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 received my flippin' electromechanics. holy poo poo those reels and stacks of contacts  sorry for the lovely pics, had to use the poo poo ipod camera since my actual camera was dead once i get something that takes real pictures i'll take some of the interiors etc. since they're mad cool they all work (  /  )bonus insanity
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Sep 2, 2013 00:10
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PleasingFungus posted:lol @ people who care about fonts they're two different things a typeface is "helvetica" a font is "helvetica bold 12" or "helvetica italic 18" or "helvetica condensed roman 24" or "helvetica thin oblique 72" and all other size and weight and style variants of the same one (since in the past when you used metal type these would of course have been completely different sets of letterforms) guess there weren't any questions about typography on that game show huh
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Sep 2, 2013 00:49
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Sagebrush posted:they're two different things yup, owned
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Sep 2, 2013 00:49
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Sagebrush posted:they're two different things gas this specific post
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Sep 2, 2013 00:52
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do not shame posts in the idiots spare time projects thread (except fishmech's) e: wait i thought pleasingfungus is a fishmech/install gentoo alternate. c/d? drat all these namechanges are confusing
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Sep 2, 2013 01:41
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Sweevo posted:why not make a game people actually want to play? instead of "lovely rougelike #2347" sweevo fucks up again
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Sep 2, 2013 02:02
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Moist von Lipwig posted:that is the arial a so much for my 4 year degree in printing/publishing/typography
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Sep 2, 2013 02:26
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http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/ post ur results... if u dare
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Sep 2, 2013 03:20
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19/20 the mattel logo got me
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Sep 2, 2013 03:44
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18/20, toyota and mattel
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18/20 BASF and Toyota
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Sep 2, 2013 03:56
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spongeh posted:so much for my 4 year degree in printing/publishing/typography same but 3 years time to die
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why would you waste 3 or 4 years on that
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Bloody posted:why would you waste 3 or 4 years on that so i could get a job programming/web dev in the game industry
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spongeh posted:so i could get a job programming/web dev in the game industry youre joking right
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19/20 north face Btw it's super easy for the lowercase ones because the ends of e's, c's and a bunch others are completely horizontal where arial's are angled
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20/20 on mattel you can tell because the arial m is wider and on toyota the helvetica o's are perfectly circular
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i like to think about degrees as "if i went to the third world/the year zero/the post-apocalyptic future what could i do with this knowledge" because that's a pretty good rubric for how directly useful your skills are to humanity. if your skills are only applicable within a very specific societal structure you're sorta hosed doctor: p. much always set for life wherever they go mechanical engineer: could probably be a mechanic or inventor or something -- still some opportunities computer programmer: math teacher at best typographer: lol tradesmen make out the best here obviously
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Sagebrush posted:i like to think about degrees as "if i went to the third world/the year zero/the post-apocalyptic future what could i do with this knowledge" because that's a pretty good rubric for how directly useful your skills are to humanity. if your skills are only applicable within a very specific societal structure you're sorta hosed oh my god the things i could do helps bein a whiteman thats actually the most important trait at least for goin bakc in time
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Moist von Lipwig posted:p sure I wouldn't notice this unless someone told me to look for something wrong I'm in USA at the moment and I couldn;t help but take a photo of this store  Sagebrush posted:do not shame posts in the idiots spare time projects thread yes, iff they have a project in them (so feel free to shame this one)
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Sep 2, 2013 04:43
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Sagebrush posted:i like to think about degrees as "if i went to the third world/the year zero/the post-apocalyptic future what could i do with this knowledge" because that's a pretty good rubric for how directly useful your skills are to humanity. if your skills are only applicable within a very specific societal structure you're sorta hosed my degree would be useful in a apoc' if I learnt traditional pharmacy things like compounding from nature not poo poo like how old people's meds interact [pro tip they should already be dead]
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Sep 2, 2013 04:50
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Bloody posted:youre joking right nope. many of the people in my classes are working at companies like http://www.capv.com/public/home.html or are involved with the print industry in other ways. i ended up in web dev/mobile app dev and then 6 months later went to a game company. (i didnt go into QA or anything thank god) no regrets, besides moving to the dallas area
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BANME.sh posted:19/20 north face lower case t is prob the easiest, the ascender is slanted like a / upper case G is gross looking in arial, the lobe just wraps inward instead of being serifed but upper case G is a little more rare than a t
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Sagebrush posted:i like to think about degrees as "if i went to the third world/the year zero/the post-apocalyptic future what could i do with this knowledge" because that's a pretty good rubric for how directly useful your skills are to humanity. if your skills are only applicable within a very specific societal structure you're sorta hosed lol what do you think we'll never need printed materials again
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Sep 2, 2013 05:37
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when we're reduced to gutenberg presses we will control all human knowledge again
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Sep 2, 2013 05:40
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someone who can draw precise things?? you'll never be of any use, loving idiot shitking !!
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nah artists will always have a job. it's just a universal constant that it never pays well and never really gets much respect
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well yeah that's true
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working on a python script to help me define box joints and t-bolts and have it all match up perfect for laser cut shiz  that piece is still wip
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peepsalot posted:working on a python script to help me define box joints and t-bolts and have it all match up perfect for laser cut shiz yeah, wip
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Raluek posted:yeah, wip
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Sagebrush posted:i like to think about degrees as "if i went to the third world/the year zero/the post-apocalyptic future what could i do with this knowledge" because that's a pretty good rubric for how directly useful your skills are to humanity. if your skills are only applicable within a very specific societal structure you're sorta hosed lol if you actually loving believe this.
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i have a personal policy where i try to understand all the technology that i use, at least on a somewhat general level, because i don't want to be useless after civilization falls and more importantly because i think poo poo is cool and i like to learn about it. i know there's way more to learn about than any one person could ever do in their lifetime but i just don't want anything to be a magic black box to me the way computers and phones and car engines seem to be to some other people i don't know where i'm going with this but don't just look at things in terms of "hm if modern society were wiped out, how useful would this be?"; because every single skill that you can learn is going to be in the context of society as it exists now and if you're going to prepare for a postapocalyptic future you might as well dig yourself a bunker and hole up in it with a year's worth of canned food and ten thousand rounds of ammunition
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ability to apply your knowledge and lead/form consensus is most important. look at how special forces train backwater rebels now
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Sagebrush posted:i like to think about degrees as "if i went to the third world/the year zero/the post-apocalyptic future what could i do with this knowledge" because that's a pretty good rubric for how directly useful your skills are to humanity. if your skills are only applicable within a very specific societal structure you're sorta hosed i think the only ones who would get anywhere are antiquarian survivalists, who thrive on the idea that they gotta build their own woodworking lathe and smithery out of nothing but a knife alone in the woods doctors can only get by with social context. without intrinsic respect for your knowledge, without agreed-upon modes of interaction between doctor and patient, without pharmaceuticals, what good is a doctor? why would people pay a scary foreigner who can barely speak to set bones when a witchy woman or barber can do same? mechanical engineers rely on thousands of dollars in tools and computers. what use is that poo poo in an era when pen and paper are unconscionable luxuries for royal scribes? you certainly won't have the dead reckoning that an ancient tradesman would have basically all of us, every single person, would be the equivalent of a mute idiot you pick up at the hardware store to dig sewage out of your basement with a spoon
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on a related note i did once run across a guide to like, bootstrapping your own everything starting with only wood and a knife. i never read the book but i always wanted to the guy starts by like making his own lathe, and using thta to make tools to make tools to end up with a working smithery so he can do ironwork and poo poo anyone remember something similar?
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everytime I get depressed with my life, I just remember that people are posting unironically itt and I feel much better about myself
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