hitmanNo2 Posted October 26, 2018 Report Share Posted October 26, 2018 Next year's Download lineup looks promising. Anyone planning on going? Link to post Share on other sites
Tw1tch Posted October 26, 2018 Report Share Posted October 26, 2018 So, dear friend is 8 weeks pregnant. Awesome news and I reckon she'll make an awesome mum. At what point do you buy pregnancy cards? I'm still among a quite immature group of friends and she's my first true friend to get pregnant and be happy with it. Don't know the etiquette haha. Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted October 26, 2018 Report Share Posted October 26, 2018 Pregnancy cards? Don't. Save the trees. Also, anything up to 12 weeks is still the most dangerous time for miscarriages. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted October 26, 2018 Report Share Posted October 26, 2018 What scorch said. The rule of thumb is wait until they announce it 'officially', which is usually after the 12 week scan. Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted October 26, 2018 Report Share Posted October 26, 2018 Wait, what did I say now? Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted October 27, 2018 Report Share Posted October 27, 2018 11 hours ago, scorch said: Wait, what did I say now? Err, I typed the wrong name. I meant hedge. I was drunk. Soz! Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted October 27, 2018 Report Share Posted October 27, 2018 The Dan band. The more you listen, the more you win. NSFW, but excellent. Honestly, youtube or Spotify them! Link to post Share on other sites
Tw1tch Posted October 29, 2018 Report Share Posted October 29, 2018 Good friend has asked me to photograph her wedding (they have virtually no money but are doing it in three months). I'm honoured to even be considered but I'm also worried about messing it up if I do cover it. Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted October 29, 2018 Report Share Posted October 29, 2018 I'd strongly advise against it. Everyone I know who ever got married - including myself - has issues with the photographers/photographs. You could well end up losing a friend. If you do go ahead, get a *written* contract and make sure you fulfill your contractual obligations. Link to post Share on other sites
Skarclaw Posted October 29, 2018 Report Share Posted October 29, 2018 Deffo don't be the wedding photographer twitch Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore1-6 Posted October 29, 2018 Report Share Posted October 29, 2018 I'll be the wedding photographer. Can't be that hard, I have an instagram* and everything.*that I made 4 years ago and posted something on for the first time Saturday. Link to post Share on other sites
Tw1tch Posted October 30, 2018 Report Share Posted October 30, 2018 Eh, I aired my concerns about it being between friends, as opposed to a paid service where worst case scenario you feel cheated out of money and with no/terrible photos as opposed to potentially hurting an awesome friendship if I can't deliver what they want. I talked about worst case scenarios, all my equipment breaking, maybe all the files corrupting and they seem to be fine with it all (guess the real question is would they be or are they just saying that without realising just how wrong it could go?). I know it's not going to be a huge wedding and there might not even be a proper reception and they don't seem to fussed about the photos being awesome but I still am concerned slightly. Half tempted to just put together what would be gift money with some others to hire a photographer. But super happy: day 7 of 7 down, 75 hours in a row and I'm almost ready to curl up in my bed (does anyone else like it when their sheets are cold first thing?) Link to post Share on other sites
Skarclaw Posted October 30, 2018 Report Share Posted October 30, 2018 Ive pmed you Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted October 31, 2018 Report Share Posted October 31, 2018 Well, I just earned $20. As a "consultancy fee". It's a story. I'm in a Facebook group for designers and other people looking for help with fonts. Since I know a lot of that stuff, and what I don't know I can look up with some black belt Google-Fu, I'm usually the first one responding when it comes to horror, fantasy, sci-fi and general old commercial fonts. Now, this guy turned up yesterday and asked about fonts used by "Tom Hammonds Enterprises" logo - a terrible thing hammered together in a vector editor in the previous century. One font is Windows' Lucida Handwriting, which should give you a hint how bad it was. Another one's Slipstream, a ridiculously old design used for racing-themed logos and bundled with CorelDraw long ago. Then, there's the third one. A weird, angular, old sci-fi kinda thing. Itched my brain something fierce, so I told him, it's probably something I saw on Dafont (a massively popular free font site) sometime, but I'll look it up later as I should have it stashed somewhere. Now, since I do have a stash of old fonts I copied from my old bootleg CorelDraw 7 disc, I went through it after my evening Twitch stream and there it was: Dex Gothic. I give the guy the name and link to Myfonts where he can purchase it, and he says I deserve $20 for that. I'm all like "Dude, you serious?", and it turns out he is. The thing is, "Tom Hammonds" is his client, THE Tom Hammonds, NBA star, drag racer, auto salon owner, which suddenly explained why the logo used Slipstream in the first place. All for what, five minutes of searching and knowing some things outright? I can work with that. Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted November 9, 2018 Report Share Posted November 9, 2018 Well, lads, I went on a shopping spree, got myself one of those APS NotGlocks (by the way, what internals are they based on, TM/WE?) and some extra gubbins (that underbarrel greeble styled after Kriss Vector and a top rail) for a cyberpunk-themed project. Good thing that the gun has an internal 11mm thread in the barrel, so I can use the short can and adapter I got back when I bought my P228. Now I'm considering a red-dot for it. I intend to bash the Vector greeble and the top rail together for more style and functionality, but AliExpress has those flip-up dot sights with Glock mounts for slightly less than the RIS version and I'm torn between style (at the risk of rocking the sight to *suitcase* with CO2-powered full auto of death) and functionality (that involves a lot of elbow grease, as I'll need extra supports bolted under the side rails to hold the Vector greeble and the top rail together). Also, I'm doing pretty fine in COD: Blackout. Once again I found a good Battle Royale game for me (after those dipweeds from Hi-Rez ruined Realm Royale by removing character classes). Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted November 9, 2018 Report Share Posted November 9, 2018 I drove down the motorway before and saw a proper replica of the a team van. Same model and everything. This makes me happy! Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted November 9, 2018 Report Share Posted November 9, 2018 That's cool.There used to be a replica KITT from Knight Rider in the village when I was growing up. It even made the "swoosh swoosh" noise as it drove along. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted November 9, 2018 Report Share Posted November 9, 2018 Ace! Link to post Share on other sites
DarkLite Posted November 10, 2018 Report Share Posted November 10, 2018 18 hours ago, Mike_West said: Well, lads, I went on a shopping spree, got myself one of those APS NotGlocks (by the way, what internals are they based on, TM/WE?) and some extra gubbins (that underbarrel greeble styled after Kriss Vector and a top rail) for a cyberpunk-themed project. Good thing that the gun has an internal 11mm thread in the barrel, so I can use the short can and adapter I got back when I bought my P228. Now I'm considering a red-dot for it. I intend to bash the Vector greeble and the top rail together for more style and functionality, but AliExpress has those flip-up dot sights with Glock mounts for slightly less than the RIS version and I'm torn between style (at the risk of rocking the sight to *suitcase* with CO2-powered full auto of death) and functionality (that involves a lot of elbow grease, as I'll need extra supports bolted under the side rails to hold the Vector greeble and the top rail together). Also, I'm doing pretty fine in COD: Blackout. Once again I found a good Battle Royale game for me (after those dipweeds from Hi-Rez ruined Realm Royale by removing character classes). APS not-glocks are TM/WE clones for the most part, yeah. They're not known for good GBBs, to be honest, and if it's the 'SHARK' model, the mag catch often breaks and dumps the mag. Also the mags suck. Dunno if KJW Co2 glock mags will fit, but they fit WE and TM glocks with a bit of tape inside the front of the magwell. Link to post Share on other sites
Gunmane Posted November 11, 2018 Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 Broke out my new soldering iron and whatnot earlier today and tried out my first soldering efforts. I just took a lipo out and tested it on a gearbox after letting the deans connector on the gearbox sit for a bit and it worked. Probably the daftest solder job possible but it worked and nothing caught fire! Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 Just had brilliant customer from leatherman/Whitby knives. I had a MUT which somehow managed to bend a springy bit inside (technical term) and a squirt with a broken scissor spring. Sent them in to whitby (UK leatherman warranty people) and 9 days later got 2 brand new tools in the post. No queries/questions, they just replaced them with new ones. Both of mine were well used and several years old. Really happy! @Twitch, get yours done. It only cost a few quid to send them tracked to make sure they got there! Link to post Share on other sites
Tw1tch Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 Will do man, just need to grab it off my dad. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 5 hours ago, Tw1tch said: Will do man, just need to grab it off my dad. Yep, sorry! Not nagging, just saying how it's a really great service. I was worried there wod be a raft of questions like "have you used this to lift up a car?" but there were no dramas 😊 Link to post Share on other sites
Tw1tch Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 Yeah I was half expecting questions like that. Hope they can keep the external skeleton though as it was engraved by LM as my dad got it for me as a graduation gift. Gave blood yesterday, that made me smile (even if after getting home I pretty much passed out, I blame the 14 hour shift beforehand). Also picked up my 5D today and loving it so far. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 17 minutes ago, Tw1tch said: Yeah I was half expecting questions like that. Hope they can keep the external skeleton though as it was engraved by LM as my dad got it for me as a graduation gift. Gave blood yesterday, that made me smile (even if after getting home I pretty much passed out, I blame the 14 hour shift beforehand). Also picked up my 5D today and loving it so far. There is a box to tick if you want your old tool back. Call them and see if they will swap the frame. Can't hurt to ask! Link to post Share on other sites
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