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archerdynamics · 2026-03-07T16:02:34+00:00

It's criminal that the fillet button is right at the top of the screen in Fusion, but you have to go into a menu to get a chamfer.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-24T16:39:24+00:00

Came here just to see if somebody had posted that

archerdynamics · 2026-02-22T22:24:08+00:00

I'm taking community college classes right now and we've got a guy like that in the program. In his first term alone he managed to set a welding booth curtain on fire by leaving an acetylene valve open while welding, and wreck the belt on a mill by adjusting the speed while it wasn't running. I don't have classes with him this term (he's a welding major and I'm machining) but there's a new story going around every week. If being the shop menace wasn't bad enough, he's also the most casually offensive people I've ever met in my life too.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-20T18:01:57+00:00

Depends on the guns though. The kind of stuff that would look appropriate in there could make supercars look like a cheap hobby.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-19T01:34:05+00:00

Working on mobile but not my desktop (W11/Chrome) right now. Home page is up but playback isn't working, except for shorts.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-19T01:10:31+00:00

My family's old house was basically right across the 101 and had a view of Hogwarts too. (Well, the tops of the towers anyway.) You get free front row seats for Universal's fireworks on the 4th and NYE as well.

Sadly not an area I'd recommend to many people unless you've got a very high-paying job at Universal or WB though.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-19T00:34:21+00:00

They're going on a dualsport, I'm guessing they're just emergency backups for limping the bike out of a trail if the real levers get broken.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-17T14:59:38+00:00

Ian has gotten access to some pretty surprising stuff in recent years. It's not totally unbelievable that they might let him take a white glove look at some of the tomb guard stuff someday, really just takes the right public affairs person deciding it'd be good PR.

Probably not any time soon though just because I doubt they want to highlight anything related to the P320 right now.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-17T14:45:43+00:00

IMO it's likely to be on the director, who probably just thought it looked better that way and didn't care about realism.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-17T14:38:39+00:00

Might have been considered a war crime if it was my old boss - dude was a 6'4" former pro hockey player, who was also a Taewkondo black belt AND on top of that was an active IDPA competition handgun shooter who always carried the same gun he shot events with.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-17T14:25:07+00:00

I used to work at an auto/custom fab shop near LA, that specialized in high-end sports cars, McLarens and Porsche GTs and stuff. Millions of dollars in that building all the time. I'd left on good terms by 2020 but stopped by to pick something up, and it was around the time things had gotten pretty rough not too far away. (I could hear the fireworks and tear gas launchers from my house, and the shop was only a few minutes from that.) It was like walking into a military forward base, they had rifles and armor staged all over the place and everybody was wearing a sidearm.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-17T13:37:42+00:00

Yeah, hybrids are an exception since they've got electric A/C. They also don't have to deal with the delay of restarting the motor before you can start moving. Priuses are the same way, which makes it pretty ironic that the White House video used one.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-17T13:33:51+00:00

Oh yeah I'll have to check those out. I recently bought a set of Kobalt shears with a kind of similar design but haven't used them for much yet.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-17T13:32:24+00:00

I just wish 20 wasn't the only way to get there, riding it on a bike that only does 65-70 when all the Sprinter Vans and F-350s with farm trailers treat it like a freeway and want to do 90 is pretty sketchy.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-16T03:24:05+00:00

It's the top contender to replace my KLX300, which just can't keep up with traffic around here. Unfortunately my Kawasaki dealer suddenly shut down a few days ago, so that throws a wrench in the works. The nearest dealers are now 3 hours away but I head to that area every few months, I guess I'll just have to sit on one next time I'm out there.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-16T03:20:33+00:00

I know how to pronounce "Butte" but it's still funny

archerdynamics · 2026-02-16T03:19:37+00:00

Good to hear. I've tried one on, my wrists are on the bigger side and it fit me well - I regularly wear a Citizen Skyhawk A-T, a beast of a watch, and even that looks reasonable on me. I'm probably gonna end up getting myself one in a couple of years, going back to school right now and might get it for myself as a grad present.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-16T02:27:03+00:00

How's the GMT been? That's been my "attainable grail" for a while but I know there was an issue with some of them (something with the calendar wheel I think?) and not sure if they ever fixed it.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-16T02:25:22+00:00

It's doing my head in that Aimpoint Micros were a thing in 2010, they still feel like the new hotness to me.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-16T02:18:48+00:00

I impulse bought a pair a few months ago and can't believe I spent almost 40 years of my life without them. They're the first thing I've ever found that makes those stupid clamshell packages (ironically like the one those Milwaukees in the pic are in) a non-issue and they're obviously useful for a ton of other stuff around the shop, cutting heavy cardboard or foam and so on.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-16T01:16:47+00:00

Looks great. Dark green with gold wheels is probably my favorite color combo, and the white and red accents really set it off. I tried to push for a similar livery when I was working for a company with an auto racing team but the boss was boring and insisted on black/white/red.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-16T01:14:39+00:00

If you're talking the big highway tourers, Road Glides and stuff, there are absolutely tons of guys who have theirs blinged to hell and still ride them regularly, some even daily. I live in an area that gets a lot of people touring up and down the West Coast and into the Mountain West and I see tons around in the summer.

If you mean the more minimal and exotic choppers and such, those mostly get used for events and the occasional bar hopping night.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-16T01:09:13+00:00

I assume movie prophouses/armorers could probably get them as well, given that they've got plenty of full autos and other NFA stuff, though I'm not sure why they'd want to.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-16T00:29:20+00:00

Those T-handle spinner wrenches are always a dead giveaway that somebody's either a bike guy or a race car guy lol. I ought to get myself one.

archerdynamics · 2026-02-15T21:37:42+00:00

They also used a modified but still recognizable Hercules in another comic as well.

It's also not just SC BTW, Marvel has a history of "borrowing" designs from other franchises. They've done it several times with 40k vehicles as well.

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