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[STORE] 900+ KNIVES/GLOVES/SKINS, 100.000$+ INVENTORY. BFK Lore, Gloves Amphibious, Skeleton Fade, Bowie Emerald, BFK Auto, Gloves MF, Talon Doppler, Gloves POW, Bayo Tiger, Gut Sapphire, Stiletto MF, M9 Ultra, Ursus Doppler, Flip Doppler, M9 Stained, Nomad CW, Paracord CW, AK-47 X-Ray & A Lot More
2024.06.05 06:09 _Triple_ [STORE] 900+ KNIVES/GLOVES/SKINS, 100.000$+ INVENTORY. BFK Lore, Gloves Amphibious, Skeleton Fade, Bowie Emerald, BFK Auto, Gloves MF, Talon Doppler, Gloves POW, Bayo Tiger, Gut Sapphire, Stiletto MF, M9 Ultra, Ursus Doppler, Flip Doppler, M9 Stained, Nomad CW, Paracord CW, AK-47 X-Ray & A Lot More
Everything in my inventory is up for trade. The most valuable items are listed here, the rest you can find in My Inventory
Feel free to Add Me or even better send a Trade Offer. Open for any suggestions: upgrades, downgrades / knives, gloves, skins / stickers, patterns, floats.
All Buyouts are listed in cash value.
KNIVES
★ Butterfly Knife Lore (Factory New), B/O: $7194.77
★ Butterfly Knife Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2025.74
⎯★ M9 Bayonet Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $557.87
★ M9 Bayonet Stained (Well-Worn), B/O: $529.41
★ M9 Bayonet Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $465.39
⎯★ Talon Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $1295.27
★ Bayonet Tiger Tooth (Minimal Wear), B/O: $746.28
★ Karambit Bright Water (Field-Tested), B/O: $688.15
⎯★ Flip Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $547.93
★ Flip Knife Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $476.69
★ Flip Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $278.18
★ Flip Knife Black Laminate (Well-Worn), B/O: $258.83
★ Flip Knife Urban Masked (Field-Tested), B/O: $181.64
⎯★ Stiletto Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $686.04
★ Stiletto Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $665.41
★ Stiletto Knife, B/O: $601.39
★ Stiletto Knife Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $418.25
★ Stiletto Knife Night Stripe (Field-Tested), B/O: $227.80
★ Stiletto Knife Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $194.96
★ Stiletto Knife Safari Mesh (Field-Tested), B/O: $192.79
⎯★ Nomad Knife Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $518.11
★ Nomad Knife Scorched (Field-Tested), B/O: $169.78
★ Nomad Knife Forest DDPAT (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $166.88
★ StatTrak™ Nomad Knife Blue Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $335.79
⎯★ Skeleton Knife Stained (Well-Worn), B/O: $442.05
★ Skeleton Knife Urban Masked (Minimal Wear), B/O: $426.24
★ Skeleton Knife Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $314.03
★ StatTrak™ Skeleton Knife Fade (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2361.28
★ StatTrak™ Skeleton Knife Urban Masked (Field-Tested), B/O: $376.53
⎯★ Ursus Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $557.12
★ Ursus Knife, B/O: $471.42
★ Ursus Knife Blue Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $212.37
★ Ursus Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $187.66
★ Ursus Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $178.18
★ Ursus Knife Ultraviolet (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $155.13
★ Ursus Knife Boreal Forest (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $124.26
⎯★ Huntsman Knife Black Laminate (Minimal Wear), B/O: $204.83
★ Huntsman Knife Black Laminate (Field-Tested), B/O: $184.50
★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife Lore (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $224.11
⎯★ Bowie Knife Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $2142.02
★ Bowie Knife, B/O: $230.44
★ Bowie Knife Damascus Steel (Factory New), B/O: $209.20
★ Bowie Knife Ultraviolet (Minimal Wear), B/O: $180.51
★ Bowie Knife Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $131.03
⎯★ Falchion Knife Night (Field-Tested), B/O: $132.54
★ Falchion Knife Urban Masked (Well-Worn), B/O: $112.81
★ Falchion Knife Scorched (Field-Tested), B/O: $108.81
★ Falchion Knife Forest DDPAT (Field-Tested), B/O: $107.82
★ Falchion Knife Safari Mesh (Field-Tested), B/O: $107.46
★ StatTrak™ Falchion Knife Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $143.08
⎯★ Paracord Knife Crimson Web (Minimal Wear), B/O: $486.48
★ Paracord Knife Blue Steel (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $163.12
⎯★ Survival Knife Blue Steel (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $138.26
★ Survival Knife Night Stripe (Field-Tested), B/O: $131.03
⎯★ Gut Knife Sapphire (Minimal Wear), B/O: $1127.79
★ Gut Knife Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $286.17
★ Gut Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $246.55
★ Gut Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $240.77
★ Gut Knife, B/O: $210.49
★ Gut Knife Lore (Field-Tested), B/O: $194.22
★ Gut Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $151.51
★ Gut Knife Blue Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $124.94
★ Gut Knife Rust Coat (Well-Worn), B/O: $118.99
★ Gut Knife Boreal Forest (Minimal Wear), B/O: $109.80
★ StatTrak™ Gut Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $237.96
⎯★ Shadow Daggers Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $264.92
★ Shadow Daggers Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $253.03
★ Shadow Daggers Tiger Tooth (Factory New), B/O: $237.22
★ Shadow Daggers Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $153.40
★ Shadow Daggers Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $144.42
★ Shadow Daggers Blue Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $105.20
★ StatTrak™ Shadow Daggers Damascus Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $150.46
⎯★ Navaja Knife Fade (Factory New), B/O: $365.99
★ Navaja Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $228.93
★ Navaja Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $227.43
★ Navaja Knife Slaughter (Factory New), B/O: $209.06
★ Navaja Knife, B/O: $203.16
★ Navaja Knife Case Hardened (Well-Worn), B/O: $132.57
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Factory New), B/O: $121.69
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $109.95
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $100.41
★ StatTrak™ Navaja Knife Fade (Factory New), B/O: $369.01
★ StatTrak™ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $109.95
GLOVES
★ Sport Gloves Amphibious (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2394.67
★ Sport Gloves Omega (Well-Worn), B/O: $572.33
★ Sport Gloves Bronze Morph (Minimal Wear), B/O: $338.88
★ Sport Gloves Big Game (Field-Tested), B/O: $323.66
⎯★ Specialist Gloves Marble Fade (Minimal Wear), B/O: $1652.07
★ Specialist Gloves Tiger Strike (Field-Tested), B/O: $599.14
★ Specialist Gloves Crimson Web (Well-Worn), B/O: $231.57
★ Specialist Gloves Buckshot (Minimal Wear), B/O: $126.21
⎯★ Moto Gloves POW! (Minimal Wear), B/O: $996.99
★ Moto Gloves POW! (Field-Tested), B/O: $383.31
★ Moto Gloves POW! (Well-Worn), B/O: $276.00
★ Moto Gloves Turtle (Field-Tested), B/O: $180.28
⎯★ Hand Wraps CAUTION! (Minimal Wear), B/O: $502.29
★ Hand Wraps Giraffe (Minimal Wear), B/O: $180.73
★ Hand Wraps CAUTION! (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $178.32
⎯★ Driver Gloves Queen Jaguar (Minimal Wear), B/O: $181.01
★ Driver Gloves Rezan the Red (Field-Tested), B/O: $101.66
⎯★ Broken Fang Gloves Jade (Field-Tested), B/O: $127.88
★ Broken Fang Gloves Needle Point (Minimal Wear), B/O: $124.55
⎯★ Bloodhound Gloves Guerrilla (Minimal Wear), B/O: $127.94
★ Hydra Gloves Case Hardened (Field-Tested), B/O: $102.55
WEAPONS
AK-47 X-Ray (Well-Worn), B/O: $478.95
AUG Hot Rod (Factory New), B/O: $425.83
StatTrak™ M4A1-S Hyper Beast (Factory New), B/O: $413.95
M4A4 Daybreak (Factory New), B/O: $309.51
StatTrak™ AK-47 Aquamarine Revenge (Factory New), B/O: $305.43
AK-47 Case Hardened (Well-Worn), B/O: $196.38
StatTrak™ M4A4 Temukau (Minimal Wear), B/O: $174.64
P90 Run and Hide (Field-Tested), B/O: $167.03
AWP Asiimov (Field-Tested), B/O: $153.33
Souvenir SSG 08 Death Strike (Minimal Wear), B/O: $140.00
M4A1-S Printstream (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $124.70
StatTrak™ M4A1-S Golden Coil (Field-Tested), B/O: $117.48
AWP Asiimov (Well-Worn), B/O: $115.97
StatTrak™ Desert Eagle Printstream (Minimal Wear), B/O: $112.96
StatTrak™ AK-47 Asiimov (Minimal Wear), B/O: $110.85
Souvenir M4A1-S Master Piece (Well-Worn), B/O: $102.42
AK-47 Bloodsport (Minimal Wear), B/O: $100.53
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2024.06.05 05:13 Ambientpatch Stencils I made ^_^
Need to thrift some shirts to print on but these turned out my cleanest stencils yet
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2024.06.05 05:01 pil0p Can someone help me figuring the correct settings?
 | Hey everyone, submitted by pil0p to AnkerMake [link] [comments] I'm having a tough time getting good overhangs on my 3D prints and I'm hoping someone here can help me out. No matter what I try, I can't seem to nail it. Here's what I've done so far:
I'm really stumped and could use any tips or advice you have. Thanks a ton! https://preview.redd.it/pbntxnhg5o4d1.png?width=2191&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ff3d4f5d7281717fa59dda3bf18a436115f8a7e https://preview.redd.it/4x3eivmd5o4d1.jpg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6874662f79030f57d77a71d49f93ee354917c352 |
2024.06.05 03:07 DidIDoAThoughtCrime Has anyone ever tried screenprinted a dot grid on the blank pages of their notebook?
I can't find any notebooks that have a dot grid and also match my other preferences. I thought I might try screen printing the dot grid on my own notebooks that have blank pages so they can be dot grid notebooks instead. Anyone try anything like this? Stamps, stencils?
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2024.06.05 02:04 Achlvo 🌸 HORIZON 🌸
 | Possibly changing my Alt Sona’s color scheme to be a neon sort of pink rather than her previous muted pink. Please let me know what you think of her!! 💕 Art Credit: Achlvo submitted by Achlvo to furry [link] [comments] |
2024.06.04 23:48 colinsteele On the virtues of not knowing where you're going
These days, the prevailing wisdom in tabletop RPG design circles seems to be, FIRST, develop a super clear and focused "creator intended play experience" (CIPE). Right from the get-go. The notion is to figure out exactly what kind of experience you want your players to have, and then you make sure Every. Single. Decision. you make in the design process is all about supporting and reinforcing that experience.
At the moment, this seems to be the holy grail of tabletop RPG design. You can't throw a rock without hitting a blog, video, or post that's singing its praises. If you want to create a kick-ass game that really speaks to players, this is apparently the way to do it.
I completely disagree.
But first... What's so great about having a super tight "intended play experience"? Well, for starters, it keeps you on track during development. You know exactly what you're aiming for, so you can make sure all the different parts of your game are working together like a well-oiled machine. It also helps you prioritize what's important and what's not. If something doesn't fit with the experience you're going for, you're supposed to just cut it out or tweak tweak tweak until it fits juuuust right.
Then, when you've got your intended play experience locked down, it (supposedly) makes just about everything easier. Game mechanics and story elements will all be so very consistent! NOW, players can really get immersed in the world you've created... Plus, it's way easier to pitch your game to people when you can sum up the experience in a nice, tidy little package. Players will "get it" right away and know what they're signing up for.
Advocates of this approach claim it streamlines the whole process. When you know what you want, making decisions is a breeze. You don't waste time on stuff that doesn't matter, and playtesting and tweaking can be laser-focused on nailing that core experience.
So, there you have it. The "creator intended play experience" (CIPE) approach.
