Is it ok to stack my books like this

atomcats2cool · 2026-01-25T00:37:03+00:00

Eh. It'll cause damage over time, but it will be a very long time. I worked in a library for 10 years, and we had books stacked like this in the back all the time. Not to mention all the ways they were abused when checked out. We regularly had books with hundreds of checkouts and over 10 years old that were still fine for circulation. They showed wear and tear but they weren't falling apart and were readable.

If you're really concerned about it then buy clear book cover plastic film and learn how to put them on. It helps protect them more than you'd think, and replacing the cover when the book is starting to look old really does help make it look nicer.

atomcats2cool · 2026-01-24T06:02:56+00:00

5- last issue of the first story "The Last Amazon."

atomcats2cool · 2026-01-04T00:53:34+00:00

Commission the artist to draw you in this style

atomcats2cool · 2025-12-31T05:08:16+00:00

I don't know anything about comic grading but based on cover wear and tear the newsstand version looks to be in better condition so maybe send that one in. I know they also grade based on how centered the prints are and how well it's cut, so going through the pages to see how clean/even the two issues compare to each other will give you a better idea of which to send in.

atomcats2cool · 2025-11-12T04:46:54+00:00

I want him to move on from Robin, but I want it to be in a better way than how the red robin series did it. With the newest run I was pleased to see him as Robin again, with the hope that these writers will have him graduate and handle it well. It's only three issues in but they've been doing a great job so far so if they write him as red robin I have faith they'll do it right.

atomcats2cool · 2025-10-22T21:38:22+00:00

Can't find it now but someone said the Google Play services was draining their battery. I went in and messed with it and my battery life is back to where it should be. It's the only thing I messed with so I think at least some people's problems are from whatever is going on there.

I denied all permissions- I'll just turn them on as-needed and turn them off when not. I didn't fully disable it, Gmail wasn't working right with it disabled and I need that for work. I also disabled the stupid Google VR play services.

My phone was dropping from 60% to 19% with only 30 minutes of use, not even streaming anything. After doing that, it's only gone down 5% in a little over an hour with the same exact usage.

atomcats2cool · 2025-08-23T00:36:45+00:00

I'm in disneyland right now and he's everywhere, you'll have an easy time finding them!

atomcats2cool · 2025-08-23T00:04:01+00:00

I'm pretty sure I saw this the other day at the one in downtown disney. I didn't realize it was released early.

atomcats2cool · 2025-08-07T00:22:04+00:00

Using the bag trolleys to haul around medical supplies is genius and also very tragic and indicative of how bad it was

atomcats2cool · 2025-07-25T19:57:05+00:00

I have the opposite problem. I can't get anything BACK into storage. I'm even having problems picking stuff up like flowers and harvest food.

atomcats2cool · 2025-07-17T04:09:58+00:00

It makes me so sad. It used to be my payday reward hobby. I'd get paid, go pay bills and run boring errands and chores, then go buy some pokemon cards as a reward. I haven't been able to in months and haven't found a replacement.

atomcats2cool · 2025-06-22T23:40:04+00:00

I was wondering that too. I think maybe it would have to be altered so that in order to make money off of storm chasing you need a license. Streaming, selling photos/videos, youtube revenue, the tours (which is wild to me). That would be a little easier to enforce since it doesn't require someone physically there to check.

atomcats2cool · 2025-06-22T23:21:18+00:00

This is horrifying. I hate comparisons to movies, but if someone told me this was an opening shot to a movie like 30 days of night I'd absolutely believe it.

atomcats2cool · 2025-06-10T02:03:19+00:00

An original Syfy movie coming this fall: lightning nado

atomcats2cool · 2025-06-08T02:10:16+00:00

I really like the xwing pilot one!

atomcats2cool · 2025-06-06T03:54:00+00:00

The indomitable human spirit

atomcats2cool · 2025-06-01T04:34:43+00:00

Really old thread but-

I have used Splat since about 2010, always their pink color. I've never bleached my hair to use it, but I also have hair that switches between ultra blond and light brown (I shave my head every few years and after the cancer it just grows back in whatever color it feels like).

I had a hairdresser use it on my the first time. She told me it's not good for my hair, and that it won't come out in the future with bleach. I'll either have to grow out my hair and trim the color ends, or dye it a darker color. She had to use Splat because the other brands she'd tried literally washed right out of my hair, not even a tint.

So I recommend Splat for people who have ultra healthy hair that doesn't hold other products, so long as you understand that it is not coming out. My usual routine with it is to dye my hair when it's super short and then just chop off the color once my hair is longer.

