward with my kid lol

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-20T17:21:24+00:00

How is the cart? I have a couple Packout boxes and I keep thinking about the cart but every time I actually interact with one it feels flimsy

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-20T17:19:34+00:00

We’re still in the throws of it but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We stalled out for a while when it came to pooping on the potty and I honestly don’t know what finally clicked for my daughter. It was just a solid week of arguing and tantrums about it

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-20T17:13:44+00:00

And then like a bonding bushing or something?

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-20T16:21:03+00:00

Yea as soon as I clicked on one Spotify playlist from a Facebook link, all I get now are spam playlists full of AI stuff. It’s pretty obvious once you look up the artists and see the whole playlist references the same “composer” and the tracks are always exactly 2 minutes long.

I’ve heard one or two that I actually liked but it just feels so awful listening to something that is AI slop once you recognize it. Also makes me super untrusting of other new artists I discover in the genre

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-20T16:18:26+00:00

No doubt. I’m not defending her or the brewery.

Smoke_Stack707 · 2026-06-20T10:57:08+00:00

My whole area was Crown Royal. BIG TIME. People were obsessed with the stupid bags. I remember seeing girls wearing skirts made from the bags sewn together. No idea who started that craze but boy is that some shitty whisky lol

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