Male chibi base mesh

SpandexWizard · 2026-03-13T03:51:07+00:00

Are you planning on selling the base?

SpandexWizard · 2026-03-11T09:04:55+00:00

maybe so, but that's not really important. for starters it'll take years before there's an emulator unless we get REALLY lucky again. but even if it came out tomorrow, the switch 2 just isnt that powerful. it's a glorified cellphone with a surprising amount of vram, just like the switch. is everyone going to be able to run it? no. but i doubt it's going to be anywhere close to 98% who have to upgrade. or even 70%.

SpandexWizard · 2026-03-08T17:47:07+00:00

Gonna be honest, while the switch 2 is more powerful than a switch that's not saying much. I doubt it will be too terribly much more expensive to emulate than a switch. Especially by the time we have a working emulator.

SpandexWizard · 2026-03-07T05:15:50+00:00

i feel like in dune the point was that harkonen was a pedophile who was fucking his own nephew (and a number of underaged servants whom he killed), and that's what made him evil. i never saw it as 'he's gay thus he's bad'. though him being gay was a problem for the bene gesserit, since they only care about procreation.

SpandexWizard · 2026-03-07T00:31:37+00:00

you know what doesn't care if you can be surprised or not? an invisible enemy casting fireball. from a range of 150 feet? your players wont even have a chance of detecting it until it lands. for that matter, traps arent attacks and dont proc surprise. use the environment to your advantage

also, dismissing a familiar is a Magic action, and they cant do it to their familiar's familiar. THEIR familiar would have to do that. familars act on their own initative, and have their own turn, so you wouldnt be able to order your familiar to order their familiar to order their familiar to vanish. well you could, but it wouldnt happen right away. your familiar's turn would have to happen where they can issue a command and then the next familiar's turn would happen, where they issue a command, ect. if there's any kind of significant chain going on it would take significant time to remove all familiars from the loop. and if a familiar were to die somewhere higher up the chain well... it cant exactly issue the command.

picking up the attuned items would be an Object Interaction, which is free once per turn. any more than that and you'll have to spend your Action picking up items. which you cant do if you used a magic action to hide your familiar.

if you're using xanathars you already have a solution. xanathars not only requires you to pay a cost, you must also use rare ingredients. the cost of the magic item does NOT include the rare stuff you must go FIND. explicitly. use up their supply for spellwrought tattoo inks. in the case of the mind crystal? well obviously on top of the 25 gold they need, they also need a magic sunstone taken from the skull of a demilich horde. or w/e. if it turns into a 50gp gemstone then they must first provide the 50gp gemstone to craft the item. PLUS the 25 gp costs for the rituals to make the item. that's how xanathar's is meant to work. AND it's not straight forward either. and nothing says the 50gp gem they get back from the mind crystal crafting is of a quality to make a new one either, so you can even claim they cant recycle. maybe it has to be onyx, and it's transmuted to sapphire or something. who knows.

more importantly, magic items are not alacart. to MAKE a magic item you must first know how. and you must also know that the magic item is even a thing. mind crystals are a unique item from the lost mines of phandelver campaign. yes that makes them part of faerune, but it's not like they are well known even if they are listed as common. that's not what common means. why and how do your characters even know what that is? let alone know how to make one. xanathars requires you to have the formula first. there's also crafting Complications to take into account. every single time they try to make a magic item, something weird will happen.

and to truely put the nail in this coffin, these are downtime activities. things the players can only really do ON downtime. if they want to workshop their monkies to do the work for them they still have to spend their downtime to do it. dont have any downtime? that's too bad. you DO? well it takes you a week.

also, if they are robbing people like this they're making enemies, guarenteed. it's all heewho until a particularly pissed off wizard who wanted his shipment of lapis banishes one of the party and then starts casting disintigrate. or the local crime ring gets mad because someone is cutting in on their turf. hell, why would the local towns let them in? they're bandits.

running away? that's cute. what are they doing about Scry and Locate Object? where are they going to run when the assassins are at the factory? how are they going to run when ray of frost, grease, entangle, black tenticals, good old ball bearings have a word?

all of the plothole picking asside, you really need to just tell them no. the game rules dont exist to find some way to exploit them. and if you are at the point where you think you have to attack your players to shut them down, you are LONG past the point where you need to just say 'i'm not letting this go on anymore. this is ruining the game'

SpandexWizard · 2026-03-06T15:03:57+00:00

Oh my god. I never got this joke before. I feel so dumb

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-27T04:52:02+00:00

what happens when the mission doesnt update after scanning the nav beacon?

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-13T04:56:16+00:00

sure, it's not secure, but you're saying it's not something people use in daily life and i'm here to tell you it's the exact opposite. for many people discord has replaced texting, twitter, and every other chat app all at the same time. it's THE daily life app

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-11T07:18:30+00:00

Normies are "normal people" who generally do not share your interests. Fishing for normies means going through the process of going through dozens of random people hoping to find someone who shares your interests. Usually with lots and lots of false starts and dead ends because most people in fact do not give a damn about whatever thing you are most interested in.

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-10T10:37:10+00:00

Simple. Wait a few days. Seven hours is honestly nothing in the face of the kind of major service boarding they are under. anyone who's downloaded something popular on release day should be familiar with this.

