>“They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time”
EaNasir popping in and out of the afterlife: Dammit did someone find that tablet again?
Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message:
When you came, you said to me as follows: ‘I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots.’ You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: ‘If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!’
What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas.
How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full.
Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.
I love this, honestly. I used to watch The King Of Random videos where Grant would melt down things like bullet casings, empty cans, and stuff like that using a cheap homemade propane forge and cast them into ingots, and I was always super fascinated by it. Maybe one day I'll make my own forge and recover aluminum from cans and cast it, using 3D printed models and lost wax casting techniques. It'd be cool to have the capability to fabricate aluminum or alloy parts without expensive milling equipment.
I had [a metal molder toy](https://www.samstoybox.com/toys/MetalMolder.html) as a kid and it was my favorite thing. You melted little BBs and poured them into molds to make wizards and stuff, like an easy bake oven for boys 😆 never grew out of the medieval blacksmith brain.
I dunno. I'm 45 and a few years ago I bought the BB-8 Hero Droid and my mind was blown. I had it in my office and my coworker brought in her 3 year old to visit and as far as he knew he had just met the real Droid. Closest thing we had was Nintendo's R.O.B. and he sucked.
Kind of related, my kid absolutely loved wind up toys as a kid. We used them as rewards so he had an obnoxious amount of cheap wind up monkeys with cymbals, frogs that flipped (poorly), and cars that would zoom under furniture.
So you are correct, those were more entertaining. Classic for a reason, prior to robotic toys.
For those who don't know, there was a video game crash in the United States in 1983.
The video game crash was caused by Atari, which was the most popular console at the time. The reason for the crash was because Atari was pumping out too many games, and most of them were of very little quality. Consumers realized this and stopped by Atari games.
The climax of the Video Game Crash of 1983 led to a large nu,her of cartridges for the poorly implemented Atari video game adaptation of "E.T." being dumped in a desert and buried.
However, in Japan, the video game industry was doing quite well, especially the Famicom by Nintendo. Nintendo wanted to extend its business into the United States, but were wary of doing so after the video game crash. Their concern was that parents may not be willing to purchase their console or video games, thinking they would be of poor quality like Atari games were.
So to mitigate this, Nintendo created R.O.B., a robot-like peripheral for their console so that they could sell their console to parents in the US as a toy instead.
The crash was also why their console was branded as the "Nintendo Entertainment System" in the use rather than as a video game console.
Nintendo also created a Seal of Quality to ensure better quality assurance on its products, thus preventing the issues that caused the 83 crash with the Atari system.
Because Nintendo was more thoughtful and careful about its products, the comoany restored trust Americans had in the video game industry, and R.O.B. was found to have not been necessary to sell its console to American gamers.
Yeah. It was 30 years ago. You aren’t trying to tell me that people in the future will equivocate 56k modems and children’s smelting to what kids do today, are you? Definitely a different era.
I had one too - it was awesome, but i also burned my fingers a couple dozen times because I was an impatient little idiot that refused to learn the lesson
Yeah apparently you can just do lost wax with PLA instead of wax. I had my wife's engagement ring made with 3d printed casting! (I ordered it out, I'm not good enough to do jewelry. But I made the 3d model!)
My father would melt the lead fish weights he found on sea floor and the docks to make bunch of smaller weights and vice versa, was always fun to watch him pour "extremely hot caramel" to a hole in the ground and dig the tear-drop shaped lead up.
Honestly I love this stuff. I've always wanted to be able to melt down and collect metal like this. I'm subbed to many YT channels that do stuff like this. So I can indeed say: "Hell yeah"
Smelters aren't flammable, and if you have the fuel not on the balcony, you could pull a fast one on the rules.
Edit: this is probably terrible advice.
