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mini-review, "The Guns Above" by Robyn Bennis:

Rickety wooden airships version of Aubrey Maturin / Honor Harrington, but compared to the latter the jokes are better and the politics aren't inexplicably awful.

(~) 

@Oneironott there's a lot of strength in saying "I feel absolutely miserable now, and I know I'll get through this." I'm glad you're on the upswing now.

pondering trolling the Klingons at con by showing up with fake elf ears and what's obviously a hotel towel draped over a shoulder, and flip flops, and Romulan-saluting them. Bad idea or "holy fuck coyote, why do you even think of stuff like this" idea?

"We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture." is still one of the spookiest sentences I've ever read. (prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access, appendix F, section 4.1)

spicy gaming politics 

@Ratttz That's a dang interesting thought.

I'm watching a Universal Paperclips speedrun, how're you?

2-question mini-survey: pain & fear thereof 

@Jssra
a: zero-ish.

b: "I would really rather not do that" starts at 4.

6-7 is my level for "the thought of experiencing that pain for more than a short time is sufficient to cause substantial anxiety".

That is also my level for "I actively and immediately demand something to manage the pain because this isn't okay."

FWIW when I was in the hospital the staff thought I was underreporting my number given my affect.

@memnus@octodon.social really bit me when an offset sketch didn't follow when I moved the parent, but also wasn't based on an original set of construction geometry I could constrain either.

@memnus@octodon.social "Ok okay so lemme just move point P a bit and the bits of the sketch I draw based on that should follow."

<sketch does not>

"well okay lemme make sure it's constrained to P"

<sketch is overconstrained>

???

@memnus@octodon.social For me the hard part happens when I try to constraint J to K, but then find out that L which I thought was constrained to J is instead implicitly constrained to something else and now my geometry is all turbofucked.

@memnus@octodon.social Big one is stuff getting implicit constraints that I have no way to actually view or delete.

I'm beginning to think that Fusion 360 is actually... not great.

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Today I Learned: Freespace and Saints Row exist in the same continuity.

WTF :D

Conclusion: this part of the sketch is fucked, better start over.

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That point in a parametric modeling project where you no longer have any idea what constraints are operating and everything is a total mess :/

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