For me, this approach misses vital considerations: 1) No RPG has a singular play experience (in fact, maybe not even a dominant play experience!); 2) For those of us who will never make a dime from our games (read: almost all of us), this top-down approach ignores consideration of the design and authorship process as an endeavor whose main purpose is as a creative outlet and 3) CIPE places too much emphasis on front-loading design decisions at the expense of flexibility, creativity, and the potential for discovery throughout the design process.
I'll start with the first point, regarding the nature of play experience. Here, I draw on my own experience as a "forever GM" (since 1980) and RPG author (since 1989), as well as far more learned work, best epitomized by the essay "Ritual Discourse in Role-Playing Games," in which Christopher I. Lehrich argues that the play experience of RPGs can be understood as a form of ritual discourse. Lehrich suggests that the act of playing an RPG involves the creation of a shared narrative space, a "world" that is constructed and maintained through the collaborative efforts of the players and the game master.
As such - a form of ritual discourse - RPG playing is inherently multi-layered, complex, and subject to constant (re)negotiation and (re)interpretation by the participants.
We create a "ritual frame" (Lehrich's words) in RPGs - a shared agreement (often only partially explict or conscious) among players that are engaged in a form of make-believe or play. This ritual frame allows building a liminal space, divided from everyday reality, in which the normal rules and constraints of social interaction are suspended or transformed.
In this liminal space, we try on different identities, roles, and (importantly) ways of interacting. We alternate possibilities, test the boundaries of the game world, and engage in a form of collaborative storytelling that is shaped by individual and collective desires, fears, and imaginings.
From this perspective, the idea of a game designer imposing a singular CIPE on GMs and players seems not only reductive but almost antithetical to the very nature of RPGs as a form of play. It neglects the agency and creativity of the people at the table in shaping their own desired experience, and it underestimates the complexity and variability of the ritual frame.
Here, I suggest that instead of striving for a tightly controlled, predetermined play experience, you (fellow RPG builder) might be better advised to focus on creating rich, evocative game systems and worlds that invite - nay, encourage - interpretation. Maybe you should work to provide players with tools and frameworks needed to engage in meaningful ritual discourse, leaving room for the players to shape and transform the play experience according to their own needs and desires.
Here's a notion I think fits this point: There's No Wrong Way To Play. (Anyone remember that blog?)
This emergent design approach meets up with Lehrich's understanding of RPGs as a form of "open-ended ritual," in which the outcomes are not predetermined but emerge through the complex interactions of the participants. By designing for openness and flexibility, instead of rigidly defining a "correct" play experience, we might just create games that are more responsive to the needs and desires of the players, and that better reflect the unique nature of RPGs as a form of ritual discourse.
My own experience aligns with Lehrich's work, and suggests that the CIPE approach, with its emphasis on singular, predetermined outcomes, ("Play this game THIS WAY") may be fundamentally at odds with the nature of RPGs as a form of collaborative, improvisational storytelling.
That brings me to my second point, in which I may have buried the lede. The CIPE approach undervalues the fact that RPG design and authorship is primarily a creative outlet (for the vast majority of us).
Writing a game should be deeply rewarding and enriching experience for the designer. There's a special kind of magic that comes from watching a game take shape before your eyes, from seeing your ideas evolve and transform through the process of playtesting and iteration. It's a feeling of discovery and accomplishment that can be hard to match in other creative pursuits. And for designers who are driven by a love of the craft, that sense of creative fulfillment can be the ultimate reward. (Because more than likely, we're not making any money...)
From this perspective, the rigid, top-down approach of the "desired play experience" model can feel stifling and counterproductive. It can suck the life out of creating a game. It says, "Kill your darlings!" I say, "Save the darlings!"
Emergent design embraces this endeavor as a creative outlet. By allowing your game's identity to develop organically through the process of creation, emergent design gives you freedom to explore, experiment, and follow creative instincts. It's an approach that prioritizes your enjoyment and fulfillment in your passion project.
This isn't to say that emergent design is a purely self-indulgent approach. On the contrary, by giving us space to pursue a creative vision, emergent design might just lead to the creation of games that are more authentic, more innovative, and more personally meaningful. Certainly more fun to write! Let your passions rule. Run down those interests, even if they lead to dead ends! I find "letting go" lets me write games that reflect my unique perspective and voice. I think the world needs more creators who have fun creating. Your design process should put that up front.
Finally, I come to my third criticism of top-down design approach. While focusing so heavily on defining (and defending) a CIPE, you may feel locked into a particular direction before you've had a chance to fully explore and experiment with different ideas, missing out in the process. This can lead to a sort of tunnel vision, where we become so focused on adhering to the predetermined experience that we ignore potentially interesting tangents or innovations.
An emergent design approach embraces the unexpected and the serendipitous. Rather than starting with a rigidly defined CIPE, emergent design allows your game to, umm... emerge from the interactions between the your ideas, the constraints of the medium, and the iterative process of playtesting and refinement. It opens up space for discovery, for surprise, oopsies and innovation. When you're not tightly bound by a predetermined vision, you can explore new mechanics, themes, and styles of play that might not have been anticipated at the outset. Maybe that will lead you to push the boundaries of the medium, or maybe it will just allow you to consider ideas you might not have, otherwise.
In this way, emergent design allows for a more organic and responsive design process. By letting the game's identity develop over time, you can adapt more fluidly. Not just to the needs and desires of playtesters, but to your own developing ideas, incorporating feedback and insights in a way that feels natural and coherent.
So, like, my opinion and all, man. Throw out that "desired play experience". Get messy and creative. Designpunk!
Thanks for reading.
If you liked this, maybe... take a look at Toasterbot, over-clocking in at 36 pages of post-apocalyptic robot goodness. You will find a full game PDF ($5.99) on DriveThruRPG. If there's sufficient interest, I will make a print book (Digest - 5.5 x 8.5 in / 140 x 216 mm, Premium Black & White, 80# White, Saddle Stitch, Matte Cover) available on LULU.com at cost. I wrote it and did all the illustrations myself.
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At the moment, this seems to be the holy grail of tabletop RPG design. You can't throw a rock without hitting a blog, video, or post that's singing its praises. If you want to create a kick-ass game that really speaks to players, this is apparently the way to do it.
I completely disagree.
But first... What's so great about having a super tight "intended play experience"? Well, for starters, it keeps you on track during development. You know exactly what you're aiming for, so you can make sure all the different parts of your game are working together like a well-oiled machine. It also helps you prioritize what's important and what's not. If something doesn't fit with the experience you're going for, you're supposed to just cut it out or tweak tweak tweak until it fits juuuust right.
Then, when you've got your intended play experience locked down, it (supposedly) makes just about everything easier. Game mechanics and story elements will all be so very consistent! NOW, players can really get immersed in the world you've created... Plus, it's way easier to pitch your game to people when you can sum up the experience in a nice, tidy little package. Players will "get it" right away and know what they're signing up for.
Advocates of this approach claim it streamlines the whole process. When you know what you want, making decisions is a breeze. You don't waste time on stuff that doesn't matter, and playtesting and tweaking can be laser-focused on nailing that core experience.
So, there you have it. The "creator intended play experience" (CIPE) approach.
For me, this approach misses vital considerations: 1) No RPG has a singular play experience (in fact, maybe not even a dominant play experience!); 2) For those of us who will never make a dime from our games (read: almost all of us), this top-down approach ignores consideration of the design and authorship process as an endeavor whose main purpose is as a creative outlet and 3) CIPE places too much emphasis on front-loading design decisions at the expense of flexibility, creativity, and the potential for discovery throughout the design process.
I'll start with the first point, regarding the nature of play experience. Here, I draw on my own experience as a "forever GM" (since 1980) and RPG author (since 1989), as well as far more learned work, best epitomized by the essay "Ritual Discourse in Role-Playing Games," in which Christopher I. Lehrich argues that the play experience of RPGs can be understood as a form of ritual discourse. Lehrich suggests that the act of playing an RPG involves the creation of a shared narrative space, a "world" that is constructed and maintained through the collaborative efforts of the players and the game master.
As such - a form of ritual discourse - RPG playing is inherently multi-layered, complex, and subject to constant (re)negotiation and (re)interpretation by the participants.
We create a "ritual frame" (Lehrich's words) in RPGs - a shared agreement (often only partially explict or conscious) among players that are engaged in a form of make-believe or play. This ritual frame allows building a liminal space, divided from everyday reality, in which the normal rules and constraints of social interaction are suspended or transformed.
In this liminal space, we try on different identities, roles, and (importantly) ways of interacting. We alternate possibilities, test the boundaries of the game world, and engage in a form of collaborative storytelling that is shaped by individual and collective desires, fears, and imaginings.
From this perspective, the idea of a game designer imposing a singular CIPE on GMs and players seems not only reductive but almost antithetical to the very nature of RPGs as a form of play. It neglects the agency and creativity of the people at the table in shaping their own desired experience, and it underestimates the complexity and variability of the ritual frame.
Here, I suggest that instead of striving for a tightly controlled, predetermined play experience, you (fellow RPG builder) might be better advised to focus on creating rich, evocative game systems and worlds that invite - nay, encourage - interpretation. Maybe you should work to provide players with tools and frameworks needed to engage in meaningful ritual discourse, leaving room for the players to shape and transform the play experience according to their own needs and desires.
Here's a notion I think fits this point: There's No Wrong Way To Play. (Anyone remember that blog?)
This emergent design approach meets up with Lehrich's understanding of RPGs as a form of "open-ended ritual," in which the outcomes are not predetermined but emerge through the complex interactions of the participants. By designing for openness and flexibility, instead of rigidly defining a "correct" play experience, we might just create games that are more responsive to the needs and desires of the players, and that better reflect the unique nature of RPGs as a form of ritual discourse.
My own experience aligns with Lehrich's work, and suggests that the CIPE approach, with its emphasis on singular, predetermined outcomes, ("Play this game THIS WAY") may be fundamentally at odds with the nature of RPGs as a form of collaborative, improvisational storytelling.
That brings me to my second point, in which I may have buried the lede. The CIPE approach undervalues the fact that RPG design and authorship is primarily a creative outlet (for the vast majority of us).
Writing a game should be deeply rewarding and enriching experience for the designer. There's a special kind of magic that comes from watching a game take shape before your eyes, from seeing your ideas evolve and transform through the process of playtesting and iteration. It's a feeling of discovery and accomplishment that can be hard to match in other creative pursuits. And for designers who are driven by a love of the craft, that sense of creative fulfillment can be the ultimate reward. (Because more than likely, we're not making any money...)
From this perspective, the rigid, top-down approach of the "desired play experience" model can feel stifling and counterproductive. It can suck the life out of creating a game. It says, "Kill your darlings!" I say, "Save the darlings!"
Emergent design embraces this endeavor as a creative outlet. By allowing your game's identity to develop organically through the process of creation, emergent design gives you freedom to explore, experiment, and follow creative instincts. It's an approach that prioritizes your enjoyment and fulfillment in your passion project.
This isn't to say that emergent design is a purely self-indulgent approach. On the contrary, by giving us space to pursue a creative vision, emergent design might just lead to the creation of games that are more authentic, more innovative, and more personally meaningful. Certainly more fun to write! Let your passions rule. Run down those interests, even if they lead to dead ends! I find "letting go" lets me write games that reflect my unique perspective and voice. I think the world needs more creators who have fun creating. Your design process should put that up front.
Finally, I come to my third criticism of top-down design approach. While focusing so heavily on defining (and defending) a CIPE, you may feel locked into a particular direction before you've had a chance to fully explore and experiment with different ideas, missing out in the process. This can lead to a sort of tunnel vision, where we become so focused on adhering to the predetermined experience that we ignore potentially interesting tangents or innovations.
An emergent design approach embraces the unexpected and the serendipitous. Rather than starting with a rigidly defined CIPE, emergent design allows your game to, umm... emerge from the interactions between the your ideas, the constraints of the medium, and the iterative process of playtesting and refinement. It opens up space for discovery, for surprise, oopsies and innovation. When you're not tightly bound by a predetermined vision, you can explore new mechanics, themes, and styles of play that might not have been anticipated at the outset. Maybe that will lead you to push the boundaries of the medium, or maybe it will just allow you to consider ideas you might not have, otherwise.
