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[bloodstainedlovers]

Front Yard Natural Stone Pavers Chicago Inspiration for a large traditional full sun front yard stone landscaping in summer.

[freezebobs]

DBFZ Yamcha and Ten cookies...done!!!

Soo I've been on a mission to recreate the Yamcha and Ten cookies from dragon ball fighterz because they're adorable...and they're finally real!! :'D process and info below! (kind of long lol)

I saw someone share these screencaps from the game a while ago and as someone who never played DBFZ I was so charmed at how cute these things are. I wondered if anyone had ever made cookie cutters for them, did a quick search and didn't really find anything, so just kind of moved on.

A few months later I remembered them again and was like, man, I really would love to see these brought to life lol. And I searched again and actually found someone who made them!!... But they weren't selling them anymore. 😭💔

^Reddit post from user ShadowLord898.

So in the next few days I went into the DBFZ game files, figured out how to navigate them and locate/open the proprietary file types (took...a lot of googling), and eventually found the cookie textures!!! Which I then painstakingly traced over to create vectors.

I thought once I had the vectors, it would be easy to drop them into a 3D program and extrude them to make the cookie cutters. BOY WAS I WRONG!!! It's probably just my inexperience working with vectors in 3D programs, but I tried Blender, Fusion 360, and Tinkercad and had problems in each one before finally figuring out the right approach. (I really almost gave up 🤧 but I hadn't realized that your geometry/topology don't need to be perfect when 3D modeling for print as opposed to, like, something you plan to create a texture for.)

Tinkercad and its extremely user friendly interface, plus SVG import functionality, saved me.

Oh then I realized I forgot to reverse the design, which you have to do for a cookie cutter because of how they work. I thought I would need to flip all the vectors and re-import them, recreate the models... but thankfully there's a "flip" button in Tinkercad. Fixed.

I sent the files over to my friend @.theprocrastinatingengineer on Instagram, who has a 3D printing service, and he was able to print them out for me!

While I was waiting for them to ship I downloaded Cura ("slicer" program for preparing 3D files for print) just for fun. (I was really eager...)

And here's when I finally got them!!!

Despite choosing all the dimensions carefully, I was still surprised how dainty they were when I actually held them in my hand. I wasn't sure if they would work...

So I made the dough and everything, used some 5mm thick chopsticks as guides to roll out the dough to the thickness I wanted. I put plastic wrap over the dough to prevent the cutters from directly touching the dough due to food safety concerns. Here is my first attempt to use them:

After this my mindset quickly shifted from caring about food safety to "what's a little more plastic in my system?" / "I'm here for a good time, not a long time!!" / "welll the dough gets baked anyway so that kills the germs it should be fiiine" **I Do Not recommend others to be so careless... also important note: I was the only one eating these so I didn't have to worry about others' safety 🥴

^The difference between using the cutters with and without the plastic wrap.

This first rolling out of the dough was actually a little too thick; in my design I hadn't accounted for the way the dough squishes up when you press the cutter into it. There wasn't enough vertical space at all, and the dough kept getting stuck in the cutter. It was a bad time!!! (didn't get a lot of photos of the failures here because my hands were covered in flour)

After lots of broken cookie cutouts, re-flouring the surface/cutters/rolling pin, and re-rolling the dough to be a bit thinner, I managed to get these out. I had to support Ten's head like a newborn when moving the dough onto the cookie sheet because the connection to the body was so delicate 😢

AND HERE THEY ARE...fully baked and ready 🥹

For the most part I was going to leave them undecorated like how they are in the game. But @.lamichicuenta made this really cute drawing of the cookies where Yamcha had chocolate decorations and Ten was a salty cracker, and I really wanted to try decorating some to resemble those!! Here are the photos of both versions of the cookies the next day once I was able to get some natural light for nicer pics.

(I meant to poke some holes in Ten's cookie to look more like a cracker but I forgot about it until they were already baking.)

They tasted fine...yamcha was better thanks to the chocolate. 🤭

If you read all this, thank you for following my cookie cutter journey... 😌🙏💖

Oh yeah and I made the vectors, 3D print files, and specs/info all available in a google drive folder here for anyone to use if they want! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hQ7uq3leYPK64pGgt3LhFw-70IZnkYzh?usp=drive_link

OH and one last thing, i ended up revising the 3D models to hopefully fix the issue of not enough vertical space. ...turns out I hit the maximum for photos and videos in this post, but you can see it on my twitter here! https://twitter.com/freezebobs/status/1875720926840680678

I didn't get to try these revised models, but they are the ones I put in the drive folder. 😊👍

[roraimae]

Guess who finally had time to start playing Veilguard and is now faced with the Minrathous vs. Treviso choice

Emotional damage.

[transmechanicus]

It is my duty, my obligation, my compulsion, and my hunger, to be so absolutely and exotically Myself that the course of the world would sooner warp and contort than obstruct my passing among the clockwork of creation.

[critter-casey]

“Crossing Paths (Happy Halloween)” (mechanical colored pencils, digital type) — CW

[tjerra14]

great news everyone, the floating Grazer LIVES

[transhoverfish]

check out my new and incredibly cool subnautica challenge!! i call it: Go More Than Ten Meters In Your Seamoth Without Hitting 17 Entire Fucking Fish. so far proving to be impossible.

[bitchthefuck1]

One of the things that stands out the most to me about succession on the rewatch is how many hugely significant plot points only happen because at some point someone was feeling petty.

[oldschoolfrp]

Sphinx, manticore, or lammasu? Some encounters are difficult to identify, but making the wrong call can be disastrous. (Fantasy Forest 7: Castle in the Clouds, Jeff Easley cover art for TSR "Pick a Path to Adventure" game book by Morris Simon, 1984) This series was aimed at younger readers than the similar "Endless Quest" books, but still used some of TSR's in-house talent.

[venstm]

caelus thoughts before bed. there’s something starkly inhuman about him, is it the swirling cosmos in his gaze ? the fact that his hair may look soft and woven by starlight but sometimes it’s all but intangible ? the fact that he doesn’t bleed blood ??? that if you trace the scars on his chest they pulse with a strange golden light ??? he also runs warm on the verge of hot.

caelus’ personality traits are augmented or enhanced by the path he currently resonates with and depending on his element / type he may also have traits indicative of them.

Caelus doesn’t have a keen sense of danger. There’s no real preventative measure within him to stop him from stepping head first into danger and his life as a concept is still vague at best to him. He cares more for the lives of his comrades than he does his own. his life, short as it has been, holds less validity than those who have their whole pasts ??? it’s complicated he’s complicated.

he’s very cat coded. he will sleep at the bottom of your bed, he will lay in your lap, he wants to be petted.

he’s plagued by bad dreams that seem to correlate with events that have happened in the past or will happen in the future they’re never clear but the visceral sense of dread has left him incapable of actually sleeping properly so you’ll catch him playing games on his phone in the lobby at 2am a lot.

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Talia saying Jason with 24 hours and a survival kit, fresh from the pit, couldn't be tracked by Ra's is interesting

And oopsies I liveblogged all of lost days in the tags of this post

[onenightbreak]

woe, p4a elizabeth and thanatos be upon ye

[fogaminghub]

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[thebookworm0001]

Oh

Oh that would be awful

Oh shit what if I wrote it

[friedfisha]

my minecraft play style is find the nearest village & rob it of its personality

[jonreytrevino]

From the archives, some pixel art cloud art. I been busy with stuff. so here y'all go.

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