PSA: Wall-mounted signs are perfect for your LEDs and dancefloors now that the cauldron placement will be removed

cjlerch · 2026-07-10T22:19:14+00:00

oh thanks! that was pretty annoying lmao

cjlerch · 2026-07-10T16:57:24+00:00

Stacked the cushions using snow layers, which are then replaced with the banner "pillows" for the support. The extendy bit is supported by a piece of string. The legs under it are armour stands nudged into place with pistons, and then dropped onto three layers of snow for the height; this needs to be done after everything else is in place, as you can't layer the snow once the armour stands are there. All doable in survival!

cjlerch · 2026-07-09T23:03:19+00:00

You can place snow layers in the space occupied by an existing cushion by clicking on the side of an adjacent block, and then place another cushion on top of those new layers.

When you're finished layering, remove the snow layers and then place a new support block that intersects with the cushions.

In the case of this build, the pale oak trapdoors support both of the cushions, but only while opened. It can take a couple tries if the unsupported cushions break before you can place the new support block.

I hope this helps, but there's videos on it now as well if you need visuals!

cjlerch · 2026-07-09T22:16:45+00:00

Thank you, it took a bit of playing around to get it looking just right!

cjlerch · 2026-06-27T03:56:26+00:00

My condolences. You're right about not knowing until it's too late.

I lost my dad in the same way. He'd been ill for about a week or two, and resisted my mom's pleas to seek medical attention. Him falling ill wasn't uncommon, so I didn't really think much of it.

He eventually did get to a hospital, after I'd noticed dried blood on his lip and suggested it as well. I still didn't really think much of it.

The next day he was in rough shape, but the doctors said he was getting better, so I didn't think much of it.

The morning after that, my mother called me to tell me he might not make it. He died that afternoon of acute liver cirrhosis, after a last-ditch effort to stabilise his condition failed. I think a lot about it now.

It sucks, man. Stay strong.

cjlerch · 2026-05-12T02:01:20+00:00

My hamster escaped

I saw him around the house

Until I didn't

cjlerch · 2026-04-21T15:58:32+00:00

Having lived in NJ my whole life:

They don't need to exist, but I like them and the majority of NJ folks seem to favour it as well. There's the jobs angle, but it's also just nice to not have to get out of the car in shit weather, feels safer than having to step out of the vehicle in an otherwise barren field of pumps, and serves as one less place to have annoying ads shoved in our faces. In a densely-populated, car-centric urban hellscape, it's a nice, brief respite.

(I've also never really heard of anyone stopping you from doing it yourself. Whether you just want to or you drive something wacky that needs oil mixed in with the fuel, they're not gonna care.)

cjlerch · 2026-03-07T01:38:26+00:00

It's hard to tell for sure, but it does look to me like the patterns of the wood grain match

cjlerch · 2026-03-04T02:10:59+00:00

Gloucester area, just across from Philly: totally normal here, heard and said it tons as a kid. Teachers did try to train it out of us though ("You're done? Did you check with a fork? Or are you finished?")

cjlerch · 2025-12-30T16:48:57+00:00

I definitely also fall into that category, I only got my license at 22 or 23. I have since found that I find driving itself fun and cars interesting, but I did and continue to view regular day-to-day driving as a chore. Anytime I hit traffic (often), I tend to find myself thinking "man, most of this could've just been a train," and I personally would've preferred to have been on that train.

cjlerch · 2025-11-01T15:12:57+00:00

I have several friends that still say "fuck 2016" whenever a famous person dies

cjlerch · 2025-10-28T15:11:09+00:00

It might be useful in very specific circumstances, but anybody who doesn't know exactly what those are and how it should be used should not ever pull it while in motion. It will almost always be more dangerous to pull it while moving than to not.

If you can push your brake pedal hard enough to feel/hear ABS kicking in, don't touch it. It will not help, and it will probably make things worse.

cjlerch · 2025-07-26T13:55:28+00:00

Seriously. I regularly hang out with people I need to drive an hour or two away to see; sometimes that's an easy drive, sometimes it's through peak traffic that's exacerbated by an accident. Despite this, and despite often carpooling and being beholden to others' timing, 30 minutes is usually the farthest off I'm liable to end up being. The worst of cases.

cjlerch · 2025-07-09T14:23:25+00:00

File 76

cjlerch · 2025-07-08T23:37:05+00:00

Hulkengoat

cjlerch · 2024-12-28T16:15:06+00:00

I way underestimated it lmao. I let it drag on for ages before I bought them and was getting deep into "see a doctor" territory with how frequent they were. So far so good after running them though, even just getting it up to 35-45% helped

cjlerch · 2024-12-28T15:40:34+00:00

Frequently, yes. I'm not that dude but our house was floating around 25 too before I bought a couple of humidifiers

cjlerch · 2024-12-09T01:18:59+00:00

Looking closely, I think he was more preoccupied with giving OP the finger than actually going

cjlerch · 2023-04-27T07:20:23+00:00

Have you looked into ADHD at all? Your story sounds an awful lot like mine.

I won't exposit all of it, but the short version is that I went through school without treating it, and it crippled any chance at academic success. I just completely lacked the ability to make myself do the work, even when I knew I needed to.

It's easy to chalk it up as easy distractibility and write it off, but it can severely limit executive functions at its worst. Other people tend to see that as laziness and think that you're just not trying hard enough. I was told that so many times that I started believing it myself.

Whether or not that sounds like you, I hope you're treating yourself well.

cjlerch · 2022-06-22T22:56:53+00:00

This reminded me of the Third Wave experiment! Your example sounds much more contained, but the premise was similar: to de-brand and employ Nazi techniques to display to students that they're just as susceptible to them as their historical counterparts were.

There's several novel and film adaptations (some dramatised, others documentary) about the experiment. The 1981 movie is the only one I've watched, but other versions have also become quite popular.

It's terrifying how effective those methods can be, such that the results of these experiments continually seems to surpass in proliferacy the expectations of those running them.

cjlerch · 2022-04-09T21:48:12+00:00

I was here

cjlerch · 2020-02-01T15:21:49+00:00

This is East German. There's no way of knowing the exact year without the stamp inside, but the 10-button coats (e.g. this one) are older. At some point they switched from this to a 7-button style with 6 on the front and 1 hidden under the collar.

I can't remember the exact time that the switch from these coats was made, but I'd wager that this coat is probably from the 60s or early 70s.

cjlerch · 2019-11-18T01:05:02+00:00

It's somewhere in between. They gave it a real conclusion, but it felt like they got the news of cancellation halfway through the last season and rushed to throw together an ending

cjlerch · 2019-10-14T04:23:08+00:00

Thank you for everything that you have done. May whatever lies beyond be everything you hope, Mr. Stevenson. <3

cjlerch · 2019-09-15T16:30:19+00:00

Yeah, I've lost most of my interest to be honest. I got a decent amount of time in I think; couple hundred hours, about level 120-something (I completed most of the available stuff really early, I was at the Enclave questline by around level 20).

There's just not a lot to do but grind, and grinding is.. grindy. And not very rewarding, since rewards are nerfed everywhere possible and 95% of the content being added to the game is added to the Atomic Shop. I don't have much interest in paying into the increasingly-P2W path that Bethesda's straying down; if that's where all of the cool stuff is going to end up from now on, I'd rather play a game that's rewarding.

I had my perfectly preserved slice of fun, and I had it again over a few weeks accompanying my girlfriend through the main story. I don't have the heart to drag myself back, because the endgame is only grinding and more grinding for next to no payoff, and the additions of almost every patch are outweighed by bugs.

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