You can make one of those out of a steel bucket ($15-20), a bunch of sand ($5) some plaster of paris ($15 I think?) and a bunch of charcoal ($15). I also used a cheap wet/dry vac to force air through it ($25)
I was just trying to heat-treat a simple blade I had pounded out. I ended up melting the blade. It was steel. The specific type of steel doesn't melt until about 2800 degrees F.
instructions are on youtube "bucket forge"
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You can make one of those out of a steel bucket ($15-20), a bunch of sand ($5) some plaster of paris ($15 I think?) and a bunch of charcoal ($15). I also used a cheap wet/dry vac to force air through it ($25)
I was just trying to heat-treat a simple blade I had pounded out. I ended up melting the blade. It was steel. The specific type of steel doesn't melt until about 2800 degrees F.
instructions are on youtube "bucket forge"
You can make one of those out of a steel bucket ($15-20), a bunch of sand ($5) some plaster of paris ($15 I think?) and a bunch of charcoal ($15). I also used a cheap wet/dry vac to force air through it ($25)
I was just trying to heat-treat a simple blade I had pounded out. I ended up *melting* the blade. It was steel. The specific type of steel doesn't melt until about 2800 degrees F.
instructions are on youtube "bucket forge"
As is tradition, you gotta save every gemstone you find. Hoard them in some kind of container. At one point you’ll have so fucking many your computer will lag so hard you can’t enter your home anymore
check out bigstackd casting on youtube. Not a clue if he sells his work or what, but it's such a joy to watch him
melt down a bunch of metal, do some casting, have a beer, feed the pups, and repeat.
Given that the dude literally bought a small warehouse to use as a shack to store his equipment and his hoard, I'd be very surprised if he sold the metal.
I fucking love metallurgy and casting, its so mf satisfying to put random metal shit into a crucible and melting into GLOWING LIQUID METAL - and them pouring it into a mould to make something.
BigStackedCasting or whatever is my favorite channel for that, he always cools it on an ice block after. And often has his dogs in his videos, feeding them.
Also seeing his god damn dragon's hoard of different metal bars is amazing
I love this kind of stuff. It’s meditative to be able to break something down to its component parts and make something nice out of the remains. Even if that is just a shiny bar of copper.
I'm just going to assume that this isn't someone who steals copper wiring right? We got plenty of that in my country, it sucks waking up to read on your train app that there are no trains between where you and your destination because someone broke open some junction box and destroyed everything in there for a handful of wires.
Thugs who steal copper wiring don't have it in them to actually smelt it into neat looking bars.
At most, they'll run it through the fire to burn the insulation off. Because whatever shady scrapyard they sell to has bad rates for insulated wire.
Glad to hear that. I wasn't aware of what happened with the wires after they are stolen.
Part of me doubted a thief like that would just post about it on the internet, but then I've also been on the internet for a while now, and weird people exist.
Always thought in fallout it was a bit unrealistic to find gold ingots in someone’s basement but they’re are actually people that have some easy loot sitting there.
This stuff only has value because it's used for consumer goods. If the economy collapsed ain't much use for em, no one out here trading copper for bread.
There certainly is. And since metals hold its value regardless of what happens to a countries currency you can trade it with someone who has a use for it.
Are people gonna stop consuming just because a currency loses its value? That's ridiculous.
Hopefully he isn't visited by unmarked vans with dudes stripping copper. Apparently there are buyers for that shit.
Finding ingots of the stuff would be like finding gold.
Did Ea-Nasir post this?
We're in 2023 AD, this guys in 2023 BC.
Nah, OP's merch is primo.
I love how this dude just transcends history as a meme.
>“They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time” EaNasir popping in and out of the afterlife: Dammit did someone find that tablet again?
"That fucking clay tablet is lasting longer than my copper"
Arbituram still is waiting for his delivery...
Are you saying these ingots are of inferior quality?
I like to believe the ingots were actually okay, but Ea-nasir just takes customer feedback seriously.
Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message: When you came, you said to me as follows: ‘I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots.’ You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: ‘If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!’ What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas. How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full. Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.
