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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  2d ago (text post)   300 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for January 28, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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I made my own currency for my party. I borrowed a friend's 3d printer. Neither of us really knew how to use 3d modeling software, but we were able to fumble through modifying someone's game token into a coin with my initials. We made 48 of them, two of the prints were kinda fucked up and discarded.

Coins were distributed evenly at the start of the party and everyone pitched in as new guests showed up. Observed uses were:

  • Making someone a mixed drink (1 coin)
  • Getting something out of a car (1 coin)
  • Cleaning up someone else's spill (3 coins)
  • Messing with the party playlist (1 coin)
  • Rights to last bits of food/drink (1 coin)
  • Gambling on outcomes of others' games (Max pot size 12 coins)

Seems like people valued them at 1 coin == 1 favor. Next time I want to experiment with different denominations and see if more price granularity develops.

I would like to bid USD$4 for 3 FallingStarFavorCoins to be held in reserve for me. I also like to pre-emptively spend one FallingStarFavorCoin to change the music from rap or hip-hop to 90s 3rd wave ska at your next party. The cover of Come On Eileen by Save Ferris if that fits, your choice if it doesn't.

Do you take venmo?

I'll take you up on that deal. No venmo though. Crypto is the preferred way to take money from internet people. I take Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Monero.

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