Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

The reason i'm still listening to Aladdin 2019 OST by Naomi Scott.
I'm speechless.
I must keep quiet cause it's bedtime but i still stay awake.

Well i got $35 of eshop credit I just punched in on the ol switch. Now i play the waiting game for e3 shadow drops

@bimmy-lee At the moment no, as I'm building furniture for my place/future place. Working on a dresser now. lol. Besides, since I am an apartment woodworker I can only work on the weekends (which are busy as well) so it takes me a bit to get pieces done. I only have two end tables, a sitting bench and a toolbox done (which I gotta make like 4 more to hold my saws and planes...sigh woodworking is a worse drug than gaming.)

Also I'm switching to kumiko training (currently reading everything written by Des King) so that eventually when I get a house I'm going to put up shoji screens EVERWHERE lol. So I really just spend most of my time right now buying basswood and making kumiko with it to get the dimensions down. I need to get back on that half clamped up dresser...

Yeah I read Odate Toshio's book when I got back into it (I used to make arcade fightsticks and stopped because I didn't have a space to work, now I'm into furniture/taiko stands/kumiko) and there is a story he tells about him saving up and buying a really expensive plane. He had to hide it from the rest of his team (including his father who was his Master) and he forgot to put it up one night and his dad took it from him. However his takeaway from that was that the plane wasn't being used because it was essentially an expensive treasure for him and he was nowhere near skillful enough to use it. (wood planes are as finicky as people sometimes. I have one that takes a few hours for me to set it properly but it smooths quite well despite being a cheap plane. Not to knock cheap planes. I took a 5 dollar harbor freight plane and turned it into a scrub plane and it is a fricken workhorse.)

That being said that is why I learned to make my own...drop all the cash in good iron and chipbreaker (if your plane has one) and just keep the sole true and the white oak blank isn't that expensive...so you end up with a plane a few paygrades above what you paid because it wasn't machined. And you really learn a lot about planes in the process.

I will say it doesn't take much to get into wood working. You can start off with cheap tools if the wood is relatively soft (I don't go harder than red oak...well I take that back I have some small strips of purple heart that I use on occasion but I mostly use poplar, cherry and red or white oak.)...even if you are a power tool user just wait until the father's day sales, buy an ok set of chisels and put your money in your measuring marking tools and you are good. (and you can ebay the measuring marking tools. I have a starrett level and machinist's level that I got for cheap on ebay. Well cheap for a starrett.) I'm still a novice though. So much to learn.

Aww don't get me started. I can wax on about hand tools all day. Yet my father can't fix anything...thank goodness the women are the handy ones in my family. Except cars. Just because I know somebody is going to crack that joke.

@Arbor Does Habitat for Humanity count? lol

Double posting so you don't have to read my long post above.

@Matthew010 You're welcome. Turns out you just chose the wrong link to paste in your comment.
When you upload to PostImage, ALWAYS choose the direct link, to use and post a picture somewhere else.

@bimmy-lee Yeah, I was able to extract that from what I've read (I read all the pages I was behind on, as I always do), I just wondered what it was exactly, although the comment was also partly in jest, because in all honesty, I'm not really all that curious what the actual content of the discussion was.

P.S.

Den of the Dutch Destroyer?

@ThanosReXXX The Mad Dutch sounds weird though...

@Ryu_Niiyama ???

@ThanosReXXX I'm not calling you the Dutch Titan...

@Ryu_Niiyama - Kumiko art is beautiful. So many little measurements and cuts. That was a nice story about Odate’s planer. I can remember an episode of Mister Rogers where a guy turned a log into a djembe drum using basically only a pickaxe/hatchet type instrument that looked like it used to be part of a horse drawn plow. I’ve had a fascination ever since. You certainly have a passion for woodworking and it’s tools, I hope it’s something you continue to develop.

@ThanosReXXX - HobbitGamer made a Smash arena for people in this thread to do battle, and we were contemplating a proper name for the arena. One of my suggestions (based on the folks who chat here and topics we chat about) was Den of the Dutch Destroyer.

Wait a minute, in typing that, I realized you might not see Thanos as a destroyer of worlds. Maybe you see the other side of that coin and just consider him a really, really good partner for Lady Death?

^ Lady Death likes Deadpool more.

gaslight is a go! (runs away)

@Ryu_Niiyama I got the reference alright, I just wondered how it was an answer to the question that I asked @bimmy-lee. In that regard, I'm actually none the wiser...

Have my graduation party tomorrow! So excited!

Also, man is the internets going sicko mode over Sonia....

@bimmy-lee Ah, I didn't refresh the page, so now my previous comment is semi-unnecessary...

