Recent content by Frag Maniac

Yeah I found out after that meeting we went to that making the lenses and mirrors is more complicated than some lead on. It's because their curve has to be super precise and consistent. There's a video I've seen of a guy taking on one of the observatory telescopes in the canary islands with his...

Ever seen a duck with big forehead syndrome before? No, well now you have!

My next door neighbor and I where I used to live went to a local astronomy club meeting once. It was a pretty good one to go to because they were showing some awesome pics taken by one of the members who made his own telescope, including the lenses. That would be a handy skill if you had a hobby...

Yeah he made a good point why corks aren't so good. Too light and IMO too small to use as a comfortable grip either. The one he had with the rubber grip that fit his hand well that also had a swivel mount looks like it would be the ideal thing. I was a bit surprised at how he steadies his...

I used to think anyone good enough to paint miniatures well surely must not have shaky hands, until I saw this video. It's pretty eye opening, and informative. The guy's work looks seriously good too. I also love what he calls his favorite painting position. The down side, it's got me worried...

Thanks, for now I'm considering resorting to dropping comments on some YT vids of this Act/Chapter asking if those making such vids had this bug in that spot and how they got past it. It's a stab in the dark though really as most of these vids are years old when the game came out, so the...

Highly unlikely, as complaints of these bugs abound, with no such talk of a fix, even by the fanbase. Mostly what Nexus has is nothing like a hotfix, but rather graphics or gameplay mods. It's funny, because speaking of mods, MS totally funded some whacky stuff, including adding skins and even...

I've a different type of steam blowing to vent, it had my steam whistle going off yesterday, a metaphor I'll use here for the cussing it had me doing. I've been going through Gears 5 again on Insane mode, and will hopefully be able to make a decent attempt at Inconceivable mode. I feel I've...

There have been a lot of yellow bikes with big Shimano stickers on them. Some think they are Shimano made frames, but they're just demo bikes Shimano sends out for pros (including their team) to test the components. Shimano has been using mineral oil in their brakes for some time. The main...

Yeah they only make the components though, not frames. I love the new XTR stuff, especially the brakes. Even if I found the new gen XTR brakes on sale though, they use a specially formulated low viscosity brake fluid that is very expensive. I saw a video once of Chad Smith, drummer of Red Hot...

Actually Mt Bikes can be had at much better deals than road bikes these days. COVID put Mt Biking into a boon never seen before due to so many people having tons of time on their hands. The boon settled down considerably when people went back to work. Now due to tariffs, a lot of mt bike...

This is Betty Birrell, she's 77 and shreds North Shore BC downhill singletrack quite well for her age.

I guess I'm an anomaly then, because at 67, I'm a so called "Baby Boomer", but I didn't start gaming until just after the year 2000 with games like Dues Ex, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, No One Lives Forever, etc. I don't feel I missed much though because I had no interest in the Donkey Kong or...

I'd watch Olympic level badminton or wheelchair tennis before I'd watch pickleball, which is what is invading the area I live. We have 4 decent lit tennis courts next door to where I live, but they wheeled in little pickleball nets into each end of all 4 of them. :rolleyes:

Not to change subject, but our Mariners MLB team after beating the Detroit Tigers in game 5 in a 15 inning shootout, went almost 2500 miles east to Toronto 2 days later and beat the Blue Jays in game 1 of the American League Championship Series. They came in the underdogs, most analysts saying...