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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Take the crowbar then pat her head already.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One of my favorite characters of all time would default to using her mace to open locks if the rogue wasn't around.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've seen LPL open plenty of locks with a hammer before... so it's a valid tactic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Percussive Maintenance if you want to sound professional.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

“Tension on hit one, nothing on hit two… seeing a bit of give on hit three, and now we’re in.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Or our barbarians “I'll smash the whole door in” after the rogue couldn't open the lock “the proper way”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Who needs lock picks when you've got two perfectly good dwarven fists?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm an electrician (among other things), and one of the tools I carry is an 18" big screwdriver that I call my "F*ck You Screwdriver." I have a matching set of pliers (that are 2 feet long).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For the rest of us, 18 inch and 2 feet are 45 and 60 cm respectively

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A little under 2 x 10^-6 hectares, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hectares are a measure of area, not length.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

As a Brit, I feel like everyone should know both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to be a repair tech for a company that makes postage meters and mail processing machines. Everything from a desktop stamping machine to big industrial sorters larger than some apartments I've lived in. I mainly worked on the big ones and the techs for the smaller machines liked to make fun of us for frequently defaulting to banging on stuff with hammers because we used the term "percussive maintenance" unironically. Also "four by four engineering," used to describe employing a long wood 4x4 as a lever for lowering and raising the hundred and fifty pound gearbox from it's inconveniently placed mounting on a certain model of inserter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am an engineer and used to struggle pretty hard with mechanic things because my instincts say that if something isn’t doing what I want that means I’m doing it wrong and forcing it will break it.

The thing that broke that block was a coworker at a startup who was both an engineer and our aircraft mechanic. He told me, “in my experience the best aircraft mechanics are basically just big dumb apes that wail on airplanes with hammers until they do what they want.” Sometimes I would help him do aircraft maintenance and would balk at a task worrying that I’d break a $2M airplane. We had another tech that would say, “who cares? I promise you can’t break it bad enough that we can’t fix it after”

Those things have stuck with me for years and I am no longer afraid of pulling out the big boy breaker bar when I need it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You should also know that orthopedic surgery is basically shop class with air-powered tools.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Be proud, it's good stuff. The pencil colouring really adds to the atmosphere of the art in a much better way than block computer colouring does.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It reminds me of the mini battering ram the UK police use to break open doors. They call it the "big red key".