Depends on how much work you want to do.

If you can get the pieces off you can remove the layer that is degrading, prep the plastic and use a spray on vinyl polymer to recoat it.

Stuff like spray on ‘electrical tape’ and plastidip can be found in most hardware stores for pretty cheap. If you’re serious, they make a type of primer specifically for plastic, typically used for prepping before painting, but it serves to let the spray adhere to the plastic.

Life is too short to not pursue your passion.

My advice: go for it. If it’s something you truly want to do, you will find a way to make it work.

There are compromises that have to be made and some can be hard to adjust to, especially if you are used to a certain level of comfort in your life BUT you can always go back to nursing if you want.

I’ve had 4 major careers and started at the bottom at each one. It does get harder (on the ego at least) to do that as you get older but it can be done.

My first two careers were out of economic necessity. In my mid 30s I decided I had enough of low paying dead end jobs and from that point forward I refused to work any job that didn’t somewhat interest me.

By sticking to that principle, in the last 6 years I have doubled my income.

Now I am about to go into early semi-retirement so I can live out the rest of my life doing whatever I want with my free time. Like you, I’ve also worn my body out and can’t do the work I used to as well.

Again, compromises, I will probably have to budget very frugally but that is the exchange I am willing to live with.

Think about the probable last 10 or 15 years of your life. If you suspect that you might look back and greatly regret not pursuing your passion for music, then you know what you need to do now.

As for how to handle the change… just know that most good things involve a degree of risk. A few years ago I started a business. It was very scary. And did not go as well as I had hoped. Thankfully it didn’t completely ruin me but it took a big chunk out of life and ended up putting my deep in debt which I am just now about to climb out of.

And you know what? I don’t regret it one bit. I learned a lot and it actually enabled the last career change which put me in the position to be able to do the early retirement.

So, the lesson here is that staying in one position in life guarantees that you will most likely continue to get what you got. And that’s fine, especially if it’s where you want to be. But by taking a few risks, not all of which will work out- that’s always a possibility, greater things are possible. Even if those greater things are simply living a more fulfilling life.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

Hey that’s awesome man. Good job!

They can be a bear for sure. But it was no match for your determination 👍

Looks like a time lapse of Sarah Huckabee Sanders getting hit with a bimboification ray.

As long as I’ve got a face, you’ve got a place to ride.

Stable geniuses

True (and funny), which is why any proper doom mech should have a cow catcher on it. Or a giant spike ram. At least according to my 12 years old imagination.

Yup, and there’s a little quid pro quo, too: You have to stay but they make you president in the corporate structure over the acquisition and probably get stock offerings. Kind of expected, but I’m sure it’s nice to be able to say you’re a senior VP or whatever in a much bigger company.

They were just counting down the days for when their contracts were up.

Kind of a shame but also understandable. You put your life, blood sweat and tears, all the overtime, every waking moment, to build something and if the opportunity to cash out arrives they almost always take it. Otherwise they’re just riding the wolf by the ears until they crash from burnout.

Congrats, and here’s to a new you.

Jesus that’s… something.

There are not a lot of news items lately that give me pause. This one made me do the slow blink.

Just straight lunacy.

Pretty interesting that both Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka (the two remaining co-founders by the time of the EA acquisition) both bailed at the same time in 2012. After quite a number of lead developers and writers jumped ship.

So, it took 5 years of trying to tough it out under corporate ownership before they were like ‘this is bullshit, let’s go’.

And BioWare, who made so many great titles, didn’t produce anything particularly noteworthy after that.

A very important point about accountability and powerfully presented… but unfortunately the message is undermined by gotcha sophistry.

America is like a crack addict but with oil. Break into your house and steal your shit. Rob people on the street. Lie, cheat, extort, and murder to get it. And sell out friends and step on friends in need to get it.

What is that a screenshot of??

To be fair, it does look totally badass at first glance.

Reminds of those pictures I used to draw of future vehicles with more huge wheels and tracks and sections than necessary. And there were usually laser cannons and grappling hooks on them.

This specimen appears to have neither a laser turret nor giant robot crane claw or saws mounted on it, thus, unacceptable.

Take it away, it offends me.

Forced womanization, one of my favorite genres of literature.

Thank you for the explanation!

Second this. After my 20s I had no desire to discuss it at length with anyone, including other atheists/agnostics. It is what it is.

It’s like if you meet someone and they quickly tell you “Barney wasn’t a real dinosaur! He was just some guy in a suit” And you go “yep”, and that’s it, you two know where you each stand on it. The fact is obvious and that’s all that needs to be said on the subject. Except for shit talking people who believe Barney was real, which is just petty, there’s no where else for the conversation to go.

I live in a fairly religious area and occasionally get cornered for a discussion. I just listen, spout some vaguely affirming non-committal thing and exit the conversation. Nobody needs to know.

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I had one Subaru that gave me so much trouble I had to pull the whole axle, knuckle and all. I actually broke the mounting flange on the knuckle trying to press the axle out with a 30 ton shop press. That’s how bad the corrosion/bonding was. The other side came loose with just a good knock with the hammer. Go figure.

Well, be safe and good luck.