Notices by Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social), page 2

Might just run it outside and lacquer it

I don't wanna take it downstairs again FFS this thing has barely existed five minutes and I already resent the idea of moving it

ugh nope can't lacquer it outside because of the baby robins

wax in situ maybe?

Also this lad's back again

Bit of a special day today innit, hatchy robins, visiting fawn, it's all go in my yard today

I bought a new HVLP sprayer in like February when it was on sale and I had a lucky coupon, I said to the guy "Boy I can't wait til I can try this thing out in like May," bloody robins wait to hatch until I'm just about ready to spray some lacquer

🐣 Whatcha got there Dan?
🦝 Something that'll kill you dead as heck if you get so much as a whiff so instead of firing it up and trying it out I'm just gonna grumble about it on the internet

"Remembering when it's faun or fawn" is right up there with "How to spell parallel (or rather how to stop spelling it)" on my list of Language Things That Dan Has Made His Peace With Never Quite Grasping

I've waxed furniture before, but I've never used wax as a finish, as in literally just rub it into freshly sanded wood.

Ain't no finish in the world that's gonna be fine with having a CRT TV rubbed all over it within a couple hours, it's gonna scratch up either way under the telly, so I went with wax because it's quick and not too fumey and I hadn't used it before so I was curious. Plus robins.

You literally just wax-on-wax-off, two coats because the wood just swallowed up the first one. It turned out pretty nice! Look how well it filled in this end grain!

So last time the fawn visited, it was gone by they time I picked the kid up. So I didn't tell her about it, didn't want her disappointed that she'd missed it.

This time, I clocked it were still there from the road, told her it was a special day and she had to be quiet and smooth and slow and not go any closer than me, and we went and saw the fawn.

THEN, we went and saw the baby robins.

THEN, while we were watching the robins, we heard movement, and there was the mum, up the hill, with the fawn around her feet.

"Wow," I whispered to her, "Quiet fawn, didn't hear him going up the hill."

So then we got our bikes down and took them past the original fawn FEDI THERE ARE TWO FAWNS

Put a nice sheen on the top and all

Folk are liking how good home depot plywood can look after rubbing with this wax, and I agree. That's what my wood normally looks like after three coats of poly, three hours apart. I'm liking this wax.

I bloody well should be, considering it costs FORTY FIVE DOLLARS A CAN

Here's the wax, for those asking. Made in Kent so imported here, so back home it's probably cheap as chips lol

(to be fair to it though, I used maybe a twentieth of the can for the whole TV stand, so this'll last me bloody years)

*big Dad Wiring sigh*

Right, one component input on the telly, 3 HDMI's on the amp, one HDMI to component switcher, wanna split the sound off through the amp of course...

Upstairs CRT gaming is going on!

It's the Game Dad!

This whole thing was secretly a #gameDad project!

Now I got video, I got sound, and if y'all will kindly recommend a decent Linux-compatible Bluetooth controller from your own personal firsthand experience, Project Big Dad will be complete :D

Resi 2 time! But where's the PlayStation? And what's that lurking under there next to the amp?

Previously talked about playing The Settlers on my #gameDad and how jarring it is to notice that every single character is a tiny lil white dude, well lately I've been playing the Absolute Heck out of Rollercoaster Tycoon (in the form of OpenRCT2 via PortMaster, very cool, lets you play old (and not-so-old) PC games via #gameDad friendly controls) and huh yeah it's a thing here too

Everyone's a brown-haired white dude

I wonder how well it would go down if some enterprising artist were to add all the missing people to #openRCT2

upon searching, someone did the maths a couple of years ago and hoo boy yup that's a WHOLE LOTTA SPRITES involved