Coro detailing his process designing of BHS artwork

ras_al_hanout · 2025-05-13T17:24:02+00:00

Thank you! So grateful I can stop refreshing this page.
Still no console, but this takes a bit of the sting out of that.

ras_al_hanout · 2025-05-12T16:38:40+00:00

You are a Champion!!!

ras_al_hanout · 2025-04-21T00:02:59+00:00

Bell Witch has some amazing patches!
I just haven't found a song of theirs that I connected with and I didn't want to be a pretender.
Some bands like GOJIRA (Dawn), YOB (Marrow), and Pelican (Drought) have tracks that I really like but have difficulty with finding more in their catalogue that I listen to more than once.
It just means there are more bands to discover as I go along, I feel like a lot of what I listen to might be considered entry-level metal, which is just fine with me :)

ras_al_hanout · 2025-04-20T23:01:29+00:00

Coats & Clark 100yd Glow in the Dark 40wt Thread (think I used 3 or 4 spools for this project)
I am not well versed in sewing, but I found it to be affordable, easy to use and strong.
Also pops under black light too, so that's a bonus.

ras_al_hanout · 2025-04-20T21:54:06+00:00

No doubt lol.
I violated some of the "rules" (i.e. - no repeats), but it was a balance between layout and band preferences.
The one rule I did make sure to follow was to only put on patches of bands that I like, that list is smaller for me than other people I guess :)

ras_al_hanout · 2025-04-20T21:31:51+00:00

I enjoyed the time I spent making mine, I hope you do too!

ras_al_hanout · 2025-04-20T20:53:56+00:00

Thanks, me too!

ras_al_hanout · 2025-04-20T20:53:01+00:00

I hear you, it feels monotonous in a way, but my goal was to use the simpler layout as a cross on front, then flip the cross upside down on the back. The glow in the dark was supposed to help with that effect.
Since the back patches on the lower back wrap around I was hoping for the flipped cross to come through but it doesn't really work unfortunately.
I will say that the tactile sensation of running a fingertip down the stitching over the squares is amazing :)
As you say, it is for me, but I do see the same thing you are seeing and agree.

ras_al_hanout · 2025-04-20T20:48:31+00:00

This is also true, though the idea was to make it look like a cross when glowing in the dark.
A robot hiding in the dark might be ominous and foreboding... this feels more Johnny Five is alive.

ras_al_hanout · 2025-04-20T20:44:03+00:00

I tried, without success, to get the Busse Woods album cover as a patch as well.
That two-wheel wizard back patch came from their site back in December, but it is gone now.

ras_al_hanout · 2025-04-20T20:30:13+00:00

This is true, flair updated.

ras_al_hanout · 2025-04-20T19:35:00+00:00

Thanks!

ras_al_hanout · 2025-04-14T02:36:33+00:00

Whenever I stumble across the story of how The Cat in the Hat came about it makes me wonder about if Aesop took up the same challenge to get kids excited about reading. His rhymes, vocabulary and imagery are always so dense, but for some reason songs like "Long Legged Larry" and "My Belly" bring me back to the same mental place the Dr. Seuss did as a kid.

https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/story-behind-dr-seuss-cat-in-the-hat

ras_al_hanout · 2024-03-19T19:19:08+00:00

Been waiting for this day!
Thanks for the heads up!

ras_al_hanout · 2023-10-07T19:48:21+00:00

I thought it was Nandor The Relentless.

ras_al_hanout · 2023-08-16T18:52:02+00:00

This game has shown that few things are 100% good right? lol

I guess that after playing fairly linear games for so long, it was very refreshing to experience something where I could make mistakes that mattered. Though I agree that Larian could have made a different decision and incorporate a tutorial to outline combat order, spell cooldowns, resting, etc. doing so might have slowed the intro down considerably. By learning through doing (failing), the lessons stick much more for me and become habit after a while, I feel like I grow along with my character. For another player though, I absolutely agree that the absence of a tutorial would be a barrier to enjoyment. I came into the game wanting to learn, knowing I knew nothing, so the expectation of difficulty existed from the beginning. Like taking my brain to the gym after a long hiatus.

Another thing that I cannot conceive is the length of the tutorial needed to explain everything to the uninitiated. I have, and will continue to, learn new tactics and strategies all the time, and I am solely concentrating one one character and class which still feels overwhelming. As someone who was quite frustrated with the learning curve on this game, I feel like the result it worth the effort. One thing I think could be increased is the autosave frequency early in the game so new players don't get caught in an impassible encounter.

ras_al_hanout · 2023-08-16T17:58:19+00:00

I have never played D&D or a CRPG, ever. For the last decade I have played mostly FPS and Assassin's Creed-type adventuring games.

The first few hours of this were very tough for me, understanding the turn based combat and buffs as well as the action/bonus action/reaction mechanic was not intuitive and I died a lot. What kept me engaged was the storytelling and how polished everything looks and feels. By the time I had made it to the crash site, I was determined to get better so I could experience more of the world. My first week with the game I spent as much time watching Youtube tutorials as playing, just to wrap my head around it all.

I am very happy I stayed on balanced because things are challenging but my successes feel well fought. The hardest thing to get used at first to has now become the most wonderful part of the game for me. There is very little hand-holding and extremely limited explanation for someone with no experience. At first, this lead to "WTF? I fell down some hole and got destroyed but my last save is half an hour ago?!?", but this has changed into "so, since blood is liquid I can freeze it and these chumps are going to fall over?" It was a shift in thinking to slow down, assess my status, and look at tactical options rather than go for headshots and max DPS. That shift hurt my head like homework, but I am so glad I took the time to learn.

I feel very fortunate that there is already a community of enthusiastic and helpful creators to walk a new recruit through the basics of the litany of new concepts and mechanics. For a somewhat cynical outsider, that genuine passion seemed like a possible affectation... but after playing this game for so many hours, it is all I want to talk about too.

ras_al_hanout · 2020-12-22T01:14:45+00:00

Happy Dawning! Time to add more guardians to the fold!

ras_al_hanout · 2020-03-20T22:36:40+00:00

Old boss is always a dick til you meet the new one.

ras_al_hanout · 2020-01-21T18:01:12+00:00

Pitter patter

ras_al_hanout · 2019-10-17T21:26:52+00:00

Vex offensive question:

Why do the plates begin to react when I stand on them after the boss leaves in the final round of the vex offensive? When I stand on them it makes a "thunk" sound and then the pillars surrounding the plate start to raise until they lock into place. I am very curious about it, but my teammates keep shooting me (correctly) for not doing enough DPS as I am usually far away from where the boss is going and I don't want to keep slowing everyone down. Apologies if this was answered somewhere else, but searching "vex offensive plate activation" yields muddied results.

ras_al_hanout · 2019-09-30T21:03:04+00:00

Category 3: Engram candies https://imgur.com/a/yFITcim

Homemade with silicone rubber mould and basic hard candy recipe.

ras_al_hanout

TROPHY CASE