Just up and released my first boardgame live playthrough video for the Dune strategy boardgame. It’s in german though. Was a lot of work for but i had fun almost all the way through!
For anyone interested: https://youtu.be/oTyyefQrpt0?si=XTcs25a9vxBE1AF2
I’ve been developing a short story into a longer novel.
What have you been up to?
That’s cool, care to share what your story is about?
Nah, anytime I talk about a story I stop working on it for weeks, haha.
It’s like if I talk about it, my brain files it away as already finished.
Well good luck with your writing ☺️
Cool, thanks much.
I built a new commuter bike and only had to go to the bike shop for help 3 times. It has a lot of gravel components so I took it to the smoothest mtb trail near me and I now know that under biking is pretty fun, but also super rough and slow. Gonna throw fenders and racks on tonight hopefully
I am slowly moving towards making a planetarium of my own. Was able to get the dome done using PVC pipes. I’m figuring out the best way to put a screen that’ll be somewhat strong, smooth and good enough to project upon. Biggest hurdle is getting a particular fisheye lens that is suitable for the purpose.
Sadly just worked, and got things thrown at my head. I hate it.
Sorry to hear
finally got myself a set of crochet hooks - i’ve been wanting to learn for a while but i’ve also been slacking on my current embroidery project so i’m trying to power through that before i start crocheting
gonna try to make some desk chair arm covers since mine are doing that cool thing where the material breaks and peels and is really uncomfortable
I hit the trails on my bike on Sunday. More recently I did some target shooting
Finally start assemble my ebike conversion kit yesterday and ready to test ride it tonight. Hope nothing falling apart 😬
I made a cheesecake with a Rice Krispies Square crust. Highly recommend, way easier than graham cracker.
Nice, I’ve never thought of an alternative crust. Sounds good.
Oh my glob that sounds delicious!
Got back on the slack line!
It’s fun, ecellent for balance and overall health, great solo, and a setup runs about $60.
I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a hobby!
What is it?
Essentially a one inch strap between two trees (or strong posts), tightened in a specific way with caribbeaners, so that it holds tension - and you walk on it! Or sit, jump, bounce, etc. it’s like a bouncy tight rope (usually closer to the ground) There’s a little hurdle to get over while you develop your stabilizing muscles, but very enjoyable once you can stay on the line! (Which takes just a few hours of practice for most)
I recommend YouTube for the knots/tightening. Everything can be bought at REI or on Amazon ( ~60’ 1" tubular webbing + 4 standard climbing Caribbeaners)
If you buy some extra webbing, you can run a ‘training wheels’ line a few feet above your head and use it to keep yourself on the line until you can manage without.
Start low, and practice looking in front of you rather than at your feet. Good luck!
Sounds fun!
It is!
Some of these concepts are a little tricky to relay via text, but here’s a video that runs through the basics!
I train HEMA Historical European Martial Arts.
We trained yesterday,
It’s great fun, Sword fighting with actual techniques rather then just swing sticks at your younger brother
Any spear fighters in that group? I have a soft spot for the better range of the pointy stick
We don’t train spears explicitly in my club beyond the 20 minutes it takes to make someone competent to hit them with the pointy end.
The great thing about spears is they’re not technical and in the hands of an absolute beginner they’re absolutely lethal against almost any other weapon one on one.
The real challenge to training with a spears is teaching someone to stand their ground, advance on an opponent and hold the initiative.
The downfall of a spears is the moment an opponent is passed the pointy end it becomes near useless.
We use spears as an aid to train aggressiveness and the ability to seize the initiative off of an opponent with greater reach or ability.
I finished assembling my new 3d printer, and it’s printing parts for an enclosure right now.
Transfered some homemade beer into bottles, and started sewing some outfits for a Renaissance faire.
I got the base coat of primer color on my sculpture.
How big is it?
About the size of a winged chihuahua.
I upgraded lemmy to the newest version. This was a disaster which brought my whole server and all 15 services I host there down. I spent a lot of time trying to fix it but I only got very high load when Lemmy was on and a lot of timeouts and both Lemmy and the rest didn’t work. So I turned off Lemmy.
But because I get most of my news from the threadyverse I couldn’t just let it be.
So I installed PieFed instead. It took my only half an hour and there is no load on the server because of it, even though I’m subscribed to the same communities as before.
Sorry to hear, how do you like Piefed?
I like it, I even can easily understand the code, I made my own theme variation already, etc. But especially it does not hod resources and stays on a load of around 1 which is amazing.
Oh I also made scones after asking ChatGTP for a recipe with the ingredience I had at home. Somehow they ended up very soft and fluffy.
I just had another idea what the problem could be. I’ll ping you in the matrix chat.