The thing about it that didn't connect with me, was the Dutch part. Even though I've been here for most of my life and I do really like the Dutch people and their way of life and thinking in general, I only ever feel like a "native" Amsterdammer, but not Dutch. As a die-hard soccer/ACTUAL football fan, I'm only fully Dutch when the Orange soccer squad is in town...

So, in short, I consider myself to be more of an "Amsterdamned" Californian...

Funny thing about the whole Lady Death part, is that I also never connect that with Thanos.
I used to be a real comics nut (as in literally spending hundreds of dollars per month), and one of my favorite series of all time was Lady Death, from Chaos Comics. A character with a considerably more appetizing look than Marvel's personification of Death, who by the way, is actually just called Death, officially, not Lady. She is one, obviously, but Lady Death is only one of her aliases that is sometimes used in certain Marvel comics/stories. Another alias of Death that is actually used more often, is Mistress Death, so if anything, that would be the closest thing to her full "title".

Anyway, long story short: there's only one Lady Death for me, and Marvel's entity/representation of it, is not it.

As for how I see Thanos: kind of like a cross between a megalomaniac and an anti-hero. He really does believe that he's doing the right thing, a lot of the time. And I'm talking about comics-Thanos, not the MCU one...

I could never have chosen him as an avatar, if he it wasn't a cool/interesting character, and if he didn't have some redeeming quality about him, and luckily, he has several, perseverance definitely being one of them. A quality that a lot of people lack, nowadays. Stopping what you're doing and pointing fingers at others is FAR more popular in today's world...

@ThanosReXXX It was a hit and run joke using the Thanos reference in the Den of the Dutch Destroyer. Of course since I had to explain it, you didn't find it funny so ima go back to my cubicle now.

@Ryu_Niiyama Oh, that wasn't it, I just didn't get it, because it didn't click with me, making me miss the point.
I kindly refer you to my comment directly above yours for the finer details of that happening...

And not to worry: I won't hold any of it against you, so no need for hasty retreats to cubicles.

Well considering that Thanos has been a member of the Infinity Watch and he was a pacifist growing up and part of his deal is he doesn't look like an Eternal and was bullied for that, and even comic Thanos isn't evil for the lulz...its just he is a nihilist and he is in love with Death. Kinda sucks when you can't get the lady you are courting some flowers and video games (works on me lol) and call it a day. Not saying the killing is the right answer but he like Dr. Doom (imo) are trying to answer a specific question that short of lobotomizing sentient beings can't be answered. Because so long as there is sentient life, there will be greed and cruelty and war and perversion. So yeah anti-hero with a touch a meglomania fits. Is it bad that some of the villains feel more noble than the heroes?

Edit: I got out of comics a while ago. The last series I really enjoyed was Civil War I and I left after One More Day. Still bitter about it too. (Although I have the Agent May issue of Shield, because Ming Na Wen is my goddess) But I still collect comic cards (that became my vice because they were cheaper than comics, and my brother used to beat me up if I touched his...till I learned how to fight back...and watched Home Alone one too many times) though. While I have issues with the Marvel movies (Halle Berry is NOT Storm and I will go to my grave protesting that casting choice) they are a nice way for a lapsed comic nerd like me to enjoy the universe I used to love.

(y'all can tell I'm having a slow day at work as I'm text walling again. )

Austin 3:16 says people love a good anti hero. If we’re gonna check out, suspend disbelief, and enjoy a good story; it really helps if the characters have layers. I was more of a DC fan when I was younger, I was drawn to Joker and Swamp Thing.

@ThanosReXXX - That’s an interesting identification, it’s makes perfect sense as you put it, but it’s not something I would have thought of without your experiences. I’f like to change Den of the Dutch Destroyer to Amsterdam Assault Asylum.

@Andrew_R_2000 - Congratulations, from what are you graduating?

@bimmy-lee High School.

@Ryu_Niiyama Well, as a fellow comics aficionado, or rather: fellow FORMER comics aficionado, I'm glad you approve of the label I gave my virtual self...

Been out of the comics scene for decades myself, so we can shake hands on that one as well.
Although, since the last couple of years, I'm trying to get back into it again, thanks to a wonderful website called GetComics. So, although in games, I'm a predominantly physical owner, I don't mind my comics being digital.

@Ryu_Niiyama P.S. What's wrong with Halle Berry's take on Storm? I didn't think it was all that bad.
And as an actress in general, I think she's actually pretty damn good. If you like sci-fi, you should definitely check out her own series Extant.

EDIT:
And fully agreed on Ming Na Wen. One of my favorite actors in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

@bimmy-lee Haha, feel free to name the level whatever you want to call it. I'm honored either way.
I just wondered about it, and as I mentioned, the connection wasn't directly made, in this aging brain of mine...