u/Kabutroid

So yeah, rather than spend the like… million pounds opening a hundred miniverse balls, I just went on eBay and bought the remainder of the Britney records.

Am happy 😊

Original unboxing thread here: r/BritneySpears/s/Qu1gIlTzp7

Oh wow, I didn’t know there was an ASCII sub! Nice!

I made a playable ASCII rpg horror type game a while ago in html, hand-drawing (asciiing?) each view from each direction and spot (from an initially made template). This baby was a passion project that took over 800 hours to draw and code.

You can play the game here: https://zebeth.co.uk/playplanet/thewindmill/index.html

Ok, if you recall from about a month ago, I created a ramshackle tumbler from toilet roll tube and painters tape. It was slapshod at best, and very slow.

It has undergone several upgrades! We replaced the cardboard with smooth wire for less friction and more visibility, we made the rubber band loop around the lid for a faster turn, and we increased the size of the drive knob to turn faster still, AND smooth out the movement significantly.

Final iteration. This will do for this one-off project (same project, wanted the titanium shinier), and again, should I start using it regularly (or need it in winter lol), I’ll get an actual tumbler.

Until then, I’m pretty happy with this version

If anyone recalls from a few weeks ago, I made a chainmaille tumbler out of painters tape and a toilet roll tube. I have upgraded!

One tangle of wire, 1/10th the painters tape, a small stick, and some electrical tape, and it now spins faster, and you can see everything clear as day!

Oh my goodness it just showed up!!! Bought it on eBay, arrived in perfect condition. So I photographed the unboxing of it so everyone can see the front and back of all of the bits. Though, I did leave the mini-record still sealed, since the record box fits in that keychain sleeve, and I don’t have the player.

I wasn’t sure what to put the mini-poster, but I did have some uv-protective adhesive film, so I decided to encase it in that to put on the wall. All of the packaging is inside the ball (just because), though I think I’ll take one of the plastic outer sleeves and hold that on top of the ball with a few tiny pieces of doublesided tape.

Really happy with my acquisition

Can anyone identify this dice brand? It was a gift from a friend. The Chessex one has an 8 left of thr 10, Paintedlegions had a 2 there, D&G has a different font (and a 2 there). Any ideas? The 6 and 9 are underlined if that helps.

EDIT: mIiIiIght be a Koplow decimal set dice, a lot of it matches, but that underline under the 6 and 9 is shorter here. An older mold perhaps, or something else?

Ahh, it’s been a long time since I’ve been able to read this (lost my originals, recently got master set). Finally reached my favourite/most memorable area, the Jupiter room.

Metroid II just doesn’t hit the same if it’s not the original black and green. It adds so much atmosphere to the depths ❤️

I had traded my original in waaaay back when upgrading to the new systems. Lol hindsight.

At least this one has been rectified 😃

It seems Mother Brain has gotten the Mother Heart beating again. Interesting times….

The crew… continue gaming. Samus by the way was getting to wizard 5 for fireball before going full barbarian.

Comic page here: https://zebeth.co.uk/planetzebeth/archiveta/z1373.html

Oh my goodness, so a handful of our witch group went to Hastings and we’re chilling on the beach, looking at stones and shells and such, and amidst our wanderings (we all found cool hagstones to be fair), I stumbled across this incredible specimen. Three holes, mostly hollow inside (it’s strangely light to pick up!), crystalline inside, and you can see through all holes from all entrances, first time I’ve ever seen that!

Just an amazing find. The fact that we were a pack of witches all in a state of happy and calm maybe helped it come to us. We all found cool crystalline hagstones and other finds 😃🌊

So would you say the top four characters is Killy’s name in THI text, or the bottom four? Or the bottom 3 followed by “I”?

I’m intrigued, do we actually get their name in this language script?

EDIT: Awww, it’s referring to the scribble at the bottom left 🥺

One other Rosary I thought I would add to the sub, I made a small pocket Rosary a while back, but printed the story of its origin and all of the prayers on a liiiiiittle tiny booklet, on waterproof paper to boot (rite in the rain paper). By accidental discovery, I can confirm that the book can make it through a washer and dryer cycle no worse for wear!

Very useful for helping memorize all the bits.

A chainmaille rosary that I made years ago (I never knew about this sub!). Red aluminium rings with stainless steel, the beads are known as barrel weave in chainmaille. The cross came out really well too, thanks to very tight rings on the sides of the cross, the arms stay upright. I wear it daily 😊

After much trial and error, I found that just opening a seam on full persian nicely clasped the coin, and I added a magician’s chain/jacob’s ladder chain to it, so I could play with it lol

Almost night. Need tumbler. Don’t own one (never tumbled before). What do (already shook it by hand for like… 40 minutes).

Where there’s a rotating motor there’s a way. Not too fast, rubber band isn’t too tight. We will see if this lasts all night. Things inside are turning over, it’s doing more than just sitting on my end table for the night. See you in eight hours little chain!

Note: hard to see on video, but the tumbling media and chain are indeed turning over and over again in there.