JacobCoffinWrites

JacobCoffinWrites, 8 days ago

One of the things I really like about the 40k universe is the incredible scope of the setting. You really can tell just about any story and it fits somewhere in the setting.

I don’t actually know much about necromunda, though I used to love the art and articles about it as a kid. I’m hoping someone else will kick in some recommendations

JacobCoffinWrites, 10 days ago

And seven years seems quite optimistic considering how effectively local governments and committees of concerned NIMBYS have been blocking any new nuclear construction for like, my entire lifetime, at least in the US. Apparently nobody wants a nuclear power plant going up near them and they find a lot of creative ways to jam up the works. I’m not sure we have the time to try to ram dozens of nuclear power plants through those folks while the world is burning.

JacobCoffinWrites, 11 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Yeah, similarly, I don’t see it as terribly practical, but it does feel like something that would fit the setting’s high tech, endless Saturday. I could picture hermit-ish nomad types on a long term camping trip who like knowing they’ll wake up a mile down the road, or just someone trying to get around the 'no permanent structures ’ criteria in a beautiful spot by having it take one step every two weeks.

I think these things have potential for drama and disagreement, which might make them useful to DMs. You could build a story around a convoy of them and the locals trying to stop or divert it, or a mystery around why they keep falling into this one canal. Or it could just be neat flavor text for a character they interact with.

JacobCoffinWrites, 11 days ago

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/dbab2dfa-31ef-4d5e-88a2-ade437ebc956.webp

JacobCoffinWrites, 12 days ago

This is really cool! I’d always thought this was done with molten gold, I had no idea that it was mostly done with resins. I might give this a try someday.

JacobCoffinWrites, 18 days ago

Thanks so much!

JacobCoffinWrites, 18 days ago

Thank you!

JacobCoffinWrites, 17 days ago

I’m thinking about it - I have access to a laser cutter that can do steel etching. If I planned it carefully I could get it to match to inches between the points of the jaws to each tick or something. But I think I’m leaning towards leaving it origional-ish for now, since this setup still allows you to open and close them without losing your place, so you can measure the opening accurately and that’s probably how they’ll be used.

JacobCoffinWrites, 20 days ago

I wonder if all that airborne grit effects the windmills. Just the same, I’m glad for any green energy progress

JacobCoffinWrites, 21 days ago

It’s a tabletop role playing game - like a solarpunk scifi version of DnD (or the TTRPG of your pick). The rulebook and other resources available there enable people to play it. Specifically it helps one individual (the GM) run their own campaigns/games, by giving them a suggested set of rules and a vibrant setting they can use all or some of (or just take inspiration from), and it helps the rest of a group of players to create characters and interact with the setting. Together they do a sort of collective storytelling.

In the broader scope of what it does, hopefully it helps people who aren’t super familiar with solarpunk and it’s associated philosophies and movements to imagine a better world, other ways we could do things as a society.

JacobCoffinWrites, 23 days ago

Eat off frisbees

JacobCoffinWrites, 23 days ago

This is awesome advice, thank you! I bought a rear rack and some cable housing (I’m worried the rear derailer cable will scrape on the rack mountings). I’m going to start with the rear rack and panniers.

My front fork is some kind of chunky mountain bike built-in-shocks thing and I’m not sure there’s a way to mount a front rack to it, but I’ll try to figure something out once the rear one is set up. Failing that, I’ll look for one of those handlebar baskets.

I figure I’ll start small, see if this is useful, and add capacity as I go.

Thanks again!

JacobCoffinWrites, 23 days ago

Thank you!

JacobCoffinWrites, 15 days ago

That’s a good idea! I’ve got the rear rack attached, I’m going to add a kickstand and then some kind of front basket. I think these will work with my front fork.

Thanks!

JacobCoffinWrites, 13 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Thank you! This is really good advice! I’m definitely not counting on the claimed 310 capacity (especially since I had to replace one post with a longer one I made from a 3/8" rod, so I could attach it to the little bolt above the rear gears instead of wrapping it around the seat stay). I’ll definitely post my progress soon, and I think brakes are going to be my next step. Supposedly there’s an adapter kit to add disc brakes to this bike but everything’s so cluttered back there I think better pads make more sense and are more achievable. The pads on there now might be some of the only original parts left, not sure.

Well, brakes and one of those wrap-around-the-chain-stays kickstands. So I’ll have a kickstand. It’s a work in progress.

JacobCoffinWrites, 13 days ago

Thanks! I’ll start slow with adding weight and I’ll look at better brake pads next, to help deal with it. I had to modify the rack a little so it’s wrapped around the seat stays at three points, and where it gets crowded with the rear derailer cable and it’s attachments, I modified the back right post to use a longer rod so I could attach it to the little bolt above the gears the way the bike designers intended. Not sure what that does, if anything, to it’s weight capacity but I’ll be careful.

JacobCoffinWrites, 11 days ago

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/f2832f45-97b7-4fba-abe4-085245291747.webp

Step 1 in the cargo bike transition is complete! I have some secondhand panniers to try out with some groceries, and I’ll see about adding better brakes, a rear basket and eventually a front basket, options like that.

(I mentioned in another comment that I’d had to modify the rack to get it to attach since the right seat stay is crowded, that’s the blue part in the picture.)

JacobCoffinWrites, 11 days ago

Update:

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/f8184160-67fe-4ddd-8bc3-7aa28caf5d79.webp

If “Bicycle Pickup Truck” was a good idea, people would probably be doing it already.

Don’t worry, I have actual panniers to put on it, I just wanted to see how my pre-advice plans would have worked. After that, I’ll try the Koolstop Salmon brake pads, then maybe a removable basket for the front and a frame bag.

JacobCoffinWrites, 17 days ago

I haven’t been over to the other zerowaste communities, so I appreciate the heads-up! I mod this one (though the community here is great and has needed no input from me!) so I want to make sure it continues to be a nice place to share projects and ways to avoid waste.

JacobCoffinWrites, 17 days ago

Yeah I generally don’t love these extension cord / splitter combination because they make it too easy to casually plug in lots of stuff. I’ve been using this one but just for a box fan (old building, retrofitted for electricity with the absolute minimum number of outlets). When I do hook multiple things to one extension cord, I make sure it’s something like power tools, where I know I can only use one at a time anyways, and that I’ll always be there when its in use. I also check my cords for heat when they’ve been in use for awhile (I once found a daisy chained set of rack-mount power strips in a server room, where one of the plugs had melted to the socket it was plugged into, fusing them together. Pulling them apart broke the plastic outlet. I’ve been a little cautious ever since).

JacobCoffinWrites, 17 days ago

That’s a cool idea - I might pick this up again sometime, it really was a very workable material.