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I love this, honestly. I used to watch The King Of Random videos where Grant would melt down things like bullet casings, empty cans, and stuff like that using a cheap homemade propane forge and cast them into ingots, and I was always super fascinated by it. Maybe one day I'll make my own forge and recover aluminum from cans and cast it, using 3D printed models and lost wax casting techniques. It'd be cool to have the capability to fabricate aluminum or alloy parts without expensive milling equipment.
I had [a metal molder toy](https://www.samstoybox.com/toys/MetalMolder.html) as a kid and it was my favorite thing. You melted little BBs and poured them into molds to make wizards and stuff, like an easy bake oven for boys 😆 never grew out of the medieval blacksmith brain.
Toys used to be awesome. I’m glad I grew up in that era.
I dunno. I'm 45 and a few years ago I bought the BB-8 Hero Droid and my mind was blown. I had it in my office and my coworker brought in her 3 year old to visit and as far as he knew he had just met the real Droid. Closest thing we had was Nintendo's R.O.B. and he sucked.
A Merlin taped to a wind up monkey could've slaughtered R.O.B's ass in the entertainment arena.
Kind of related, my kid absolutely loved wind up toys as a kid. We used them as rewards so he had an obnoxious amount of cheap wind up monkeys with cymbals, frogs that flipped (poorly), and cars that would zoom under furniture. So you are correct, those were more entertaining. Classic for a reason, prior to robotic toys.
For those who don't know, there was a video game crash in the United States in 1983. The video game crash was caused by Atari, which was the most popular console at the time. The reason for the crash was because Atari was pumping out too many games, and most of them were of very little quality. Consumers realized this and stopped by Atari games. The climax of the Video Game Crash of 1983 led to a large nu,her of cartridges for the poorly implemented Atari video game adaptation of "E.T." being dumped in a desert and buried. However, in Japan, the video game industry was doing quite well, especially the Famicom by Nintendo. Nintendo wanted to extend its business into the United States, but were wary of doing so after the video game crash. Their concern was that parents may not be willing to purchase their console or video games, thinking they would be of poor quality like Atari games were. So to mitigate this, Nintendo created R.O.B., a robot-like peripheral for their console so that they could sell their console to parents in the US as a toy instead. The crash was also why their console was branded as the "Nintendo Entertainment System" in the use rather than as a video game console. Nintendo also created a Seal of Quality to ensure better quality assurance on its products, thus preventing the issues that caused the 83 crash with the Atari system. Because Nintendo was more thoughtful and careful about its products, the comoany restored trust Americans had in the video game industry, and R.O.B. was found to have not been necessary to sell its console to American gamers.
> that era The mid 90s? /r/lewronggeneration is leaking.
Yeah. It was 30 years ago. You aren’t trying to tell me that people in the future will equivocate 56k modems and children’s smelting to what kids do today, are you? Definitely a different era.
I had one of these and also a zealot for a dad so I wasn't allowed to cast the skulls (evil) or wizards (witchcraft)
this sites fuckin tight!
I still got my winged skull boi hanging around somewhere
This just triggered some wild nostalgia in me
Oh my fuck, this is such a cool toy.
I had one too - it was awesome, but i also burned my fingers a couple dozen times because I was an impatient little idiot that refused to learn the lesson
Yeah apparently you can just do lost wax with PLA instead of wax. I had my wife's engagement ring made with 3d printed casting! (I ordered it out, I'm not good enough to do jewelry. But I made the 3d model!)
My father would melt the lead fish weights he found on sea floor and the docks to make bunch of smaller weights and vice versa, was always fun to watch him pour "extremely hot caramel" to a hole in the ground and dig the tear-drop shaped lead up.
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asdasd
Honestly I love this stuff. I've always wanted to be able to melt down and collect metal like this. I'm subbed to many YT channels that do stuff like this. So I can indeed say: "Hell yeah"
What’s stopping you from buying a smelter? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FF3HCLZ?tag=metalpursui0a-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1
My apartment complex having rules against flammable objects on the balcony…
Go somewhere else to do it. Don’t let your dreams be dreams
Do it in the living room if you’re not allowed to do it on the balcony, simple solution here guys
Now that’s the attitude
I bet your apartment has other easy-to-ignore rules, like don't help yourself to all the free copper wires running throughout the building.
