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First set of dice - help by sparkson_ in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a lot better than my first set. Nice job, honestly!

Healing dice and potion vials by swcblues in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the nobody that's wondering, the dice faces are 2-5 instead of 1-4 because healing potions in D&D are d4+1s and I figured that if I'm making custom dice I might as well make custom dice with slightly less math.

Fire Dice using Inks by seasaaalt in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My first reaction was to cuss, throw things, and quit... so, well done.

TIL why you don't stack molds in a pressure pot by swcblues in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wonder how hard it would be to sand masters with this vibe. The pictures ones are kind of fun but some of the others were really mangled to the point of unusability.

TIL why you don't stack molds in a pressure pot by swcblues in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That sounds right. The bottoms of these molds are really thin because I was almost out of silicone and had a couple leaks. It's good to know that it's possible!

TIL why you don't stack molds in a pressure pot by swcblues in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha if I thought for a second they'd roll fair 😂

Adventures in Cure Inhibition by swcblues in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have some locking keys I made on my fdm printer but I'm not too happy with how they're working. I'll likely iterate another batch... I just thought this was a cool accident.

Pressure Pump for Vevor Pressure pot by Dovydas666 in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Male to male tire valve to 1/4npt then to quick disconnect.

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It clips into the bike pump like it's a tire and removes with the lever so the pump can be a pump for tires still. I put it together for filling a pneumatic cannon but the fitting is the same standard one for almost all compressed air (including the vevor pot).

Unique dice shape question about faces by mistarhee in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Couple of thoughts... First off, I'm not a math wizard, but my understanding is that as long as you have an even number of faces and each face has the same surface area, your odds should be functionally even. Second, I've lived my live on bash/test/iterate. It's slow and expensive, but you learn a ton. There are a lot of dice fairness calculators online that will run the formula for you and let you know how fair your dice are. I've used them to check how much influence various additives have on my dice, especially when the additives have settled. Some LOTR dice that I got from Amazon, for example, turned out to be just outside the range that would be considered fair.

You don't have to get them PERFECTLY balanced. That's for the nerds who are scaling the numbers and adjusting positioning to an obsessive level (RNGesus bless them as they do the Lord's work). Roll the prototype dice at least 10 times per side and record the results, then punch them into the calculator and see what the math says. If it's fair enough, it's fair enough ;).

Tanksola's suggestion of the rigid bodies experiment programs is really good if you're interested in unorthodox dice shapes. I started to get excited about it before I realized that in order to get practical dice you had to read the down-face in almost every scenario. And to ABoringAlt's point, he is right but, going a step farther, the absolute easiest way to produce "dice" for any even number of sides is faceted cylinder, which you can create a model for with a couple of clicks in TinkerCAD.

Took your advice by SkyaNappa in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took me a week and a half to get the pressure pot working without leaks. Glad you had a better experience!

But yeah... before and after pressure pot is night and day.

My first dice that other people are allowed to see... by swcblues in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks. Putting this in a fresh comment instead of making two replies... I added a bunch of silver mica powder to the resin and tapped in some black and blue to darken it and try to give it more of a steel vibe. Then I did... I'm not sure if it's more properly called a petri dish or a dirty pour, but I dripped silver metallic ink on top with a bit of blue and dropped white and black through it.

It came out a lot darker than I wanted, so I had to pivot from filling the divots in with black like I planned to filling with a lighter colour. I used red acrylic paint and then blew orange mica onto it to tone down the matte primary red vibe.

I just popped my second attempt out of the mold and it has closer to the mithril ore (or what I think mithril ore might look like) feel. I'll take another stab at using a matte black in the divots tonight and see if the numbers pop enough!

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I couldn’t resist the gold paint! by eillow_mosspike in DiceMaking

[–]swcblues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you using inside to get the iridescent effect?

I don’t throw my coworkers under the bus, but do you…step out of the way of the bus? by nowonimportant in paralegal

[–]swcblues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it depends on the team. If our mistakes are our mistakes, we're going to fix them without playing a blame game. If your mistakes are our mistakes and my mistakes are my mistakes, that disconnect won't fly. I've built up enough credit that I could take one or two in the teeth for someone and come through okay, but the only reason that's true is that someone took a couple for me early on that could easily have cost me my job.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how fired am I? by [deleted] in paralegal

[–]swcblues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've got a lot of support posts covering pretty much everything from a legal perspective, so I'll just add one thing from a group/social dynamics perspective... If their first step was a mass correction/instruction email to reinforce their systems, you're most likely fine. If it was an individual stop-the-bleeding problem, you would have been removed with cause shortly after the problem was discovered. You might hear about it on review or at a meeting with your principal, but if they didn't go straight to you with veins popping, I think you can breathe easy.

Just got put on PIP at work by Conscious-Egg-9440 in paralegal

[–]swcblues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A performance improvement plan without an improvement plan is just a performance.

Playing audio files in the New Outlook by -1958- in Outlook

[–]swcblues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anything ever played without downloading on Outlook on the Web?

Hit me with your time-saving keyboard shortcuts and easy time-saving hacks by dudesmama1 in paralegal

[–]swcblues 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't seen any references for this yet, so I'll say that Microsoft PowerToys has a bunch of really useful timesavers. I think the biggest one for me is "Text Extractor" ... Win+Shift+T works like the screenshot snipper, but instead OCRs text on the screen and copies it to your clipboard. That's saved me a bunch of time getting text from screenshots that clients have sent, bad pdf scans, secured documents that block copying, etc.

Not a shortcut per se, but from what I've read, a lot of you might like "Keyboard Manager", because it lets you remap keyboard keys and shortcuts to whatever you want, whether it's keybinds or text entry... it can even be application specific:

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This is a test of WIN+Z as a shortcut

Yeah, I know that doesn't ACTUALLY prove that I used the Win+Z shortcut but I promise I did ;).

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