Wandering Adventure Party

I have an unhealthy love for blue-black foutain pen inks, especially if they're faded in the "blue" direction, like 54th Mass, Sailor Souboku, or Diamine Prussian Blue.

...Must not buy another bottle.
#fountainpens

@catzilla@toot.cat For $10 it's not a bad pen, at least in half a day of using it. I think there are other pens that punch higher, but I've also had some that are terrible.

Side: It comes with 3 AmazonBasics Black cartridges. It seems you can't actually buy these, but I didn't want to really try out the Mystery Ink. So it made me dig out some old Diamine Prussian Blue cartridges I had and made me remember how much I like this ink. So I appreciate that at least.

Someone gave me an AmazonBasics fountain pen. It's... Ok.

It feels like a standard Chinese fountain pen. Which usually means you get a good price and materials you wouldn't expect (the body is metal) but the QA is pretty lacking. This one's nib was misaligned with the feeder, and if I give it a shake, it rattles a bit. A lot of chinese pens (such as the Jinhaos) also often fall apart after time because a lot is held together with glue, but I can't know with this until that time.

It writes fine though. The grip isn't ideal, but I actually like a lot of the chinese nibs. My only complaint is again usually the QA. I usually have to spend some time tuning. This one came alright though.

My main complaint is the cartridge. Supposedly this thing takes an international short, but the given cartridges are actually somewhat different in shape (narrower and longer than my Diamine cartridges). It was a pain to seat but I got it to take the Daimine. I worry about how it'll sit though.

Partially because this pen comes with a seater cartridge. That's when they give you a free (sometimes full, sometimes not) cartridge tucked in the barrel. But I only encounter this when they expect you to keep that cartridge there, because the fit isn't so great and they want to keep something pressed against the cart.

It was a gift and these things sell for ~$10 so I won't complain too much. I think a Platinum Prefounte is a better pen for the same price, even if its plastic and those are definitely proprietary fits. This pen is going in my list of "Pens I'll take with me out of the house, because I won't cry if it gets lost"

#fountainpens

@karadoc@aus.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place A good way to read C type declarations is the "Spiral Rule". see: https://ongspxm.gitlab.io/reading/2021/01/the-spiral-rule-in-c/

Not sure why it showed up as temporarily locked. Anyways I think I figured it out. Posts are set to go private after a few months. Whoops.

Ok, anything I pin gets set to followers only. What the hell is going on?

My notes get set to private after a few months, so I have to repost this.

Hello, I go by Null! I am a programmer, avid reader, long-time Tabletop RPG (TTRPG) GM, anticapitalist, weird horror fan, aspiring (if shy) writer, and a long suffering fan of anime. I identify as agender even though I don't talk about it much. I also enjoy cooking, brewing, mushrooms, gardening, ravens, typewriters, and well... a little of everything. I just like to answer questions.

I generally post random observations, tabletop RPG experiences, political thoughts (CWed), news commentary, short anime reviews, and the like. Please feel free to drop in for a message or reply - I'm open to conversation. Also, do feel free to let me know if I commit any faux pas. I'm pretty open to good-faith commentary and it's important to me that people feel safe.

Things I am reading right now (I can't focus on one book for long so I rotate):

* The Fisherman By John Langan
* Duped by Timothy R Levine
* The conspiracy against the human race by Thomas Ligotti

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe this is generally why I tell people to avoid fighting inanimate objects. It never ends well. I hope your hand feels better soon.

@demize@unstable.systems @gsuberland@chaos.social I had to track down a citation for this. See: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots

The Anubis JavaScript program's calculations are the same kind of calculations done by crypto-currency mining programs. A program which does calculations that a user does not want done is a form of malware. Proprietary software is often malware, and people often run it not because they want to, but because they have been pressured into it. If we made our website use Anubis, we would be pressuring users into running malware. Even though it is free software, it is part of a scheme that is far too similar to proprietary software to be acceptable. We want users to control their own computing and to have autonomy, independence, and freedom. With your support, we can continue to put these principles into practice.

This is some high-class mental gymnastics. When you visit a site with JS enabled, you consent to it running software. You don't HAVE to, because you can just ... not go to the site. There are other issues about privacy, consent, energy use, etc (edit: not to anubis, but running JS). But software freedom is not what is at stake here.

If you hover over shop in discord right now, you get this. Which you know. I hate this timeline.

@jackemled@furry.engineer supposedly their traffic has grown 50% due to constant and aggressive AI bot scraping. It probably relates to that.

especially when you consider that the difference between most pens in the $10-100 range is pretty much the material and body; Because of the economics of scale, the nibs and feeders are the same between models.

So you're often just paying for a different plastic body.

It's honestly bonkers expensive most fountain pens are...

@weirdestate@eigenmagic.net "British Apartment Design" is the career people fall into instead when they can't find a job in hell.

@damian You really like TWSBIs I can see. ​​

@irfan git worktree is another unappreciated command in this space. It recreates your repo on a branch at a different directory. So if I want to keep my changes and still checkout main, I can do

mkdir -p ../main
git worktree add ../main main
cd ../main

and essentially have both branches checked out at once.

@sayonaraminasan@urusai.social imagine being so stupid that you end up as a target for roasting by Wilhelm II on the subject of destroying Germany.

I don’t know what it is about this micro. All their dark beers are tasty. Anything that’s not is just skunky as hell.

@leeleedee@mstdn.dk I’ve been gamemastering for like … 15+ years and this tracks. It’s all improv, plans are only useful for the planning, and you never really shake the Imposter Syndrome of not producing massive cinematic experiences. You will never stop feeling like you’re juggling several leaky bags of marbles. But if they’re excited to come back you’re doing good.