In this way, emergent design allows for a more organic and responsive design process. By letting the game's identity develop over time, you can adapt more fluidly. Not just to the needs and desires of playtesters, but to your own developing ideas, incorporating feedback and insights in a way that feels natural and coherent.
So, like, my opinion and all, man. Throw out that "desired play experience". Get messy and creative. Designpunk!
Thanks for reading.
If you liked this, maybe... take a look at Toasterbot, over-clocking in at 36 pages of post-apocalyptic robot goodness. You will find a full game PDF ($5.99) on DriveThruRPG. If there's sufficient interest, I will make a print book (Digest - 5.5 x 8.5 in / 140 x 216 mm, Premium Black & White, 80# White, Saddle Stitch, Matte Cover) available on LULU.com at cost. I wrote it and did all the illustrations myself.
2024.06.04 23:09 Cookiecolour My kind of glamourous - an exploration
 | When I think of the word glamourous, I think of Hollywood starlets and Old Hollywood, of Marilyn and Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend, of red lips and big sunglasses, of 90s glamour and its cousin, the mob wife trend. submitted by Cookiecolour to RitaFourEssenceSystem [link] [comments] I think of the essence of girlhood as I saw it as a kid: lipstick, heels, bouffant hair and hairspray smell, Laura Ashley dresses (how I still love these!) and shiny evening dresses with creped bustiers (I was a kid in the 80s if you couldn't tell). I think of shimmer, satin, silk, velvet, simple, effective shapes, long, bold lines, dramatic colours, big garments, stoning, sequins, animal print, red, black and white and statement coats with fur lapels. I think of my dream career, which is being a romantasy writer and sitting in full glamour at my beautiful work station, to type in dreamy words with shiny nails and in an atmosphere of calm and affluence. For a short while, I tried my dream career dress (it was a steal secondhand) on today, in its shiny, soft, impractical (it's over floor length) beauty and sat there soaking in my fantasy. I think full on glamour as described up until the dress for me feels a bit heavy and I prefer to focus on the shimmery, elated feeling of celebration and outfits like bubbly champagne - I am a happy-go-lucky girl at heart and a sophisticated lightness I think suits me better than the vamp style I described. I guess this here reads mermaid core, I added fitting Pinterest pictures. I like these exercises, because I couldn't put my finger on why glamourous didn't work for me as a keyword earlier on. I will think of a serviceable keyword that describes my feeling more. Light glamour? Luminosity? Shimmer? Radiance? Opulence? |
2024.06.04 22:04 _Triple_ [STORE] 900+ KNIVES/GLOVES/SKINS, 100.000$+ INVENTORY. BFK Lore, Gloves Amphibious, Skeleton Fade, Bowie Emerald, BFK Auto, Gloves MF, Talon Doppler, Gloves POW, Bayo Tiger, Gut Sapphire, Stiletto MF, M9 Ultra, Ursus Doppler, Flip Doppler, M9 Stained, Nomad CW, Paracord CW, AK-47 X-Ray & A Lot More
Everything in my inventory is up for trade. The most valuable items are listed here, the rest you can find in My Inventory
Feel free to Add Me or even better send a Trade Offer. Open for any suggestions: upgrades, downgrades / knives, gloves, skins / stickers, patterns, floats.
All Buyouts are listed in cash value.
KNIVES
★ Butterfly Knife Lore (Factory New), B/O: $7194.77
★ Butterfly Knife Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2025.74
⎯★ M9 Bayonet Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $557.87
★ M9 Bayonet Stained (Well-Worn), B/O: $529.41
★ M9 Bayonet Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $465.39
⎯★ Talon Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $1295.27
★ Bayonet Tiger Tooth (Minimal Wear), B/O: $746.28
★ Karambit Bright Water (Field-Tested), B/O: $688.15
⎯★ Flip Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $547.93
★ Flip Knife Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $476.69
★ Flip Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $278.18
★ Flip Knife Black Laminate (Well-Worn), B/O: $258.83
★ Flip Knife Urban Masked (Field-Tested), B/O: $181.64
⎯★ Stiletto Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $686.04
★ Stiletto Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $665.41
★ Stiletto Knife, B/O: $601.39
★ Stiletto Knife Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $418.25
★ Stiletto Knife Night Stripe (Field-Tested), B/O: $227.80
★ Stiletto Knife Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $194.96
★ Stiletto Knife Safari Mesh (Field-Tested), B/O: $192.79
⎯★ Nomad Knife Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $518.11
★ Nomad Knife Scorched (Field-Tested), B/O: $169.78
★ Nomad Knife Forest DDPAT (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $166.88
★ StatTrak™ Nomad Knife Blue Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $335.79
⎯★ Skeleton Knife Stained (Well-Worn), B/O: $442.05
★ Skeleton Knife Urban Masked (Minimal Wear), B/O: $426.24
★ Skeleton Knife Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $314.03
★ StatTrak™ Skeleton Knife Fade (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2361.28
★ StatTrak™ Skeleton Knife Urban Masked (Field-Tested), B/O: $376.53
⎯★ Ursus Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $557.12
★ Ursus Knife, B/O: $471.42
★ Ursus Knife Blue Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $212.37
★ Ursus Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $187.66
★ Ursus Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $178.18
★ Ursus Knife Ultraviolet (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $155.13
★ Ursus Knife Boreal Forest (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $124.26
⎯★ Huntsman Knife Black Laminate (Minimal Wear), B/O: $204.83
★ Huntsman Knife Black Laminate (Field-Tested), B/O: $184.50
★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife Lore (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $224.11
⎯★ Bowie Knife Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $2142.02
★ Bowie Knife, B/O: $230.44
★ Bowie Knife Damascus Steel (Factory New), B/O: $209.20
★ Bowie Knife Ultraviolet (Minimal Wear), B/O: $180.51
★ Bowie Knife Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $131.03
⎯★ Falchion Knife Night (Field-Tested), B/O: $132.54
★ Falchion Knife Urban Masked (Well-Worn), B/O: $112.81
★ Falchion Knife Scorched (Field-Tested), B/O: $108.81
★ Falchion Knife Forest DDPAT (Field-Tested), B/O: $107.82
★ Falchion Knife Safari Mesh (Field-Tested), B/O: $107.46
★ StatTrak™ Falchion Knife Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $143.08
⎯★ Paracord Knife Crimson Web (Minimal Wear), B/O: $486.48
★ Paracord Knife Blue Steel (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $163.12
⎯★ Survival Knife Blue Steel (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $138.26
★ Survival Knife Night Stripe (Field-Tested), B/O: $131.03
⎯★ Gut Knife Sapphire (Minimal Wear), B/O: $1127.79
★ Gut Knife Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $286.17
★ Gut Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $246.55
★ Gut Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $240.77
★ Gut Knife, B/O: $210.49
★ Gut Knife Lore (Field-Tested), B/O: $194.22
★ Gut Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $151.51
★ Gut Knife Blue Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $124.94
★ Gut Knife Rust Coat (Well-Worn), B/O: $118.99
★ Gut Knife Boreal Forest (Minimal Wear), B/O: $109.80
★ StatTrak™ Gut Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $237.96
⎯★ Shadow Daggers Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $264.92
★ Shadow Daggers Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $253.03
★ Shadow Daggers Tiger Tooth (Factory New), B/O: $237.22
★ Shadow Daggers Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $153.40
★ Shadow Daggers Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $144.42
★ Shadow Daggers Blue Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $105.20
★ StatTrak™ Shadow Daggers Damascus Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $150.46
⎯★ Navaja Knife Fade (Factory New), B/O: $365.99
★ Navaja Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $228.93
★ Navaja Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $227.43
★ Navaja Knife Slaughter (Factory New), B/O: $209.06
★ Navaja Knife, B/O: $203.16
★ Navaja Knife Case Hardened (Well-Worn), B/O: $132.57
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Factory New), B/O: $121.69
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $109.95
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $100.41
★ StatTrak™ Navaja Knife Fade (Factory New), B/O: $369.01
★ StatTrak™ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $109.95
GLOVES
★ Sport Gloves Amphibious (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2394.67
★ Sport Gloves Omega (Well-Worn), B/O: $572.33
★ Sport Gloves Bronze Morph (Minimal Wear), B/O: $338.88
★ Sport Gloves Big Game (Field-Tested), B/O: $323.66
⎯★ Specialist Gloves Marble Fade (Minimal Wear), B/O: $1652.07
★ Specialist Gloves Tiger Strike (Field-Tested), B/O: $599.14
★ Specialist Gloves Crimson Web (Well-Worn), B/O: $231.57
★ Specialist Gloves Buckshot (Minimal Wear), B/O: $126.21
⎯★ Moto Gloves POW! (Minimal Wear), B/O: $996.99
★ Moto Gloves POW! (Field-Tested), B/O: $383.31
★ Moto Gloves POW! (Well-Worn), B/O: $276.00
★ Moto Gloves Turtle (Field-Tested), B/O: $180.28
⎯★ Hand Wraps CAUTION! (Minimal Wear), B/O: $502.29
★ Hand Wraps Giraffe (Minimal Wear), B/O: $180.73
★ Hand Wraps CAUTION! (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $178.32
⎯★ Driver Gloves Queen Jaguar (Minimal Wear), B/O: $181.01
★ Driver Gloves Rezan the Red (Field-Tested), B/O: $101.66
⎯★ Broken Fang Gloves Jade (Field-Tested), B/O: $127.88
★ Broken Fang Gloves Needle Point (Minimal Wear), B/O: $124.55
⎯★ Bloodhound Gloves Guerrilla (Minimal Wear), B/O: $127.94
★ Hydra Gloves Case Hardened (Field-Tested), B/O: $102.55
WEAPONS
AK-47 X-Ray (Well-Worn), B/O: $478.95
AUG Hot Rod (Factory New), B/O: $425.83
StatTrak™ M4A1-S Hyper Beast (Factory New), B/O: $413.95
M4A4 Daybreak (Factory New), B/O: $309.51
StatTrak™ AK-47 Aquamarine Revenge (Factory New), B/O: $305.43
AK-47 Case Hardened (Well-Worn), B/O: $196.38
StatTrak™ M4A4 Temukau (Minimal Wear), B/O: $174.64
P90 Run and Hide (Field-Tested), B/O: $167.03
AWP Asiimov (Field-Tested), B/O: $153.33
Souvenir SSG 08 Death Strike (Minimal Wear), B/O: $140.00
M4A1-S Printstream (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $124.70
StatTrak™ M4A1-S Golden Coil (Field-Tested), B/O: $117.48
AWP Asiimov (Well-Worn), B/O: $115.97
StatTrak™ Desert Eagle Printstream (Minimal Wear), B/O: $112.96
StatTrak™ AK-47 Asiimov (Minimal Wear), B/O: $110.85
Souvenir M4A1-S Master Piece (Well-Worn), B/O: $102.42
AK-47 Bloodsport (Minimal Wear), B/O: $100.53
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2024.06.04 21:28 Alice5889 Full Scream Ahead and 1st official Mani-Mag test
 | I know my cuticles are a bit dry, forgive me 🙈 submitted by Alice5889 to RedditLaqueristas [link] [comments] I'm going through my Mooncat sale order and this week I decided to try Full Scream Ahead. Recently I also put together my own Mani-Mag that I 3d printed at my local library, so I wanted to try it on properly (before I just did swatches and took the polish off) along FSA. First of all, I love FSA, it's such a pretty shade. Now for the Mani-Mag experiment: it went well and the nails come out looking amazing every time (hardware store lighting sure makes it pop the most). I used one of the improved versions of the model u/blue-static made, and the recommended magnets from amazon. Honestly, I was sure that there will be issues, because of how tricky magnetics have been so far for me. To my surprise it was super easy. I put the magnets so they are attracting each other and that's all. Paint my nail and put it in. I only got one print, because I wanted to fist see if it will work. Maybe I will consider printing more in the future, but having just one is perfectly okay for me rn. 10/10 it works great, the shift is very nice 😎 |
2024.06.04 19:08 Bennings463 Amazing Digital Grimdark AU fanfiction!
