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Dimensions | Database of Dimensioned Drawings A comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world.

Last night, I stumbled onto this reference website that I'd never heard of before, and am blown away by its quality. Highly, highly recommended. www.dimensions.com

A closeup view of an ornate cuirass and tasset, showing heart-shaped designs along the edges of the metal panels.

An extremely ornate ceremonial halberd head showing etched and blackened designs with various plants, mythical creatures, and heraldic designs.

A closeup of the shoulder intersection of the cuirass, pauldron, and bevor of a piece of 1500s field armor. Some ornate etching of the crucifixion is visible in the lower right corner on the cuirass.

Here are 543 images (1.5GB) of items at the Philadelphia Museum of Art arms and armor exhibit

You're free to use them for anything, even commercially. I tried to focus on details not usually represented in available reference material

drive.google.com/file/d/1NRzg...

Here's a small sampling:

This was the original meaning of Patreon: be paid to do what one likes, worrying less about earning a fair wage somewhere else.
Rewards were just a small thank you, when the creator had time, IF had time at all.
People should return to that state of things, instead of drawining due to rewards.

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺

Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

Worldbuilding and lore building is so exciting! I love doing this stuff SO much! :D
Despite it being not so easy, especially when starting something new and completely from scratch, I'm sure you'll get so much satisfaction from it! :D

This is such wonderful news. I saw it was out of need because of your landlady, but as you said if one can it's somehow better to invest the same money in something that at the end will be yours and only yours than give money to someone that can kick you out. 🫂

Uhh thank you for your credit! 🥰
Sorry for being so extremely in late, but my pc died (and my phone is dying too XD) and took me a month to return while I was detoxing from socials.

Ok guys.
I wanted to stay on hiatus a bit, but my pc took it a little too seriously and my motherboard and RAM died. It took me almost a month and several hundreds of euros to have it back almost completely new and with the new OS :V
Moreover... current state of the world make me so fkn ANXIOUS.

I've just realized I'm not in any of the new fandoms around here bc AAA games, especially RPGs really not my kind of game 😶 and I don't even watch shows and movies so often (twice, trice a year maybe?).
So I know sth Veilguard, Rogue Trader, Arcane and so on from what I see here XD

To think that I RPd Ethan and my partner RPd Heisenberg 😂
And I haven't even played it bc it's absolutely not my genre.
My partner absolutely loves Heisenberg XD

a cartoon of tom putting a red pillow on the floor next to a red couch ALT: a cartoon of tom putting a red pillow on the floor next to a red couch

I absolutely need to get out of all this, somehow, someway.
I feel like the more time passes, the worse it'll get and I have so many things I'd like to do.

I don't lack ideas. I just feel constantly paralyzed in the ADHD sense of the term.
I'm unable to focus, to organize what I want to do and to do it.
I keep accumulating ideas and projects but I've become unable even just to watch the YT videos I'd like to watch to learn new things 😭

I can't say how much I hate this writer's block that has been going on for a few months ☹️
On a side I think it's my ADHD getting worse on a few sides or maybe me being less able to control it.
That's why I think I'll try to get diagnosed in the new year.
On the other.. I don't know.

Days in the kennel 02.
Godey.

#Astarion #BG3

Now Vellioth cannot harm Cazador.

Even though I'm Italian, I just found out now about GPSR, active since 13th Dec 2024: a new EU regulation on product safety that involves everyone who sells non-food products within or from outside the EU.
Afaik, being product-based, there are no exceptions for small businesses.
Check it out!

CazStar : Butterfly flies towards the light, but the light is a lie
#CazStar #Astarion #CazadorSzarr #BG3 #BaldursGate3

the murder of brian thompson is a wonderful reminder of what christmas is all about: cruel capitalist oligarchs being made to feel the weight of their sins while tormented with visions of how, unless they change their ways, their deaths will be mocked and celebrated by those they exploited in life

JUST. SAYING.

For me, it's almost never the "how you can do it ethically" but also "why do you want to do it" "for what" and "with which goal".
If the community do it to be rich w/o doing nothing for the rest of their life, contribute to nothing and just roll among hyperconsumism and luxury, personally it's a no.

I mean, ideally, wouldn't be better to run this massive chain of pure calculation power for research and to discover/pushing something who would really benefit the world like volunteer computing projects do (Rosetta@Home for an example)?

When you buy a unit of cryptocurrency, you buy nothing but the philosophy behind it. The (to me utopian) idea. It exist only as long as someone is eager to pay real money to buy them or to give money when you sell them.
It's not different from setting up a currency made from Monopoly bills or shells

Moreover, on a macro-side, crypto consumes energy that could be used for something better, imo. Cryptos can exist only if an informatic network still exist. In a world so power- and water-hungry we're using systems that consume both IMMENSELY to generate a currency that exist only on a virtual plane

The micro-cosmos are almost never a problem. Is not plastics. Is not AIs (speaking of energy. Not stealing ppl's work w/consent for training). Is not lumbering. It's the greed behind it, the speculation, the big names exploiting everything. With these "actors" involved, "ethically" is not possible.

Trying to collect the hardware in the less brutal way possible or stripping the whole market of gaming GPUs through bots, raising prices 4x to poor ppl who need a simple one to play on their pc like happened a few years ago, forcing nVidia to develop a specific one for miners, trying to limit that?

I read about him (or sth similar). Problem is that the whole world could be run ethically, if ppl would want to. However, what's the current reality?
What's the base now? Ppl trying to mine ethically or exploiting countries with low electricity prices and make blackouts raining on poor residents?

I'm not talking about temporary hyperfixations but things that ask you for efforts, mentally and through time, like a new blog, a new specific account, a new hobby with specific project for it (like sharing or selling the results of it), etc.
Are you able to manage the time? The organization?

Calling all my ADHDer ppl w/ a lot of different interest: how do you manage situations like 1) have the push to do more than once at the same time; 2) deciding if starting a new personal project/hobby or not, especially when you REALLY want to but you know you're already struggling?

I had to snip out my favourite moment from #TheGameAwards. @laratlarian.bsky.social's words echo the heart of every developer. The industry needs to listen.

We just want to make cool stuff for people.

#indiedev #gamedev

Vellioth

#cazador #bg3 #vellioth #cazadorszarr #baldursgate3