LonesomeLamp

*hugs back* Whenever I look at it, I think he’s about to give a speech or something lmao. Like he’s adjusting his bow tie as he begins speaking into the mic.

Ho-lee-crap I wanted to create a rotor factory because all of my needed items/materials needed them and it made sense to build up a stock thereof. Problem was I kept running out of screws in the production line because other systems needed screws too. I decided to make a mini factory dedicated to only screws. Not too bad of an idea, honestly. And then I could tear down any other machines that made screws and have them working on other stuff. I did the maths and everything worked out. The plan was simple. I built a mark 2 drill on top of a pure iron node. This makes 240 ore per minute (from now on, any number I toss out will be in parts per minute unless otherwise stated). So 240 in, but the smelters run at 30, so I had to build 8 of them to keep up. Then I needed constructors to make rods. They run at 15/min. So to keep up with the smelters, I needed 16 constructors making rods. This puts me at 21 machines and I still have one stage left: turn the rods into screws…at a rate of 10/min. To keep up with the 240 production, I needed 24 more constructors on top of the 16 from before. 49 machines total for my screw factory. Dont worry, the story goes even more downhill from here because…everything worked, but the production line was being choked. Everything was running at half capacity. I looked around for just a small moment when I realized where the bottleneck was. Remember how I had 240 ore coming in, getting processed, converted to rods and then to screws? The rod - screw conversion is the only step that the input:output ratio is not 1:1. The ratio is 1:4. 240 in…960 out. My belts can only handle up to 270, and I had 2 of them being ran out from the production chain. I wanted to upgrade my belts to the next stage because then my factory could run at full capacity, but I need to set up a motor factory since everything I need to make now to progress uses a lot of them. The reason this is impeding me is that I don’t have the next tier belts unlocked. There are a few things I could do about this, but all of them are slow to do. Very slow. So as much as I’d like to see the screw production run at full throughout, I’m going to have to tear it down and relocate it to a spot with less capacity so I can convert the current setup into the motor factory. And so, last night, I began the sad process of getting the factory torn down. I went to the drill/miner and turned it off and watched the hour-long process of of the entire factory run out of resources. I set up some garbage disposals (aka AWESOME SINKs) to dump the lines as quickly as possible beforehand. When the factory was finally emptied, it was a little past 6 am (yeah, I played it through the night lol), so I went ahead and called it a night and went to bed. The good news is that I can keep the miner and the smelters, but that means I’ll need to build more when I rebuild the screw factory. I’d have to do that anyway, but still. I plan to move the crew factory to an ore deposits that produces half of what the current one can do (120 as opposed to 240), which means I only need half the machines. It also means my current belts I have unlocked can carry the throughput. It’ll actually be a little less than the current factory due to rounding, but still. The motor factory, once it’s built, I plan to do everything there. Screw production, steel pipe production (they’re needed to make rotors; I’ll just bring the ingots over since they’re already being produced elsewhere, as well as the copper wire). The maths says I’ll be making 10 motors/min. So, yeah, I have a lot ahead of me, and that list isn’t even close to what I still need to do. I finally got oil going, but idk how to work with fluids. I don’t even think I can manage fluids right now. I just needed rubber and plastic, but one of the byproducts is fuel, which all I can do with right now is dump out once the containers fill up (if they’re full, the machines can’t run because they get full too, which means my plastic and rubber production stops too).

The fixed versions have arrived, and I ordered a stencil for them. Now, there’s a different chip they didn’t have in stock this time around, but I do have pretty much all of the other parts I’ll need. I’m not going to today, though, because I have a ton of stuff to do on Satisfactory that I’m wanting to get out of the way. I figured I’d do the boards after I wake up tomorrow, but spend the entirety of tonight on Satisfactory (I’ll update my topic about that game in a bit lol). In the pics, the big metal sheet is called a stencil. It sits on top of the board(s) and some solder paste gets spread across it and fills in the holes. It’s a fast way of applying solder to many pads at once. Once the paste is set and the stencil pulled off, the parts go on and then the board gets baked. The paste melts and then the board/oven goes through a cooling process. The melted paste hardens back into the solder we all know and love. [Pre-Post Edit] I can’t post the pics lol. I have two MB of space left on my account. I’ll figure something out. Maybe post the project to my website and then link it back here.

Thrudove mens hair removal cream. The package I got says “Intimate” in big text on it, but idk if there are other kinds they have.

Indeed. That’s part of why I haven’t used it yet, actually. I have two spots on my knees where hairs became ingrown and I scratched them free. There were three, but one is healed finally. I’m still waiting for the other two to heal up.

I figured out what’s wrong with the reset circuit. Very, very, very, very small gap between transistor pin and solder pad (and solder). Once I saw that tiny gap, I took my multimeter probe and shoved it in the spot and suddenly it worked excellently. I mean, the status LED is still forever on, but at least the most crucial part actually works. Memory is still untested.