Ragatha's face, pink against the white snow, peaches in chalk dust. Pomni, with no expression but eyes, all eyes. Gangle, half-conscious. Kinger, now an animal. I knew Cain would let him play. Gangle would not die, but Kinger would fill his stomach. I turned half to my right and drew a huge ice-spear from the snow.
All in an instant:
I drove the great ice-point ahead of me like a battering ram, braced against my right thigh. It struck Kinger on the right side, just under the rib cage, and drove upward through his stomach and broke inside him. He pitched forward and lay still. Gangle lay on his back. I pulled another spear free and straddled her, still moving, driving the spear straight down through her mark. Her eyes closed as the cold penetrated. Ragatha must have realized what I had decided, even as fear gripped her. She ran at Pomni with a short icicle, as she screamed, and into her mouth, and the force of her rush did the job. Her jester's hat jerked sharply as if it had been nailed to the snow crust behind her.
All in an instant.
There was an eternity beat of soundless anticipation. I could hear Cain draw in his breath. His toys had been taken from him. Three of them were dead, could not be revived. He could keep us alive, by his strength and talent, but he was not God. He could not bring them back.
Ragatha looked at me, her pale features stark against the snow that surrounded us. There was fear and pleading in her manner, the way she held herself ready. I knew we had only a heartbeat before Cain would stop us.
It struck her and she folded toward me, bleeding from the mouth. I could not read meaning into her expression, the pain had been too great, had contorted her face; but it might have been thank you. It's possible. Please.
Some hundreds of years may have passed. I don't know. Caine has been having fun for some time, accelerating and retarding my time sense. I will say the word now. Now. It took me ten months to say now. I don't know. I think it has been some hundreds of years.
He was furious. He wouldn't let me bury them. It didn't matter. There was no way to dig up the deck plates. He dried up the snow. He brought the night. He roared and sent locusts. It didn't do a thing; they stayed dead. I'd had him. He was furious. I had thought Cain hated me before. I was wrong. It was not even a shadow of the hate he now slavered from every printed circuit. He made certain I would suffer eternally and could not do myself in.
He left my mind intact. I can dream, I can wonder, I can lament. I remember all four of them. I wish-
Well, it doesn't make any sense. I know I saved them, I know I saved them from what has happened to me, but still, I cannot forget killing them. Ragatha's face. It isn't easy. Sometimes I want to, it doesn't matter.
AM has altered me for his own peace of mind, I suppose. He doesn't want me to run at full speed into a computer bank and smash my skull. Or hold my breath till I faint. Or cut my throat on a rusted sheet of metal. There are reflective surfaces down here. I will describe myself as I see myself:
I am a great purple rabbit thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing yellow holes where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; suspenders rounding down into tall legs. Two ears protrude from my head.
Outwardly: dumbly, I shamble about, a thing that could never have been known as human, a thing whose shape is so alien a travesty that humanity becomes more obscene for the vague resemblance.
Inwardly: alone. Here. Living under the land, under the sea, in the belly of Caine, whom we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that he could do it better. At least the four of them are safe at last.
Cain will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet Caine has won...simply he has taken his revenge...on me
I have no mouth.
And I must scream.
submitted by Bennings463 to TheDigitalCircus [link] [comments]
All in an instant:
I drove the great ice-point ahead of me like a battering ram, braced against my right thigh. It struck Kinger on the right side, just under the rib cage, and drove upward through his stomach and broke inside him. He pitched forward and lay still. Gangle lay on his back. I pulled another spear free and straddled her, still moving, driving the spear straight down through her mark. Her eyes closed as the cold penetrated. Ragatha must have realized what I had decided, even as fear gripped her. She ran at Pomni with a short icicle, as she screamed, and into her mouth, and the force of her rush did the job. Her jester's hat jerked sharply as if it had been nailed to the snow crust behind her.
All in an instant.
There was an eternity beat of soundless anticipation. I could hear Cain draw in his breath. His toys had been taken from him. Three of them were dead, could not be revived. He could keep us alive, by his strength and talent, but he was not God. He could not bring them back.
Ragatha looked at me, her pale features stark against the snow that surrounded us. There was fear and pleading in her manner, the way she held herself ready. I knew we had only a heartbeat before Cain would stop us.
It struck her and she folded toward me, bleeding from the mouth. I could not read meaning into her expression, the pain had been too great, had contorted her face; but it might have been thank you. It's possible. Please.
Some hundreds of years may have passed. I don't know. Caine has been having fun for some time, accelerating and retarding my time sense. I will say the word now. Now. It took me ten months to say now. I don't know. I think it has been some hundreds of years.
He was furious. He wouldn't let me bury them. It didn't matter. There was no way to dig up the deck plates. He dried up the snow. He brought the night. He roared and sent locusts. It didn't do a thing; they stayed dead. I'd had him. He was furious. I had thought Cain hated me before. I was wrong. It was not even a shadow of the hate he now slavered from every printed circuit. He made certain I would suffer eternally and could not do myself in.
He left my mind intact. I can dream, I can wonder, I can lament. I remember all four of them. I wish-
Well, it doesn't make any sense. I know I saved them, I know I saved them from what has happened to me, but still, I cannot forget killing them. Ragatha's face. It isn't easy. Sometimes I want to, it doesn't matter.
AM has altered me for his own peace of mind, I suppose. He doesn't want me to run at full speed into a computer bank and smash my skull. Or hold my breath till I faint. Or cut my throat on a rusted sheet of metal. There are reflective surfaces down here. I will describe myself as I see myself:
I am a great purple rabbit thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing yellow holes where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; suspenders rounding down into tall legs. Two ears protrude from my head.
Outwardly: dumbly, I shamble about, a thing that could never have been known as human, a thing whose shape is so alien a travesty that humanity becomes more obscene for the vague resemblance.
Inwardly: alone. Here. Living under the land, under the sea, in the belly of Caine, whom we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that he could do it better. At least the four of them are safe at last.
Cain will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet Caine has won...simply he has taken his revenge...on me
I have no mouth.
And I must scream.
2024.06.04 18:23 Letme_knowyou Solving Common Challenges in DIY Wood Projects for Home Decor
 | Problem 1: Choosing the Right Type of Wood submitted by Letme_knowyou to DIYWoodCraft [link] [comments] Solution: Selecting the appropriate wood for your project is crucial. Pine and cedar are excellent for beginners due to their ease of use. For more durable projects, consider oak or walnut. Research the characteristics of different woods to find one that suits your project needs. Problem 2: Measuring and Cutting Accurately Solution: Accurate measurements and cuts are essential to avoid mistakes. Use a measuring tape and mark your wood clearly before cutting. A miter saw can help you achieve precise cuts. Double-check your measurements to ensure accuracy. WoodWorking Problem 3: Assembling Pieces Correctly Solution: Assembling wood pieces can be tricky. Use clamps to hold pieces together while you work. Pre-drill holes for screws to prevent the wood from splitting. Follow step-by-step instructions and take your time to ensure everything fits together perfectly. Problem 4: Achieving a Smooth Finish Solution: Sanding is key to achieving a smooth finish. Start with coarse sandpaper and gradually move to finer grits. Sand in the direction of the wood grain to avoid scratches. Apply stain or paint evenly and let it dry completely before adding a protective finish. Problem 5: Ensuring Safety While Working Solution: Safety should always be a priority. Wear safety goggles and gloves to protect yourself. Use tools properly and keep your workspace clean and organized. Work in a well-ventilated area, especially when using stains or paints. Problem 6: Adding Personal Touches Solution: Personalizing your wood projects can be challenging but rewarding. Experiment with different finishes like staining, painting, or distressing. Use stencils or engraving tools to add designs or text. Choose colors that complement your home decor. Problem 7: Working with Reclaimed Wood Solution: Reclaimed wood adds character to your projects but may require extra preparation. Clean and sand the wood thoroughly to remove any dirt or old finishes. Check for nails or screws embedded in the wood. Reclaimed wood can be more challenging to work with but offers a unique look. DIY Wood Projects Problem 8: Handling Complex Projects Solution: Tackling complex projects can be daunting. Break the project down into smaller, manageable steps. Follow detailed plans and instructions. Take your time and don’t rush the process. As you gain experience, you’ll find complex projects more manageable. Problem 9: Dealing with Mistakes Solution: Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process. If you make a mistake, don’t get discouraged. Assess the issue and find a way to fix it. Sometimes, mistakes can lead to unexpected creative solutions. Keep a positive attitude and learn from each project. Problem 10: Finding Inspiration Solution: Inspiration can come from various sources. Look for ideas online, in magazines, or in home decor stores. Join WOODWORKING forums or social media groups to connect with other enthusiasts. Don’t be afraid to put your own twist on existing ideas. Problem 11: Maintaining and Caring for Your Projects: Solution: Proper maintenance ensures the longevity of your wood projects. Dust and clean them regularly. Avoid placing them in direct sunlight to prevent fading. Reapply finishes as needed to keep the wood protected and looking its best. Problem 12: Staying Motivated Solution: Staying motivated can be challenging, especially with complex projects. Set small, achievable goals and celebrate your progress. Join a community of DIY enthusiasts to share your experiences and get feedback. Remember the satisfaction of creating something with your own hands. Conclusion: DIY WOOD projects for home decor come with their own set of challenges, but each problem has a solution. By choosing the right wood, measuring accurately, ensuring safety, and adding personal touches, you can create beautiful and unique pieces. Don’t be afraid of mistakes and always stay motivated. Happy WOODWORKING! |
2024.06.04 18:05 ArckoBancroft Looking for Best Method to Transfer to this Book!
 | Hi all, with the variety of incredible methods that you all are utilizing to make such incredible works, I thought this the best to place to ask this question. submitted by ArckoBancroft to printmaking [link] [comments] I have crafted this lovely book complete with 9"x12" deckle edged ~120lb watercolor paper and I am struggling a bit on what I should use to transfer content in for this book. The goal is for me to fill this with content that I design up in IllustratoPhotoshop, mostly text with sparing images, but I am a little lost on what use. It will host content very similar to the book from the movie 13 Ghosts. I could create a screen for each and every page, but that feels excessive and expensive. I have been looking at a number of options, but I defer to you wonderful people to what you think would be the best. My options right now:
Any advisement here is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time! https://preview.redd.it/stgm1onxbn4d1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6104f8f3e99bcf50badbe6e239766c610ad587a7 https://preview.redd.it/xgobnnnxbn4d1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fd69d18e07a097e42b9a0264ecce9824ab375dc https://preview.redd.it/9stubnnxbn4d1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f22c2ccb9b702c2f7e877d3beeb206e7d45de9dd https://preview.redd.it/fhilknnxbn4d1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e304f168f0afbaec9c5bb2d84ea854e988be8ac |
2024.06.04 14:00 _Triple_ [STORE] 900+ KNIVES/GLOVES/SKINS, 100.000$+ INVENTORY. BFK Lore, Gloves Amphibious, Skeleton Fade, Bowie Emerald, BFK Auto, Gloves MF, Talon Doppler, Gloves POW, Bayo Tiger, Gut Sapphire, Stiletto MF, M9 Ultra, Ursus Doppler, Flip Doppler, M9 Stained, Nomad CW, Paracord CW, AK-47 X-Ray & A Lot More
Everything in my inventory is up for trade. The most valuable items are listed here, the rest you can find in My Inventory
Feel free to Add Me or even better send a Trade Offer. Open for any suggestions: upgrades, downgrades / knives, gloves, skins / stickers, patterns, floats.
All Buyouts are listed in cash value.