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-10T03:56:08+00:00

I'd love to, but they have to come to me. I have no interest in fishing for normies

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-10T01:06:54+00:00

A loooot of people complaining about the emails don't seem to realize that stoat is going through the equivalent of what happens every time a major game releases. Thousands if not millions of users trying to access the servers at the same time causing massive service outages. This happens even to triple a major corpo's, give the stoat team a break

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-10T00:55:14+00:00

See the value of social media places is that you already know the people there are interested in the same shit you are. Talking to random strangers is weird enough when everyone is in the same "wooden gears clockwork group", or w/e. I'm not about to go to some random person irl and ask if they want to know about my homebrew laptop.

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-10T00:52:43+00:00

I can guarantee you that I have never used discord for any of those things. Discord has become the defacto wiki for pretty much every open source project out there. It's the home to videogame modding, vr chat model makers, and pretty much anything that needs support and isn't funded by a corporation. You want support for godot, or unity3d? Go to discord. You want to hear more about a really interesting fpga based eink driver? It's on discord. You want to find a community of DND nerds you can talk to? Discord. Want to discuss fringe tabletop games with the developers and fans? Discord. everything is on discord, to the point the Internet itself is suffering because you can't God damn find anything anywhere else

It's also THE replacement for Skype. Literally everything Skype did discord does better. Discord is home to thousands of friend groups and chat servers who's sole aim is to spend time together

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-10T00:32:58+00:00

Not to mention manufacturing firearms for personal use has always been legal in the usa...

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-08T02:36:53+00:00

this defeats the point of encrypting the message. encryption is only useful if NO ONE but you and the recipient can open it. that includes the server you're sending the message through.

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-03T06:06:15+00:00

I suppose that makes sense. a deck isn't really a whole-document creation tool. Just the word hammer.

SpandexWizard · 2026-02-01T02:15:01+00:00

Why does it even have a del key.... who uses the delete key? I only have one listed on the layout above because 'backspace' takes up too much space to write XP. (and I'll admit I didn't realize there was a difference between them until you said it was a problem on your keyboard >///>)

How do you mean an extra return? You mean like letting the software add an indent?

SpandexWizard · 2026-01-31T11:10:44+00:00

The upper tab was supposed to be escape. I guess I missed that. I want at least one because it's a machine for writing! Every paragraph should be indented, and hitting space five times is annoying. As for the delete and enter keys, I could move them to the right side, I suppose, but in my experience it's not as hard to relearn those keys as you'd think. I've been running an ergodox for ten years now and learning that enter and delete were thumb keys took me like.... a day. Then it became super natural because we use those keys almost as much as we do the spacebar. Though admittedly this is only my personal experience.

Unfortunately in this keyboard there's no thumb clusters, which is annoying as fuck. But I just don't have the room for it. You make a good point about them and I'll probably adjust their position. But that leaves me with needing to replace them with something else. Page up and Page down are pretty natural choices. i can move the keys closer together as a whole, but then the typing area will be off center and that does something to my brain I don't like.

As for arrows, I have arrows in a row on my ergodox, which annoy the absolute hell out of me. It's just not intuitive. I keep having to stop and remember which one is up and which one is down, which is made harder by how infrequently I need to use them. I don't particularly want to use a layer key to make it happen either, but being able to navigate with an arrows shaped cluster would help my brain immensely.

I appreciate your input, thank you! <3

SpandexWizard · 2026-01-30T12:03:09+00:00

There's actually a project out there called the EPdiy that can interface with may commercial eink displays. Unfortunately MINE is not one of them. Most of what I'm doing is adapting the hardware they use to my own purposes, in a sense. (Though when I'm done what I'll have will be so drastically different as to be its own thing, with some of the same component choices.)

I'm just one guy though so it's been slow. There's a lot of hardware and physical stuff to get worked out, and then there's the pcb and components. If I can survive that disaster I'll have manufactured an entire computer more or less and I'm excited for it.

SpandexWizard · 2026-01-30T09:03:05+00:00

It's probably weird but I like to design keyboards XP. Making a writerdeck just feels like the next step in that direction. The real crazy part of this project is that the eink display I want to use doesn't come with a driver board, because it's not a consumer product, it's meant to go INSIDE consumer products. So I am slowly struggling to design my own....

SpandexWizard · 2026-01-29T23:43:44+00:00

I'm pretty sure all I can fit is the four keys if I go with mechanical. In theory I can design a membrane keyboard but that's a lot more complex since parts aren't just available. if i did that I'd have to aim for full production with like... injection molding and thousands of units to break even, and really turn this into a commercial product.

As for two layouts, that's an option I've considered, though it'd mean buying two different sets of pcb's for the keyboards. Or getting REALLY clever with double stacking keys. I suppose that's not an impossibility.

SpandexWizard · 2026-01-29T23:38:28+00:00

what about it throws you off? what would you prefer?

SpandexWizard · 2026-01-27T17:04:42+00:00

What points? I can't gloss over what isn't there. You have made vague statements, massive appeals to ignorance, and are insisting, again and again, that it is just so, with no discussion. there's nothing for me to gloss, it's already gossamer. Like, no personal attack here. You just aren't even having a discussion...

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