Dam Guide
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| Registered on: | 9/29/2005 |
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Has anyone listened to Red Rising? My algorithm on Instagram keeps throwing other fantasy novel suggestions and this one keeps popping up?
Matt has some Red Rising easter eggs in DCC.
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re: Post your favorite camping/foldable chair
Posted by Dam Guide on 9/29/26 at 7:30 pm to BigDropper
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Hopefully our future WhatsApp phone calls will continue to be as good sound quality as the last one was.
Most cruise ships use starlink now, it works great. I've been able to do facetime calls and zoom/teams meetings.
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Anyone here a member of MD's patreon?
Just wandering how many chapters he completed so far for book 9 part 1.
Prologue, chapter 1 and 2 were posted. It's been a bit since he posted anything, but it's con and metal season. DragonCon, Prog Power USA, and NYCC are big parts of his schedule every year, but he said he is still writing pretty regularly through it.
re: Unprofessional item Gen Z brings to interviews may cost them a job
Posted by Dam Guide on 9/22/26 at 9:00 am to tigafan4life
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Every interview I have gone on, I am offered coffee....what is the difference if I bring my own coffee with me than drinking the office coffee during an interview.
We have an abundance of shite individuals, especially in management, that wonder why people aren't doing their best work for them.
Same people that do stuff like demand to see a death certificate because their best employee had a parent die right before a pitch meeting and needs bereavement leave.
re: Has anyone here had a microdiscectomy for a herniated disc?
Posted by Dam Guide on 9/22/26 at 8:53 am to catfish 62
Had two microdiscectomies on my L5-S1.
Get the back pain bible, start doing safe exercises to strengthen your core.
If you start suffering muscle weakness, you need surgery. If you aren't there yet, see if you can do PT and epidurals to resolve your issue without surgery.
Stop lifting anything over like 10 pounds. No bending and twisting. Take care of your back. You don't want, what comes after.
Get the back pain bible, start doing safe exercises to strengthen your core.
If you start suffering muscle weakness, you need surgery. If you aren't there yet, see if you can do PT and epidurals to resolve your issue without surgery.
Stop lifting anything over like 10 pounds. No bending and twisting. Take care of your back. You don't want, what comes after.
re: The real reason we all hate Lane Kiffin
Posted by Dam Guide on 9/20/26 at 2:36 pm to Diamondawg
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Serraneaux wants to have his child.
It's quite easy for most people to turn a blind eye to douchebaggery when it is your own doing the douchebaggery. Especially when the coach wins like Kiffin and Vitello. :lol:
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But he made a mockery of the sport we all love. In their heart of hearts, LSU fans know this too.
He's LSU's Vitello. We all know how much everyone hates Vitello, :lol:
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When I started this series 3 years ago I thought it was going to be a quirky series that hardly anyone but myself would actually read. Never in a million years would I have guessed how popular it had become. Just the number of carl cosplayers there really hit that point home.
I always thought the opposite. He's filled the convention rooms completely on every panel and every size room he has been announced in since I have been going to DragonCon in 2023 specifically to see DCC panels. Just felt like this con was coming. We broke the record by a lot for biggest photoshoot at DragonCon by a lot.
I'm still sad I skipped the LitRPG under the Sea party at the aquarium in 2023. Open bar and open entry, I heard it was nuts.
re: Your “wow” vacation
Posted by Dam Guide on 9/16/26 at 1:01 pm to sparkinator
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Yours sounds like an excellent trip! Big thumbs up.
Man, I think we were on a lot of the same roads. :lol:
lol on the Iron Butt, those things are miserable. I have done it twice and wanted to do one of the Iron Butt Rallys, but back pain/sciatica came for me too early. I mostly don't ride these days because of it.
re: Your “wow” vacation
Posted by Dam Guide on 9/15/26 at 10:20 am to sparkinator
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I visited those 20 years ago on my motorcycle and camped in a tent every night. 13 days and 6500 miles. By myself. It was life changing.
I did a very similar trip and I would agree that's probably going to remain my favorite. Hit up the Great Sands, Black Canyon, Mesa Verde, Utah Mighty 5, Grand Canyon, Sequoia/Kings/Yosemite, Redwoods, Crater Lake, Craters of the Moon, Yellowstone, Devils Tower, Rushmore, Badlands, and the Arch. It was so awesome living off the bike for almost a month.
