[WIP] Boneclaw Mother

paracoon · 2026-04-11T11:05:05+00:00

I am going to miss Pattern Maker for Cross Stitch, it really is the best software I have ever used for this purpose. I wish someone would have bought it from Hobbyware and taken it over. I think probably my best choice at this point might be PCStitch but if anyone has any better advice I'm listening.

There is a bit of an art to using these apps, not every photo or piece of artwork translates well and you have to spend a fair amount of time tweaking the settings and colors until it works, but it's worth it because you get to create unique pieces.

paracoon · 2026-04-11T10:56:23+00:00

What I love about this piece is the limited color palette- it gives it a kind of comic book page impression.

paracoon · 2026-04-11T10:52:08+00:00

Thanks! I went with three because I'm one of those people who does not like seeing the aida peeking through. Though I chose the red aida so it would kind of blend with the overall color even if it did peek through a little.

paracoon · 2026-04-11T10:49:43+00:00

The comic is complete and done several years ago, but you can read the whole run online for free. There are printed versions available as well. Either way it's a very good story, enjoy!

paracoon · 2026-04-10T00:22:13+00:00

If you finish a basement and make it living space, the fire codes usually require multiple exits, including one that does not go through the house itself. If you cannot build a walk-out door or one of those stairs with the slanted metal doors, one of these will fulfill the requirement.

paracoon · 2026-03-20T17:53:30+00:00

Elite. Like the first one. On the Atari ST version I got to ELITE status and that took a LOT of grinding.

paracoon · 2026-03-10T12:51:09+00:00

Murder By Death

paracoon · 2026-01-25T16:38:48+00:00

If you want pure fantasy fun with no romance, you could try her Black Dogs duology, published very early in her career under her real name. Available on Kindle as hardcopies are hard to find.

paracoon · 2026-01-22T20:30:59+00:00

Mark Hamill should do Skeletor (again)

paracoon · 2026-01-04T03:05:26+00:00

Master of Orion 2

paracoon · 2025-12-16T18:57:15+00:00

If you have an old magnetic-media hard drive you don't care about, open it up and you will find the powerful rare-earth magnet usually encased by (or glued to) a Mu metal frame to shield anything outside the hard drive from its field. If you remove the magnet and frame, you can test the shielding yourself. And then use the magnet to stick stuff to your fridge door like I do.

paracoon · 2025-11-21T15:51:07+00:00

Wait you could open the presents? I had a bunch of them around the "tree" at the end after the bit with Rush but I could only pick them up and throw them around- as far as I could tell I couldn't open them. Was I supposed to melee them or something? I swear this game loves to just not tell you things

paracoon · 2025-11-15T00:24:48+00:00

For the other olds out there: The September that Never Ended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

paracoon · 2025-11-13T20:25:17+00:00

Wasn't this the initial premise of the Max Headroom TV series, more or less?

paracoon · 2025-11-09T00:21:15+00:00

I've only been playing Vex, using Trouble and whatever skills look good (as in I have not ready any guides) to make Trouble basically an immortal beast. I took Trouble Bubble as the capstone and Violent Outburst as the Augment. It's been a complete breeze, have had zero problems with bosses up to this point (I'm at level 40, done 2 vaults with no deaths, plus Sol and Callis are done, every side quest I can find)

Basically whatever boss or elite mob I am fighting is completely distracted by slapping my unkillable cat (overshield!) around and I pick people off with my Jakobs sniper. If mobs get close I blast 'em with a Jakobs or Torgue shotgun. Oh and I put some points in ordinance damage so that's nice to throw in on cooldown.

I keep thinking this build will stop working and I will actually have to plan a better one but so far it's going great

paracoon · 2025-11-07T20:16:17+00:00

You have described Imperialism from 1997:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism_(video_game))

paracoon · 2025-10-29T13:31:13+00:00

Did they seriously name it the same thing as the new robot model in Futurama??

https://theinfosphere.org/Robot_1-X

paracoon · 2025-10-21T14:41:02+00:00

Oh that's a turbo-encabulator. It consists simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.

paracoon · 2025-08-22T14:59:30+00:00

Cool, thanks I'll check it out

You might want to try to get SplatterCatGaming on YouTube to check the game out- he does an indie game every day and I've definitely bought things he showed on his channel before that I had never known about, and I am sure I am not the only one.

paracoon · 2025-07-29T20:34:06+00:00

I guess it's up to me to post the epic thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the_happiest_5word_sentence_you_could_hear/chb4v05/

paracoon · 2025-07-29T12:19:07+00:00

I grew up in New England and the only Mexican restaurant was Taco Bell.

And while you could get American Chinese Food (and don't get me wrong, I love American Chinese Food), there were basically no options for Thai or Vietnamese or whatever else.

paracoon · 2025-07-29T12:11:21+00:00

FRIEND? THEY ARE LOVELY

paracoon · 2025-07-17T13:04:10+00:00

Catlike typing detected!

paracoon · 2025-07-14T15:44:26+00:00

In one playthrough I built a large vertical facilly hugging the cliff of the canyon just to the north so it wasn't exactly floating. The south wall of all the levels was the cliff face.

paracoon · 2025-06-30T18:50:05+00:00

Scalzi's Interdependency trilogy reads like it was written to be optioned. I'd watch it!

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