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[scourge728]

There's some more, there's honestly too many balls for this juggling act of a story, and writing it down it sounds honestly kinda trite, because in my head the entire story is told through the secondhand hearsay of nearly unrelated parties and not from the characters themselves, which is harder to represent here but makes total sense and is very entertaining in my head.

You know, I once designed an RPG around this premise, albeit as a more generic version of Analogue: A Hate Story. PCs were to be dropped into derelict spaceships (and eventually space constructs of unknown origin and purpose) to figure out what happened and, if possible, salvage them; nobody actually responsible for the whatever-it-was was ever to have left behind an actual log or anything.

The limited tests I ran were promising, and yes, it was very entertaining watching them try to get into the heads of people centuries dead and figure out which AIs were only pretending to be broken.

Want.

We had shitty cable/internet issues last night/earlier today but I didn't really care because I was busy.

Naturally I'm not content at the idea of only having a single handle size available, but calling them small or large is bleh.

Unlike that fucking coffee place, I have a method to my madness. Smilodon came in three species, the smallest were called Gracilis or "graceful ones" I think, next largest Fatalis (which probably was supposed to imply it being fatal, but actually works out as fated or destined), and last but furthest from least would be Populator or "one who devastates/lays waste" and is generally the one people think of as the La Brea cats. I've got a larger Populator scale handle set aside but will need to check my stock to pick out pieces that can fit that much pattern cleanly.

Spoiler: This is a pair of Gracilis and a pair of Fatalis handles I'm preparing before I do SO MUCH DAMN TOOTH FILING. (click to show/hide)

I'm almost embarrassed looking at some of my old handles now. A few are still nice looking in their own way but some which I was super happy with are just funny looking after seeing how goddamn stylish and crisp these are.

Naturally when you're using hand tools you head towards a desired goal and risk errors or compromises as you close in on your finished project. Slapping a pattern on a piece of wood and running it through a bandsaw is a simple way to reproduce the same outcome each time, but the risks change from flawed results with hand work over to serious injury or impairment with powered tools. Rather than trying to exactly reproduce a pattern I try to get the identifiable features in place and see how the different grain patterns show before deciding what to accentuate or reduce to get an aesthetically pleasing piece free of flaws and defects. Just among these four I had to vary some of the features like the upper/lower horn curvature and how far the fangs wrap towards each other to avoid knots and whatnot while keeping the grain alignment necessary to withstand frequent usage. Side by side you can see some of the shaping and sizing changes, but the main differences are only clear when you hold one or the other because it's really clear when one just blends into your grip seamlessly while the other feels great but wants you to adjust to it. I could happily use a Gracilis or Populator sized handle but they don't hit exactly the right parts of my hand with exactly the right shapes and textures like a Fatalis does for me, or the missus' custom Neofelis does for her little fingers. Saw handle sizing is a remarkably complicated task!

All in all I'm pretty happy with how these are progressing, now if only I could figure out why my thinkmeat wants to call the little ridge+hollow transitions "boning" because I can't find any similar usage of the term outside of shit like girdle inlays, the fuck is going on up there, brain?

You set up your naming system based off Smilodon names, this is awesome and I approve

[itisnotlogical]

Today was my final round of chemotherapy. Lymphoma can eat shit and die in a fire.

I have most of my treatment bracelets and an on-body Neulasta injector, and they said that the surgeon will let me keep the port once they take it out. I'm thinking of a shadowbox-style wall decoration.

[Dunamisdeos]

Display them like medals, 100%

[Mephisto]

After seven months of resigning myself to not having an internet-addressable server due to house wiring bullshit, I decided to spring for a powerline adapter. It was quite literally the definition of plug-and-play. Should have done this last year.

[Magistrum]

I'm thinking of a shadowbox-style wall decoration.

Wall mounted trophy, 100%.

[Hanslanda]

*sniffs the air furtively*
Is it... Could it be...?
*pokes his head out the window, sniffs again*
That smell... This weather... Spring is here.

It is time... For Hans to garden.

This year on the To-do list: Radishes! Lil white uns. Parsnips! Heard they good panfried so fuck it, why not. MOAR CUCUMBERS, FOR I AM A CUCUMBER GROWING MAESTRO. Tomatoes! Big red ones instead of my eternal favorite little yellow cherry tomatoes. Cilantro! Cuz I DO know where tacos grow! Hopefully strawberries start coming in. And Lowe's had Kiwi plants, and I know a surprising amount of things about growing kiwis so throw them in the ring too.

Let the gardening begin!

[hector13]

DON'T LET THE FALSE SPRING FOOL YOU, IT'S STILL MARCH YET

[Hanslanda]

That's why we invented plastic tarps. It'll be fine.

[Doomblade187]

*sniffs the air furtively*
Is it... Could it be...?
*pokes his head out the window, sniffs again*
That smell... This weather... Spring is here.

It is time... For Hans to garden.

This year on the To-do list: Radishes! Lil white uns. Parsnips! Heard they good panfried so fuck it, why not. MOAR CUCUMBERS, FOR I AM A CUCUMBER GROWING MAESTRO. Tomatoes! Big red ones instead of my eternal favorite little yellow cherry tomatoes. Cilantro! Cuz I DO know where tacos grow! Hopefully strawberries start coming in. And Lowe's had Kiwi plants, and I know a surprising amount of things about growing kiwis so throw them in the ring too.

Let the gardening begin!

Ready!
Set!
Garden!

[Magistrum]

Gotta be honest, gardening isn't exactly the the hobby I expected of Satan's First Commissioner.

[Levi]

I've been reading Spawn comics lately, and apparently worms contain pure evil as they live in the earth and never see the light of god.

Since worms are also great for the soil, I think Satan and Gardening aren't that far apart.

[scriver]

DON'T LET THE FALSE SPRING FOOL YOU, IT'S STILL MARCH YET

Beware the ices of March

[Hanslanda]

Gotta be honest, gardening isn't exactly the the hobby I expected of Satan's First Commissioner.

I mean, the Forbidden Fruit was grown by someone.

[Cathar]

There's only one thing more manly than a man who smokes two packs a day, and it's a man who smoke two packs a day and drops to zero. So this is what I'm doing right now.

Almost two weeks in, it feels like an extremely jittery apnea where you want to eat constently and can only sleep for two-three hours at a time, but my will is unbreakable (and I need to cut corners on my expenses)

[JoshuaFH]

I suppose there's no better cold turkey than "Actually can't afford it" Cold Turkey.