Most autistic thing you've purchased lately - c'mon feel the cringe

Soviet splatbook for Bolt Action. I already have 2000 points of the charming little culturocidal maniacs, now to massage them into an army.

Also a ZIS-3 Divisional gun in 28mm scale, which in BA can be used as a medium AT gun or a medium howitzer, making it supremely useful. But finding one at a decent price has been a challenge.

It‘s been so difficult in fact that I am now pondering the pros and cons of 4K-8K resin 3D printers so I can make the damn things at a decent price and corner the market through price undercutting.

Have noted a lot of Etsy shops selling 3D printed wargaming tanks and stuff (at normally around half the price of conventional model kits) so maybe there’s a market there.

Oh and the supplies for my Snake Juice arrived recently too, as the COVID panic has left me with a few more pounds than I’m happy with and I want to blast into ketosis ASAP and get back to being all around hot and awesome.
 
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Burns Marquee, the company is back in business finally. Had to import it from England, but the deduction of the VAT due to being American basically covered the shipping

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Mega Man 2 Intro - NES said:
What do people do with their fountain pens? Do they just collect them? I bought one to write a journal but I never did anything worth journaling. That has to apply to most people.
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Yes. They both write with them and collect them.

When you have a really nice pen and ink you love you find excuses to use it. I find myself writing more now than I did even three months ago. I don't do anything exciting either, but writing little thoughts is fun. Instead of using Facebook or Twitter to record something funny, write it in a journal. I may never read it again, but if I do, it's there to laugh at again.

The people on the forum I'm on though, holy crap. They have hundreds of bottles of ink, some of them have literally a thousand notebooks/pads of paper - fancy paper, because not all paper works well with liquid ink. Some people have hundreds of pens, some of which costs hundreds of dollars. I found a pen that costs $10,000!

Like I said: autism. And hoarding.

I've bought about five pens, different ones for different places, and three inks. That's about all I plan on getting. Maybe a couple more inks, one for each pen, but nothing like those other people.
 
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Mega Man 2 Intro - NES said:
What do people do with their fountain pens? Do they just collect them? I bought one to write a journal but I never did anything worth journaling. That has to apply to most people.
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I do a ton of paperwork at my job, I use my fountain pens to make that as enjoyable as possible. Same with nice mechanical pencils like the three Rotring 600s I've destroyed because I shouldn't have been bringing them to work.

I just purchased a Conklin Duragraph demonstrator because I'm a bit tired of the enormous Chinese dropper filler I've been using.

As far as other autistic purchases, Numismatic stuff. Some coins from Vatican city, some paper money from Yugoslavia (Images attached)
Also a U.S. ration book from WW2.

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Also, here's a bonus 1910, 1000 mark from Germany I grabbed...

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I bought the ’removed from the store because we lost the Stranger Things license’ Demogorgon DLC for Dead by Daylight from a CD key site. It cost twice what the base game did from the same site, but both together still worked out less than buying the base game at full price on Steam.
 
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Accept Only Substitutes said:
Notebooks. And fountain pens. A really really nice one that has subtle sparkles on it for $5 from China. Chinese pens are dirt cheap but pretty high quality. Not a Montblanc or anything, but who cares if it writes smooth and looks cool?

And this ink: View attachment 3244885

It's even more awesome in person. So smooth to write with and the sheen is amazingly vivid. Only $17 for 50 ml, which will last for ages assuming I keep my pen clean.

There's so much autism in the pen community, you have no idea. Just so much. No lolcows though, just straight autism.
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Chink pens suck.

Chink can't even properly knock off Parker 51 (Hero 571/581/130/131, Wingsong 101/601) Parker 61 (Hero 100) or Parker 75 (Hero 50/200/200A Wingsong 400) after almost a whole century.

FPs made in China today aree some how even worse then what they made in the last century, it's very well know that Hero 100 made in the 1970s got better quality, Wingsong 601 series and Hero 100 got hood cracking problems until today, they also use Hero 616 size small nib rather than original Parker 51/Hero 329 size, just like Chink's small penis.

Personally speaking, I believe Chink pens are more or less worthless. Like T-shirts a ture virgin would wear, they're bunch of plastic junks so cheap that you can buy a whole lot of them and found them useless. For writing and collecting purpose, just pick American FPs like Parker 51/75 (avoid 61 if you can) or Sheaffer Imperials/Targa, they got way better quality than most of Chink pens made today.

