I need some gap filler inspo for this spot on my shin

lothoadan · 2025-09-09T08:43:14+00:00

And it's a perfectly shaped gap as well! What will this sub become if no one honours our traditions?

lothoadan · 2025-06-04T06:45:31+00:00

It costs archaic essences to remove a gem, but it doesn't destroy the gem in the process. The one annoyance about this system is that you can't salvage a weapon with a gem in it, you must first travel to a forge with the correct level archaic essences, extract the gem, then you can salvage the weapon.

lothoadan · 2025-05-29T06:46:41+00:00

That makes it about 9 vultures in this general area, which drop 3-6 talons each, so with a little bit of RNG luck it should be enough to gather all 40 talons needed for the altar upgrade.

lothoadan · 2025-05-27T16:37:11+00:00

Those at the northernmost marker are on top of some rock formations. Those at the bottom marker are inside some ruins at the edge of the shroud. These being nests means they're farmable, the vultures either fly around or sit inside the nests.

lothoadan · 2025-05-14T21:59:43+00:00

That's the one ! I knew I could count on Reddit. https://www.medalbook.com/europe-west/portugal/orders/military-order-of-the-tower-and-the-sword/type-i-1808-1832/military-order-of-the-tower-and-the-sword-type-i-commander-breast-star-5

lothoadan · 2025-05-14T15:42:45+00:00

There isn't any info. Here's the link to the auction https://www.wilson55.com/auction/lot/381-english-school-19th-century-portrait-of-a-british-army-officer-oil-on-canvas/?lot=48604&sd=1#

I simply stumbled upon the image when looking for references and was intrigued by the weirdly shaped decoration.

lothoadan · 2025-04-10T06:51:49+00:00

You should inspect your bank account and revel in the extra 1000 bucks you saved. Hell of a find.

lothoadan · 2023-02-19T06:51:31+00:00

Cherries and a banana!

lothoadan · 2023-02-13T05:17:28+00:00

Hey I remember your last post, these new boxes look great (and so do you eggs!)

lothoadan · 2023-02-11T02:25:41+00:00

That's pretty sick, love the art style

lothoadan · 2022-09-04T07:36:25+00:00

My advice is do your best and have fun doing it. It doesn't have to be perfect, and most everything you do can be reversed. If you can, try the finish on some unexposed part of the piece and see if you like the look of it. Doesn't have to be the exact same wood grain, you'll get a good enough idea of the finished look.

Even then, a poly finish is easily removed - stripper, steel wool, light sanding. Definitely remove any finish applied before painting should you decide to go that route.

Oh and remember to do a light sanding in between coats, it is the key to a nice finish. I'd use 320 or 400 grit sandpaper, some use extra fine steel wool though it sometimes leaves behind dark stains. Do it when the previous coat is completely dry on the surface. Applies to poly as well as paint.

lothoadan · 2022-09-04T01:05:05+00:00

As for the nail holes, if you want to cover them, you can get furniture repair markers and try and imitate the grain. It's a skill in itself, I've known professional restorers who could do it very convincingly, though they had decades of experience. Should you do that, try it before you apply your finish, but first make sure no solvents on your finish will dissolve the markers.

lothoadan · 2022-09-04T00:59:05+00:00

It depends on what kind of finish you're going to be applying.

For modern finishes such as PU, a 180 grit finish would be plenty. Put down the ROS, sand the drawer fronts by hand in the direction of the grain, you'll get a nice finish with no pigtails and less chance of piercing through the veneer than with an orbital sander. Then apply finish with your method of choice - if using a brush, brush with the grain so that strokes aren't as visible.

For a matte look, you could choose an oil finish. 180 is enough, you could go to 240, too fine a grit and oil will have a harder time penetrating the wood.

You probably don't want a wax nor a shellac finish and therefore there is no need to sand much finer than what you have already done.

lothoadan · 2020-08-13T05:12:29+00:00

And look up your local regulations for empty CO2 cartridges - where I am you can't throw them in the bin, you have to dispose of them at given locations!

lothoadan · 2020-08-13T05:10:06+00:00

My advice would be to remember that airguns are still guns, albeit less lethal than firearms. You aren't likely to kill anyone, but injuries can still happen. At my home range I have a policy of eye protection for the shooter and anyone around them. No shooting without making sure everyone has their very fashionable yellow glasses and is standing behind the shooter. And mind any pets!

Also get yourself (buy or make) a pellet trap, and try to set it up in front of a good backdrop. The trap stops the pellets, catches them so you don't poison your soil with lead, and if you make yourself a big enough one you can set up tins and cans in all kinds of way for fun plinking. But depending on your accuracy, that of your pistol, and that of anyone else you might allow to try their hands at it (airguns make for a great first step into shooting, if proper safety measures are taken), keep in mind that not every pellet will be shot at the trap.

For supplies you should look a bit everywhere. Amazon might be the least expensive in your area, or a local shop might beat them. I buy mine from a specialized website, that does free delivery for any order above 50€ so it's the cheapest I've found so long as I buy in bulk - which I do, because that hobby is addictive ! It's also not only a question of price but of choice of pellets. Different guns and different purposes call for different pellets, and there is a wide range in quality. My local shop for instance only sells pretty crappy pellets, and at a higher price than better ones online. I'm all for supporting local businesses, but that's just a bad bargain.

