I suddenly regret not learning the metic system earlier in life 8P
gonna learn real quick doing stuff like this though.

@Oneironott Fortunately it's designed to be easy to learn! the only hard part is developing an intuition for how big things are, all the relative sizes work out real easily
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@Felthry Gods, yeah, and some tools n' packages make it infinitely easier.
Honestly the part of many creative endeavors I like is learning about so many other things that I wouldn't think to look into.

Hell, for my writing project I ended up learning a lot about Snapdragons and I honestly didn't really -need- to I just wanted to make sure I was being accurate 8P

@Felthry I also enjoy the repetitious nature of it. I found a similar vibe in like... woodworking? It's really satisfying to know a tool well enough that the process itself is fluid and the rest is just this spiritual experience, to me, of molding and getting to know an individual piece I'd often take for granted.

@Oneironott Yeah! there's a lot to be said for Making Things as a way of relaxing

for us, soldering together a circuit board fills that niche--designing pcbs too, to a slightly lesser extent
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@Felthry Yeah, I've really been rediscovering that relaxation myself. I think the bigger reason creative endeavors became so hard to me is because I was thinking about things too much in terms of what other people want and what is lucrative and all this stuff that just sucks the soul right out of things

@Felthry I stopped creating primarily For Me, so I started flat out losing interest. It's been deeply helpful to dissect all that and start making things I want to make

@Oneironott it's hard for us to create that kind of thing For Us... we don't have a lot of good direction on what to make, and it's not exactly cheap. i'd like to have something we can do in that direction, though
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