HaphazardFinesse

@HaphazardFinesse@sh.itjust.works

Somewhere between “I want to play sci-fi video games all day,” “I want to invent everything ever,” and “I want to go on a 6-month backpacking trip in the wilderness.”

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HaphazardFinesse,

Nothing is explained

It makes a lot more sense if you have the context from the Soulsborne games. The series started much simpler, with (mostly) linear progression, fewer weapons/abilities, and shorter “quests.” Part of the appeal of those games was the mystery, and the community that grew around solving the unexplained quests/mechanics/lore. The games were shorter, and the maps smaller, so it was easier to explore on your own.

Then with Elden Ring, it just exploded with content, built around the same game play mechanics. For veteran Soulsborne players, it plays like the next title in the series. The only really novel mechanics are the open world and spirit ashes. The downside is (at least for me), the world is so large that it’s a chore to explore everything. I finished my first play through and lost the will to start a +1 game. In contrast to Dark Souls 3, where I completed at least 6 play throughs.

But if you don’t have that context…yeah i’d imagine Elden Ring is overwhelming in its complexity and scale. Trying to figure out Soulsborne mechanics and navigate this giant world with little direction sounds daunting. Pitting you against the grafted scion to die immediately, and right after putting the tree sentinel in your way, was a confusing way to start the game, even for me.

HaphazardFinesse,

It’s honestly infuriating to realize half of the people running the country rely on the moral principles of ancient religious texts, translated multiple times, to make policy decisions, while also taking every opportunity to bash the scientific process. Not sure which ones are more frightening, the ones who actually believe what they’re say, or those who don’t.

HaphazardFinesse,

lmfao “Astro-Slide”…they knew what they were doing

HaphazardFinesse,

Fun probably-already-known fact: NASA accidentally destroyed a $200 million Mars orbiter from of a missed imperial->metric conversion, because NASA does generally work in metric, and some Lockheed-Martin software provided numbers in imperial (while claiming to be metric)

HaphazardFinesse,

Is there a distro you recommend? I’ve toyed around with Tails, but the lack of persistence and forcing all traffic through Tor instead of a VPN (I guess the whole point of Tails) is too inconvenient for daily use.

HaphazardFinesse,

I do something similar (though less secure) for general purpose passwords; I have a couple of common “base” passwords that are decently secure that I commit to memory. Then for each website/service, I pick a pattern based on the name/url (maybe something like the first two and last three characters of the url), and append them to one of my “base” passwords, so each site gets a unique password, but I only have to remember a couple of them + the pattern

HaphazardFinesse,

I’m a tinkerer as well, but I’m at a point in my life where I need to prioritize my tinkering haha. Like buying stir-fry takeout (Windows/MacOS), cooking it by buying a pre-packaged bag (packaged mainstream Linux distro), or starting from scratch, experimenting with literally everything from chopping technique to cooking temp for each ingredient, until you realize you’re missing an ingredient you need, then you have to go back to the store (Arch lol).

HaphazardFinesse,

TIL that Unicode includes hieroglyphs lol

HaphazardFinesse,

Late to the party, but Mass Effect, Dead Space, and the Arkham trilogy are all extremely solid choices haha.

Any advice on fabricating low-cost, medium-grade spherical bearings? (sh.itjust.works)

I’m making mechatronic Dr Octopus arms (they’re gonna be pretty sweet), and I’m in the process of prototyping the segments. They’ll be roughly 2.5 cm in height, with a 2.5 cm gap from segment to segment, and they need to be attached securely, with smooth rotation on xyz to ≈ 10°. Planning on housing the servos in the...

HaphazardFinesse,

I have been experimenting with the 3D printing, just not getting great results. Did a few test pieces over the weekend at 0.1 mm layers, the layer lines were still killing any kind of smooth motion I’d hoped for. Which is what got me on the fill/sand path, which is my next experiment. I’m pretty confident that with enough process experimentation, I’ll be able to get the action I’m looking for with fill->sand->possible resin coat->dry lube. Just gonna be a lot of work to get it right haha. Wish I still had access to an SLA printer; I printed out some kick-ass ball joints on a Formlab printer years ago.

The print-in-place joints, in my experience, work just great, until you try to move them while they’re loaded; ≈ 50 N*m is a lot to ask of a non-finished plastic joint lol, and that’s probably around what I’ll be working with.

print a tapered shaft that starts at -0.020in below your bearings internal diameter, and ends at +0.010in. Do the same for the external race but inverse

Could you elaborate on that? Not sure I follow.

Thanks for the help!

HaphazardFinesse,

I was just typing a response on the Igus cost haha. The size I need are only $2.50/per, still pricey, but more reasonable. I’d be more inclined to try them out if it didn’t take 30-60 days to get an order; I’d like to do a test fitting before I commit to $250 of parts, and 60-120 days is too long to wait for the full batch.

I may be able to do them in resin. My work has a whole bunch of resin printers, but this would be a lot of parts to do on machines that are supposed to be doing actual production work haha. That and the resin we use is accuracy focused, not particularly strong, they’d wear out fairly quickly.

The maker’s space recently acquired some resin printers, so might be worth it to wait until they get those operational.

Thanks for the insight!

HaphazardFinesse,

Gotcha, thanks for the wisdom!

HaphazardFinesse,

Sure it’s possible, in fact I’m running several PTFE tubes through the center of the joints (for the drive cables and control cables) that effectively function like that. My biggest concern with this whole thing is how much it’s going to bounce around while I’m walking. I feel like a “bendy straw” will be too susceptible to shear/compression forces to give the rigidity I’m looking for.

HaphazardFinesse,

Yes, the joint needs to rotate on x, y, and z to about 10 degrees

HaphazardFinesse,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/db18f46b-2e36-4b17-b09e-af15591ca088.webp

HaphazardFinesse, (edited )

Me if I were in my 20s in 1994: “Hey wait is that that spastic drummer from Nirvana? What, thinks he can pull off being a front man? Psh…”

Thanks Dave Grohl for being like, the chillest rock star ever.

HaphazardFinesse,

Not to be “that guy” on top of you being “that guy,” but it’s not unheard of to completely redirect a dammed river with a chute spillway. I’m gonna pretend the spillway exits that mountain to the right of what we can see lol

HaphazardFinesse,

Watch him as he codes

HaphazardFinesse,

I fucking love how nerdy this place is

HaphazardFinesse,

Me, with ASD and ADHD: “Porque no los dos?”

HaphazardFinesse,

I don’t think OP knows what “lore” means lol. GTA ≈ ATLA ≈ Star Trek? DESTINY > DR WHO?!?!

HaphazardFinesse,

“Damn, this is going to be a tough time for her. Better be sure to make zero effort to inject levity, or take her mind off it, or remind her that I’m also here to take responsibility for my part in this life we’re creating. She should remain 100% FOCUSED on how painful and humiliating this experience is for her. For the entire 20 hours she’s in labor. Just going to continuously remind her to keep breathing. So she knows how much I support her. Yup, that tracks.”

You must be a fun person to go through traumatic experiences with lol.

HaphazardFinesse,

Wow, actually sounds like a pretty light sentence, considering it seems like the ATF was intent on nailing him to the wall haha. Maybe just more interested in stopping the broadcast of doing stupidly dangerous shit with guns and explosives…

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