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Cake day: March 30th, 2024

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  • Best pet I ever had was a ball Python. She was the absolute cuddiest creature I’ve ever met. If she didn’t know your smell she wouldn’t budge from her current spot, but if she did she’d slide right up your arm and ride on your shoulders all day. Unless you have boobs, then it’s straight to the bra.

    She never bit anyone in the years I knew her. She even had a preference for movies, if you played something scary she would hide but if you played kids movies she’d move to your lap.










  • That reason is because Hersey chocolate was the first chocolate the common American could afford and the processing method that Hersey used to produce it would create butyric acid from the milk. Now they add it back in because customers complained when they refined the process.

    While in American, in right there with you. Aldi fortunately imports a good selection of chocolate so not all of us have to suffer.




  • I mentioned the Gauss rifles on a comment, but I wanna talk about my atom-gothic setting too though it’s not quite sci-fi.

    During the forever war a lot of relics and items of magical origin have been seized for use on the front. Most people at this point don’t have the piety/devotion/innocence/practice to use these things as they were intended, so creative engineers have found more unconventional uses for them.

    An example of this is the hilt of Næġling, said to have been slapped by Beowulf in his battle with the dragon. When impacted by anything made of electrum it amplifies that force exponentially. Built into the stock of a lee-enfield it’s now the personal weapon of Winston Churchill III on the German front. With the Germans and Australians raising the dead, it let’s him fashion bullets from crosses salvaged from the churches on the front.


  • In my sci-fi setting we use Gauss rifles as the general purpose firearms. They’re cheap to make, the ammo is functionally recyclable in some, and they aren’t as big an issue in space. Rail guns are used almost exclusively for heavy armaments because if you overload the projectile you’ll end up spraying molten slag. Larger projectiles don’t melt as quickly if the load isn’t balanced.

    Neat callback to current railgun failures aside, I bring this up so I can share with you the beautiful though of an over the shoulder railgun with gyro based recoil resistance.



  • I think you’re over thinking it. After 6, teaching kids how to do things is like teaching excited adults how to do things, just with less swearing. Lay it out in simple terms, raise the bar as they get better, and remember that this is supposed to be fun. If you’re worried about pop music, remember that this puts you in the perfect position to introduce them to new music too. Sure, you start with whatever they’re listening to, then slip in a, “hey, this sounds a bit like [band name], you should give this a listen.”


  • I’d highly suggest QIDI if you’re not building from scratch. I got my X pro back in 2018 and not only is it still stupidly detailed, but it’s an absolute workhorse. On top of that, they’re the best customer service I’ve ever had. I’ve made a ton of mods to mine over the years and they’ve done everything from helping me flash custom firmware to recording video guides for reversing the spin on the motors. I really cannot stress how great they are and how well they understand the DIY nature of this hobby.