So, while I'm too broke and unmotivated/skilled to actually undertake many projects that I see online and think "Oh hey, that'd be cool," I do find a lot of them, and occasionally do some when I've gotten fed up with a situation and decided to finally fix it.
between Lifehacker, Ikea Hacker, "Life hacking" threads on 4chan, PC Case modding, and random shit I've done, I've started wondering what other people have come up with.
I just kludged together some straps to keep a previous kludge together- I use a comforter as a cushion on my chair at my desk, and it's been bugging me recently because it keeps moving, so I used a few lanyards and a few other things I had lying around to strap it down.
This is literally the most productive thing I've done since my last cooking class ended in may.
"Life" hacking/modding/kludging/etc.
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"Life" hacking/modding/kludging/etc.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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I use a broken laptop holder as a stand for my Korg NanoPad and NanoKontrol. Made my own speaker decouplers for my studio monitors, and for a headphone stand I have a bust of Julius Caesar. That's the desk, I'm sure I've done other mod/hack type things. But I'm not a huge gearhead, so maybe not.
Omegonthesane wrote:a glass armonica which causes a target city to have horrific nightmares that prevent sleep
JigokuBosatsu wrote:so a regular glass armonica?
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Lago PARANOIA
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Here's a life-hacking tip:
Don't call it life hacking or modding. Hell, don't try to shoehorn in a hip new name in a laughable attempt to forge a connection to your pathetic computer hobby to something practical. By the by, 'lifehacking' already has an established name to refer to the activity.. It's called DIY/self-help depending on what exactly you want to do.
Seriously, you may as well be saying sheeple or tween or 'Chrono Cross was a fresh take on an existing franchise' for all of the dignity you'll be preserving.
Don't call it life hacking or modding. Hell, don't try to shoehorn in a hip new name in a laughable attempt to forge a connection to your pathetic computer hobby to something practical. By the by, 'lifehacking' already has an established name to refer to the activity.. It's called DIY/self-help depending on what exactly you want to do.
Seriously, you may as well be saying sheeple or tween or 'Chrono Cross was a fresh take on an existing franchise' for all of the dignity you'll be preserving.
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Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Lago, I'm just using the terms I've seen other people using.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Lago PARANOIA
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You misspelled 'do it yourself' then.Prak Anima wrote: Lago, I'm just using the terms I've seen other people using.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.