#Setting Up Technology

[serpentface]

Retconned Wardi firearms- a basic handgun, a highly decorative ceremonial handgun (belonging to Faiza), and a lance-gun.

Gun tech has officially been nerfed down to hand cannons (press F) (this has been a long time coming but I'd been fallacy of sunk costs-ing myself out of retconning).

Handguns are held similarly to a shotgun, with the butt pressed into the user's shoulder, one hand gripping under the barrel, and the other free to ignite the gunpowder. These represent the most advanced firearms in contemporary usage, both in make and in their use of uniform iron projectiles built to match the gun's bore for greater range and efficiency. Lance-guns are the more basal form, usually larger and mounted with the pole held over the shoulder, and are most effectively used by two people (one to hold and aim, one to light the gunpowder).

The spread of firearms is currently mostly limited to the Eastern Inner Seaway peoples (with some additional distribution via overland trade), and actual manufacture of hand cannons and gunpowder at Significant scale is limited to the region's core powers.

The reason for this limited spread is partially due to specific elements of the technology's history. Gunpowder was first synthesized by Burri alchemists and considered to be the discovery of the legendary divine weapon + solar fire of the deity Inanariya, and its formula (along with techniques for ideally refining its components) remained a closely guarded state secret. It was used predominantly in priestly contexts to generate flame and explosive sounds (in conjunction with earlier practices of generating multicolored flames with use of other chemicals), then integrated into combustible weaponry in the forms of fire lances, which would eventually develop into early handcannons.

The treatment of gunpowder as a guarded sacred or semi-sacred substance continued with Wardi adoption, where knowledge of its making is considered a closed rite. It's name (inya tsatsul or just tsatsul, a derived adoption of the Burri iñazatsūya) still reflects a divine solar association (the Burri word means 'sun's thunder', the Wardi 'inya' invokes the sun, 'tsatsul' is an adapted loanword and has no meaning independent of the substance itself), though its priestly use is now predominantly associated with the firearm'ed Odonii (rather than priests of the solar Face Inyamache). The composition of gunpowder can no longer be regarded as a Secret by any means, though efforts to obscure the methods of its creation are still moderately successful and has kept knowledge of gunpowder manufacture more limited than the total sphere of firearm usage itself.

The actual strongest limiting factor of firearm usage is the rarity of natural saltpeter deposits necessary for making gunpowder. The practice of actively producing saltpeter via nitraries has not been developed anywhere in the setting, and all is instead obtained via natural sources. These sources are rare and limited within the current spread of firearm technology, and result in gunpowder being a limited and expensive substance to produce. The weapons themselves are also very expensive to manufacture (a good quality steel SWORD is far too material-cost prohibitive for most people to own), particularly high quality firearms designed for use with standardized ammunition.

These guns are also very basal, and logistical difficulties in their use (weight, very slow loading and firing speed, high visibility, Relatively low reach and accuracy) along with the restrictive cost of production has kept firearms far from rendering conventional weaponry, armor, and projectiles obsolete (even within the societies that have access to them). They are still, however, very devastating in use within their contemporary context, particularly in that high quality guns have a longer range than the best arrow-based projectiles, and utterly negate most contemporary forms of armor at close range.

[gear-systim]

Clockwork 🕰️ Gear System - Personal -- I made a board to blow off some steam. ^_^ (or, to help the others around me blow off steam...) Board theme [ Bittertooth - Alphadog ]

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[sealrock]

febhyurary, day 5: color

23rd sun of the 2nd umbral moon, 1547

my pet project with a colored aethograph, or what I like to call an 'aethochrome', with aetherically enhanced ink to capture colors. featuring my friend and classmate, elaine tatlonghari. taken early morning, with a waxing crescent moon in the background. I accidentally mixed in too much red during the process, and it gives the impression that it's still autumn. —W.J.

[kingkatsuki]

Men that make every ounce of feminism leave your body.

[paigelts05]

Hey, tech side of Tumblr. Does anyone know anything about 3DS XL hinges?

The Right corner of my 3DS XL broke, and when I was trying to line it back up to fix it, I fumbled it, and the hinge corner fell out.

Now, being a dumbass in despair, still grieving my nan's passing and incredibly stressed over my 3DS's breakage, I closed my console, put the hinge back in, and tried to open the console. I jammed the hinge.

I took the hinge corner apart to try and see what actually spun, and I found that I had totalled this little bugger here:

So I went and purchased a new one. That new one looks like it had been whacked out of shape. Mine is marked with gold sharpie, the new one is unmarked.

Even though I don't have any idea what a 3DS XL hinge axel is supposed to look like in an unharmed state, the new one looks wrong.

Also, I have no idea which way is open and which way is closed, which is fun. If someone can help me with identifying if a 3DS XL hinge axel is in the fully open, right angle open, or closed state, I would appreciate that a hell of a lot.

