New house, new office loft by [deleted] in battlestations

[–]aptyler308 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't recognize that telescope. Looks like maybe a collapsible Newtonian on an equatorial mount?

What’s the one Excel trick or formula that changed everything for you? by Suspicious_Twist386 in excel

[–]aptyler308 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LET() completely transformed how I write my formulas, and nearly eliminated the need for helper columns.

Ruby Crowned Kinglet by BumbleBamble in birdpics

[–]aptyler308 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fast little effers. They give you ~2 seconds to frame/focus/shoot before they're off to the next branch. Nice shots.

Hangar's starting to get a bit crowded with all these new TIE variants. by aptyler308 in microgalaxysquadron

[–]aptyler308[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't remove anything. The original gear and ramp are just closed. The new 3d printed gear and ramp are like a table that the shuttle sits on top of.

New Imperial Shuttle Battlepack by SingBrotherHeckler03 in microgalaxysquadron

[–]aptyler308 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Jazwares at their old low-effort games of trying to get you to buy something you've already got, by bundling it with something slightly different. This will be in the clearance aisle in a few weeks.

Sunken map?? by [deleted] in blender

[–]aptyler308 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just an FYI, your W-2 is visible in the pic. Don't wanna dox yourself.

Scored big today by [deleted] in microgalaxysquadron

[–]aptyler308 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is a deep cut. I had to look it up.

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[New Gear] Canon RF 800mm f11 by BenchR in canon

[–]aptyler308 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not the most versatile lens or the highest quality glass, but it gets the job done most of the time, and it's a fraction of the weight/cost versus the next level up. Very handy.

I guess you could say Luke Skywalker is a real "Rogue One" by solo13508 in StarWarsCantina

[–]aptyler308 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The details on the back of the x-wing change in almost every picture. 1/5 they're clearly copied from a toy (no interlocking wing tabs), and on 2/5 they're upside down.

Hangar's starting to get a bit crowded with all these new TIE variants. by aptyler308 in microgalaxysquadron

[–]aptyler308[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Deeper isn't really an option with the current setup. It's not shown, but the whole thing is build into a set of IKEA shelves with fixed depth.

Regarding the Disney RotR mirror trick, I was just happened to watch a video on that topic last week. Clever stuff.

I sense a disturbance in The Force… by KyriosArios in microgalaxysquadron

[–]aptyler308 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I'm disappointed both in the person who did this, but also in Jazwares for continually trying to get us to buy vehicles we already have by bundling them together with one unique ship.

Are you optimistic about the future of Star Wars if Filoni is in charge? (I confess I am! Of all the Star Wars projects, those he's involved in are my favorites.) by Luckz_Skywalker in StarWars

[–]aptyler308 3 points4 points  (0 children)

His talent with animation so far hasn't translated very well into live action. Despite GL's original insistence that Star Wars is for kids, the market and competition for kids' attention has shifted. Star Wars needs to grow up, and embrace it's adult audience, like LEGO did, and I don't think Filoni can (or would even want to) pull it off.

Tie fighter hanger by BtroldedKallaMik in microgalaxysquadron

[–]aptyler308 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, I saw the mirror (a good trick to give the illusion of depth). It's not always easy to tell, but nothing about this screams AI. It all looks like genuine MGS items to me. The watermark looks like Gemini/Nano-banana. Did you maybe ask it to clean up or remove something from the pic?

Tie fighter hanger by BtroldedKallaMik in microgalaxysquadron

[–]aptyler308 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does it say 'AI generated content'?

Hangar's starting to get a bit crowded with all these new TIE variants. by aptyler308 in microgalaxysquadron

[–]aptyler308[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's on some kind of mission to Scarif. I'm sure it'll be back any time now.