If home improvement and DIY were actual categories for the Nobel Prize, i'd be running out of places to put all my Nobel prizes.
I'd probably have to put in a new shelf. Maybe use some nice cherry planks...
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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I'm sure that there are plenty of much simpler ways that Cueball could have learned if he'd asked the guys at the hardware store for advice.
Take your measurements, learn how to use the deform tools in blender, skip the maths, use the measurements blender comes up with.
skip the maths
I'm so millenial this is the only part I understood.
I'm older than you, and obviously use 3D software more.
Sure you are honey.
I know, right? Imagine the very idea that someone older than a millennial is using 3D software. Snort.
Next thing, somebody will be claiming that gen-Xers, or god forbid some boomers, did the 3D work in Toy Story, or Jurassic Park, or the first Tron movie. Ridiculous.
Good job, dear. You really put me in my place about being older than me. I definitely wasn't being condescending, because I find the idea of even older generations, still comparing ages a bit funny. Great job!
You're the one who brought age into this convo?
Tap for unraleted yapping
Your account is 19 months old, and you have 7,5k comments??? That's about 400 comments per month, and comes out to 12-13 per day? How do you have the patience and time for that? I can't be bothered replaying to more than one comment/post per week.
Yes. And I'm also the one who jokingly claimed to not understand the very basic English and blender terms around your username.
I believe my generation is considered somewhat technologically literate, see. As is Lemmy. I, however, half-jokingly implied I am not.
How do you have the patience and time for that?
I enjoy writing and it really doesn't take that long to hit a quick reply on your phone. A large majority of my comments is just very shitty attempts at jokes, but got to work on the material somewhere and there's not really venues around here.
Wait wait wait, if a GenX or Boomer used 3D software to make Toy Story, who made that software?
Is it part of the joke ("oversized") that the comic is way too big for the page, I wonder...
Screened in my brother's porch a few years ago. Had to basically make 5 of these. In theory, they were all gonna be squares. One giant one that's like 12x7 feet, a smaller one that's 12x4, a tall one 2x7, et cetera. Not a single one was actually square. It took us days.
I fully support this addition to the novel prize categories
That's... that's not what a square is...
Square in carpentry is used a little differently. It includes rectangles, and is more about the corners being 90 degree right angles. In fact, a carpenters square is a tool that is triangle shaped!
I love using a speed square! Such a great tool!
I love woodworking, and many years ago when I first trying to get some tools together, with very, very little money to my name, a friend of a friend gifted me a bunch of stuff, but it was all metric. My speed square was the only non metric tool I had (I'm in the States). Took me forever to find a metric speed square I could afford. Lol. It suuuuuucked doing the conversion for everything. Lol
Huh, TIL.
Yeah, it's always weird when a particular hobby or industry uses a common term in an unique or uncommon way.
To be fair, i don't think it's super standard to say "they were all gonna be squares" plural like that. It would be more correct to use it singularly there I think.
That's fair. Lol.
Every square is a rectangle but the other way around.
Can we also do excel formulas? I've done a few that made me want to call my wife and explain to her how lucky she is
On one hand, sure. On the other, excel formulas lead to excel spreadsheets and those are a scourge on the land.
what's wrong with spreadsheets?
or just Excel ones
Commonly abused to be the only thing that holds a company's accounting or cuatomer database. Trauma.
Every time you pay for proprietary closed software, a puppy dies.
who said we are paying for it