Big Dice Update:
The metre tall dice is very good but it is difficult so say that is bigger than some of the other “biggest” dice I have seen, and now that the technique has been worked out it isn’t that hard to do the math for the next size up, and the sewing is not technically challenging it is just slow, so like, I may as well go for broke in my attempt to make the biggest roll-able D20 there is.
I found some $4 a metre light grey canvas at Spotlight while I was home over the long weekend but they only had 5 metres of it and I needed 10. Fortunately the one up here in the city also had some, so I now have the 10 metres required to make both the 135cm (bigger than the biggest roll-able dice I have found record of online) and 70cm (can fit through a door - just) D20s.
I have ordered a pack of rainbow dyes to colour it (I just want big random rainbow splotchy batik) which hopefully gets here by this weekend, so we can get some spray bottles and make a day of it. I still need to order a hundred+ dollars worth of zipper and twill tape, and then go back to Spotlight for about $30 of the cheap poplin for the tubes.
As always, the noodles will be the last bit bought, because these two will require another 20 of them, and my apartment is quite small.
Oh, and I would like to take the real big one to the medieval fair, which is in less than 4 weeks.
I make such good choices.
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Holy smokes it's Solace Subnautica (not really)
Took me a while, but I finally did it! Uncoloured sketch for now because I am too tired to colour xD
All annotations and extra information (since I know it's hard to read the image :P):
On the left there's Jonesy the ship's cat (named so because of the cat from Alien) and the right there's Solace, the not cat human
Physicist
I just like physics, it fascinates me :)
Gave Ryley Jonesy at some point
I really like the idea of Ryley ending up with the ship's cat (maybe that's what the biscuits are for) so my idea was that after Solace found out about the Aurora going down (more on that later) he couldn't bear to see Jonesy in his lifepod later on, and so gave him away to try to get rid of the attachment he had. Solace became decent friends with Ryley, and since he'd shown interest before (being a janitor, I like to think that Ryley fed Jonesy from time to time) he was the perfect candidate!
Did he die in the crash? Maybe, maybe not...
Well, I'm hoping not, since I just made him, but I need to figure out how to fit him into the plot of the game, haha
Knew that the Aurora was going to crash due to a build-up in atmospheric pressure
So you know how I said I liked physics? Yeah, so that doesn't mean I know much about it xD but I'm imagining some kind of EMP blast (from the gun on the island?) knocked the Aurora out of the sky as it was using the orbit of the planet to traverse past it (I think the demo of the game mentions something like this? But the full release leaves it a mystery). So the pressure is caused by the blast being charged onto it, like how when a lightning strike is about to hit near you, you can tell (because hair sticking up, etc.) Anyways, Solace realises this, brings it up with the higher ups and ultimately gets shut down because there was no way they were taking the risk of speeding up and wasting fuel or turning around, and besides, what were they supposed to do? There wasn't anything in protocol for that sort of thing. Solace couldn't let go of the feeling of dread, and was able to calculate with the amount of pressure behind the blast just how many survivors would remain after 48 hours of impact. 0.
Anyway! Terrible sketch page below, while I was trying to bring together some ideas:
Hope everyone thinks this concept is as cool as I do ^-^
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There is easy low hanging fruit here, especially about the US and salty tea. And I'm so SO tempted.
But also I'm super in to tea and I'm bored.
The perfect cup of tea is how you want to drink it, and if you do not LIKE tea then drinking it a different way, or a different kind of tea, vastly changes it.
A pinch of salt makes things less bitter, this trick also works with coffee. But other things that affect taste are tempriture, length of time it brews, where the tea was grown, the climate, the soil, and how big the leaves are. Some of the cheapest tea has little more than dust in the tea bag while more expensive teas you will notice have more structure to the leaves.
Tea brewed in colder tempeitures needs longer and creates a different taste. It may require more tea to get the specific flavour you want, and generally it is less bitter for it. Similar thing to spices where if you cook them, use them hot, toast them first, etc, you get a different set of flavours to using them cold.
Like wine, tea can have lots of flavour profiles and colours. Assam for example is very dark, malty, and strong, it can get quite bitter. Ceylon is much lighter. Darjeeling is good with lemon, but Assam is better with milk, in my humble opinion. Lapsang Sushong is very smokey. Earl Grey
Most people will drink a mix. English breakfast is usually a mix of Assam, Ceylon, and Kenyan. Earl Grey is flavoured with bergamot.
White, green, and black tea all come from the same plant, just different parts of it, treated differently. Black tea can take a higher tempriture, but boiling water on green and white tea will scorch the leaves and make it very bitter. Agitating the tea can also have this effect as it releases more tannin.
As a general rule there is a tea for everyone, and a way to drink it that you will enjoy, whether that's hot, cold, mixing it with spices, flavourings, fruit, milk, sugar, lemon, and yes, even a pinch of salt.
I would not, however, recommend tea that has been in the Boston harbour.
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