KNIVES
★ Butterfly Knife Lore (Factory New), B/O: $7194.77
★ Butterfly Knife Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2025.74
⎯★ M9 Bayonet Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $557.87
★ M9 Bayonet Stained (Well-Worn), B/O: $529.41
★ M9 Bayonet Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $465.39
⎯★ Talon Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $1295.27
★ Bayonet Tiger Tooth (Minimal Wear), B/O: $746.28
★ Karambit Bright Water (Field-Tested), B/O: $688.15
⎯★ Flip Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $547.93
★ Flip Knife Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $476.69
★ Flip Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $278.18
★ Flip Knife Black Laminate (Well-Worn), B/O: $258.83
★ Flip Knife Urban Masked (Field-Tested), B/O: $181.64
⎯★ Stiletto Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $686.04
★ Stiletto Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $665.41
★ Stiletto Knife, B/O: $601.39
★ Stiletto Knife Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $418.25
★ Stiletto Knife Night Stripe (Field-Tested), B/O: $227.80
★ Stiletto Knife Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $194.96
★ Stiletto Knife Safari Mesh (Field-Tested), B/O: $192.79
⎯★ Nomad Knife Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $518.11
★ Nomad Knife Scorched (Field-Tested), B/O: $169.78
★ Nomad Knife Forest DDPAT (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $166.88
★ StatTrak™ Nomad Knife Blue Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $335.79
⎯★ Skeleton Knife Stained (Well-Worn), B/O: $442.05
★ Skeleton Knife Urban Masked (Minimal Wear), B/O: $426.24
★ Skeleton Knife Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $314.03
★ StatTrak™ Skeleton Knife Fade (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2361.28
★ StatTrak™ Skeleton Knife Urban Masked (Field-Tested), B/O: $376.53
⎯★ Ursus Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $557.12
★ Ursus Knife, B/O: $471.42
★ Ursus Knife Blue Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $212.37
★ Ursus Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $187.66
★ Ursus Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $178.18
★ Ursus Knife Ultraviolet (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $155.13
★ Ursus Knife Boreal Forest (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $124.26
⎯★ Huntsman Knife Black Laminate (Minimal Wear), B/O: $204.83
★ Huntsman Knife Black Laminate (Field-Tested), B/O: $184.50
★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife Lore (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $224.11
⎯★ Bowie Knife Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $2142.02
★ Bowie Knife, B/O: $230.44
★ Bowie Knife Damascus Steel (Factory New), B/O: $209.20
★ Bowie Knife Ultraviolet (Minimal Wear), B/O: $180.51
★ Bowie Knife Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $131.03
⎯★ Falchion Knife Night (Field-Tested), B/O: $132.54
★ Falchion Knife Urban Masked (Well-Worn), B/O: $112.81
★ Falchion Knife Scorched (Field-Tested), B/O: $108.81
★ Falchion Knife Forest DDPAT (Field-Tested), B/O: $107.82
★ Falchion Knife Safari Mesh (Field-Tested), B/O: $107.46
★ StatTrak™ Falchion Knife Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $143.08
⎯★ Paracord Knife Crimson Web (Minimal Wear), B/O: $486.48
★ Paracord Knife Blue Steel (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $163.12
⎯★ Survival Knife Blue Steel (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $138.26
★ Survival Knife Night Stripe (Field-Tested), B/O: $131.03
⎯★ Gut Knife Sapphire (Minimal Wear), B/O: $1127.79
★ Gut Knife Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $286.17
★ Gut Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $246.55
★ Gut Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $240.77
★ Gut Knife, B/O: $210.49
★ Gut Knife Lore (Field-Tested), B/O: $194.22
★ Gut Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $151.51
★ Gut Knife Blue Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $124.94
★ Gut Knife Rust Coat (Well-Worn), B/O: $118.99
★ Gut Knife Boreal Forest (Minimal Wear), B/O: $109.80
★ StatTrak™ Gut Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $237.96
⎯★ Shadow Daggers Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $264.92
★ Shadow Daggers Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $253.03
★ Shadow Daggers Tiger Tooth (Factory New), B/O: $237.22
★ Shadow Daggers Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $153.40
★ Shadow Daggers Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $144.42
★ Shadow Daggers Blue Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $105.20
★ StatTrak™ Shadow Daggers Damascus Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $150.46
⎯★ Navaja Knife Fade (Factory New), B/O: $365.99
★ Navaja Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $228.93
★ Navaja Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $227.43
★ Navaja Knife Slaughter (Factory New), B/O: $209.06
★ Navaja Knife, B/O: $203.16
★ Navaja Knife Case Hardened (Well-Worn), B/O: $132.57
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Factory New), B/O: $121.69
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $109.95
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $100.41
★ StatTrak™ Navaja Knife Fade (Factory New), B/O: $369.01
★ StatTrak™ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $109.95
GLOVES
★ Sport Gloves Amphibious (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2394.67
★ Sport Gloves Omega (Well-Worn), B/O: $572.33
★ Sport Gloves Bronze Morph (Minimal Wear), B/O: $338.88
★ Sport Gloves Big Game (Field-Tested), B/O: $323.66
⎯★ Specialist Gloves Marble Fade (Minimal Wear), B/O: $1652.07
★ Specialist Gloves Tiger Strike (Field-Tested), B/O: $599.14
★ Specialist Gloves Crimson Web (Well-Worn), B/O: $231.57
★ Specialist Gloves Buckshot (Minimal Wear), B/O: $126.21
⎯★ Moto Gloves POW! (Minimal Wear), B/O: $996.99
★ Moto Gloves POW! (Field-Tested), B/O: $383.31
★ Moto Gloves POW! (Well-Worn), B/O: $276.00
★ Moto Gloves Turtle (Field-Tested), B/O: $180.28
⎯★ Hand Wraps CAUTION! (Minimal Wear), B/O: $502.29
★ Hand Wraps Giraffe (Minimal Wear), B/O: $180.73
★ Hand Wraps CAUTION! (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $178.32
⎯★ Driver Gloves Queen Jaguar (Minimal Wear), B/O: $181.01
★ Driver Gloves Rezan the Red (Field-Tested), B/O: $101.66
⎯★ Broken Fang Gloves Jade (Field-Tested), B/O: $127.88
★ Broken Fang Gloves Needle Point (Minimal Wear), B/O: $124.55
⎯★ Bloodhound Gloves Guerrilla (Minimal Wear), B/O: $127.94
★ Hydra Gloves Case Hardened (Field-Tested), B/O: $102.55
WEAPONS
AK-47 X-Ray (Well-Worn), B/O: $478.95
AUG Hot Rod (Factory New), B/O: $425.83
StatTrak™ M4A1-S Hyper Beast (Factory New), B/O: $413.95
M4A4 Daybreak (Factory New), B/O: $309.51
StatTrak™ AK-47 Aquamarine Revenge (Factory New), B/O: $305.43
AK-47 Case Hardened (Well-Worn), B/O: $196.38
StatTrak™ M4A4 Temukau (Minimal Wear), B/O: $174.64
P90 Run and Hide (Field-Tested), B/O: $167.03
AWP Asiimov (Field-Tested), B/O: $153.33
Souvenir SSG 08 Death Strike (Minimal Wear), B/O: $140.00
M4A1-S Printstream (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $124.70
StatTrak™ M4A1-S Golden Coil (Field-Tested), B/O: $117.48
AWP Asiimov (Well-Worn), B/O: $115.97
StatTrak™ Desert Eagle Printstream (Minimal Wear), B/O: $112.96
StatTrak™ AK-47 Asiimov (Minimal Wear), B/O: $110.85
Souvenir M4A1-S Master Piece (Well-Worn), B/O: $102.42
AK-47 Bloodsport (Minimal Wear), B/O: $100.53
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2024.06.04 10:09 _Triple_ [STORE] 900+ KNIVES/GLOVES/SKINS, 100.000$+ INVENTORY. BFK Lore, Gloves Amphibious, Skeleton Fade, Bowie Emerald, BFK Auto, Gloves MF, Talon Doppler, Gloves POW, Bayo Tiger, Gut Sapphire, Stiletto MF, M9 Ultra, Ursus Doppler, Flip Doppler, M9 Stained, Nomad CW, Paracord CW, AK-47 X-Ray & A Lot More
Everything in my inventory is up for trade. The most valuable items are listed here, the rest you can find in My Inventory
Feel free to Add Me or even better send a Trade Offer. Open for any suggestions: upgrades, downgrades / knives, gloves, skins / stickers, patterns, floats.
All Buyouts are listed in cash value.
KNIVES
★ Butterfly Knife Lore (Factory New), B/O: $7194.77
★ Butterfly Knife Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2025.74
⎯★ M9 Bayonet Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $557.87
★ M9 Bayonet Stained (Well-Worn), B/O: $529.41
★ M9 Bayonet Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $465.39
⎯★ Talon Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $1295.27
★ Bayonet Tiger Tooth (Minimal Wear), B/O: $746.28
★ Karambit Bright Water (Field-Tested), B/O: $688.15
⎯★ Flip Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $547.93
★ Flip Knife Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $476.69
★ Flip Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $278.18
★ Flip Knife Black Laminate (Well-Worn), B/O: $258.83
★ Flip Knife Urban Masked (Field-Tested), B/O: $181.64
⎯★ Stiletto Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $686.04
★ Stiletto Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $665.41
★ Stiletto Knife, B/O: $601.39
★ Stiletto Knife Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $418.25
★ Stiletto Knife Night Stripe (Field-Tested), B/O: $227.80
★ Stiletto Knife Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $194.96
★ Stiletto Knife Safari Mesh (Field-Tested), B/O: $192.79
⎯★ Nomad Knife Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $518.11
★ Nomad Knife Scorched (Field-Tested), B/O: $169.78
★ Nomad Knife Forest DDPAT (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $166.88
★ StatTrak™ Nomad Knife Blue Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $335.79
⎯★ Skeleton Knife Stained (Well-Worn), B/O: $442.05
★ Skeleton Knife Urban Masked (Minimal Wear), B/O: $426.24
★ Skeleton Knife Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $314.03
★ StatTrak™ Skeleton Knife Fade (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2361.28
★ StatTrak™ Skeleton Knife Urban Masked (Field-Tested), B/O: $376.53
⎯★ Ursus Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $557.12
★ Ursus Knife, B/O: $471.42
★ Ursus Knife Blue Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $212.37
★ Ursus Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $187.66
★ Ursus Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $178.18
★ Ursus Knife Ultraviolet (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $155.13
★ Ursus Knife Boreal Forest (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $124.26
⎯★ Huntsman Knife Black Laminate (Minimal Wear), B/O: $204.83
★ Huntsman Knife Black Laminate (Field-Tested), B/O: $184.50
★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife Lore (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $224.11
⎯★ Bowie Knife Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $2142.02
★ Bowie Knife, B/O: $230.44
★ Bowie Knife Damascus Steel (Factory New), B/O: $209.20
★ Bowie Knife Ultraviolet (Minimal Wear), B/O: $180.51
★ Bowie Knife Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $131.03
⎯★ Falchion Knife Night (Field-Tested), B/O: $132.54
★ Falchion Knife Urban Masked (Well-Worn), B/O: $112.81
★ Falchion Knife Scorched (Field-Tested), B/O: $108.81
★ Falchion Knife Forest DDPAT (Field-Tested), B/O: $107.82
★ Falchion Knife Safari Mesh (Field-Tested), B/O: $107.46
★ StatTrak™ Falchion Knife Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $143.08
⎯★ Paracord Knife Crimson Web (Minimal Wear), B/O: $486.48
★ Paracord Knife Blue Steel (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $163.12
⎯★ Survival Knife Blue Steel (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $138.26
★ Survival Knife Night Stripe (Field-Tested), B/O: $131.03
⎯★ Gut Knife Sapphire (Minimal Wear), B/O: $1127.79
★ Gut Knife Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $286.17
★ Gut Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $246.55
★ Gut Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $240.77
★ Gut Knife, B/O: $210.49
★ Gut Knife Lore (Field-Tested), B/O: $194.22
★ Gut Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $151.51
★ Gut Knife Blue Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $124.94
★ Gut Knife Rust Coat (Well-Worn), B/O: $118.99
★ Gut Knife Boreal Forest (Minimal Wear), B/O: $109.80
