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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Single sheet of paper, yes.

But for small out of the way towns (population 2k-10k) you'd want one specific to the town otherwise you'd be looking at a tiny speck on a state sized map. And the big maps might not have all of the small city side streets or not be up to date.

For reference, the town I did delivery in currently has a population of ~3,000 people and occupies 2.7 square miles out of the 268,596 square miles of the Texas map. Doesn't make sense to use a map where you're only looking at about 0.0001% of it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Even better, being a delivery driver trying to find McRando's house without GPS, map quest, etc. Just a street address and a city street map from the municipal Chamber of Commerce.

Especially fun when half of your deliveries were out of the city limits and you had to ask for/write down directions, and no cell phone to call if you took a wrong turn or they gave you bad directions.

I don't miss those days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of Vietnam's holidays, Tet, last 7 days, though. So that 12 total days off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Game #482 Shortest path: 5 (Avg. 5) Total words: 14 (Avg. 14) 🟦🟪🟪🟥🟥 | 🔥 1

https://linxicon.com/ #Linxicon

This game is quite aggravating, hard to figure out the logic of what words connect.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The fae operate on a different set of rules. The Tooth Fairy can only take teeth that are freely offered. The dead cannot consent.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (28 children)

I've been keeping my eye out for anime I can watch with my early teen daughter, and the intersection between good anime and anime that doesn't require ample amounts of jiggle physics is fairly small.

The list is pretty much:

  • Mashle
  • Dragon Goes House Hunting
  • Cells at Work
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I've always heard this in relation to the dress uniform (cracker jacks uniform) pants which have 13 buttons for the crotch flap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If you are into the grind, I think Final Fantasy 5 might be the best one for you. The way the job system is allows you to grind job abilities that you can equip in different jobs and eventually make just absurdly powerful ability combos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's not uncommon for US BBQ to be served with a side of raw sliced white onion.

The older I get the more I desire the raw onion.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not going to be great for Samsung either. They already invested a bunch of money to bring more industry to the states on the back of $45 billion in CHIPS act subsidies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I use the most boring names: LASTNAME-LAPTOP LASTNAME-PHONE LASTNAME-SERVER LASTNAME-ROUTER

But, living in tight suburban spaces, I'm never confused whether a device is mine or somebody else's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

With patched firmware, yes. And there was a program to convert any PS1 iso into a PSP loadable game as well.

 

https://imgur.com/gallery/southern-cross-ms-06gd-zaku-squad-tCaAlIJ

I finally decided to tackle building the whole Southern Cross Squad from Cucuruz Doan's Island. And after around 3 months of work I am finally done.

This was a bit of a challenge with all of the water decals, especially the commander who had about 125 total water decals. I also have decided that I'm tired of mono-colored weapons and have started painting knife and axe blades. Mono-eye = good, mono-color = not good.

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Or as my wife likes to refer to it, the iPhone Zaku. I didn't seem to run into the same build issues that I did when I built the OG RG Zaku II, which had me belly crawling on the floor to find spring-flung beads and supergluing the leg spring mounts.

However, the pauldron sticker with the blue stripes was abysmal trying to get it to match the opposing and ever changing radius curves. The sticker was never going to lay flat. Luckily, there was an unused logo that matched the one on the stripe sticker, and I had a bottle of acrylic paint that was bought to paint rocks, and had also been recently used on some Warhammer minis that matched the color pretty spot-on. I ended up freehanding the stripes. It isn't perfect, but it definitely looks better than the sticker did.

 

I haven't put paint to brush in about 20 years, but got an itch and decided to throw together one of these smaller teams using mostly paint the kid had leftover after painting rocks. Now I just need to figure out the rules and find some opponents!

 

This model is kind of special for me. I spent several months in Korea last year on an extended work trip. I got to go to a Gundam Base for the first time and knew that I had to get at least one Gundam Base limited model as a souvenir. Among all of the MG size and translucent models I found the one Gundam that I enjoy with my HG/RG mono-eye loving heart. Of course, they released the GBK-20 two months after I got back to the states, but alas.

The model build was pretty standard fare for an HG. The Caletvwlches were more involved than I expected, each of the 3 being a whole sprue worth of parts unto itself. Getting the dual-handed hold on the dual blade S mode was difficult enough that I almost gave up.

 

Finally got my Maxter in the mail. I can honestly say that there is nothing more American than wearing football pads while shooting sixguns from a surfboard. Of course he looks great fighting against his little Rose friend.

 
 

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The concept and the look of the Slave Wraiths intrigued me so I was excited to put together my first matching squad of gunpla. The Slave Wraith logo decals look quite good for stickers, but I might want to find some water slide versions later to "deputize" other models.

Also getting better at my new game of "balance on one foot" instead of just ponying up for more stands.

 

I finished putting together the XM-XX Ghost Gundam, and holy crap this was the best model building experience I've ever had. While the special shiny finish was perfect, the massive amount of undergates helped maintain the finish, except some of the arm pieces.

However, the true standout was just how well every piece fit together. These pieces slid together like they were made out of silk. It just felt so nice.

 
 

Finally finished moving and got all of the guys unpacked, reassembled, and posed on the shelf. Also have an actual desk to work at now instead of building on the family dining table.

The Messer is the first new build at the new workstation. Not sure how to pose him, he seems heavy so the fluid action poses don't feel quite right.

 

When looking at Local or All I want to use Top6. However, when viewing smaller communities, there may not be any posts in the past 6 hours, so I want to sort those by new.

Can Connect have a way to remember that so that I don't have to keep changing my sort settings?

 

Cool picture of a robot dude Gallery

This was a long, but overall enjoyable build. The waist comes apart easily if you try to pick up the model by the torso, but holds positioning better than most. Maybe I'll feel like putting the water slides on one of these days.

Also, I finally got another mono eye in the backlog so I can stop faffing about with these gundam types.

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