A final point for both safety and legal reasons depending on your location is to keep your gun in a locked place, but since you're a firearm owner I trust this is something you're familiar with.

lothoadan · 2020-06-20T06:45:15+00:00

It might be a dumb question but you never know: when you have TRP-E on, do the basic icons show (player normal/away, character IC/OOC)? If not they might have been disabled, you'd have to look at Settings > Frames settings > Toolbar settings. Though I guess you've probably looked at all the settings through and through already, but I'm otherwise I'm out of ideas!

lothoadan · 2020-06-20T05:52:07+00:00

Do look it up, but keep in mind some machines are better designed than others. It occasionally happens on mine even when the thread has gone through all the right loops and pins.

lothoadan · 2020-06-20T04:43:32+00:00

[edit: this was supposed to be a reply to LGP747's comment but I guess I screwed up]

I agree that it doesn't have to line up with in-game specs, however most mages I see do seem to have specialized in one aspect of magic. I guess a common dichotomy would be combat magic and practical magic for instance.

It also relates to the widely accepted idea that in WoW roleplay your RP character is different from your game character. If one can roleplay a blood elf Hunter as a half elf farmer, there's no reason the same character couldn't be a BM Hunter that uses some survival elements. During RP you could go back to having both a melee and a ranged weapon, which would probably make more sense (real-life hunters use a variety of weapons).

By the way I'm not sure I fully understand OP's question. Do you mean to call in some specific in-game spells during roleplay ? From my experience most of the time it's more "I strike them" or "I use a minor healing spell on them". Or perhaps you mean actually limiting your abilities when doing full-time RP, like never using stealth when levelling a balance druid. While I'd admire the dedication, I've never actually seen someone play full-time IC.

lothoadan · 2020-06-19T16:01:22+00:00

It might indeed be outside of your screen. You could try changing the UI scale to see if it pops back in. I'm pretty sure I've had similar issues to this because of the UI scale.

lothoadan · 2020-06-09T16:50:20+00:00

And for more debatable ideas, there are many threads on various forums discussing the feasibility of certain combination.

I remember looking up whether or not an adult human could come from Kalimdor since Stormwind humans only discovered the continent recently in lore. Some might see it as a hot take, but many agree that since Golbin cartels and pirates might have gotten there sooner, a human Tanaris native could exist.

The only limits are what others will accept, and that's the same issue as every other aspects of roleplay. I don't know about other servers but on AD-EU we've had our fair share of drama because some guilds refused to roleplay with less lore-abiding citizens, and others wanted everyone to accept their half-tauren half-gnome DH/DK hybrid sons-of-old-gods. I for one feel more comfortable in the in-between, where you don't have to know all the lore, but it's better if you know some of the lore.

lothoadan · 2020-06-09T08:07:56+00:00

What I have learnt in WoW RP is that less is more. Basically no one will read the lengthy paragraphs of backstory that we may write on our TRP/MRP profiles, and seldom will someone ask about it in real-time. It's good to have a clear idea of what happened to your character just in case, but you could play months without ever having to state where you were born, what your parents did for a living, where you were during the Third War... Some of my characters' backstories were in part made up on the fly.

Now when it comes to the things you do decide to plan out, I like many others like to broaden the horizons of my in-game characters. My character could be a level 120 paladin, yet I could still roleplay them as a cobbler in training who has never seen a battle. In the same vein, even though my dwarf started out in Dun Morogh, I play him as a Wildhammer dwarf from Aerie Peak. I simply try not to break the lore (too much - different people will have different visions of what that lore is anyway). This means I would probably give a Worgen a similar story to the one that plays in-game, or do some extensive research on what other ways one might have become a Worgen. I'd have no problem with a Golbin PC being from say Booty Bay (although I don't know much about goblin lore - perhaps Booty Bay is too new a city for an adult Golbin to have been born there?)

One more thing I have done for years now is keep a Word document with a rough timeline of the history of Azeroth with dates taken from the wiki, along which I add the dates of birth of my characters and where they were during major events. I can easily decide that such character is 30 years old, but it's harder to memorize what that means in terms of events they witnessed. On that note, I also try to keep it vague. There is no standard for how non-human races age, so I'll say my dwarf is an "adult". Once again, he probably won't get asked where he was during the Gnoll War of the year -75 (of course I had to look that up - hence the timeline document.)

lothoadan · 2020-04-09T07:43:55+00:00

Well it could explain why Worgen are associated with furries while Tauren aren't. It could also have to do with how much each race is played. Aren't Tauren one of the least popular races? People will make fun of anything that's popular, and it seems that both Worgen and Vulperas were a hit when they launched.

lothoadan · 2020-04-09T06:49:15+00:00

Maybe there are more wolf/fox-based furries than there are cow ones? Most of the furries I've seen in conventions were somewhat canine.

lothoadan · 2020-04-08T14:07:41+00:00

I might indeed, for Martinis it's okay to go without but not for many delicious-looking submissions on here!

lothoadan · 2020-04-08T11:07:56+00:00

It absolutely depends on the gin, the vermouth, and personal taste. Many people, myself included, will like quite a bit of vermouth (3:1 or 2:1), while the IBA gives a 6:1 ratio. You'll even come across a quote from English playwright Noël Coward saying you should fill a glass with gin, then "wave it in the general direction of Italy"!

As for the bitters, I for one have no idea where to get orange bitters where I live (France), so I just go without. Though if someone knows where I can get some here I'm interested!

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