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Firewood Splitting Simulator

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Re: Firewood Splitting Simulator

#91
post #8

What about when you’re splitting a log with a branch and the maul bounces straight back up? Lol

Yeah this needs pieces with knots, and having to swing at least 3 times before the initial split works. Very unrealistic, 3/10. Need some wedge + sledgehammer modes. Also how do I simulate my shoulder and lower back hurting?

I think if you sit and play it for 10 hours your lower back will hurt too. It just takes longer.

Re: Firewood Splitting Simulator

#93
post #84

There was this old Piers Anthony short story about a little kid who likes playing with his dad's wood-splitting kit. He's a little kid so he doesn't handle an axe, but he does use adzes, hatchets, I dunno stuff I don't remember now[1]. Anyway he gets kidnapped by aliens and gets to join a great intergalactic wood-splitting competition. I won't ruin it but maybe if you get really good at this simulation you could be n…

Haha this is also the plot of The Last Starfighter but with video games. I wonder if the screenwriter was familiar with it.

Re: Firewood Splitting Simulator

#94
post #15

If this triggers your interest in IRL firewood splitting it’s a very meditative and satisfying yard job. Also great mild to moderate workout between the splitting and stacking, especially on a crisp Fall afternoon.

This reminded me when we I was a kid we had to split the wood for the whole winter and that was actually a huge job all day or few days and way harder than just a moderate workout. I hated it then but actually now I miss the time I spend with my father and brother.

I hated cutting wood, stacking wood, splitting wood, all of it. We ran a potbelly stove in the living room when I was a kid for heat. I hated the stove too.

The only thing I don't miss is rolling a piece of piss elm over to my city living "tough" cousins after two or three pieces of oak and watching the maul just bounce off. Always funny.

Re: Firewood Splitting Simulator

#95
post #70

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I swear this forum needs to embrace their inner child more some days. My four year old loved this. Well executed fun.

Yes, but obviously this toy faces a challenge when folks who take this stuff seriously walk by. I immediately want a bungee to put around it so the wood doesn't go everywhere. I also want to split it finer than in quarters. Had to nope out.

I think it might be more that folks who take this stuff seriously face a challenge when someone makes a toy about it.

I believe the toy is indifferent to your inability to enjoy it.

Re: Firewood Splitting Simulator

#96
post #79

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"in the prevailing AI smog" How do you know AI was not used in the making of this? (personally I don't care, the result seems nice to me)

This I don't know, but at least the topic is not related!

only a small subset of the HN front page is AI related lol

Re: Firewood Splitting Simulator

#97
post #30

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Never had the maul get stuck in the wood. Never had the wood fly off the splitting stump.

It does fly off sometimes in the game.

I didn't see that but I only did a couple before deciding this reminds me too much of work.
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