I did a shorter version of the trip in an RV with the wife and kid last year, it was fun to see her experience the places, but it just was a bit off experiencing all that on the motorcycle. It just felt different basically being outside in the elements for that long. Like you said life changing.
The jeep duck thing and cruise duck thing are kinda tied and started way earlier than anything on the internet shows them starting. I think cruise ducks were spawned from a girl seeing jeep ducks and starting it on cruise ships.
Jeep ones started way earlier. Earliest I have been able to track it is to locals to US129/The dragon. They had been putting devil ducks on each other's cars and motorcycles in the early 00s for fun and to signify someone cool with the local group. I don't think they were the first either, but I don't know where they got it from when they started doing it. Lots of 4x4 and jeep groups come to the area and there were a lot of locals in both groups. It just turned into regular ducks from there. People had ducks in jeeps way before late 2010s though.
Jeep ones started way earlier. Earliest I have been able to track it is to locals to US129/The dragon. They had been putting devil ducks on each other's cars and motorcycles in the early 00s for fun and to signify someone cool with the local group. I don't think they were the first either, but I don't know where they got it from when they started doing it. Lots of 4x4 and jeep groups come to the area and there were a lot of locals in both groups. It just turned into regular ducks from there. People had ducks in jeeps way before late 2010s though.
re: BGE vs Pellet
Posted by Dam Guide on 9/12/26 at 10:58 pm to captainahab
Look into a gravity, ease of pellet, taste closer to stick than pellet or bge.
re: United 93
Posted by Dam Guide on 9/12/26 at 7:04 pm to StansberryRules
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The walkout of American Sniper was similar to what OP describes as well, whole theater came out extremely slowly and solemn.
I wouldn’t expect the same experience from that one these days given Kyle’s reputation now.
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available at 30,000 feet ?
yes, there are recordings of the calls you can listen to online recorded from answering machines.
A lot of companies require backing in with company cars. It is proven to reduce accidents. People pay more attention backing into a parking spot than they do backing out of a parking spot.
re: Dungeon crawler carl
Posted by Dam Guide on 9/8/26 at 8:13 pm to white perch
Got all 8 paperbacks signed by Matt and Jeff now. DragonCon was fricking awesome and saw a bunch of great panels with Matt and Jeff. Had Jeff yelling at us in the parade as Donut. fricking awesome Labor Day.
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Oh i thought we were talking about 3d printing. I could never get blender to work with my printer, shite was always off. I was printing parts and millimeters mattered. Fusion just worked.
I've used maya back when SGI owned them, but it was for games.(very shitty games)
I am talking about 3D printing, you need to read what people write slower. Millimeters don't matter for artistic designs that you 3D print. Things like tabletop minis, cruise ducks, the stupid flexi dragons, basically all the 3D printed junk that sells well.
If I am making a part or a bracket for my truck, yeah Fusion is the way to go.
re: Zion NP you're on the clock
Posted by Dam Guide on 9/1/26 at 9:19 pm to highcotton2
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8 people have drowned in 65 years. I would put that as a very low risk proposition
Yep, they do a very good job of maintaining a good warning system for the narrows.
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I have a modelling background from waaaay back when(1999-2001) and blender isn't it for 3d printing. Gotta use the free fusion 360
lol what? Fusion sucks for artistic design. What crack pipe are you smoking? Jumping into paying for Z-Brush or Maya isn't the way to go for someone testing the waters.
I've gotten free Bambu printers from points I got from the artistic designs that I have made in Blender. I do use Fusion for functional parts like stated above. I'm not using CAD to design a themed cruise duck though.
re: 3d print modeling AI
Posted by Dam Guide on 8/31/26 at 2:40 pm to RedBeardBaw
Fusion 360 has a free version for personal use if you are making functional things.
If you want to make more artistic stuff, I highly recommend Blender. Its free and very powerful. There are lots of good tutorials and teaching lessons on youtube as well. I learned through that and some professional 3D artists friends I made online.
If you want to make more artistic stuff, I highly recommend Blender. Its free and very powerful. There are lots of good tutorials and teaching lessons on youtube as well. I learned through that and some professional 3D artists friends I made online.
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