nickajeglin

Exactly. Make it infrastructure that's hidden away from the front end. Find some way to wrap up duplicate groups into larger categories or something, and figure out a way to migrate accounts if your home instance tanks. That would cover all my concerns.

You can do open world right, oblivion and to a slightly lesser extent Skyrim. But a huge map with not much in it just makes for tedious travel times, or lots of fast travel loading screens. At that point, you basically have separate levels.

Dark souls 1 was good too, but for a different reason: there's nothing like opening a gate and going "WTF, how did I get all the way back here?" The way it folds in on itself makes it huge, but also gives it a very compact feeling when it comes to traveling around. I'd put it top 3 level design on my personal list.

Far cry 3 was good too. Mostly because wing suit and helicopter thing. Now that I think of it, there's a theme here. It seems like verticality (and a way to traverse it) really helps a map feel fun. Far cry 3, BOTW, dark souls, all 3 have these huge altitude variations.

Does anyone know how to get the post thumbnail working? I've tried with imgur and with "upload" in the post creation, but I'm still not seeing it.

edit: disregard, it looks like it's just on jerboa. Maybe it takes a bit to show up.

Wow, that's wild. How did you get into gemcutting? Is it an expensive hobby, or is it something more where you can sell the finished ones to keep yourself going?

I haven't tried fiber paper yet, mostly because $$$, and I feel like I'm not at the point where I'm satisfied enough with my prints to make any "archival" yet.

I do love cyanotypes. I've done them with digital pictures before by getting transparencies from Kinkos and then using a UV lamp to burn them onto the emulsion. I'm not sure how I'd get there from a 35mm negative though. I have a negative scanner, but its very low quality and puts a nasty gradient on one side of everything, so I only use it for digitizing old family slides.

Is it possible to contact print a cyanotype off an enlarged darkroom print?

Thanks very much :) I was so excited when I saw the negative with the spiral come out of the fixer. Most of my rolls are "eh", but sometimes a frame will scream "print me now!".

I have done a little dodging and burning, but so far only in the service of "correcting" things. This negative was really challenging to print. I had to burn in the background and dodge the sea lion pretty hard to be able to get detail in both. I will probably revisit it down the road as there is a lot more detail in the sea lion than you can see here. Ultimately, I decided that the strength of the spiral was more important to me than getting full detail in the sea lion, but that decision was motivated by my skill deficit ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I feel really grateful to receive all the gear from people. I get a lot of satisfaction from putting all kinds of old tools back to work.

I'm using HP5+ and ilford multigrade pearl paper right now. I believe this shot was pushed to 800 asa, which I was doing a lot at the time as I often struggled with finding enough light in the winter/spring. I was using Arista EDU for a while because it's cheap. I don't think it's as tolerant of pushing in terms of grain size, but I bet a lot of that was due to I experience on my part.

Thanks very much :) I was so excited when I pulled the negative out of the dev and saw a spiral.

I posted a different thread, and someone almost immediately found it with a reverse image search.

It's a military laundry key tag. It connects to a huge safety pin that hooks to your mesh laundry bag. The cutout is related to some sort of automatic sorting mechanism, there's a matching rail that it goes onto to make sure that all of one person's bags end up together. I'm still hunting for more info on that machine because it sounds really cool.

If you're on PC, get an inventory/crafting interface makeover mod. The PC interface is a direct port of the console one, so the navigation buttons are just like they'd be on a console, which means it's horrible for PC.

Yeah, it's the little niche communities that I'm sad about:

An arborist spent 4 years helping me take care of an elm tree. They'd PM me every May to ask how it was doing, and I'd start another thread and send them pictures so they could tell me how to fix the roots or change the guy wires or prune the branches. When it got complicated, another arborist popped out of the woodwork to offer a second opinion and more advice.

I helped a person on oscilloscopemusic breadboard a little 2 channel opamp buffer/amp so they could use a CRT to make shapes from music instead of needing to buy a scope.

I won't miss reddit, but I will miss interactions like that.

The other day, my wife was looking at a book catalog. I looked over her shoulder at all the book covers organized by genre and had an intrusive thought: shit, book cover designer will be like the first career taken by AI...

I'm sad to see it happening.