Yup, I like to start my projects the right way



Today Dad and I made a gate. It's very simple and the only time consuming issue was what design we wanted. Thanks to the saw I bought before this vacation though, the actual work went smooth. I just need one more bolt to use when it's closed. We had one but another will make it much more sturdy

You know what I'm going to say, so where is the pic?

Due to imgur's recent "upgrade" I am unable to use it and therefore unable to post pics

Oh no!

Time to come into the 21st century browsers, my feathered friend.

Edit: forgot a word.

Miscelleneous things done today; bicycle wheel (just the rim) fastened on the new gate so we don't need to hold it up while opening/closing. Minor support beams up on the roof over the wood cutter. Timber shelf adjusted and also; Dad's project of dismantling the old firewood storage continued.


All in all, a good day

And no way to see a pic of the bicycle wheel rim on the gate?

I shallst try visiting imgur again later but I would suggest not holding any breath.

I hate these constant "upgrades" that websites do

Agreed. I lost a decade worth of screenshots when Photobucket blocked everyone from using their site without paying them 400 dollars suddenly = holding our screenshots hostage/for ransom.

Photobucket considers them theirs now.

Exactly. I wish I'd known, I'd have downloaded them and put them on my external hard drive

It bothers me that there are so few in-universe articles about unarmed martial arts in TES. In fact, there should be more of them in RPG games as a whole since, if you ask me, martial arts can shed light and provide a rather unique perspective on in-game cultures.

Therefore I have decided that I’m just gonna make one myself, lol

Oblivion had mods to do martial arts in combat; and I think they had an un-armed skill line that could be developed. I liked the un-armed in Fallout 3 really well.

Morrowind had an unarmed (hand-to-hand) skill, and an unarmoured skill. My Vampirella character did both.

Oblivion dropped the unarmoured, but kept hand-to hand. Not using armour wasn't a show-stopper, and several of my characters managed fine without any, by having enough offence. You could also enchant clothing for shield if you needed to do so.

Skyrim dropped hand-to-hand too, mostly, but mods brought it back. However, they tended to use gauntlet weapons, instead of bare fists, so that there would be an inventory item to which they could attach offensive enchantments. I ran Munchkin and a Smurf or two using one of those.

So it's possible, sort of. You may have problems trying to make bare-fist/foot/etc. viable in Skyrim, with no skill tree or item to enchant.

The other weapon that morphed was the staff. In Morrowind you could hit with one, in Oblivion and Skyrim it was only a magic channel.

Lol guys, I must have misworded my intent. I’m not talking about martial arts gameplay in TES, I’m talking about in-universe books about martial arts (that goes into depth about techniques and such, mind you) and how the lack of them motivated me to write my own. LOL

Yeah like you would expect a lot of Khajiiti writings on the subject.

I know, right? I wanna know what Falling Sand, Two-Moons-Dance etc, are all about.

What about "The Way of the Exposed Palm?"


https://www.imperial-library.info/content/way-exposed-palm




Two Moons Dance:


Master Zoaraym's Tale

https://www.imperial-library.info/content/m...r-zoarayms-tale

The gradual elimination of physical unarmed combat from the game reflects an intentional move towards its opposite, so references to what's missing would have been avoided. Anything in there will be old, and probably from the Morrowind books - many of which came over from Daggerfall, anyway.

ESO is at the point where fighting with sword and board is mostly spell-casting, and the physical side is an afterthought, or just a conduit for the magical. But you still can't cast a spell "by hand". You need a weapon or staff first.

Nightblades can cast by hand with no weapons equipped for things like ranged absorb health (Siphoning Class skill line). It isn't like the Templar jabby thing where a weapon appears in your hand if you cast (or like the Fighters Guild crossbow which just appears in your hand) = the animation is your hand just stretching out and and the spell leaving your fingers. Another is the "Reaper's Mark," it has a different animation, but no weapon appears for that either. The Templar has a fireball they toss that is a regular spell without a weapon too. So there are some, mostly in the Class skill lines that don't require (or add) weapons - but yeah, there are way more that pop a weapon into your hand when you cast them.

I really liked going unarmed in Fallout 3; and had a good roleplay for unarmed going on in Oblivion for a long time. I do miss having that option for my own game's sake.

I remember the photobucket thing. I deleted everything important before they did it.

