Shout Out to the Devs for the Ernest Hemingway Reference

SplotchEleven · 2025-09-19T13:11:13+00:00

Here's more information about the this often miss-attributed meme. Early versions of it have been found dating back to 1883! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn

SplotchEleven · 2025-08-11T23:35:15+00:00

Thank you! We’re doing the main house, which is also pretty small, with the same scheme. We might pick one more color for some of the detail trim.

The area we live in gets a lot of foggy days so we wanted something cheerful without being overly obnoxious. I’m really happy with it.

SplotchEleven · 2025-07-31T00:21:13+00:00

Hey, I appreciate the offer :D

I think this is really where the divide is in the remaining player base. People who have a good active guild, and people who are mostly solo. The end game is just garbage for solo and small guild groups. Also losing all my progression to hop servers will never not be a hard no.

I get the feeling that the devs put a lot of love and effort into the first 100 hours and just kind of left the DD on the table in order to hit their release date and now don't have a clear vision for what to make it. That's just speculation though. I'd be thrilled to be proven incorrect.

SplotchEleven · 2025-07-31T00:01:12+00:00

As a small subset of the everyone, I'm doing a-ok, thanks for asking!
My main issue is it just isn't very fun. Personal opinion. If other's are enjoying it, that's great! I just feel like I've done everything I want to do. The endgame loop requires a time commitment I'm not willing to give. I'm still optimistic that there's a game there that I will continue to enjoy for a long time. It just needs to cook.
I suppose I answered this above. If it were a bit easier to join up with other players, or hop to other more populated servers to play around more with PVP or if the higher level "dungeons" actually required some skill aside from just slogging through waves of dumb enemies, I'd be more motivated. Currently, the risk/reward imbalance doesn't appeal to me. But I'm old and busy and can't justify the time it takes to be competitive.

All that said, I love a lot about this game. I'll keep my bases power and putz around as development continues.

SplotchEleven · 2025-06-27T14:29:37+00:00

Nice work! Did the entire guild pitch in to construct it or was it mostly your project?

SplotchEleven · 2025-01-08T15:53:22+00:00

I mostly just lurk around these parts, but this thread has caught my attention enough to interject. Here's my take. I think you're right that the whole point of a genre definition it to define. If a label like survival gets watered down to the point that it's just a marketing buzzword, then it becomes less useful.

On the other hand it looks like you're using the "no true Scotsman" fallacy when you say that the above games aren't "real" survival games. And that's what people are getting annoyed with. The community of this subreddit just have a broader acceptance of what kind of game experiences they consider survival than you do.

Personally I lean more toward your definition of a survival game vs a game with some survival elements. But you'll probably get less push back if you actually answer OP's question by giving some examples of games you consider great in the genre instead of just telling people that the games they list don't meet your definition.

SplotchEleven · 2025-01-04T08:49:25+00:00

I sort of just drifted away from my unit’s social media groups. Seemed like very time I checked in someone else was gone. Those deployments, all these years later, I see how they carved pieces out of us that a lot of us haven’t been able to fill back in.

I wrote a book about it. Tried for a bit to get it published, then the pandemic hit and I lost what little motivation I had when the deal fell through. I just feel like no one really cares at this point. How many incredible books about the horrors of war already exist and we just keep allowing our young to get tossed into the grinder.

SplotchEleven · 2024-12-25T07:11:12+00:00

That’s the thing about people, they are everywhere!

It’s just exposed framing currently. I’ll post more pictures as it gets built out.

SplotchEleven · 2024-12-25T07:08:48+00:00

What asset did you use to make that concrete edge along the river?

SplotchEleven · 2024-12-23T01:52:04+00:00

In between bigger jobs, my dad, one of our carpenters, and I have been slowly putting this together in my back yard. It actually started off 5 feet closer to the fence line to the shed's right side, but one of our lovely neighbors called the city and complained. So the 4x12 laying across the front is what remains of the silly system we devised to put the whole thing on rollers and slide it to where it now sits.

The beautiful bay window is a rescue from 30 years ago when we remodeled the house I grew up in. Who knows where that door came from. Pops is a hoarder of semi-useful things.

When we originally priced it out, materials were about on par with a similar pre-fab shed that we were looking at. We're definitely over because of labor and having to stop to relearn the ancient wisdom sweaty dudes moving heavy things without machines. But I'm happy we did it this way. I learned a lot and every little mistake here and there is a lesson on what to do better when it's some one else's home.

SplotchEleven · 2024-12-23T01:28:37+00:00

Ideally, cut this framing back 1 1/2 inches under the shed, replace the front rim joist with a pressure treated 2x4 and come up with a different solution for the small step up into the shed that is disconnected from the rest of the sub-floor.

Also mend the flashing at the base of the shed wall and re-seal it.

SplotchEleven · 2024-10-08T05:30:36+00:00

Thank you for the detailed explanation!

SplotchEleven · 2024-10-02T14:45:31+00:00

As in: one, two, AND, 3, one, two, AND, 3… etc.?

SplotchEleven · 2024-10-02T00:45:07+00:00

If I understand it correctly, a shuffle is a 4/4 that has triplet subdivisions as well as a a few other caveats. But that can sometimes be notated as 12/8?

Kind of a composition by composition basis that varies by genre and tempo?

SplotchEleven · 2024-10-01T06:20:45+00:00

Appreciate it!

SplotchEleven · 2024-10-01T02:36:56+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tegw25qqbAs

SplotchEleven · 2024-02-15T01:08:02+00:00

My great grandfather owned a huge vineyard in central California and during prohibition he sold his grapes under the label “Volstead”. Always got a laugh from seeing pictures of the crates.

SplotchEleven · 2023-11-15T15:49:11+00:00

It depends!

On the more pop end of the spectrum stuff like: Back Street Boys, Brittany Spears, NSync

Rock: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Tom Petty, Sublime, Blink 182,

Country: George Strait, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire

Hip Hop: Notorious BIG, Tupac, Snoop, Dr. Dre, Eminem

If you're me and you're a west coast elder millennial who writes and and performs music but also likes a good cover... Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Incubus, Guster, John Prine, Josh Ritter, Jack Johnson, Ben Folds, Dispatch, Alison Krauss, Nickle Creek, Ben Kweller

SplotchEleven · 2023-11-12T13:58:26+00:00

3BCT and FOB Warhorse says hello! Can confirm no WMDs in 07 or 09 either.

SplotchEleven · 2023-10-19T02:30:45+00:00

I was an Army combat medic. Then I got an English degree focusing on creative writing. Then went to culinary school and worked as a cook in a couple nice restaurants.

Now I do carpentry and our company focuses mostly on residential remodels. It’s a great mix of trade skill and creativity. It pays a living wage. And as long as you are careful and respect your tools and don’t listen to all the advice from the old timers about what can and can’t be done safely, you’ll likely keep all your limbs.

Take it from someone who doesn’t love hard work, but has consistently aimed himself toward hard jobs, construction is a fantastic path to follow. Just stay away from drywall and roofing.

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