u/thatwasacrapname123 — reddlx

Need Paint? your local rubbish tip might have a "PaintBack" bin where people throw away perfectly good full tins of it.

Paint has become very expensive in recent years - I should know, I'm a painter by trade. I try to keep some paint for the next job (like Whites and Primer that I know i'll use) But it often sits in my garage for years until eventually I drop in the local "PaintBack" bin for old paint at the tip. The other day I was dropping some off and noticed a nearly full 10L of Dulux Precision ($250 worth) that someone had left there - YOINK! you're coming to a better home little buddy. Now, are you really allowed to take paint out of there? I didn't ask - but it would be a crime against the environment not to. I'm sure there plenty of nearly full 10L Whites and Primers that go to waste. If you're not too fussy about having the latest fashionable White you could be lucky and find enough for a whole room. I'll keep a closer eye on my local one. Some people really overestimate how much they'll need and then just throw it away.

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u/thatwasacrapname123 — 10 days ago

▲ 60 r/Adelaide

To scale Solar System model Adelaide - Malls lower ball as the sun.

When I learned about the Swedish solar system model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System that demonstrated the actual size of our Solar System to scale it fascinated me. The scale of things and the distance between them blew my mind. I wondered if we made a scale model in Adelaide and used the lower hanging Malls Ball as the sun - where would everything orbit around it? well.. it's crazy but EARTH would be a 2cm diameter marble that would orbit RIGHT through the lobby of the Museum on North Terrace. Like it would pass right by the front desk. (have I got my math right?)

u/thatwasacrapname123 — 2 months ago

▲ 0 r/StandUpWorkshop

Insensitve Irish bit

My friend is 50 and grew up in Belfast in the 80's and 90's. She was talking about Catholic/Protestant division back then and the Troubles and she was a few drinks in and getting feisty. I thought of a bit but it wouldn;t have landed at the time.

"The Troubles" seems like a pretty understated way to describe a 30 year long guerilla warfare campaign stemming from hundreds of years of systemic oppression. Seems like a very "British"way to describe a bit of kerfuffle. If my hot water heater died and then I got a new one and then my washer died - I'd call that period of my life "The Troubles" ... 30 years of Civil war needs a better name.

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u/thatwasacrapname123 — 3 months ago

▲ 2 r/Minecraftbuilds

Graveyard 140x140

This is the town graveyard in a co-op hardcore world (no pvp) 6 crypts, 4 corner memorials, chapel on the central hill, a lake, a hilltop and a mausoleum. I found having the graves as 2x3 with the tombstone making it 2x4 is a good scale. This means you can have 2x wide tombstones which allows for more variety. This gravyeard has a wide variety of tombstones.

u/thatwasacrapname123 — 4 months ago

▲ 130 r/MinecraftHardcore+1 crossposts

Multiplayer tell - If you ever see dirt randomly scattered around like this there is a base underground. Someone has spent enough time here to spawn Endermen who placed them.

This is a tell that there is a base underground here. Single dirt blocks scattered around by endermen means that someone spent a fair bit of time here. You can triangulate where the base probably is by the pattern. This is much more noticeable on frozen lakes and rivers but if you are cunning you might notice it in other areas.

u/NoEar2226 — 5 months ago

▲ 17 r/MinecraftHardcore

I'm going for large builds this world. I'm established and just working on beautification.

This is on a co-op Hardcore server, no PvP. I wanted to build a Citadel and found the perfect spot at the river entrance to town. About 10 players have built the town area, and about another 10~ live elsewhere in the world. When you die your work gets rolled back.

u/thatwasacrapname123 — 5 months ago

▲ 118 r/minecraftsuggestions

Utilizing a Happy Ghast as a mobile platform to work off of when building at height is a great tactic. Currently you can hold a snowball to lure it over. But if it's out of range you should be able to throw a snowball at it or near it to get it's attention. When a snowball hits (or near misses) A Happy Ghast it shouldn't take damage - it should eat the snowball and croon/laugh, and then investigate where the snowball came from. This would not have any effect if the Ghast has a passenger or is tethered to a lead.

u/thatwasacrapname123 — 5 months ago