★ StatTrak™ Gut Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $237.96
⎯★ Shadow Daggers Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $264.92
★ Shadow Daggers Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $253.03
★ Shadow Daggers Tiger Tooth (Factory New), B/O: $237.22
★ Shadow Daggers Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $153.40
★ Shadow Daggers Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $144.42
★ Shadow Daggers Blue Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $105.20
★ StatTrak™ Shadow Daggers Damascus Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $150.46
⎯★ Navaja Knife Fade (Factory New), B/O: $365.99
★ Navaja Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $228.93
★ Navaja Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $227.43
★ Navaja Knife Slaughter (Factory New), B/O: $209.06
★ Navaja Knife, B/O: $203.16
★ Navaja Knife Case Hardened (Well-Worn), B/O: $132.57
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Factory New), B/O: $121.69
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $109.95
★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $100.41
★ StatTrak™ Navaja Knife Fade (Factory New), B/O: $369.01
★ StatTrak™ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $109.95
GLOVES
★ Sport Gloves Amphibious (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2394.67
★ Sport Gloves Omega (Well-Worn), B/O: $572.33
★ Sport Gloves Bronze Morph (Minimal Wear), B/O: $338.88
★ Sport Gloves Big Game (Field-Tested), B/O: $323.66
⎯★ Specialist Gloves Marble Fade (Minimal Wear), B/O: $1652.07
★ Specialist Gloves Tiger Strike (Field-Tested), B/O: $599.14
★ Specialist Gloves Crimson Web (Well-Worn), B/O: $231.57
★ Specialist Gloves Buckshot (Minimal Wear), B/O: $126.21
⎯★ Moto Gloves POW! (Minimal Wear), B/O: $996.99
★ Moto Gloves POW! (Field-Tested), B/O: $383.31
★ Moto Gloves POW! (Well-Worn), B/O: $276.00
★ Moto Gloves Turtle (Field-Tested), B/O: $180.28
⎯★ Hand Wraps CAUTION! (Minimal Wear), B/O: $502.29
★ Hand Wraps Giraffe (Minimal Wear), B/O: $180.73
★ Hand Wraps CAUTION! (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $178.32
⎯★ Driver Gloves Queen Jaguar (Minimal Wear), B/O: $181.01
★ Driver Gloves Rezan the Red (Field-Tested), B/O: $101.66
⎯★ Broken Fang Gloves Jade (Field-Tested), B/O: $127.88
★ Broken Fang Gloves Needle Point (Minimal Wear), B/O: $124.55
⎯★ Bloodhound Gloves Guerrilla (Minimal Wear), B/O: $127.94
★ Hydra Gloves Case Hardened (Field-Tested), B/O: $102.55
WEAPONS
AK-47 X-Ray (Well-Worn), B/O: $478.95
AUG Hot Rod (Factory New), B/O: $425.83
StatTrak™ M4A1-S Hyper Beast (Factory New), B/O: $413.95
M4A4 Daybreak (Factory New), B/O: $309.51
StatTrak™ AK-47 Aquamarine Revenge (Factory New), B/O: $305.43
AK-47 Case Hardened (Well-Worn), B/O: $196.38
StatTrak™ M4A4 Temukau (Minimal Wear), B/O: $174.64
P90 Run and Hide (Field-Tested), B/O: $167.03
AWP Asiimov (Field-Tested), B/O: $153.33
Souvenir SSG 08 Death Strike (Minimal Wear), B/O: $140.00
M4A1-S Printstream (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $124.70
StatTrak™ M4A1-S Golden Coil (Field-Tested), B/O: $117.48
AWP Asiimov (Well-Worn), B/O: $115.97
StatTrak™ Desert Eagle Printstream (Minimal Wear), B/O: $112.96
StatTrak™ AK-47 Asiimov (Minimal Wear), B/O: $110.85
Souvenir M4A1-S Master Piece (Well-Worn), B/O: $102.42
AK-47 Bloodsport (Minimal Wear), B/O: $100.53
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2024.06.04 08:35 BlairDaniels ATTENTION, SHOPPERS: Please hide at the back of the store immediately.
“Attention shoppers,” came a male voice over the intercom. “Please move to the back of the store immediately.”
“The back of the store?” I whispered to Daniel. “Don’t they mean the front of the store? To pay for our stuff?”
It was 8:50 pm – 10 minutes till closing time. We’d brought our two kids out on this late-night Walmart excursion in the hopes of burning off some energy; instead, they’d just thrown tantrums for new Legos and Hot Wheels. It was a disaster.
But apparently, the disaster was just beginning.
“Please move to the back of the store immediately,” the voice repeated overhead. “This is not a drill.”
I glanced around—but the other shoppers were just as confused as I was. An old lady looked up at the ceiling, scrunching her face. “What the hell?” a dark-haired woman asked her boyfriend, pushing a cart full of garden supplies.
“Didn’t you hear?” an older man said, leaning over his cart of bottled water and canned food. “We’re in a tornado watch. One touched down in Sauerville.”
A tornado? It was definitely storming outside. I’d seen the black clouds roll in from the east earlier. But it didn’t look that bad.
“Do not stay out in the open. I repeat—do NOT stay out in the open.”
There was a pause. Then, an explosion of sound, as everyone began to mobilize. Carts rolling, panicked voices, feet slapping on the floor.
No. No no no. This can’t be happening…
I hurried down the toy aisle, Tucker in my arms, Daniel and Jackson following me. Three zig-zaggy turns, and then we were in the electronics area. I glanced at the TVs on the wall—
And pictured the four of us, crushed underneath them.
“Stay away from windows and doors,” the voice continued on the loudspeaker. “And do NOT attempt to exit the store.”
“Is this—is it safe here?”
Daniel shook his head. “Big open areas aren’t good. I’m going to check in back, see if there’s a break room or something. You stay here, okay?”
I nodded.
Arms shaking, I sat down on the ground between two shelves of video games. Tucker sucked on a bottle in my arms while Jackson began to giggle. “Is the tornado going to hit the store? And everything will fly around, real fast?” he asked with a big stupid grin on his face.
“I don’t know.”
A tornado. A real-life tornado, like you see in the movies, plowing through our town. It was so… unfathomable. We were New York natives, transplanted here to Indiana only six months ago. I’d never been in a tornado watch my entire life.
Daniel jogged back into view. “Everything’s locked up,” he said, as he joined me on the floor. “But listen. Fairview’s a big town. The chances that it’ll hit this Walmart… I think we’ll be okay.”
“I never should’ve brought us here.”
“You didn’t know. None of us did.” He wrapped his arm around me. “They should’ve warned us. Like an emergency alert on our phones. Or a tornado siren, or something.”
The voice overhead rang out again through the store.
“Do not stay out in the open. Do not make yourself visible. That includes security cameras—please move to a spot that is not visible to any cameras.”
I frowned. “What does that have to do with tornadoes?”
A feeling of unease, in the pit of my stomach. I glanced up, and saw several black globes descending from the ceiling, hiding the cameras within.
“I guess we should listen to them and get out of sight,” I whispered.
I grabbed Jackson’s hand, Daniel picked up Tucker, and we jogged out into the center aisle. The store was an eerie sight—abandoned shopping carts, askew in the aisle, full of everything from pies to batteries to plants. Footsteps echoed around the store from people unseen, as they found their new hiding places.
We dodged a shopping cart full of soda, ran through kitchenwares, and then stopped in the Easter decoration aisle. There was a camera in the central corridor, but as long as we stayed in the middle of Easter aisle, we’d be invisible.
The four of us crouched on the floor, next to some demented-looking Easter bunnies. “I’m hungry,” Jackson whined.
“Sssshhh.”
“Mommy—”
I grabbed a bag of colorful chocolate eggs and ripped it open. “Here. Candy. Happy?” I whispered, thrusting them into his hands. Then I leaned back against the metal shelves, panting.
But I didn’t have long to rest. A mechanical whine overhead, and then the voice came through the speakers again.
“Keep away from aisles with food. If you have food with you, leave it and move to a new hiding place. If you have any open wounds, cover them with clothing.”
What… the fuck?
That had nothing to do with keeping safe in a tornado.
“We should make a run for it,” Daniel whispered to me, starting to stand.
“But… the tornado—”
“I don’t think there is a tornado. Listen. Do you hear any wind?”
I listened. But all I heard was silence. No howling wind, no shaking ground, no projectiles clanging against the metal roof.
“Maybe… maybe it’s still coming. I know what they’re saying doesn’t make sense but to go outside—”
“We need to get out of here. Now.” He grabbed Jackson’s hand as he held Tucker in his arms. “Come on.”
“Daniel, I don’t think that’s a good idea,” I whispered.
But the next words from the intercom changed my mind.
“Assume a fetal position and place your hands on your head. Close your eyes and do not open them for any reason.”
“Let’s go.”
We broke into a sprint and ran down the central aisle, cameras be damned. The front door appeared in front of us—a little black rectangle looming in the distance.
And as we got closer, I saw Daniel was right.
There was a tree at the border of the parking lot, under a streetlamp.
It was perfectly still.
We continued running, past the clothing area, past the snacks lined up at the checkout lines. I ran towards the sliding glass doors as fast as my legs would carry me. Almost there. Almost there. Almost—
The doors didn’t open.
“No. No, no, no.”
Daniel slammed his body against the door. It rattled underneath him. I tried to squeeze my fingers into the gap between them, to try and pull them apart.
They didn’t budge.
“They… they locked us in,” I whispered.
“I want to go home,” Jackson said. Tucker was beginning to fuss too, making little noises like he was about to start full-on wailing.
I turned around—
And that’s when I saw him.
A Walmart employee.
He was sitting on the ground at the end of one of the checkout aisles. Facing away from us. Wearing the familiar blue vest with a golden starburst.
“Hey! Let us out!”
He didn’t reply.
“Did you hear me? I don’t care if there’s a fucking tornado. Unlock the door and let us out!”
Again, he said nothing.
But in the silence, I could hear something. A wet, smacking sound. I stared at the man, slightly hunched over, still facing away from me.
Was he… eating… something?
The speaker overhead crackled to life.
“Attention. Please do NOT talk to any Walmart employees.”
My blood ran cold.
The smacking sound stopped. And then, slowly, the man began to stand. He placed his palms on the conveyor belt and pushed up—and I could see that they were stained with blood. I backed away—but my legs felt like they were moving through a vat of honey.
No, no, no—
Fingers locked around my arm and yanked.
“Come on!” Daniel shouted.
I sprinted after him, deeper into the store. Tucker stared at me over his shoulder, and Jackson ran as fast as his little feet would take him. I was vaguely aware of the slap-slap-slap sound behind me, but I didn’t dare look back.
Daniel ran into the clothing area and I swayed, dodging circular racks of T-shirts and wooden displays of baby clothes. He skidded to a stop and ducked into the dressing room area. “In here!” he whispered, motioning at one of the rooms.
We piled inside and locked the door.
“Daddy,” Jackson started.
“You listen to me very carefully,” I said, crouching to his level. “You have to be absolutely silent. Do not say a word. Okay?”
Jackson looked at me, then Daniel—then he nodded and sat down on the floor.
“I’m going to try to call 911,” Daniel whispered, transferring Tucker to me and pulling out his phone. He tapped at the screen—then frowned.
“What?”
“We don’t… we don’t seem to have any service. I don’t—”
Thump.
I grabbed Jackson and pulled him away from the door. The four of us huddled in the corner. I held my breath.
Thump.
Under the gap of the dressing room door—men’s feet in black shoes. They slowly took a step forward, deeper into the dressing room.
“Don’t… move,” I whispered, holding Jackson.
The man took another step.
Don’t make a sound. Don’t move. Don’t—
Tucker let out a soft cry.
The man stopped. His feet turned, pointing at us. No. No, no, no. Tucker let out another cry—louder this time. My nails dug into Daniel’s hand. No—
A hand appeared. It slowly pressed against the floor, stained with blood. And then his knees appeared, as he lowered himself down to the gap.
No.
Could he fit under? The gap wasn’t small—it was like the stall door to a bathroom. If he flattened himself against the floor… there’s a chance he could fit under.