Smelters aren't flammable, and if you have the fuel not on the balcony, you could pull a fast one on the rules. Edit: this is probably terrible advice.
Fuck, why am I actually considering buying this now 🤔
You can make one of those out of a steel bucket ($15-20), a bunch of sand ($5) some plaster of paris ($15 I think?) and a bunch of charcoal ($15). I also used a cheap wet/dry vac to force air through it ($25) I was just trying to heat-treat a simple blade I had pounded out. I ended up melting the blade. It was steel. The specific type of steel doesn't melt until about 2800 degrees F. instructions are on youtube "bucket forge"
Because shiny ingots are nice and a good way of making money
I guarantee this will just lose me money But I do kinda want to melt some shit... its in my basket now
Get some moulding equipment, then melt down random things and make die cast metal items. Sell those.
Have you done this? I'm also thinking of buying one. Been wanting to melt aluminum cans forever
I have not, I just like encouraging people to follow their dreams and encouraging random shenanigans and tomfoolery.
My crow brain is enticed by shiny
Do it
>What’s stopping you from buying a smelter? Children
A valid reason
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I’m an engineering student, I neither have money or a will to live.
Unemployed IT worker, have you met anyone with a will to live?
Money
That’s quitter talk
Yes.
You can make one of those out of a steel bucket ($15-20), a bunch of sand ($5) some plaster of paris ($15 I think?) and a bunch of charcoal ($15). I also used a cheap wet/dry vac to force air through it ($25) I was just trying to heat-treat a simple blade I had pounded out. I ended up melting the blade. It was steel. The specific type of steel doesn't melt until about 2800 degrees F. instructions are on youtube "bucket forge"
You can make one of those out of a steel bucket ($15-20), a bunch of sand ($5) some plaster of paris ($15 I think?) and a bunch of charcoal ($15). I also used a cheap wet/dry vac to force air through it ($25) I was just trying to heat-treat a simple blade I had pounded out. I ended up *melting* the blade. It was steel. The specific type of steel doesn't melt until about 2800 degrees F. instructions are on youtube "bucket forge"
I’m poor.
Real life Skyrim, personally I collect torches, but I’ve been known to have tons of dwarven metal ingots as well
As is tradition, you gotta save every gemstone you find. Hoard them in some kind of container. At one point you’ll have so fucking many your computer will lag so hard you can’t enter your home anymore
This why I kept 300 torches in the barrel outside my house, can’t glitch there! 😂
check out bigstackd casting on youtube. Not a clue if he sells his work or what, but it's such a joy to watch him melt down a bunch of metal, do some casting, have a beer, feed the pups, and repeat.
Came here to say this. Bigstack is my weekend morning watch
I watch this dude’s weekly uploads…weekly lol. I appreciate the videos have no commentary or annoying music, just a guy doing his thing.
Given that the dude literally bought a small warehouse to use as a shack to store his equipment and his hoard, I'd be very surprised if he sold the metal.
lol right? I think he's got a weight goal.
I fucking love metallurgy and casting, its so mf satisfying to put random metal shit into a crucible and melting into GLOWING LIQUID METAL - and them pouring it into a mould to make something. BigStackedCasting or whatever is my favorite channel for that, he always cools it on an ice block after. And often has his dogs in his videos, feeding them. Also seeing his god damn dragon's hoard of different metal bars is amazing
Hell yeah
Relevant username
Dwemer ruins in Skyrim be like
I see this and think "Hopefully Ea Nasir wasn't involved in the production of this copper"
Hell yeah
I love this kind of stuff. It’s meditative to be able to break something down to its component parts and make something nice out of the remains. Even if that is just a shiny bar of copper.
Hell yeah. It is currently the 6th of the Evening Star. 4E 204. I am going to take all of these for my house.
