Notices by Andrew (R.S Admin) (ajroach42@retro.social), page 19

https://bookofendlesshistory.com/page/The-Ship-Of-Theseus-(Part-X)

This one... Works

https://bookofendlesshistory.com/page/Aristotelian

https://bookofendlesshistory.com/page/The-Ship-Of-Theseus-(Part-IV)

The subtle transformative repetition in each of these amuses me greatly.

https://bookofendlesshistory.com/page/The-Magickal-Plane

"Some of the cities on the Magickal Plane are so beautiful that no man can enter them. They are so vast and so beautiful that the only way to enter them is to leave. [...] This is what makes the Lost Cities so dangerous."

Someone gave a neural net like transformer a wiki and some Borges, and ... Well I'll be searching the library for truth for the rest of my life, I imagine.

@edsu I adore this.

New junior coworker needs a quick primer on the ways of the Linux cli.

I ... Scared him by throwing him in the deep end. He managed to swim, but it was a lot of work and now he's afraid to get back in the water.

I need to find some Linux pool floaties so he can build some muscle memory.

What's good? I've been doing this for half my life, I can't be objective here.

@68km !! I have seen that channel, but I haven't seen his vacuum former.

I was planning on buying the plastic bits to glue on, or even buying clamshells to put the cardbacks in to, and just making backs.

I just... Finding the right consistency of chip board, and getting printing done that'll reasonably adhere to it is something that I'm still uncertain about.

@barrow I really love many of the elements here. Thank you for sharing!

@bhtooefr it's not just that it doesn't look like a mustang. It didn't even look like a Ford. It looks like a Hyundai.

Oh! And it turns out that the founder and the current president of the company we're modeling these toys after is going to be in the building for the show.

I haven't decided how I feel about that yet.

Granted, I still have to figure out how to make the packaging. I want to do boxes and cardbacks, in addition to tent fold bags. (The generic tent fold bags will be how we sell the "loose" figures.)

I'm exploring poster board and spray adhesive as one option for box making.

There seems to be a lot of demand for cardbacks, though. I'm not sure how I'm going to go about cardbacks.

Going with this method means my head's cost roughly sixty cents, the neck post another fifteen for a total of seventy five cents.

My bodies are $4-6 depending on where I get them. (Unless/until I start making my own.)

So a body and a head runs $5.50 or so. Then I'll have $2-3 in clothes and another $2-3 in accessories for a total cost per unit of roughly $10.

We've set our price point at $35 loose, and $50 with packaging, so that's a healthy margin.

I can make posts this way for about fifteen cents each. They're easier to use than ones cast in plastic, and about the same amount of work to make.

Next up I'll be looking in to methods for cheating at clothing manufacturing, starting with heat sealed/iron on decals and designs.

I am experimenting with techniques to mount new style and resin cast heads on old style fused bodies.

(Resin heads are less than 1/4 as expensive as regular heads, but they are traditionally used with screw type bodies that are 2x as expensive as non-screw type bodies.)

My best solution so far is wood. A wooden dowel, rounded off at the bottom and notched about a quarter inch up to stick in the neck. It'll get trimmed where the holes are in these images, and then glued in to the neck.

@kelbot configure rss keys and a reverse proxy, I think.

@signalstation that sounds too real to be made up. Bunyan, dracula, jungle strike force. I'm in.

@signalstation ... Horror movies about American folk heroes waking up the in 70s and masacering people in the countryside?

Paul Bunyan kills again, in 76.