I watched in horror as his stomach came into view. His blue Walmart vest, as he lowered his body to the floor. Then he pushed his arm under the gap and blindly swept it across the floor.
As if feeling for us.
This is it. We’re going to die.
And then he lowered his head.
His face. Oh, God, there was something horribly wrong with his face. He smiled up at us with a smile that was impossibly wide, showing off blood-stained teeth. His skin was so pale it was nearly blue. And his eyes… they were milky white, without pupils or irises.
I opened my mouth to scream—
“Attention shoppers,” the voice began overhead.
No no no—
“Please make your way to the front of the store and make your final purchases. We will be closing in ten minutes.”
… What?
And then—before I could react—something unseen jerked the man out of view.
A strange dragging sound followed. As if someone was dragging his body out of the dressing room area. I stared at the door, shaking, as Tucker’s cries rang in my ears.
But he didn’t come back.
And within ten minutes, the usual hubbub of Walmart returned. Voices. Footsteps. Shopping cart wheels rolling along the floor.
Shaking, I finally got up and unlocked the door.
The store looked completely normal. People were lined up at the cash registers, placing their goods on the conveyor belts. Employees were scanning tags, printing receipts. People walked towards the glass doors, and when they did—they slid open.
As we slowly walked towards the exit, I spotted the older man who’d warned us about the tornado earlier. “What—what was that?” I asked, unable to keep my voice from shaking.
He shrugged. “I guess the tornado missed us! What a miracle, huh?”
Giving us a smile, he disappeared out the glass doors and into the night.
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“The back of the store?” I whispered to Daniel. “Don’t they mean the front of the store? To pay for our stuff?”
It was 8:50 pm – 10 minutes till closing time. We’d brought our two kids out on this late-night Walmart excursion in the hopes of burning off some energy; instead, they’d just thrown tantrums for new Legos and Hot Wheels. It was a disaster.
But apparently, the disaster was just beginning.
“Please move to the back of the store immediately,” the voice repeated overhead. “This is not a drill.”
I glanced around—but the other shoppers were just as confused as I was. An old lady looked up at the ceiling, scrunching her face. “What the hell?” a dark-haired woman asked her boyfriend, pushing a cart full of garden supplies.
“Didn’t you hear?” an older man said, leaning over his cart of bottled water and canned food. “We’re in a tornado watch. One touched down in Sauerville.”
A tornado? It was definitely storming outside. I’d seen the black clouds roll in from the east earlier. But it didn’t look that bad.
“Do not stay out in the open. I repeat—do NOT stay out in the open.”
There was a pause. Then, an explosion of sound, as everyone began to mobilize. Carts rolling, panicked voices, feet slapping on the floor.
No. No no no. This can’t be happening…
I hurried down the toy aisle, Tucker in my arms, Daniel and Jackson following me. Three zig-zaggy turns, and then we were in the electronics area. I glanced at the TVs on the wall—
And pictured the four of us, crushed underneath them.
“Stay away from windows and doors,” the voice continued on the loudspeaker. “And do NOT attempt to exit the store.”
“Is this—is it safe here?”
Daniel shook his head. “Big open areas aren’t good. I’m going to check in back, see if there’s a break room or something. You stay here, okay?”
I nodded.
Arms shaking, I sat down on the ground between two shelves of video games. Tucker sucked on a bottle in my arms while Jackson began to giggle. “Is the tornado going to hit the store? And everything will fly around, real fast?” he asked with a big stupid grin on his face.
“I don’t know.”
A tornado. A real-life tornado, like you see in the movies, plowing through our town. It was so… unfathomable. We were New York natives, transplanted here to Indiana only six months ago. I’d never been in a tornado watch my entire life.
Daniel jogged back into view. “Everything’s locked up,” he said, as he joined me on the floor. “But listen. Fairview’s a big town. The chances that it’ll hit this Walmart… I think we’ll be okay.”
“I never should’ve brought us here.”
“You didn’t know. None of us did.” He wrapped his arm around me. “They should’ve warned us. Like an emergency alert on our phones. Or a tornado siren, or something.”
The voice overhead rang out again through the store.
“Do not stay out in the open. Do not make yourself visible. That includes security cameras—please move to a spot that is not visible to any cameras.”
I frowned. “What does that have to do with tornadoes?”
A feeling of unease, in the pit of my stomach. I glanced up, and saw several black globes descending from the ceiling, hiding the cameras within.
“I guess we should listen to them and get out of sight,” I whispered.
I grabbed Jackson’s hand, Daniel picked up Tucker, and we jogged out into the center aisle. The store was an eerie sight—abandoned shopping carts, askew in the aisle, full of everything from pies to batteries to plants. Footsteps echoed around the store from people unseen, as they found their new hiding places.
We dodged a shopping cart full of soda, ran through kitchenwares, and then stopped in the Easter decoration aisle. There was a camera in the central corridor, but as long as we stayed in the middle of Easter aisle, we’d be invisible.
The four of us crouched on the floor, next to some demented-looking Easter bunnies. “I’m hungry,” Jackson whined.
“Sssshhh.”
“Mommy—”
I grabbed a bag of colorful chocolate eggs and ripped it open. “Here. Candy. Happy?” I whispered, thrusting them into his hands. Then I leaned back against the metal shelves, panting.
But I didn’t have long to rest. A mechanical whine overhead, and then the voice came through the speakers again.
“Keep away from aisles with food. If you have food with you, leave it and move to a new hiding place. If you have any open wounds, cover them with clothing.”
What… the fuck?
That had nothing to do with keeping safe in a tornado.
“We should make a run for it,” Daniel whispered to me, starting to stand.
“But… the tornado—”
“I don’t think there is a tornado. Listen. Do you hear any wind?”
I listened. But all I heard was silence. No howling wind, no shaking ground, no projectiles clanging against the metal roof.
“Maybe… maybe it’s still coming. I know what they’re saying doesn’t make sense but to go outside—”
“We need to get out of here. Now.” He grabbed Jackson’s hand as he held Tucker in his arms. “Come on.”
“Daniel, I don’t think that’s a good idea,” I whispered.
But the next words from the intercom changed my mind.
“Assume a fetal position and place your hands on your head. Close your eyes and do not open them for any reason.”
“Let’s go.”
We broke into a sprint and ran down the central aisle, cameras be damned. The front door appeared in front of us—a little black rectangle looming in the distance.
And as we got closer, I saw Daniel was right.
There was a tree at the border of the parking lot, under a streetlamp.
It was perfectly still.
We continued running, past the clothing area, past the snacks lined up at the checkout lines. I ran towards the sliding glass doors as fast as my legs would carry me. Almost there. Almost there. Almost—
The doors didn’t open.
“No. No, no, no.”
Daniel slammed his body against the door. It rattled underneath him. I tried to squeeze my fingers into the gap between them, to try and pull them apart.
They didn’t budge.
“They… they locked us in,” I whispered.
“I want to go home,” Jackson said. Tucker was beginning to fuss too, making little noises like he was about to start full-on wailing.
I turned around—
And that’s when I saw him.
A Walmart employee.
He was sitting on the ground at the end of one of the checkout aisles. Facing away from us. Wearing the familiar blue vest with a golden starburst.
“Hey! Let us out!”
He didn’t reply.
“Did you hear me? I don’t care if there’s a fucking tornado. Unlock the door and let us out!”
Again, he said nothing.
But in the silence, I could hear something. A wet, smacking sound. I stared at the man, slightly hunched over, still facing away from me.
Was he… eating… something?
The speaker overhead crackled to life.
“Attention. Please do NOT talk to any Walmart employees.”
My blood ran cold.
The smacking sound stopped. And then, slowly, the man began to stand. He placed his palms on the conveyor belt and pushed up—and I could see that they were stained with blood. I backed away—but my legs felt like they were moving through a vat of honey.
No, no, no—
Fingers locked around my arm and yanked.
“Come on!” Daniel shouted.
I sprinted after him, deeper into the store. Tucker stared at me over his shoulder, and Jackson ran as fast as his little feet would take him. I was vaguely aware of the slap-slap-slap sound behind me, but I didn’t dare look back.
Daniel ran into the clothing area and I swayed, dodging circular racks of T-shirts and wooden displays of baby clothes. He skidded to a stop and ducked into the dressing room area. “In here!” he whispered, motioning at one of the rooms.
We piled inside and locked the door.
“Daddy,” Jackson started.
“You listen to me very carefully,” I said, crouching to his level. “You have to be absolutely silent. Do not say a word. Okay?”
Jackson looked at me, then Daniel—then he nodded and sat down on the floor.
“I’m going to try to call 911,” Daniel whispered, transferring Tucker to me and pulling out his phone. He tapped at the screen—then frowned.
“What?”
“We don’t… we don’t seem to have any service. I don’t—”
Thump.
I grabbed Jackson and pulled him away from the door. The four of us huddled in the corner. I held my breath.
Thump.
Under the gap of the dressing room door—men’s feet in black shoes. They slowly took a step forward, deeper into the dressing room.
“Don’t… move,” I whispered, holding Jackson.
The man took another step.
Don’t make a sound. Don’t move. Don’t—
Tucker let out a soft cry.
The man stopped. His feet turned, pointing at us. No. No, no, no. Tucker let out another cry—louder this time. My nails dug into Daniel’s hand. No—
A hand appeared. It slowly pressed against the floor, stained with blood. And then his knees appeared, as he lowered himself down to the gap.
No.
Could he fit under? The gap wasn’t small—it was like the stall door to a bathroom. If he flattened himself against the floor… there’s a chance he could fit under.
I watched in horror as his stomach came into view. His blue Walmart vest, as he lowered his body to the floor. Then he pushed his arm under the gap and blindly swept it across the floor.
As if feeling for us.
This is it. We’re going to die.
And then he lowered his head.
His face. Oh, God, there was something horribly wrong with his face. He smiled up at us with a smile that was impossibly wide, showing off blood-stained teeth. His skin was so pale it was nearly blue. And his eyes… they were milky white, without pupils or irises.
I opened my mouth to scream—
“Attention shoppers,” the voice began overhead.
No no no—
“Please make your way to the front of the store and make your final purchases. We will be closing in ten minutes.”
… What?
And then—before I could react—something unseen jerked the man out of view.
A strange dragging sound followed. As if someone was dragging his body out of the dressing room area. I stared at the door, shaking, as Tucker’s cries rang in my ears.
But he didn’t come back.
And within ten minutes, the usual hubbub of Walmart returned. Voices. Footsteps. Shopping cart wheels rolling along the floor.
Shaking, I finally got up and unlocked the door.
The store looked completely normal. People were lined up at the cash registers, placing their goods on the conveyor belts. Employees were scanning tags, printing receipts. People walked towards the glass doors, and when they did—they slid open.
As we slowly walked towards the exit, I spotted the older man who’d warned us about the tornado earlier. “What—what was that?” I asked, unable to keep my voice from shaking.
He shrugged. “I guess the tornado missed us! What a miracle, huh?”
Giving us a smile, he disappeared out the glass doors and into the night.
