Here me out after Princess Tsarmina broke The Sword Of Luke, Martin went on his quest ending with Boar The Fighter remaking it out of a Meteor. Now in metal working, especially with unknown metals, it would make sense to layer in a known metal to balance it out. SO was The Sword Of Martin Damascus Steel? Thoughts and reasonings behind it.
So I have a small box and I lost two of these screws, I need replacements, longer cuz the wood got stripped, but no hardware store I’ve seen carries them. Do you know where I can get them?
John Carpenters Vampires
Before I get into what happened that scared the hell out of me, I have to give some much needed history. In 1998 I went to the theater with my family to see a movie. I was about 16 at the time. I can’t remember what movie they saw but I went to go see John Carpenter’s Vampires. I had some time to kill so I was waiting in the hall with two other girls. One them and I really hit it off. So much so, that we spent more time kissing each other than we did actually paying attention to the movie.
It’s locked into my head, which parts I had my eyes closed hearing the movie, when I was looking at her hearing the movie and yes actually watching the movie. Like when she playfully teased me at a cheesy jump scare early in the film.
By the time the movie was over I was crushing pretty hard. I couldn’t wait to get her number and actually have a girlfriend for a change. Then we went out into the hallway and my abusive narcissistic sociopathic “father” was waiting for me. He took one look at us and dragged me off and practically strip searched me when we got home to make sure I didn’t have her number. I don’t know why, it wasn’t the first time they had acted that way with a girl I was interested in, or in anything that made me happy, but for some reason, it’s still locked into my head.
So some years ago, John Carpenter’s Vampires was available on Netflix, and I went to watch it. Now I’d seen it in the past on VHS and remembered going “oh THAT’s what was happening!” But also feeling off. Anyway, here I am, sitting on my couch, I start watching the movie and slowly something starts to happen.
It’s like I was in two places at once. I was both in that dark theater experiencing the darkness from my eyes closed, or looking at her/conversations we had, to actually watching the move. At the same time, I was an adult, in my living room, sitting on the couch watching a movie in the middle of the day.
I kept expecting it to pass or to stop but it kept getting worse and more and more vivid. To the point it was like reality didn’t seem trust worthy. I started shaking. I had to stop the movie, hold myself and I focused HARD on where I actually was and wasn’t. It was almost like I had to reassure myself of what was real and what was memory.
I haven’t tried to watch the movie sense. I don’t know if you can make heads or tails of what happened, but it scared the crap out of me.
So I recently got a new hookah and it works pretty well. The coal holder… thing on top is new. I’m done for to day and went to grab what I assumed would be a relatively cool black handle only to discover it was HOT as heck. I took the coal out and dunked it into my bowl of water but now I’m wondering what to do with this hot metal.
Do I dunk it in the water too? Or do I let it cool on its own? I am on the first floor of an apartment complex, so I don’t like the idea of leaving it unattended but my complex has a STRICT no smoking inside policy, so I can’t bring its inside to cool down. Not to mention my roommie has a nose like x-23/wolverine and the cooking tobacco could overwhelm her.
I would greatly appreciate any advice.
Also I’ve tried to pack with as much space between my tobacco and the coal holder instead of all the way to the top and have the top of the tobacco burned. Is this the right thing to do?
Thanks your all your help and feedback
So I moved and my Sony VHS player just suddenly stopped turning on. Does anyone know a quick fix? I know nothing of Soldering. Is there a special dance I need to do over it or maybe a sacrifice to the Omnissiah? I’m out a VHS player and I kinda need one.
So I’m a small content creator. Let’s Player/Streamer. I stream on twitch and I do some editing and put them up on YouTube.
Well I did a highlight video of me being really good at a game and I posted it, well there’s been this idea that’s been in my head since I decided to make this highlight video. A highlight video of the same game but all my flops, BUT to the audio of a Let’s player I follow of them joking about failing over and over.
Here’s the thing, it makes me laugh, I find it funny. I think others would find it funny and I wanna make them laugh. BUT, I don’t wanna come off like I’m riding this creators coattails or using their fame for my benefit.
So I don’t know if I should make it or not. My question is this, what do you think? Is this okay or is it crossing a line?
FYI, anytime I make a reference to an IP, and if I edit a small clip of some obscure thing I’m referencing into it for context, I always have text crediting the creator and a link to their video in the bio.
Example, I reference quote something from the series “doomsday arcade” like “he’ll never clear that slight obstacle” while my Batman is stuck on some random furniture, I’ll cut to that clip with text saying the name of the series.
I’m so happy this worked out! So I’m a video game streamer (hobby) and one game I’ve wanted to stream is Final Fantasy VII! As I have the original PS1 disks and a PS2, in my head, I saw it being presented as the old quality of the 90’s when it came out. I love practical effects so I didn’t want it to be captured in 1920x1080 and this a filter applied or it bit crushed and then filters added. So if I was gonna get that “recorded on VHS/NTSC” look I was gonna have to do it practically.
https://youtu.be/dvrZsnDC6Oo?si=0Yy9Py59pNeAp8jn
So what did I do? Well I have a VHS player and a vhs. I plugged my PS2 into my VHS PLAYER, and then from there into my TV via RCA Composite audio/video cables. I recorded the game on the VHS and my voice on my H4N Zoom. I recorded for an hour in a half.
After, I rewound the tape (BE KIND REWIND) and took the RCA Composite cables and attached them to a RCA Composite to USB device
And picked up the signal with OBS, then I captured the tape in real time.
I instantly had a problem. The playback was SUPER dark. I recaptured the video while boosting Contrast and Brightness, leaning more heavily on the Contrast than to Brightness because Brightness just made everything “white”.
So the blacks were way better but now the contrast was blowing the green out of control.
I put the digitally recorded footage into Adobe Premiere, and a slight reduction of green curves and hue vs stat brought it under control.
The last issue was the audio from the zoom (48,000 Hz) started in sync but at the end it was out of sync, so into Adobe Audition. A little toying with the Stretch effect and problem solved.
Back into Adobe Premiere. After that it was just simple editing splitting the footage up into three episodes.
So yes tons of extra steps, I COULD just attached the PS2 directly to my computer via the USB device but this gives me the visual vibe that I want, so I feel it’s worth it.
What do you think?