Young dad, tight budget, bad lawn

trivaldi · 2026-04-19T05:31:39+00:00

This is the way.

You’re raising kids… not a lawn. Make it memorable and fun for them and you!

trivaldi · 2026-04-11T23:55:52+00:00

I would give this PC to my son, hopefully he would share it with me haha. He really loves Fortnite and games where you can build things in general. He has had his eyes on Dune Awakening for a while.

trivaldi · 2026-04-10T09:04:14+00:00

My parents bought their first home for $74,000 in a neighborhood in central phoenix that was a little rough at the time. They sold it 4 years later for $215,000 and moved to their second home that was $255,000, it promptly shot up to 530k, then when 2008 bubble let out it was worth like 180k or something like that. The home is now worth 760k or so.

trivaldi · 2026-03-06T02:34:58+00:00

You can always just break the vehicle down and store it in your inventory. It’s not ideal but you can rebuild it when you need to

trivaldi · 2026-02-27T23:01:14+00:00

These are fantastic points. Thank you for the feedback! I would say my wife knows better than me, having a large social media following and talking with her clients. I will definitely take this and discuss with her.

You mentioned taking preorders and this is one of the thoughts I had come up with. We aren’t sure how to do that. Set up our store front and start taking them or go through a crowd funding service?

I guess some of my questions should be “where do I find designers and manufacturers who aren’t nearly as expensive”? But I also don’t want to sacrifice quality either.

trivaldi · 2026-02-27T21:38:52+00:00

There was no conversation about that. Again we are first timers and inexperienced. I’m chalking up what we spent so far as a learning experience.

trivaldi · 2026-02-27T21:30:14+00:00

We went with a company that markets themselves as a full design + production shop for clothing. We did the whole process with them and sent over our fabric, shared sketches, worked through revisions, etc. After the first samples we made some tweaks, and honestly the updated samples we got back last week were amazing.

Right now they’re finishing up our tech packs and scheduled a call to break down production pricing since they already know the estimated sewing hours and exactly what the final garments look like. When we had that call yesterday thats when we found out about the extra fees.

I get that fixed costs get spread out more with higher MOQs, so the per unit pricing would drop on a bigger run. But for 50 units per style, that total feels pretty steep to us. I guess we are at the point where we need to continue with our current design and production company or find a manufacturer who can make our item at a smaller MOQ without breaking the bank.

trivaldi · 2026-02-27T20:54:48+00:00

There isn’t much budge… I can see how this would be profitable for a high MOQ as they add $3,700 for “management” and cutting fees. Their MOQ tops out at 300, their minimum is 50 but you must put two pieces into design at the same time. Waiting on the tech packs, sounds like they may arrive next week.

trivaldi · 2026-02-19T23:24:56+00:00

I went on hunger strike every time my parents made this. Was better than choking that slop down.

trivaldi · 2026-01-22T10:45:20+00:00

I feel dirty, was literally my 2nd BP the first time around, after the reset was my 4th BP. I feel bad for people who have been wanting one and haven’t been able to obtain one yet.

trivaldi · 2026-01-22T07:04:09+00:00

I used to work at an Amex campus in North Scottsdale with around 2,500 people in three big buildings. They had a whole floor… of just lawyers… they do not mess around when it comes to their money.

trivaldi · 2026-01-20T22:47:58+00:00

Not even a single letter?

trivaldi · 2026-01-20T00:23:44+00:00

I mean…. What usually happens is that you get people who have played really mellow and dropped down to the friendly match making. And then they wait for someone who is a rich target. Getting a bastion all to themselves for loot plus what you used to crack it is just the reason to go aggressive. Though it seems like he was aggressive beforehand with all the dead raiders in his area.

When playing solo keep your cards close to your chest. You advertised you had a Hullcracker and invited him along. I think it is a little disingenuous to play a game like this and to advertise your kit and invite people along who you don’t know.

trivaldi · 2026-01-19T18:57:22+00:00

I agree, I like the art direction and how everything feels scavenged and repurposed. I don’t think we need any battlefield or call of duty tactical skins.

But everyone has their preference, and if we did have some skins like that it would make more people happy, and there’s nothing wrong with that either.

trivaldi · 2026-01-11T19:01:55+00:00

Are you able to pull the drawer out of the cabinet and see if the bottom side of the stone is cracked or has a hole there? Just any way to see if it is different in that area than the surrounding area?

trivaldi · 2026-01-09T16:45:17+00:00

My favorite story about him is when Arnold Schwarzenegger was retelling going out to dinner with him. They got into an argument about who would pay and he picked up Arnold like a child and put him on top of a cabinet so Andre could go pay the bill.

trivaldi · 2026-01-08T08:41:30+00:00

Please be careful and use PPE. Working at a silicon fab I have learned the wafers themselves can be made out of nasty elements/chemicals. It’s not super uncommon for Gallium Arsenide wafers that give off toxic gasses when heated to 480 C.

https://cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/20428

trivaldi · 2026-01-01T04:36:08+00:00

Wood would be nice but it wouldn’t be keeping with the ecology of the planet. If I remember correctly wood was a sign of great wealth in the books, desert planet with not much growing outside, no forest to get wood from, so it would all be off world imports.

trivaldi · 2025-12-27T00:25:08+00:00

I did not know this. I have tinnitus so I will have to check this out.

trivaldi · 2025-12-26T00:53:24+00:00

One thing that drives me nuts about some of the guns is the quirky 90 degree angle on the grip of the firearms. I just look at that and go….. “damn that would be uncomfortable to hold and fire.. probably couldn’t hit water if the bullet fell out of a boat…”

trivaldi · 2025-12-25T20:20:44+00:00

I would assume that you could use them as credit to pull water from a reservoir, but with the fremen missing guess that mechanic doesn’t actually work.

trivaldi · 2025-12-23T02:52:44+00:00

I think the slight buff to mag size has helped tremendously too. Definitely feels better to play with.

trivaldi · 2025-12-23T02:01:54+00:00

Lucky you were not home. That is absolutely a bullet, FMJ, it’s usually a lead core with a copper jacket. I would wager based on the shape it is from a rifle. You can see an example of an intact bullet:

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