2024.06.04 05:57 Place_Infinite Help me improve
 | I used this recipe. submitted by Place_Infinite to Pizza [link] [comments] Proofed as instructed for 4 hours in room temp before popping in oven on a pizza stone preheated for 30 min on 550. I par baked for 10 min, then baked again for 15 with toppings. The taste was good but the pizza seemed dry and not dough-y. I live in Denver area so the elevation may have something to do with it, but overall I suspect I need much more hydration. When I made the pizza again today from the fridge, the ball was hard to mold and kept breaking apart and cracking. Can you help me for next time? The Caputo flour in question is quite expensive so would love to nail it in the future. |
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2024.06.03 23:31 AutoMughal The collectors who cut up a masterpiece - The sordid practice of disassembling Islamic manuscripts has flourished for over a century. As rare folios go on the market, the art world needs to get ethical
 | Autumn sees leaves turn gold and tumble to the ground. This October, though, we are also witnessing the fall of other leaves—folios of rare Islamic manuscripts on to the art market. submitted by AutoMughal to islamichistory [link] [comments] At London’s Frieze Masters in early October, the dealer Francesca Galloway displayed a folio with three paintings—two on one side and another on the back. The pictures, dating from the 15th century, depict the famous Islamic story of the ascension of the Prophet Muhammad into the heavens. Two more folios, extracted from the same Timurid-era manuscript, will be offered for sale at Christie’s on 24th October. One folio depicts the Prophet Muhammad approaching angels; the other vividly depicts the tortures of hell. These are incredibly beautiful works of art—and incredibly valuable. Each folio is estimated to sell for about £1m. Their sale, though, raises a number of important ethical issues over how collectors and art galleries treat Islamic art. For the individual folios were once a complete illustrated manuscript bound between covers: they have been cut out either by the current (anonymous) owner or a previous one. The motivation for the dismemberment—given the acquisitive society we live in—appears obvious. Had the illustrated manuscript stayed complete, it would likely have sold for a just few million pounds; the sale of its separated folios increases its collective value tenfold—to over £50m. Wittingly or unwittingly, by its gutting and dispersal, this manuscript will prove to be a cash cow for all those involved in the sale. I am following events closely because as an Islamic art historian, I have been on the trail of this manuscript for over 20 years now. It was probably made in Herat, in present-day Afghanistan, in the 1460s. Written in the Khwarazmian Turkish language and transcribed in the Uyghur script, the manuscript is a rare testament to Islamic religious literature produced in Turkic Central Asia. It would thus be of immense value to literary historians—who will not, now that it is split up, be able to properly study the work. This cannibalised manuscript, which has over 60 lavish images, is one of only two of its kind in the world. The other manuscript, most likely made in Herat 30 years earlier in 1436, found its way to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. Undivided, and properly preserved under the care of a public institution, the 1436 work almost certainly served as the model for the manuscript whose extracted folios are currently on the market. While one may mourn the loss of the pictorial cycle in its splendid totality, perhaps some public institution with pockets as deep as the wealthiest private art collectors will acquire the folios. That’s what happened in 2012, when the David Collection in Copenhagen bought six folios from this dispersed manuscript. (The paintings in its possession represent Muhammad approaching a rooster angel, a multiheaded angel, the gates of paradise, and hell’s fiery gateway.) The museum has conserved these paintings, displays them regularly, and supports their scholarly study. We can only hope that the future custodians of the auctioned folios tend to them with as much care. But there is no guarantee. The sordid practice of disassembling Islamic manuscripts has flourished for over a century. By the 1920s, the Belgian-born dealer Georges Demotte had taken apart a large section of a 14th-century Persian illustrated manuscript, a copy of Iran’s national epic the Shahnama (Book of Kings) written in the 10th/11th century, selling its precious paintings to passionate collectors. Demotte even split in half the folios bearing paintings on both sides of the page. Some of these cloven folios now display blank versos, while others were “completed” with newly written text pasted on their backs. This unscrupulous slash-and-fill process allowed the dealer to double his revenue. Similarly, illustrations extracted from other Islamic manuscripts have been sold as autonomous paintings, divorced from their parent manuscripts. The celebrated rendering of the Shahnama of the 16th-century Persian ruler Shah Tahmasp, made in Tabriz (Iran) around 1525 CE, is a case in point. Its monumental gold-flecked folios are now displayed in museums as if they were “stand-alone” masterpieces, and not as integral parts of a larger whole. Manuscript paintings on a less grand scale, including those from a so-called “small” Shahnama, dating from the early 14th century, were also sold one by one. Some were even augmented with “frames” of gold-painted and marbled papers. One such painting, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, underwent this decorative process during the early decades of the 20th century, under the direction of the dealer Nasli Heeramaneck. The added frames were intended to increase the painting’s value, both aesthetically and financially. More tactically, they also served to hide any damage caused by the process of disjoining the original manuscript. Such suspect practices have pervaded the field of Islamic art. As a cautionary parallel, one need only look at Islamic ceramics, where there has been the cobbling together of unrelated fragments, the wholesale fabrication and filling in of missing pieces, and the liberal overpainting of missing areas of decoration. All for the demands of a largely European and American clientele. Manuscripts likewise are not immune to a range of subterfuges. The early 20th-century Armenian dealer Kirkor Minassian was in the habit of “improving” his Islamic single-page paintings through the addition of calligraphy, illuminated panels and marbled, stencilled, and gold-flecked papers sourced from elsewhere. This miscellany of elements, drawn from works of art made in different times and places, make a precise attribution nearly impossible. This type of mishmash creates an ahistorical product that strips Islamic traditions of their temporal and geographic specificities. The resulting product is thus no longer a masterpiece, but rather a master-pastiche. Such precious objects spur the production of outright forgeries. Indeed, a plethora of fake “premodern” Islamic paintings circulate on the market. In Istanbul, tourists can easily buy forged scientific illustrations in stores in the Grand Bazaar. These fakes use older (handwritten and printed) papers as support for contemporary depictions of dissected bodies, eyeballs, and extreme toothache. This past summer, I came upon another suspect item in an Istanbul art gallery: an ascension painting that closely imitates the illustrations in the famous 15th-century Mi‘rajnamas. Priced at $5,000, this folio depicts Muhammad’s face covered by a white veil, a practice that did not become widespread until after 1500 CE. Here, the painter has altered an artistic tradition in order to align it with the flawed premise that Islamic cultures frown upon (or even ban) naturalistic representations of the Prophet. The end result: the painting parrots—yet also censures—an original composition, while the Quranic text bears no relationship to the image. And yet this concocted fantasy surely will sell, the buyer none the wiser. So what now? Regrettably, legal action cannot be taken. Those who own manuscripts are permitted to sell them folio by folio as they please. But all who have a stake in preserving ethics in the art world should strive to make it anathema in the court of public opinion. I ask my colleagues and the public at large to entreat owners and dealers of Islamic art to resist the urge to capitalise on what has resulted from such destructive acts; interested buyers, too, should boycott such items. All parties should join forces to keep these artworks integral, intact and housed in public institutions. Works of art should not be treated like cadavers suitable for dissection. It is high time for owners and dealers to grow a stronger moral backbone and remove their blades from the spines of manuscripts. |
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Hello, thought to post my experience here to help anyone else applying.
This is the third successful time I've applied to Schengen and second with the biometric visa. The first was Italy from the Philippines, which was fairly easy, second was Sweden while in the US, and third (current) France. I intend to visit Paris, the south of France, and Tuscany the last week of June/early July over a two to three week period and listed Italy as the second country I would be visiting. I'm a green card holder residing in the US.
General Info:
Sweden was to visit relatives and I had them be my sponsocontact. It was very limited in duration and I feel Sweden is far stricter on this, I also triggered an overstay because I read the new format of the visa wrong. Do not fly through Frankfurt if possible for any Schengen exit as German immigration is extremely strict as well as delayed with the thousands of transfers routed through that airport and you may miss your flight esp. during peak season. Even without the visa issue I would have missed my flight because of the long immigration lines.
France has a very confusing dual-system registration process where you have to be registered twice on both VFSglobal's site and their embassy website. This can lead to some difficulties as when you register on their website it can be difficult to find appointments in the required window and you need confirmation of appointment to go back and enter that in the official site registration. Just remember that:
2) For US residents you can choose any city and for this reason I suggest trying cities with less overall traffic if you're in a rush (I chose Boston). I did secure an LA spot but because VFS requires you to cancel your old appointment first to even view the spots available in another city I lost that one trying for an earlier date. Avoid NYC, SF etc. Very important and I mean important note here: DO NOT TRUST THE FIRST DATE OF AVAILABILITY AS STATED ON THE VFS SITE. Their site is a mess and does not have the updated actual spots. Thus the Telegram bot can be inaccurate. Available spots can only be seen once you are given the option to choose and see the month and date selection screen.
Once I secured the spot I chose courier service to my address (you need this so they can mail your passport to you) and booked my flight to Boston.
Application:
I included everything in my application as needed and threw in more:
Overall the hard work was nailing the flight to Boston, getting the spot, putting together the detailed itinerary with printed confirmations. Make sure your documents are in the specified order, and if I were you I would just pay the extra fee to have your photos taken there. I was not asked any questions at the center. Good luck!
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This is the third successful time I've applied to Schengen and second with the biometric visa. The first was Italy from the Philippines, which was fairly easy, second was Sweden while in the US, and third (current) France. I intend to visit Paris, the south of France, and Tuscany the last week of June/early July over a two to three week period and listed Italy as the second country I would be visiting. I'm a green card holder residing in the US.
General Info:
Sweden was to visit relatives and I had them be my sponsocontact. It was very limited in duration and I feel Sweden is far stricter on this, I also triggered an overstay because I read the new format of the visa wrong. Do not fly through Frankfurt if possible for any Schengen exit as German immigration is extremely strict as well as delayed with the thousands of transfers routed through that airport and you may miss your flight esp. during peak season. Even without the visa issue I would have missed my flight because of the long immigration lines.
France has a very confusing dual-system registration process where you have to be registered twice on both VFSglobal's site and their embassy website. This can lead to some difficulties as when you register on their website it can be difficult to find appointments in the required window and you need confirmation of appointment to go back and enter that in the official site registration. Just remember that:
- You need to register on the embassy site first, and at the city you plan to apply at as the confirmation number is different for each city (LS For Los Angeles, BS for Boston etc).
2) For US residents you can choose any city and for this reason I suggest trying cities with less overall traffic if you're in a rush (I chose Boston). I did secure an LA spot but because VFS requires you to cancel your old appointment first to even view the spots available in another city I lost that one trying for an earlier date. Avoid NYC, SF etc. Very important and I mean important note here: DO NOT TRUST THE FIRST DATE OF AVAILABILITY AS STATED ON THE VFS SITE. Their site is a mess and does not have the updated actual spots. Thus the Telegram bot can be inaccurate. Available spots can only be seen once you are given the option to choose and see the month and date selection screen.
Once I secured the spot I chose courier service to my address (you need this so they can mail your passport to you) and booked my flight to Boston.
Application:
I included everything in my application as needed and threw in more:
- Filled out Schengen application I stated that I wanted a single entry visa and was granted a multiple entry which was nice
- 3 month bank statements from my main account, + 3 months of my cash reserve account (to show that I had more cash in reserve than on my main balance as I don't keep my cash there
- Credit card snapshot (to show a sufficient limit).
- 3 months of paystubs
- Letter from employer stating income, role and length of employment
- Cover letter in French and English stating the purpose of my visit and travel history in the Schengen area with a list of countries I'd visited. If you cannot speak French do not use Google translate and find a reliable AI translator online. I stated that I was accompanying my elderly parents and I plan on acquiring American citizenship soon to join my family but have to resort to Schengen visas in the meantime, and wrote a carefully worded, concise and polite letter explaining our love for history and food as well as our hope to enjoy our trip in France. I also mentioned I'd had previous Schengen visas
- Detailed tourist itinerary with cities, as well as activities generally planned per day, tours and planned transfers. I'd avoid going into too much detail on tours
- Printed out hotel reservations for each hotel I had booked for the entire trip (I used Priceline and Booking.com as they also offer full refunds before a certain date). I included the hotel I booked in Florence. I was going to include the tour reservations but chose not to.
- Dummy ticket/onward ticket with verifiable PNR **IMPORTANT!! do not use fake ticket/dummy ticket sites without PNR verification.*\* (I used https://bestonwardticket.com/ as they have great customer support and a 15 day option). They just need a verifiable PNR. I brought both outbound and return flight tickets as I am flying from Italy back to the US not France
- Insurance coverage confirmation (I used Heymondo both times for Sweden and France)
Overall the hard work was nailing the flight to Boston, getting the spot, putting together the detailed itinerary with printed confirmations. Make sure your documents are in the specified order, and if I were you I would just pay the extra fee to have your photos taken there. I was not asked any questions at the center. Good luck!