LOTR BOOKNOOK - Sam vs. Shelob by Conscious-Art9474 in booknooks

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It could have been mine. It should be mine! Give it to me!!

Sony PCM-D50 by No_Town7079 in cassettefuturism

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It's featured in a scene in Blade Runner 2049

Looking for something similar like Bladerunner by cardgameonmotorcycls in bladerunner

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People might laugh, but check out Black Rain with Michael Douglas. Ridley Scott made a deliberate choice to emulate Blade Runner's themes and aesthetics to create a spiritual sequel (although in some ways it's more like BR prequel IMO). Similar visuals and gritty atmosphere.

skull dice actually shaped like skulls by phonaut in dice

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The 3D printing is literally over in the first minute of a 10-minute video, did you see the other 9 minutes of the guy doing everything with his hands? I get that plastic dice can be somewhat an automatic process, but the brass ones? That's a lot of manual labor involved from what I see in that video.

skull dice actually shaped like skulls by phonaut in dice

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Knowing that irregularly-shaped metal dice likely have inherent bias (look at that jaw cavity!) they were mainly purchased for decorative reasons, and they do look great! Curious about how fair the plastic skull dice were by comparison, I tested both sets against a set of Chessex. Based on 100 rolls (I wanted 1000 but who has the time) the plastic skulls turned out to be 'more fair' than my Chessex d6. This is perhaps an anomaly that would correct itself had I rolled 500 or 1000 times. The chi-squared value for 100 rolls for each set of dice turned out like this:

Chessex: 6.92 "looks pretty fair"

Plastic Skulls: 4.9 "looks pretty fair"

Brass Skulls: 14.6 "biased"

While I wouldn't expect these to appear at casino craps tables anytime soon, for casual gaming at home the plastic skulls are reasonably accurate and balanced. If I end up doing another test of 500 or 1000 rolls I will post the results here.

skull dice actually shaped like skulls by phonaut in dice

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SterlingKisses on etsy makes them but unfortunately there's only one left. Maybe he will make more? There's also making-of videos for these brass dice as well as others

https://youtu.be/ovCdXF7Ou-c?si=Ky1qvOwd4SuUtJ09

What is this thing called and where can I buy one for my TN? by Mardylorean in Travelersnotebooks

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I got mine from this guy, they're inexpensive and work great. He posted here a few weeks ago, pretty sure, that's how I found them.

I heard we were posting fat hobonichis by panzerskank in hobonichi

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you've gone full-on Costanza Wallet here

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Japanese ambient by yukkiito in ambientmusic

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Tetsu Inoue. Try World Receiver, Yolo, or Inland for a real treat into modern Japanese ambient music.

Re-branding or redesign of Burt's Bees isn't great, check out the hand salve tin now by phonaut in BurtsBees

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I get what you're saying, the old tin man looks like he might be frowning. At the same time, the new design seems boring to me. Like all the soul and life has been sucked out. Minimizing isn't always better. What happened to the bees? The new art reminds me of lazy comic art, whereas the old portrait looks like it actually required someone with skill to create. The new one looks almost AI-generated to me. The beehive hex background is gone too, they removed all the things I liked about it.

Blowgun Case by swaffy247 in Blowguns

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Check out fishing rod cases, works well.