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That's my dream, except I want to complicate it by building guitars. So it actually has to work, not just look like it might.

Don't forget the thousands of dollars in tools you'll be compelled to buy and never being able to throw out even the small piece of wood because "you might need it someday".

My partner complimented my new shelf recently. Then she looked closer and realised it was a few boards stacked up on the cheapest engineering bricks I could find but rotated so the holes are not visible.

Only got a folding hand saw which I suspect isn't the best for making straight cuts, I had considered cutting up a railway sleeper for blocks instead of the bricks. Bricks worked out cheaper. Wooden blocks could look nice though.

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We tried it clothed, but the baby oil kept getting absorbed and it's impossible to find the right place to clamp.

This is why I only use languages and libraries that are "finished." C, Pascal, Euphoria to name a few.

Yep. Redesign the entire library every few weeks because you discovered a better architecture.

Absolutely isn't true though, unless you only learned JavaScript for some reason and god help you if that is what you call programming

Same for cameras, axes and chainsaws...

Ah, a fellow taxidermist! Pleased to meet you

Skill issue

I have a pretty addictive personality and I thank the stars that I've never enjoyed coke on the handful of occasions I've tried it. It just made me feel overly talkative to the point of being annoying.

I remember in college, when someone would get into MTG, we'd jokingly say coke's cheaper.

Now, when someone I know gets into 40k, I much less jokingly say "MTG's cheaper"

Then again, if you're just playing for fun against friends, a $200 3d printer is cheaper than any army I've seen. Still costs more than a $45 booster draft, but at least the printer's a one-time cost

To piggy back on this, don't chase the fucking meta. By the time you get your Exaction Squad and paint it, GW will balance it into being a total waste of your time/money/points.

Yeah, there really hasn’t been a good alternative for fabric. Lots of people were quick to jump on the “lol join the 21st century and just buy it online” side of the argument, but buying fabric is an extremely tactile experience. You need to feel it to know that it will have the correct texture, weight, see it will hang, which direction(s) it will stretch, how much it will stretch, how easy is is to stretch, etc for what you’re trying to make, because all of those qualities will heavily impact the end product. Those things are difficult to quantify, and nearly impossible to judge purely from photos on an online listing. Two fabrics that look identical online can have vastly different weights, stretch, textures, etc…

Move to Chicago, we have good local stores for fabric.

It's miserable. It was such a good store, Michael's doesn't compare for fabric yet. Hoping they get as much fabric as they've been sending me emails, might get a lot then lol

I started with inflatable as it was super cheap. Got a rigid one now. Used it a lot before but since moving house it's a longer walk to the sea and I usually cycle there to swim instead. Would like to take the kayak out again, but it's like an hour round trip walking with a kayak to get to water, I can cycle it in under 10 minutes.

My boss pushed us to research and acquire a resin printer a couple years ago. My coworker pushed the high-budget Form Labs direction due to his poor experience with resin printing in college. I had zero experience with resin (mostly only used Prusa FDM at that time) and pushed toward the relatively low budget Anycubic Photon direction, from the standpoint of "this is really not what we need to be doing with our budget, and this doesn't make sense for our use case, so I'll try to waste less money."

Now that my coworker's been gone for over a year, my boss thinks no one uses it because we don't know how. I know how, but FDM is just so much more approachable. I can swap filaments, click print, and walk away in about two minutes and trust that I'll come back to a usable part.

Changing out resin is its own special hell, and good luck if you have a print fail and have to clean off the bottom of the tray. I didn't get to a point of trusting prints to finish. Even when it does finish, you still have to wash and cure, and every part I ever made in resin seemed to be dimensionally unstable. Even the sample parts a Form Labs rep sent us were badly warped in shipping. The Photon hasn't been used in well over a year. CEO wants us to get rid of it, and I agree. Boss isn't letting go.

Meanwhile we just got two P2S printers that are cranking out parts like a champ. I would rather take a leisurely stroll across Eastern Ukraine than print with resin ever again.

Guitar is difficult to learn, especially if you don't know anything about music theory.

You might want to start with a basic digital piano, and learn basic keyboard skills, and music theory at the same time. As a drummer, you have good hand independence, and will probably pick up piano pretty quickly.

Music theory is a supremely elegant system, and you may find it soothing for your anxiety.

Here's your textbook

This is really intensely packed information, but EVERYTHING you need to know about music theory is on there, especially the basic stuff. You'll find lots of great explanations on YouTube. It's a lot like mathematics, one small thing leads to another, and it all develops into an elegant complex system built on logic at every step. Most of it becomes pretty intuitive once you figure out the basics.

When you get a keyboard, make sure to get one with weighted keys, so it feels like a real piano. I got a really nice Donner on sale, and it's lasted for years.

And of course practice every day. Try to get 20-30 minutes a day, either when you first get up, or before you go to bed, or preferably both. Make it a habit, and you'll get better quickly. Keep it up and you'll get fluid at reading music, and then it gets fun. You can be there in a year. You can take up the guitar next year.

And don't worry about playing with someone else, just learn to play keyboard and you can start making your own recordings on your computer, and you only have to play with yourself. That's what I do, along with guitar and bass. I wish I played drums, I have to use pads and program drum grooves.

It's a lifetime journey, have fun!