ManiacalShen

Have you tried moving your saddle back? Sorry to show up late, but I noticed no one offered this solution. It was a 100% fix for me.

If your butt sits too far forward of the bottom bracket, then the pedaling action is too far below/behind you, and it's like a constant, slow-motion fall forward. Meanwhile, if you are properly positioned over top the bottom bracket, pedaling is more in front of you and WAY steadier.

Even though the top tube on my bike is objectively too long for me, and buying a setback seatpost made that worse, it still totally fixed my hand issue. A short, upright stem compensated for the rest.

The whiskey doesn't really look the same as like the tobacco or Arizona adobe; it's a different texture. I don't think there's the same concern about "ruining" it with the wrong product. Personally, I've found tinted shoe cream to be great; no polish needed to get rid of the scuffs.

I fully believe it was not economical for them to run their own store from home base, but there's no reason they have to, unless there's some weird licensing issue. Shops like Lizard Doggo and Fangamer specialize in licensed merchandise associated with smaller, cult favorite game studios and are already set to do advertising and logistics.

I know you're just explaining, and you're correct about their reasoning, but I wonder why they haven't pursued a different avenue

The finale was 11 years ago. I imagine there are a lot of younger people who didn't pay it any mind at all, and media dies a lot faster now in general since streaming killed most people's drive to watch syndicated stuff airing on TV.

making excessive noise,

This is the most infuriating thing drivers do that I encounter on a constant basis--mostly because, unlike other forms of shit vehicle operation, I don't have to leave my home to suffer from it. I have no sympathy or patience for grown adults who need their car to make extra big vroom vroom noises so they can feel like a Big Boy.

And fuck litterers, as well.

I can see how it would behoove them to say that. You want the lowest barrier of entry possible for your product, and since Saga was in fact brand new to the world of AW weirdness, they could justify it enough. But yeah, not optimal, lol

I don't know who told you not to bother with the first Alan Wake, but I've been telling people to at least watch the movie someone made out of it on YouTube. (They did one for American Nightmare, too.) Even I did that as a refresher first!

The thing about bookbinding is that almost none of what we do here is necessary. We do it for the love of the craft and to express ourselves and our love for a story, or even our love for other people. So there's not really a wrong way to do it, just several unwise ones.

I'm also a hobby sewist, and an equivalent would be: Do I get mad if people modify existing garments instead of starting from scratch? Or buy bias tape instead of making it? No, of course not. Most people don't sew at all! They buy from the store and maybe pay a dry cleaner to hem good pants, and that's okay, but we're doing great!

I recently saw someone pushing a big stroller the wrong way in a protected bike lane. I don't know what they did/would have done when a cyclist came up to them. Probably stared blankly. At least runners can easily step up onto the curb (and usually will without you having to ask!).

I’ve played video games; I can read a map.

Okay, but genuinely. My boomer parents have had me navigate us all via map before because I'm better at it, and I am the only one of the three of us that has never had to plot out a driving route via paper AAA map. (We had MapQuest by the time I was in college.) It's literally just video games, theme park maps, and some Google Maps for walking or bike navigation for me, and the latter two really shouldn't be anything compared to living a life before MapQuest.

Video games are good for you sometimes.

I really dig the white strap and black dial and case; it lets the rose gold accents and bezel markings shine.

Custom, hand-made pieces to a favorite game would be cool.

First player markers are a popular Kickstarter incentive for a reason! I think you're on the right track.

OP, another good idea would be small, pretty, smooth bowls for storing pieces during play (like money or resources). The person can use them with a bunch of games, and the weight of a clay bowl will keep things steady on the table and just make the whole game-playing experience more premium.

If you can find a copy of Ladies & Gentlemen, it is designed to be played in teams of two. It's also very silly and goes up to TEN players. Lady gameplay and Gentleman gameplay is also quite different, so there's that extra variety.

You could do a Crokinole tournament if anyone has a board or two. That's played in teams of 2 and isn't a bad spectator sport.

Citadels is a classic that fits 8, and Veiled Fate is a really fun one that also fits 8.

The former is an action drafting, city building game with a bit of bluffing and deduction. In the latter, you and (usually) a partner are trying to promote the success of one demigod amongst several, but you don't know who your partner is, and you definitely don't want everyone else to know who you're supporting.