I find character creation (specifically, origin stories) fascinating. You have some people who choose a sona based on their favorite animals. Some are based on favorite shows/movies/cartoons/etc. Some just choose a random species as they get started in the fandom. Some characters are given deep meaning and are used as a way to express the owner’s own thoughts and feelings, sometimes even having physical features of the owner/creator made into the character. Then there are the characters created purely for fetish reasons or meant to be used only for lewd acts. When I first started out in furryism, it was due to a game called Undertale. My first sona was a goat named Gote. He climbed things, ate things, caused occasional mischief. I liked him and had him for a while. But then I decided to become a skunk for no other reason than because I like the smell. Then when our cat passed, I made him a hybrid as a way to honer her memory. At some point, I made a cow oc to use for fetish purposes. Then I adopted a handful of characters over the next few years, but still have yet to do anything with them.

Another update: I got the updated versions and populated one board. As far as I can tell (the wording there is important!), it’s almost perfect. Almost. There are two major issues that doesn’t really affect how well it operates, but both are still annoying to deal with. The bigger of the two, the reset circuit doesn’t work and I can’t figure out why. I can only guess that the transistor in control of it isn’t dropping enough voltage to trigger the input. The next big issue is the status LED circuit. I either didn’t pay enough attention or I misinterpreted the symbols initially, but I have the LEDs connected the wrong way to the transistors. That means the LEDs are always lit up ?‍♂️. The other issues are mostly cosmetic. The LEDs for memory and IO reads and writes do work as intended…but I forgot how I had them laid out when I drew the silkscreen labels, and I labeled them wrong. I liked the way the labels had them more than how they were actually laid out, so I rearranged those. I made some text bigger. The connector on the board wasn’t centered, so I expanded the board slightly to make it so. The labels for the connector got hidden below the connector, so I expanded the board slightly along the other axis and scootched the text over. It'll be a while still yet until I can attach the ROM chip to the board, but I went ahead and attached the RAM (ROM still hasn’t came back in stock). If I remember correctly, that was basically every issue I’ve had with the design so far. Though I don’t have the EEPROM yet, I should still be able to test the rest of the design by pulling the CPU off the breadboard version and then making the necessary connections to the PCB version and check that everything still behaves the same way. The RAM has been moved from the breadboard to the PCB, so really, all I need to do is check that it can access RAM. If it can, then that means the necessary connections to the memory circuit are all valid and I can move on to the next things I plan to do. The attached pic was taken before I got the last set of LEDs, which was also before I decided to add the RAM. I was waiting to add the RAM until after I added the ROM because the RAM would get in the way of the soldering iron. I changed my mind when I found out I had mistakes to fix anyway. To be able to go ahead and populate the fixed version, I ordered some sockets to take its place. When they arrive, I can just pop one into the socket and call it done.

I was going to agree with rusty, but then snugglebear made a valid point. Also, I thought I replied a few days ago, heheh. Whoops. The packaging didn’t exactly say what type of hair it was for, but it was heavily implied it’s for the pubic kind. The person who recommended it to me said they use it for regular body hair, and the package doesn’t imply that it shouldn’t be used for such. But now that I’ve done my initial test, lemme go ahead and share the results. Brian mentioned the smell. Oh yeah, it stank. The only way I can describe it is the smell of melting hair (as opposed to burning). Speaking of burn, I did feel a slight sensation on my hands (where I tested), but I wasn’t sure if it was because I had been rough with a paper towel and also the scraper. I also didn’t get the hairs completely removed (ie, roots remained). It appears that the hairs that the roots did get removed are struggling to grow back, but the ones that I failed to get are already popping back up. The instructions said the stuff can take 3-6 minutes to take affect. It said to apply it, wait 3 minutes and then check occasionally to see if it’s ready. I forgot to time it, but I was somewhere toward the end of that time frame.

It’s good to hear that things went okay. Though it wasn’t as big of a help as it could and should have been, at least it was still helpful. And also, good that your mom and her husband chose not to fight it out. What’s next?

Yellow: pacman Brown: “WAKA WAKA WAKA”

I think that might be a little much lol. I just wanna wear thigh highs without my leg hairs becoming ingrown. But then again, I’ll likely end up wearing them often enough that hairs do become a frequent issue. I’ll keep the waxing in mind. The cream was cheap enough, so I’ll skip out on the $500 machine lol.

The stuff was actually meant for those areas. It’s heavily implied so, anyway. My main concerns right now are how to get it off my legs once I’m done (am at work), and what happens if I don’t do a good job getting it off.

It’s some good crap. So far, I’ve done the back of my left hand to see if my skin can handle it. It did, so I’m taking the rest of the hair with it. Next will be my right hand. After that? My legs >:)

I did see multiplayer, but I have no one to play with, lol. It would be helpful sometimes so that one of us can run around and do the stuff while the other keeps the other stuff up and running (someone to fetch coal or something from the depot I built). Uhm. Do the trucks (“tractors”) get storage upgrades? I usually find myself making two trips when doing a coal restock.