As for projects, we're building a hopper for our pellets this weekend. 60x60cm and a meter high. Any bigger wouldn't fit right. Any taller and I can't fill.. 16kg(35lbs) bags are hard for me to lift.

Good luck


My project this weekend will be to reassemble my chainsaw

What kind of pellets? Like the ones rabbits eat?

Nah. Compressed sawdust for our furnace.

Oh, that is cool!

Uh Oh, that doesn't sound good! *Worried*

All good, just sore. But I didn't want to waste this opportunity to create a meme

Was it something boring like skydiving or something truly exciting like full contact ping pong?





(Heh, glad you're okay, )

I've tried to determine my 1RM* for deadlifting.

I'm rather confident I found it. I can tell because my legs were shaking when I pulled that bar up



*) that's "one repetition maximum", the highest weight you can do a lifting exercise exactly once with...

Urgh, is there some big lump sticking out of your side now from the strain? Gaaaah!

So far, the blog has come along smoothly. I have been able to post once a week since I started. I think this is week 6 now? Maybe 7.

The other side project I am going to start next October. I contacted one of my teachers from high school, and for a couple of Thursdays next month I am going to come back and teach some kids about political science. I want to sharpen my communication and public speaking as part of this venture, while engaging some kids and teaching them about something they have an interest in. I guess we'll see how it goes.

This semester is shaping up to be the busiest yet. Between schooling, work, side projects, and personal stuff, this is inducing more stress than ever. This whole year has been a struggle in many ways.

Pellet box built.

I have some 2x4s I want to make some reinforcements with for it, but I'm sure everything will otherwise be fine since the old box we were using was just made out of cardboard.... and it held for over 10 years.

Holy Cow, cardboard lasting for 10 years? That is Awesome/Amazing! Your new box should last a lifetime then!

Yeah I was pretty impressed. The bottom eventually fell apart but it's corrugated cardboard and still was useable.

Always nice to get upgrades, even if what is replaced was good enough for a long time.


Erm... I know I shouldn't be asking this but... pic..?

Geez, you could build a house with that corrugated cardboard! I remember seeing it once in a company I was doing some temporary bookwork for!

https://imgur.com/a/BaOBQO3

Box is done. Crap box, but it's holding well.

It looks Awesome!

Looks good, but I was expecting it to be a bit bigger. Then again, I'm comparing it to what my Dad used to fill up an entire school with...

Saki, the new box looks structurally sound and well reinforced - I should think that is what counts.

My current project is to build a retrofit lat pulley system for my power cage so I can do lat pulls, triceps exercises and so on.

I've bought and received most of the parts already. I've got a big M12 screw with a closed hook complete with nuts and stuff, I've got a number of carabiners, I've got two high performance rope pulleys with ball bearings which are used for mountain climbing, I've got some 8mm rope to use with the pulleys (not actual climbing rope but the cheaper hiking rope) and a few other bits. What I'm missing now is a loading pin which is basically a pipe with a round platform at the base and some sort of hook at the top that you can attach a carabiner to, which I will use to load weight plates onto.

Sadly, the pin I ordered is so poorly constructed that the welding seam at the top is so thick that it's too wide to actually put any disks on. So I'm gonna have to return that and I've already ordered a replacement from a popular crossfit outfitter. Sadly, that's almost twice as expensive. Quite ridiculous to pay 60€ for a simple metal pipe - even if it can handle 500 lb.....

I'll upload a picture once it's complete.

Good to hear the stargelgym is still well in use and even expanding its capability!

Yeah, and that despite the fact that I had to have a curtain installed to cover it up when it's not in use because apparently it's such an eyesore

Any bigger and we wouldn't be able to get around it.

Any taller and my short self can't fill it.

More expensive: Yeah, but you really want to make sure whatever you use can hold that 500 lbs and not dump them on your head or chest, lol. Most def worth the cost if it is going to be made correctly for that use! (imho).















Good answers!

Yeah I'm like 5'4" and have trouble lifting these 35 lb bags. Box is about a meter high, so like 3.25 feet high. I was going to go taller til I measured the cardboard. Then I saw just how short it needs to be.

It looks fantastic, you did a great job!

Was my first carpentry project in decades. I've forgotten so much lol.

Mirocu does some Awesome carpentry too. He has made some amazing things and posted shots of them on here!