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Ok, need to actually do smth again in the evenings apart from playing vidya
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@whirly because i feel like i'm lazy and useless and need to make smth cool to boost my ego
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@whirly mayybe wrenching on my bike turned the "make shit" part of my brain back on
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@snacks make halloween costumes for your chickens
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@snacks pillowfort sounds like a dialect meant to run on alarm clocks
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@coolbean one of the things on my mind is restarting my shitty game in c with raylib. Maybe i can just write it as a engine to use with forth scripting
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@snacks theres gforth bindings for raylib and even if there werent its not too hard to write your own
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@whirly i'm rlly bad at crafts. All my pottery cracked and that wasn't even meant for crafts but for engineering
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@snacks @whirly you could learn welding. i wanna learn welding
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@coolbean i think i want mkre in c than just raylib, idk if i'll actuaally do forth scripting. Kinda just waant to get anything done
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@coolbean @whirly i think we actually have a welder here lol. But pottery and woodworking are more interesting for me
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@snacks id love to get into pottery. how did you fire it?
ive only made small things in the oven, theyre always brittle cuz of the clay type i think
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@whirly we heat mostly with wood stoves. They get easily hot enough
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@whirly i think they're brittle because they're just dried, not fired tbh
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@whirly regarding your 2nd paragraph
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@snacks oh yeah maybe.
i was gunna say if i heat them too hot they crack. but yeah, the clays i have on hand atm isnt meant for high heat so. yeah.
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@whirly you dry it first then fire, shouldn't crack that way (always does on the joins for me becauae i suck)
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@whirly i'll either have to not do regular joins or idk, wait longer so moisture can equalize and there's more even shrinkage?
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@snacks you know, i really wanted to be a glassblower when i was a little kid. everyone wanted to be firefighters and policemen and i was like no i wanna be a glassblower or a silversmith

maybe you should try making your things outta glass 👀
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@whirly i need a proton exchange membrane. Making those from glass i think is technically possible but it needs to be insanely thin sheets of doped glass
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@whirly and clay works better, especially in my case since i also want weird ass bacteria to be happy in there
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@whirly composter that generates electricity, aka teaching aneorobic bacteria to breath through a wire (and whatever load i attach hehe)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_fuel_cell
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@whirly surely i will finish at least a tiny prototype when it's cold enough to fire up the oven this year
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@snacks weiiird, but very cool
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@snacks @whirly i feel like this is definitely a solvable problem. and a cool one at that

and yea let it dry for longer. odds are there was still water trapped in the clay. come to think of it the clay may have also been too thick to dry effectively so keep that in mind
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@snacks @whirly and ultimately: just say fuck it and wait a week or so. generally people that do lots of pottery just accumulate things they can fire all at once
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@snacks @whirly also little tip but once its about the consistency of leather you can take thin wire or a blade and use that to smoothen and thin it out a little. the scraps can be reused just gotta let em soak in water
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@ug @snacks @whirly i should learn sign language and then troll the fuck out of ppl
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@coolbean @snacks @whirly

learns sign language to talk to deaf people

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@coolbean @snacks @whirly somehow i’ve never seen A Bit of Fry & Laurie and this has changed my life, thank you

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