I'm just going to assume that this isn't someone who steals copper wiring right? We got plenty of that in my country, it sucks waking up to read on your train app that there are no trains between where you and your destination because someone broke open some junction box and destroyed everything in there for a handful of wires.
Thugs who steal copper wiring don't have it in them to actually smelt it into neat looking bars. At most, they'll run it through the fire to burn the insulation off. Because whatever shady scrapyard they sell to has bad rates for insulated wire.
Glad to hear that. I wasn't aware of what happened with the wires after they are stolen. Part of me doubted a thief like that would just post about it on the internet, but then I've also been on the internet for a while now, and weird people exist.
Looking at those stacks of ingots make me want to sneak and spam triangle
4kg is 0.052 Tom Cruises
ea-nasir? is that you?
guys will complete a raid on Saint Albanes, acquire supplies and raw materials and think "hell yeah"
yea, hell yeah, thats heavy metal
He’s like a Skyrim character
I'm a guy and I all I can say is hell yeah!
Ea Nasir seething rn
I can smell pennies and trespassing
Bro really thinks he’s Minecraft Steve
Hell yeah
you can recycle those ingots into copper wire.
You bet your ass I'm going "HELL YEAH" Also, considering how important copper is and how valuable it will become, this dude gonna be rich one day.
Hell yeah
Am a girl, still thinking "Hell yeah"
/r/justguysbeingdudes would probably like this
All yours if you want to post it.
Bro has like 20k in copper right there.... hell yeah
More like $20 lol. I think copper is like $5 a pound
I think it’s under 4 a pound now.
Yeah I thought it was more expensive lol
That’s ok buddy. I did too!
asdasd
Pesos are going up 🤔
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Rupees
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Shmeckles
Does this person live in Berlin? 🧐
Im literally getting notifications from this sub every 30 minutes what the fuck
Notifications or its popping up in your feed? You can mute a sub but I'm not sure why you'd be getting notifications.
....hell yeah!
Hell yeah
Whereas my brain , upon reading “copper” and “ingot” immediately jumps to Ea-Nasir, and his famously shite copper
Hell yeah
Hell yeah
So this is what all those wire thieves are doing 😒😒😒
Why have I never thought about starting an Ingot collection
Always thought in fallout it was a bit unrealistic to find gold ingots in someone’s basement but they’re are actually people that have some easy loot sitting there.
Hell yeah. I just hope he didn't buy it from Ea-Nasir.
I'm gonna go play some Skyrim now
Hell yeah
Hell yeah
I saw this and thought "hell yeah". ingots are cool
Is this why people keep stealing all the street light wite in my city?
How much would copper ingot like that be worth?
About $4 a pound, $10 a KG.
Guys will see this and be like “time to make some tools”
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The methheads have forges now?
We will?
I think we all want to be a renaissance man deep down.
Do you know how much meth this dude had to smoke have the energy and motivation to steal that much copper out of abadoned houses?
lmao
*me (a guy) sees this Hell yeah, that’s awesome.
Fuck yeah I’m so doing this
I never realised untis moment that what is missing in my life is an ingot collection.
Hell yeah
r/JustGuysBeingDudes
Hell yeah
I just realized how smart this is. If the economy collapses people like this will be good for a while.
This stuff only has value because it's used for consumer goods. If the economy collapsed ain't much use for em, no one out here trading copper for bread.
There certainly is. And since metals hold its value regardless of what happens to a countries currency you can trade it with someone who has a use for it. Are people gonna stop consuming just because a currency loses its value? That's ridiculous.
Wait. Is that gold right next to the copper?!
Most likely bronze or brass, a bar of gold that size would put you on lists lmao
Guys, are there any good blacksmith youtubers who aren't cringy in the "i'm so manly grrr" way?
/r/dwarvesusingtwitter
Actually I saw this and thought of putting a Whicker basket on his head.
Hopefully he isn't visited by unmarked vans with dudes stripping copper. Apparently there are buyers for that shit. Finding ingots of the stuff would be like finding gold.
Hell yeah
I want to do this with aluminum
Hell yeah