it's so... it so obviously means something? as conveying things with a single image goes, this is quite skillful
a colossus of plant life with glowing green eyes, clearly some kind of imposing nature spirit or ancient automaton, holding an incredibly unnatural object, a perfect cube, surrounded by other unnaturally smooth structures that are all overgrown with ivy, and towering plant life in the background, and sunlight seems to shine almost unnaturally upward, from behind and to the right of us, like we're in a cave maybe?, a small human figure in the foreground giving a sense of scale, paused mid-stride, wearing... what the hell do you call that hat? it's not a coolie hat, it's japanese. *yahoos* I think it's called a kasa generically but there's like 50 kinds of kasa. this is like the one that jin from samurai champloo wears sometimes, it's woven and sort of frayed at the edges. it's like a traveler's hat, y'know, it evokes practicality, protection from the elements... you get it. guy's wearing a hat.

it'd be so easy to give it an evocative title that suggests a larger world, the painting has already done pretty much all of the legwork
"the boon of construct"
"remnants"
"strange visitor"
"our wanderer enters the reclaimed hollow"

and he had to have known that- he made it! but he names it something that specifically encourages the viewer not to take it seriously. that's a lot of fun

this might be old news but it made me pretty happy

I saw this painting:


posted with the caption 

Quote"hey psst wanna buy some cubes" by Tomislav Jagnjić

and they weren't kidding, it's actually titled "hey psst wanna buy some cubes"

what happened to all the yaoi

he was so much like us. a kindred spirit.

Quote from: Slurpee on January 16, 2025, 02:46:43 PMDavid Lynch =(

Goodbye to one of the all time greats

David Lynch =(

Quote from: Slurpee on January 15, 2025, 08:58:37 PM

Quote from: RobClock on January 13, 2025, 05:29:06 PMTurns out speaking with someone about an autism diagnosis requires a down payment of $2000 so that will not be happening for me

that sucks. what? why?
down payment like you don't get it back?

It costs roughly $4000 to undergo the process (my understanding) and they want half of it up front

I am not good at locksport but I'm at a weird plateau where, to employ a fine and useful line of phrasing that makes me feel stupid to say out loud, "white belt" locks are pathetically easy, yellow belts are the perfect challenge level, and orange's too hard. Like, I know what I should be focusing on. I hit "wow i can really just wiggle it around in these master locks and it opens", then go back and forth between "oh, right, now I remember what everything feels like, I'm really starting to be able to read the pins and know what's going on" and "haha nice i solved that so there's no reason to practice

for a few months

until i completely forget every single thing about the first level of challenging locks, then come back to impress myself with the master locks and wonder why I never went farther"





the lockpicking was in the middle of a complete mania where my brain needed a lot of input. I got modular synth parts, a braille typewriter, and some (cheap) woodwind instruments in like the same month at that time


strewn fucking everywhere like I'm some kind of slob. The lockpicking stuff all at least fits in a single tacklebox

Quote from: RobClock on January 13, 2025, 05:29:06 PMTurns out speaking with someone about an autism diagnosis requires a down payment of $2000 so that will not be happening for me

that sucks. what? why?
down payment like you don't get it back?

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on January 12, 2025, 05:07:35 PMI saw the practice lock and came on to say that while picking a $5 master lock isn't much harder, the see-through ones are almost uselessly easy. Like, even without looking, something about them is just.. iunno, I can rake them in one every try and I'm not a take-one-look-at-a-lock-and-rake-it guy. They're good for teaching the theory to someone else, but i keep a buncha whitebelt locks in my tool box



I saw that picture and read the whole post so I could get to the part about lockpicking but it was a genuinely good post——a slurpeepost, if you will——and needed to comment that i appreciate you and you are very coolaroonie




okay back to the important stuff. I did that thing where you make a vice clamp for holding smaller locks and mm mm mm it's so good for doing handheld locks on my desk. Made it out of these four parts, half of which aren't available any more but the important one is. You see a lot of builds based around a panavise base so I do recommend that for a starting point but the important lesson is "it doesn't matter as long as it all fits" right

also being able to pick a complicated padlock and a simple door handle lock are two wildly different skills, before you start getting any ideas about showing off outside of competitive locksport / lockpicking puzzles

someday I'm going to find a hobby that you're not already into and better at than me >:|


but also thx <3