(Ture Autism)
 
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My autistic purchase: a flashlight whose beam throw is measured at just under a mile.

Mega Man 2 Intro - NES said:
What do people do with their fountain pens? Do they just collect them? I bought one to write a journal but I never did anything worth journaling. That has to apply to most people.
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Fountain pens are one of those things that when you buy one (or twenty) you find uses for them. For instance, I use part of my collection to journal while playing RPGs.
 
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Accept Only Substitutes said:
Notebooks. And fountain pens. A really really nice one that has subtle sparkles on it for $5 from China. Chinese pens are dirt cheap but pretty high quality. Not a Montblanc or anything, but who cares if it writes smooth and looks cool?

And this ink: View attachment 3244885

It's even more awesome in person. So smooth to write with and the sheen is amazingly vivid. Only $17 for 50 ml, which will last for ages assuming I keep my pen clean.

There's so much autism in the pen community, you have no idea. Just so much. No lolcows though, just straight autism.
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I'd say I went heavy autist on FPs a while back, but I'm too much of a cheapskate to get into buying and hoarding the expensive big brand pens. I started because of cheap dried up ballpoints. I stopped partly because the reason I had only cheap dried up ballpoints lying around was that I had nothing at all to write most of the time. Though I agree, the feel and look of the liquid ink flowing out of the pen and dried on paper is something else, strangely pleasurable compared to the oily gunk in ballpoints.

In that time I stocked up on those cheap chinese pens, Jinhao, Wingsung, Moonman. Some Platinum, Kaweco, Parker and TWSBI too. The chinese pens were okay, the cheap Jinhaos wrote well but the crappy plastic in the bodies had a better than even chance of crumbling in your hands. I agree with, uh, that guy that a Wingsung copy of the Parker 51 was shit, but I still have a WS vac filler that's pretty nifty.

My most expensive pen is a vintage Parker 51, where I finally understood the hype, though that was one of the last FPs I bought. I had an eye on some nice looking Montblancs and Watermans, but at this point it'd just be hoarding and I'd rather spend that amount of money on something that'd see some use. Keep posting about your 3D printer experiences, @Mega Man 2 Intro - NES.

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The people on the forum I'm on though, holy crap. They have hundreds of bottles of ink, some of them have literally a thousand notebooks/pads of paper - fancy paper, because not all paper works well with liquid ink.
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I noticed that on FP forums too. Unbelievable hoarding mentality. There's another reason I slowed down with FPs too: you have to be real careful what paper you write on because these days, most of it's made for ballpoints or printers. I completely ruined a couple of greetings cards that sucked the FP ink up like a tissue, and turned words into formless blobs.

These days the pen I reach for first is a ballpoint, because fixating on FPs let me know about good, reliable brands there. Also because ballpoints give off less of an 'I'm an autistic hipster douche' vibe than FPs when I carry them around. YMMV.
 
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A resin goddess similar to these but a bit curvier. Purple petals and gold foil embedded throughout. It is a genuinely lovely little thing, especially when the light hits it and the gold leaf starts glowing. These goddess figures are all the rage on Etsy right now.

RE: Pen sperging
My father turns wood and has made me a couple of ballpoints and a fountain pen. Any idea how I'd go about taking out the cheap innards and putting in quality nibs and cartridges?
 
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RE: Pen sperging
My father turns wood and has made me a couple of ballpoints and a fountain pen. Any idea how I'd go about taking out the cheap innards and putting in quality nibs and cartridges?
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I think it all depends on the nib assembly, some are super easy and just pressure fit with the feed (my TWSBI was like that)
Some require ordering an assembly with the new nib attached, and some are next to impossible. The important thing is to do your research and make sure the nib you want can fit, they are not universal.

I would try to find a forum thread talking about the pen you want to modify, it probably exists and someone has probably already made mistakes so you don't have to.

As for cartridges, they pretty much are universal, but I'd definitely recommend getting a converter and a cheap bottle of ink, that'll open up the hobby quite a bit if you have only ever used cartridges.
Plus the ink tends to be a higher quality.

Goulet Pens is my go to for just about anything pen related. It's a family owned business and they have never disappointed me. Except for when they changed up their YouTube channel to be "trendy" and ended up making cringe, clickbait-esque content. But that's beside the point.
 
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