i use mine for cooking hahah

if you look hard enough you can find em used for $20, generally with a fine edge lol. $20 for a new knife is almost always gonna get you something less than ideal, unless you’re really picky with brands or can buy at dealer prices.

like i’d trust anything from morakniv to hold up wonderfully, and the risberg is only $19, or you could get a basic 511 or 546 for like $14. they’re one of the best values in fixed blade bushcraft style knives i reckon.

but outside of them, i don’t know that i’d trust much at that price point.

i mean, yeah? if you shape and profile it by hand, even shitty steel can be turned into a very useful tool. the question quickly becomes “is hours of my labor worth less than $20?” hahahah

if you’re fine with slowly destroying the serrations, the same way you sharpen any knife!

actually though serrations are generally only cut from one side, so you can very carefully sure up and hone the flat side. the opposite you would do with something like a flat ground tanto.

if you wanna be REALLY careful you can use a round sharpener that matches the size of the serrations and hit each one individually. this will also redefine their points if they’ve been dulled by less careful sharpening.

although since it’s also a cutco knife you can just send it to them for free sharpening, you just have to pay for postage.

even before this there were SWATHS of weird incels raging out bc aloy wasn’t “pretty” enough for them.

that looks like they did the 90s thing where you just stretch a picture across a smooth face model.

that’s the funny thing, they’re legitimately fine knives. i worked at a restaurant that had been using cutco knives for years before i got there, and they held up better than certain “commercial quality” knives we got from our supplier.

they’re by no means “good”, but they’re perfectly serviceable and will last a LONG time. i used their ungodly 9” serrated carving fella as my goto veggie prep knife for literally 7 years. it was super predictable and i could butcher a pound of veg faster than anyone else on staff hahahah

the waste disgusts me

this is the only gel pen i’ve ever been able to use as a lefty. refills are a standard size to they’ll work in lots of other pen bodies, in case you already have a favorite.

imo the best fountain pen for school is the preppy. snap-cap that’ll NEVER go dry, and they’re super easy to convert to eyedropper fill. i have one i still carry infrequently that i haven’t had to refill in literal years. the nib sizes swing a little closer to german than japanese sizes though, so expect fine to be more like a japanese medium. if you want a more durable clip, the prefounte is literally a dressed up preppy.

i seriously can’t recommend the preppy/prefounte enough. it’s the closest a fountain pen can get to replicating the convenience and reliability of a ballpoint IMO

e: jetpens might not be the best prices, i just happened to be there already lmao

thank for making art ^^

yeah this tastes like it was written by a computer

holy shit lmao

ahh thank you for the correction

e: i have no idea how i missed that post lmao

smorty merch when??

actually tho you were the first person i started consistently recognizing on the fediverse and i’m always delighted to see you in comments, daily posts will be fun ^^

make him pay for a cheapo b/w com of his sona sitting sadly in a corner with a dunce cap and then he’s gotta use that as a pfp on the team matrix or whatever

i don’t mind the chicken setup specifically because it means farmers around here get to raise extra birds and sell em directly to city folk for a way higher profit than they’d get otherwise. to be fully transparent tho, my town allows something like 5 hens and 1 rooster per household, so we COULD hatch. reckon people just don’t want the hassle haha

everyone i know with chickens in town isn’t hatching anyway. you need more space and a LOT more effort.

anyway their lifespan is long enough that you can use your egg-savings to buy new birds and still end up spending less money than if you’d just been buying eggs the whole time.

yeah and sometimes people take it seriously and put effort into an informative response

op make the shirt longer

so wait, is valve supposed to sell physical CDs? is that what you’re getting at?