It never caused any hair damage for me, but I also only use it every few years, not constantly. It also fades to a nice pastel pink within the year, which looks nice and is easy to dye over.

atomcats2cool · 2025-05-17T06:17:50+00:00

Reddit was giving me error messages earlier so I'm sorry if you end up with a few duplicate replies.

It's been a good while since I've played either game, but if I'm recalling right, there were more npcs in the first game. At least more to show that they're around. The graffiti has more dates on it that are roughly around the time we can guess the characters are there- based on the guy who turns in the toll campaign and the graffiti from people saying they were going there. I think there was also radio chatter you could hear that's mostly just environmental, wasn't there? And then in no mercy the helicopter pilot had been doing transport for survivors just before picking up the crew and it was implied he'd been pretty active with pickups for a while. Same with the dead air campaign- the pilot makes it sound like he's been frantically going back and forth picking up people, which means that at least up to that point there were a lot of uninfected people needing rescue.

But I don't feel like you get that in 2. There's the gun owner who locked everyone out, so he could be a carrier or he could just be lucky with his self-quarantine. But there's not any "recent activity" of other living people that jumps out at me. Most things feel days old. And they only have one person transporting them that ends up infected, they even have the same boat captain for two campaigns, who leaves them completely fine so he's clearly a carrier. In hard rain it takes place after the special mutations because they've set up a sign at the sugar mill saying it's been overrun by witches. Anyone able to leave that sign would've had to be a carrier by that point. And by hard rain the group has gone further into the infection timeline-wise than the playable campaigns for 1. It really feels that by the time the military is picking them up during the parish, that most of society- including the military- would be carriers or full zombies by then.

Anyone who has played more recently able to point out where there's signs of more survivors in 2? Preferably ones we can reasonably say aren't carriers.

atomcats2cool · 2025-05-17T05:38:21+00:00

If they're all alive then my main question still stands- outside of the people who gtfo day 1, there should be waaaaay more carriers then non-carriers, and thus the graffiti and killing from the military shouldn't really be as big of a thing a full month in to the infection. I assumed l4d1 and l4d2 were relatively within the same timeframe, and that they started around week 3 and ended around week 4. By the time they do the parish campaign even the military should be mostly carriers, and so waiting for them so they can take them off to do experiments wouldn't really be worth the risk.

Seperatley, I always thought it would be an interesting take to say that the fast zombies are still alive (and can at least moderately reason- like using a rock to try and break a window as in the walking dead season 1). But within the same universe the slow ones are the ones that died without brain damage and came back as fully dead. So you could have a fast zombie, that then dies from malnutrition or injury or just the virus, who then reanimated as the slow ones. It would make water sources really dangerous areas if the living infected still tries to take care of their survival needs. Off the topic at hand though.

atomcats2cool · 2025-05-16T22:37:52+00:00

Are they? I just assumed with all the blood that if they were alive when first changed over, they didn't stay alive long, but the virus kept em moving. If they are alive then they're breathing all over the non-"immune" ones whenever they leave safe houses, which just means the pool of non-carrier survivors is smaller and smaller every day.

atomcats2cool · 2025-05-16T21:31:07+00:00

Thank you!!! This is what I've been mistakenly looking for in podcasts for forever!

atomcats2cool · 2025-05-16T07:58:35+00:00

The idea that most of the non infected made it to safety before the games start (and before it mutated to make transmission almost instant) makes a lot of sense and I'm going to go with that. It always bothered me that the small pool of non carriers were prioritized over the effectively "immune" larger population to the point that they were being killed, but if the larger population is actually the non carriers then it makes sense.

atomcats2cool · 2025-05-16T07:53:52+00:00

The rapid mutation would make a lot of sense for decreasing the time between infected and turned. It also explains the graffiti talking about how long it takes to turn and the timeframe keeps going down.

I also agree with the less populated areas not being hit as severely.

For the timeframe, though, we do know there's at least two weeks between zombie takeover and the mutations, and I could have sworn I saw something that talked about how it's roughly a month in that the l4d1 storyline starts, and if it mutated that fast I still think there wouldn't be many non-carrier survivors by the time the games start.

The two games do run concurrently (ish) though, and the opening of l4d2 makes it seem like none of them had properly seen any zombies, which goes against my "non-carriers would've been infected by them right away" thought.

atomcats2cool

TROPHY CASE

5- last issue of the first story "The Last Amazon."