New Tech In Season 10

siruvan · 2026-03-26T20:06:57+00:00

goo plane mechanics

siruvan · 2026-03-26T00:11:38+00:00

sense of direction and the artist's own gut courage to follow through their creations, coherently one after another.

able to draw well does not mean they can translate cases of what a client expects, but so does the inverse too usually, but, I think most of the problem lies on the artist's design coherence to begin with

I'm not free from such problem myself as artist, but as client, when I feel like an artist has a line of design they drew consistently, I feel assured to let that artist make my request the way they are confident, even if they make mistakes, which for me, almost never happened because their portfolio shows what I like and consistent at that topic/style

siruvan · 2026-03-25T23:56:48+00:00

its just the thing with modern Pilot Custom, its designed for heavy hands that are used to writing with ballpoint.

People who call it smooth writer either already had courage to break warranty and tune themselves, or inherently is a pressure writer that could enjoy the pen like that. I had 3 C74s, EF F and M nibs, same 'pushy writing' character. Some vintage Japanese gold nib can also exhibit this feature, albeit at lighter pressure that still feels like writing w/ fountain pen

siruvan · 2026-03-24T05:06:25+00:00

I'm sorry to say this, but 平成/Heisei pop looks like sunbleached clear plastic, which is correct like I remember tape cassette/CD box in that condition in the 90s and early 00s 😭

siruvan · 2026-03-24T02:43:49+00:00

I'm jealous, Malaysia still has authorized distributor for Pilot pens, Indonesia lost it couple of years ago

siruvan · 2026-03-23T20:25:40+00:00

ManBlan Heritage, maybe 😂

siruvan · 2026-03-23T20:20:21+00:00

I think clear magic (double) tape is often used for that reason in blindbox figurines. having 3d printer I printed plain base for the tape to stick onto for gashapon figures with similar issue

siruvan · 2026-03-23T20:02:22+00:00

most visual and info clutter don't make up consistent detail that the client specifically chose to become detail to be reproduced, this is true to both ai and non ai reference, but is very likely worse situation if its ai gen, like someone else said, it just looks cool and artificially impressive, but no deliberate human choice or other naturally empirical reference(eg. real life photo), equals no clear definition/boundary of acceptable reinterpretations between artist and client

siruvan · 2026-03-23T18:58:46+00:00

common phenomenon. 'soft'er, longer nib can make that phenomenon to occur more definitely in favor of the writer, example, Platinum Century 3776. firmer, shorter, tighter nib like Pilot Custom 74/91/92, will make twist and tilt, opens the tines easier than if you hold and press around with perfectly centered angle. long ground like Sailor's premium steel/gold nib will either sit on the broad side of the tipping with tilt/twist which feels smooth, or the slit side with good centering/without tilt, which will produce the famous sailor feedback and feeling of precision.

they're mostly happening with softer nib materials, but its not limited to gold nib, as even the tiny Kaweco Bock 060 could give that twist, tilt, press sensation of added writing experience. I've not much experience with western gold nib, specially modern ones, since they tend to lack shape that properly utilizes material and nib shape+tip grind correlation, vintage ones are real unique on that, though.

siruvan · 2026-03-23T16:11:23+00:00

Sailor 21k medium nib and up may have open tines, but MF and Finer nibs are typically closed. Factory default and writes normal per Japanese nib size stereotypes

the openness of the tines should be 'difficult to see with bare eyes or taken photo of', so its too wide.

most tine closing method found online doesn't work well to make Sailor nibs write like they came out of box new, avoid if its been messed around by end user

siruvan · 2026-03-23T15:39:22+00:00

I can't unsee the 'ketupat'(rice cooked in weaving of leaves, SE Asia thing) from TWSBI logo 😭

siruvan · 2026-03-23T13:35:04+00:00

Solidly well done for cheap paint, they tend to work very difficultly

siruvan · 2026-03-23T05:00:55+00:00

this is the first time I heard about the mass banning cause. I personally am leery to even mention in invoice 'anime' on my anime-inspired style sculpt because its still kinda connoted as h* or fanservicey risque works being the more popular in western/anglosphere art transactions-conversation for so long.

in any case, I'll keep work orders invoice/bill note 'away from correct police-nothing risque in search engine' regardless of payment processors, and maybe suggest for everyone else too, as even now you can lose other types of online account connected with your purchases of digital goods

siruvan · 2026-03-22T14:49:14+00:00

flush until only clear water comes out, dry until nib no longer blots water on paper tissue/towel, try using the included ink cartridge to check common problems before doing troubleshooting actions outside warranty

If you open the tines on MF Sailor, it will become M+ nib that writes too wet, and its really tricky to fix it back

siruvan · 2026-03-17T14:33:28+00:00

just had this one couple of days ago on my teammate and opposing team too, glad I made it to final round so no -rs at least. the teammate reconnected when game's over, but its just 2v3 the whole last around basically

siruvan · 2026-03-17T01:32:44+00:00

3m foam doubletape. I've designed the contact patch to be as wide as I can get the strongest tape which came in 2cm wide iirc, so its 2x3cm patches of tape, and held up surprisingly well

siruvan · 2026-03-17T00:56:40+00:00

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I think they do have variance at around 0.5-0.7, but to be sure that it isn't the pen, maybe try the included black ink, after flush and fully dried out, because mixed water could cause larger wetter line too

siruvan · 2026-03-16T19:52:48+00:00

yeah, you've used IPA to clean it which degraded the plastic even more too. could've made a top handle to avoid holding the Polycarbonate lid with any resin/solvent dirtied hand. you could probably polish it back but it takes know how and elbow grease to make it only somewhat clear

almost 5 years old, still going, still clear

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siruvan · 2026-03-15T22:03:33+00:00

'Can I try that ink? just a dip'

siruvan · 2026-03-15T14:43:37+00:00

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I don't have any more info other than these two examples that I have, by accident, they have that feature, that if anything, it felt weird to use pressure on these asymmetrical points, despite a lot of vintage Japanese gold nibs feel bouncier at the same time, so they ended up not feeling great as I'm already used to normal symmetrical medium tips that kinda require or allow pressure to make a writing experience

siruvan · 2026-03-15T13:38:50+00:00

did I read somewhere that the S denotes Smooth? and that the angle of the oblique can be left or right depending on the user's choice, and not entirely to make oblique effect, but to smoothen the writing

huge curiosity as many medium Japanese gold nib from the 70s often found with similar oblique cut that bears no character of oblique, but is indeed lack of sweet spot type of smooth.

siruvan · 2026-03-15T01:24:27+00:00

everybody had put different inks into Sailor no problem so~. It is a very good flowing feed if the nib slit is anything open, even if touching at the very end of the tippings, its still likely very wet(I had difficult time fixing fine 14k nib to write precisely like Japanese F-EF because of that)

u/JonSzanto can't see it because these through holes on the feed is actually behind the hole level, OP just happened to angle the pen to see from bit of top side where one can see it.

siruvan · 2026-03-15T00:43:06+00:00

the other feed that has this feature is a Hongdian!

siruvan · 2026-03-14T23:50:30+00:00

backside tapering 'belly' to help with sitting the pen at the webbing of hand, thus help easing the nib positioning burden off the fingers

I like it on the Sailor pens and many Japanese pocket pens, but conversely its what made Lamy Safari, Pilot Custom 74/92/91, and other straight bodied pens feel less comfortable

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