nick

@gloomcloud.bsky.social

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if I'm not talking about 3d printing, bikes, dota, or economics, then I'm probably not sober

landscape shot of a random farm, with a red painted barn that felt like it was checking all the boxes
A canal bike path with sunshine on the left and ominous clouds on the right
A picture of an og steam controller above a new gen one.
Kathleen Byron ready to kill all the children in Black Narcissus (1947)
a picture of the hand contortions you had to do to dash jump in megaman x
Carl von Clausewitz, the 19th-century Prussian general whose writings remain the foundation of western military thought, had a word for everything the optimisatior eaves out. He called it "friction", the accumulation of uncertainty, error anc contradiction that ensures no operation goes as planned. But friction is also where judgment forms. Clausewitz observed that most intelligence is false, that reports contradict each other. The commander who has worked through this learns to see the way an eye adiusts to darkness, not by getting better light but by staying long enough to use what light there is. This "staying" is what takes time. Compress the time and the friction does not disappear. You just stop noticing it. Clausewitz called this kind of planning a "war on paper. The plar proceeds without resistance. not because there is none, but because everything connecting the plan to the real world has been stripped out
A before/after slider of an ugly dota fantasy website to a hopefully less ugly dota fantasy website
the nerobergbahn funicular in Germany
a picture of a bombtrack audax attached to a trunk bike rack on a car. it has new black gravelking tires which, personally, I think look pretty nifty.
A dotamap with cells colored from transparent white to deep red based on the frequency of deaths there
Deadlock replay map with orange and blue dotes to signify who owns a lane at a given time in the game
frazee's cat with a green adornment
A deadlock scoreboard and hero positions on a map
a 90s computer throne. for those of us with back pain we can hear aol dialup sounds when we see this picture
ed edd and eddy on a bicycle. eddy is on the handle bars and double d is sitting on a presumably rear rack
fisher-price see n' say kids toy
a view of calgary from beaver dam flats
A javascript map of player positions in a deadlock game
an example of a replay analysis for a dota match
russell from Pixar's Up! with quite an adornment of boy scout badges on his sash
Insania retires photo from team liquid
the vue "you did it" demo starting page with a .net wasm component to the side of the demo stopwatch
macarons from a baking class at ollia
sunset in a canoe in patricia lake AB
a boa dial diagram for a bike shoe
brutal kunnin a warhammer 40k novel by mike brooks
a gravel bike with a couple bags and a baguette strapped to the top tube
a panorama shot of a lake near peter lougheed park
A graph showing colored lines of the x/y movements of a hero from a deadlock game
a picture of a loaded up gravel bike (lotta red bags) with the little elbow trail landscape
A pot with shredded chicken in a verde sauce
civ research complete screen for ballistics
A bike tire presta valve
A picture of clik valve stem cores, caps, and a pump adapter
a very horror moment of fire in the sky
A picture of jousting from the dead baby downhill race in Seattle
a death stranding screenshot of sam bridges carrying all the groceries in a single trip
megaman x jumping animation broken down by frames
a picture of the springlock system on the microshift acolyte "To engage SpringLock, turn the engagement bolt clockwise until it clicks. There's no way to overtighten the bolt. To disengage SpringLock for wheel removal, flip the switch. It's that simple"
A picture of the dota 2 map with a colored line drawn for each player's movements
A picture of badbadnotgood playing at the calgary folk festival
a clip of monster hunter rise dunking on a mizutsune with a great sword umbrella
a picture of two green livingstone plants
a toy blocks set for infants
a bag of hydrox cookies
a blender 3d sculpt of a miniature cute version of the dota 2 beastmaster hero holding a trophy
The Dota rank up message that says Congratulations! You have now reached Divine 2
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A player card in a dota fantasy game with an animated fire backdrop
bombtrack gravel bike with sibbald flats behind it