I have built a rig that should assist me with repairs. I can use it to hold my 3DS XL in the fully open position indefinitely. If it'd be better for me to fix it when it's in the one click open state, I am more than able to re-do the required parts of my rig accordingly.

I plan on sealing the casing closed with milliput. If it can keep a small boat afloat, sealing the gap and adding a new layer to the shell can keep my poor 3DS XL from snapping again. And because of how permanent a milliput repair will be, I NEED to get this right.

I will not be replacing the front casing. The idea of taking my poor 3DS XL apart that much scares me, and repair shops near why I live are really not in the question, as when I went looking for a 3DS battery last summer, they all recoiled in pain at the word 'Nintendo'. (Except CEX, but I don't want to ship my 3DS away to get it fixed).

I plan on making what amounts to a hinge axel valve to see if I can un-fuck my hinge, and see what state the new hinge is in, and will update at various stages of my repair accordingly.

If I cannot obtain a hinge that I know will not break, I can and will just put a dowel in (with a new hole for the dowel in the hole slot because of the oval shape of the hinge axel), but I want to do right for my 3DS XL.

List of things I need help with:

If someone can help me with identifying if a 3DS XL hinge axel is in the fully open, right angle open, or closed state, I would appreciate that a hell of a lot.

What position would be best for my 3DS XL to be repaired in? I have a rig made that holds my 3DS XL in an open state, but if it'd be better for me to fix it when it's in the one click open state, I am more than able to re-do the required parts of my rig accordingly.

[biblicalhorror]

The best thing about the star trek original series episode "A Piece of the Action" is how Captain Kirk does not even attempt to mask the fact that he is having the absolute time of his life the whole time

[retrocgads]

USA 1993

[babymorte]

was finally forced to update my laptop in the middle of something and i’m 99% sure im gonna have to redo everything 😓

[smile-files]

obviously i haven't been on character.ai in a billion years but the fact that i've ever used it at all makes me worried that people have made chatbots of henry that horribly mischaracterize him

[doedipus]

very rarely do I get like actively frustrated with my immediate family for needing help with tech issues, but I do find myself thinking "how have we spent the same last 30 years on planet earth and have this big a gap in understanding of how any of this shit works???" basically daily

[ruvviks]

"The outer reaches of space remain unexplored by humankind to this day, but its greed is relentless. We grasp and yearn and hunger for knowledge— answers to questions we cry out into the endless void expecting to understand, expecting the stars to respond. The stars will not, but one day something else will— and we will not like what it has to say." — Rome Solomon, Beyond the Exosphere (1965)

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[gemsbian]

The difference in college freshmen year vs every other year is astounding. When I was a freshman I wrote out my full schedule with like colored pens that included time, course code, professor, location etc and ordered all my textbooks ahead of time. This year it's like classes start tomorrow and I couldn't tell you where any of them are. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. I briefly looked to see what classes required textbooks but whether or not I ordered them is a completely different story. I decided to swap out one of my classes like three days before classes start. Last year I accidentally slept through registration

[spirantization]

Can you imagine if Ruby’s mother dramatically lowers her hood and…it’s just Some Woman lmao

[ragnars-tooth]

so very quick and sketchy but i was getting vague designs for all the tldc ladies down in one place

not so sure on gwendolen and gwilanna and i havent looked back at the books for details yet but these were just a quick cool down for the night 🫶

[claudia-kishi]

netflix but better and free :D

plex server info UPDATE~

hi friends!

i have updated my plex server so that tv shows/movies are added almost instantly! you can even link your trakt account so that adding anything to your watchlist will add it to plex!

if you're interested in joining, follow these instructions :]

create a plex account (for free!) link: https://www.plex.tv/

message me via tumblr or any other way you can find me and tell me your username or the email you signed up with!

wait for me to add you (should be pretty quick unless i am sleeping rip)

once i add you, you should get an email invitation link! if not, just let me know and i can send you the link manually~

IF YOU WANT TO LINK YOUR TRAKT WATCHLIST, give me your username and which list you'd like to use to add shows/movies

you’re done and now can access all of my content on your computer, your smart tvs/gaming consoles with the plex app, and your portable devices!

small note for phones / tablets: the plex app will probably say you need to pay, but the workaround is to just use your browser to go the plex server website and you should be golden! it’s not as pretty, but it still works!

i love using plex to watch all these things just on my tv just like any other streaming platform, so i wanted to share this experience with people who don’t have the means to set this up. <3

be sure to join the discord (https://discord.gg/Cn6PDZrBRh) for updates on the server such as times i may have to take it offline or if it may be slow.

i still have plenty of space for ppl, so feel free to reach out to join or if you have any other questions!

[orangerosebush]

Something I hold to be true is that, ambiguously post-canon but pre-TFT, Mulch jokingly posed the (intentionally inflammatory) question of, "Would you date your clone?", which resulted in the conversation having to be quashed 30 seconds into Artemis*** chiming in in a way that made everyone Very uncomfortable

*** Yes, functionally haunting his clone body