DScratch
@DScratch@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on EA Open Sources Command and Conquer Red Alert and many more. 2 days ago:
No fucking way….
- Comment on How to stop getting mad about sports for just moving around the ball/puck? 6 days ago:
If you look at soccer, you’ll see a bunch of people passing a ball back and forth and making no progress.
If you look a little closer, you’ll see players trying to bait the opposing team into making a mistake. You’ll see players trying to position themselves to receive or intercept a pass. Others are applying pressure to force the player with possession to make a mistake.
Sometimes that takes a little bit of time, especially if you are winning, your opponents are going to feel that time pressure and you can use that against them. Force them to make a bad move.
Both sides are constantly doing this, they have formations and strategies designed to break the opposing team’s structure.
Team games are all like this, you are trying to control the field and shape it to your advantage.
If you think of it as a war game, with formations and feints and strategies, you might be more amenable to the slower plays.
- Comment on When the movie actually repeats almost the same line within like 5 seconds seriously what the fuck I never noticed this [Day 84] 6 days ago:
How were the writers supposed to tell us this is Lisa’s mother?!
Huh?!
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 2 weeks ago:
I use a specialised hammer-and-anvil system that produces an audible notification whenever someone use it.
- Comment on Spicy Candy 3 weeks ago:
Even the dude installing it had to wear a mask, so he’s not tempted to eat any.
- Comment on Butchers Block countertop 4 weeks ago:
Also, a sharp chisel and patience is all you really need for bow ties. Try some practice runs on some scrap and see how you fare.
- Comment on Butchers Block countertop 4 weeks ago:
With a poly coating on there it’s more difficult to say.
Personally I keep an eye on the colour of the wood. When it starts to look dry and pale, it’s time.
The wood will let you know, it will stop soaking the oil and wax and you then wipe off the excess and start buffing.
It may let oil seep out for a few days after, as it adjusts. Just wipe that away. Food grade mineral oil (which I use for all my boards) is non toxic, but it is a laxative, so do wipe up and excess before using the board 😁
- Comment on Butchers Block countertop 4 weeks ago:
Bowing and warping is a natural response to moisture changes. It may be unavoidable.
Getting the moisture content back to where it was may reduce the severity of it. Keeping it there means regular drying, oiling and waxing the board.
You can use things like bow ties to help hold the seam together. Blacktail Studio on YouTube has a good (imo) video on installing a bow tie.
For filling it, you can use a food-contact rated glue, like Titebond 3 and clamp the crack back together.
If the crack is too large to close, you can fill it with sanding dust mixed with a food safe wood glue.
Or! Go all in, remove some material to give you clean flat surfaces to glue in some new material. You can hide it or highlight it, depending on the wood you use.
- Comment on Discuo - A minimalist discussion platform 1 month ago:
Are there issues with 4chan?
Uhh
- Comment on 26 years late but I finally beat Half Life 1 month ago:
Well done, Mr. Freeman!
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is out now and buggy as hell but the developers are already planning fixes 3 months ago:
Some companies have a reputation for shipping shit and never fixing it.
Others ship shit and then polish that turd until it shines.
I do firmly believe this is one of the former.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 months ago:
Could I interest you in some diagonal bracing today?
- Comment on Yep, it's me 3 months ago:
Tyty
- Comment on Yep, it's me 3 months ago:
So you know your bucket of Lego? It’s a bunch of blocks that can move around each other. (Swish some around to demonstrate)
Water is made up of little tiny block that can swish around too. When you make them cold, they start to stick together. (Start connecting Lego blocks)
The colder it is, the more they connect, until all the water blocks have joined up together and made a bigger block of ice.
Then, when you heat the ice up, they start to come apart and move freely again.
So, heat is movement and cold is connected. This is the same for almost everything!
Lava from volcanos is just rocks that have been heated up enough to move. When the lava flows out and cools down, it hardens back into rocks.
- Comment on Day 104 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
HEY! UH….
- Comment on First there was Truck Nutz. Then there was Truck Nutz XL. 4 months ago:
Might need to get those checked out.
- Comment on Feds say there's no money left for hurricanes after FEMA spent $640M on migrants 4 months ago:
Irony
- Comment on Feds say there's no money left for hurricanes after FEMA spent $640M on migrants 4 months ago:
Joke?
- Comment on Feds say there's no money left for hurricanes after FEMA spent $640M on migrants 4 months ago:
Sorry, man. I’d love to, but I have to take my wife’s son to soccer practice.
- Comment on Feds say there's no money left for hurricanes after FEMA spent $640M on migrants 4 months ago:
See?
You don’t even know what you aren’t aware of.
Sad, really…
- Comment on Feds say there's no money left for hurricanes after FEMA spent $640M on migrants 4 months ago:
I’m sure there’s plenty you aren’t aware of.
- Comment on Feds say there's no money left for hurricanes after FEMA spent $640M on migrants 4 months ago:
When we said “Do something “ what we meant was “Fund the police to brutalise them and restrict their rights!”
How was that not clear?!
- Comment on Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals 5 months ago:
It’s only $99/ year!
Though you can only read it on registered devices.
- Comment on Elon Musk destroys astronomy 5 months ago:
I’ll be very quiet. Promise.
- Comment on Elon Musk destroys astronomy 5 months ago:
And then let people move there to get away from Elon.
- Comment on Sorry, grandma 5 months ago:
Yes, the fights are very well done. The protagonist mecha, the Eva’s, operate under some strict rules that mean every fight is a close one. The enemy, the Angels, adapt to each loss and force the protagonists to play catch up.
God wants us dead. Humanity has already been nearly wiped out, only a fragment is holding on. The Angels are a cleanup crew, all they have to do is simply touch their goal and the remnants of mankind are instantly destroyed.
Against that backdrop you have a story told by a man who is clearly suffering deeply. Hideaki Anno’s depression is on full display through the themes of loss and grief and abandonment. But those themes are strongly countered by those of friendship, purpose and being part of a greater whole.
It is beautiful and grotesque. Hollow and hopeful. Goofy and deadly serious.
It may not be your cup of tea, but it is a masterpiece.
- Comment on You Should Show Grave of the Fireflies to Your Kids 5 months ago:
I’ve seen it referred to as “The greatest film I’ll never watch again.”
- Comment on What are some good flight simulator games? 6 months ago:
It sounds like you want something a little more arcadey than realistic.
If I were you (and multiplayer sounded like a good time) I would legit consider something in the Battlefield series.
Arma 3 has a bunch of land sea and air vehicles and a lively modding community creating missions for you to play solo or multiplayer.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 6 months ago:
I jumped ship to PopOS a few months back.
There are some issues, like Bluetooth not starting without some terminal commands, I think I have to wipe or otherwise mess around with my 1TB NTFS storage drive to mount it and stuff like that.
But all the games I’ve tried to play work fine.
CPU: 3700x GPU: 4090
- Comment on Can you spot the g differences? 6 months ago:
That’s a perfectly cromulent 9