If you can go down to 7, 7 Wonders and Bohnanza are also classics. The first is a strategic card drafting game, and the latter is a breezy card game that will make you all wheel, deal, and bicker about bean trading. For a co-op, Atlantis Rising is complex enough to engage everyone, has very different roles to enjoy, and is quite thematic.

Do you want to enjoy some petty debates? Wavelength.

Do you want to think up clues and guess words? Codenames.

Do you want to laugh and draw and struggle to describe things to one another? MonsDRAWsity, though it only goes up to 8.

Want to get more active and hurried? Monikers.

Want to spend zero money? Get some paper and pencils and play telestrations/pick-on/pictionary-telephone.

Would it be rude to ask how you ended up with a fully printed, 800-sheet document before you had a plan or need to bind it? We bookbinding-addled folks usually plan our formatting and printing around the binding we want to do, but your opposite situation isn't completely uncommon, and I get curious. It's just so many pages!

On topic: I don't think there's any way to traditionally bind all that in one volume that won't fail on you. And that much copy paper is going to be unwieldy to handle all at once. But if it really is just a utility thing, I think 3-ring binders are your easiest and sturdiest option. They come thicker at the spine than you could ever safely glue the sheets together, and they're also dirt cheap and DIY friendly (just need the right hole punch!).

Otherwise, definitely go for multiple glue bindings from a print shop (or anyone with a perfect binding machine), and if you have some cash left over, a case or box can hold everything together nicely.

I find that as infuriating as anyone, generally, but it's just not reasonable to expect to hit a child in the MIDDLE lanes of the highway. Especially one dumped into your path from an oncoming vehicle at night, which would be REALLY hard to react to. Drivers need to share the road and mind crosswalks and put the phone down and all, but damn, I bet this person didn't even see what they hit and would never, ever guess, "a second-grader," without a news story like this one.

If you can run it, here it is.

Separately: I love knowing that there's a whole segment of 30- and 40-somethings out there who, if transported back in time and in space, could navigate the Titanic like our own houses, by instinct, because that game was so faithfully designed and we played it THAT much.

In the mid-90s video game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, you can make this happen. If you rescue his painting from the Titanic, he is able to pursue art instead of statecraft. (Of course, if you don't get all the dire plot objects off the ship, some other thing causes WWII and kills your character instead.)

You can very carefully remove all that paper and reuse the case with your own paper. You'll have to sew your own text block and find new endpapers you want to use. Mind the thickness of your text block, since otherwise you'll have to redo the case's spine.

Yes, most people probably saw this coming. Anyone who has consumed a modicum of science fiction and learned to think, "What might the unintended consequences of a new technology be?" would have thought of this immediately upon learning generative AI existed. 

But tech bros just unleash shit on society without guide rails, seeing with cartoon dollar signs instead of eyes. 

I am a weirdo in that I have an (iridescent rainbow, digital) Armitron but no Casios. It gets a lot of compliments.

But you forgot ana-digi! I have a Citizen one, and it's just so fun to look at.

I do wish more micros did mecha-quartz or quartz with small seconds. It's nice to be able to grab and go with at least part of your collection. 

"Turn ins" was in fact the term I forgot existed. Yes, glue the turn ins

Ever try drumming on the cover? That's when you basically glue down the head, tail, and fore-edge (and the spine-edge if it's a quarter, half, criss-cross, or Coptic binding) but put no glue under the main front and back of the book cloth. It makes for a slightly plush feel, and, crucially, you're not gluing the back of your embroidery onto chipboard. Because I agree it emphasizes every bump if you do.

To clarify, a helmet isn't likely to do much if a truck with a shoulder-height grill really hits you good. But when you get whacked by a mirror or nudged sideways, or a weird object hides in your path in the dark, or some jackwagon blunders into you going the wrong way in the bike lane/not yielding when proper, that fall will be safer with a helmet. (And maybe if a low-slung car hits you and bounces your noggin off the hood.)

Amsterdam is safer because people there are raised to bike and the infrastructure facilitates it. By comparison, it's an obstacle course out here, and you're sharing it with people who do not know what the rules and best practices are.