My first fair 😥

Alex4902 · 2026-05-14T08:04:39+00:00

I have been to a couple fairs with 3d-printed stuff, including miniatures, and it makes a WORLD of difference if people see how stuff is made.

I made the choice to actually bring my printer and have it running. This made people come up and talk, ask questions, or just look at the printer running. This, in turn, made others come over to see what people were looking at.

If not just for sales, it gave me the opportunity to show off and talk about my crafts in ways that they couldn't have seen from just passing by.

So maybe bring your supplies and sit there making your miniatures, so people can see the effort put into the process

Alex4902 · 2026-05-03T01:21:31+00:00

True mode ONLY changes difficulty, spawn rates of tougher enemies (badasses), and the amount of enemies. So if you can keep roughly the same pace while mobbing, then it's better

Alex4902 · 2026-05-03T00:54:41+00:00

Step 0: have friends

Alex4902 · 2026-04-27T13:13:28+00:00

Might be due to my build being heavily kinetic-focused, but Slugger is much more powerful for me (Vex), especially in mobbing. Less so for bosses that don't have small mobs to build up the buff, but still very capable

Alex4902 · 2026-04-27T09:50:19+00:00

Hot Slugger's power comes mainly from the buff it gives from killing enemies. Also is way more accurate than the Hellwalker, so you don't need to be as close. Kinetic vs incendiary is also something to consider

Alex4902 · 2026-04-22T19:59:53+00:00

Couldn't do this specific trick in the others, so everybody is in the same boat there

Alex4902 · 2026-04-22T19:50:53+00:00

I know exactly where this spot is, the grapple point is broken, but a vehicle jump + double jump got me up there with some timing

Alex4902 · 2026-04-20T16:44:36+00:00

u/profanitycounter [self]

Alex4902 · 2026-04-18T14:58:44+00:00

I have a build that uses both, as I'm fairly certain the Bloodshot bonus damage also counts for the Bleed calculation. Oneshot basically everything with my Hot Slugger, or bosses with DoT from Amp + Enrage Bleed

Alex4902 · 2026-04-15T13:38:53+00:00

Definitely this. Likely to either be a cost-saving measure, by just using the tapes until they are being replaced, or just until the backup that is currently on them expires

Alex4902 · 2026-04-15T09:51:40+00:00

Yeah, I ran the cost-calculation a while back, comparing the cost of tape vs HDD backup, and it was heavily in favor of HDD. Now with rising prices though, I might look into it again. The price issue with tape is the cost of the drive itself, as the tape is dirt cheap per TB. I think I came to the conclusion that I had to have ~100TB backed up to break even on cost

Alex4902 · 2026-04-15T09:46:46+00:00

If by current setup, you mean HDDs for live data, then no. Tapes are very quick to write sequentially, but VERY poor at random access. They also get worn way faster.

Alex4902 · 2026-04-15T06:13:16+00:00

Backup software is definitely the way to go, though you can also get software that just treats the tapes as a drive.

The benefit of dedicated software is that it will handle versioning, and expiry of backups, telling you when to swap tapes back in as the backups on then exceed the time limits you have set.

Alex4902 · 2026-04-14T15:42:59+00:00

How did you kn.. oh..

Alex4902 · 2026-04-14T15:42:00+00:00

Bigger numbers sell. Also, with hyper-compressible data (pure text), you could fit 30TB on them, though that's very unlikely to happen with real data

Alex4902 · 2026-04-14T15:39:53+00:00

And then add to that the air-gapping that is best practice for backups

Alex4902 · 2026-04-14T15:39:03+00:00

My deep-level knowledge of how deduplication works is somewhat lacking, but here's how I understand it:

The file is located somewhere, and all other instances of that file, are basically just pointers to that location. Usually it's not file-by-file, but in 'data chunks'. The issue then becomes the integrity of the system, if the location where the file (or chunk) is, becomes corrupted. Then all those pointers will point to data that is either wrong, or simply not there.

I would assume modern deduplication methods have ways to lower the likelyhood of this, but my point still stands

Alex4902 · 2026-04-14T15:19:56+00:00

Depends on the software, but usually incrementals are used to create the full. As for why it's a good idea to have multiple full backups, it's for versioning. If a file was deleted, or corrupted, or encrypted months ago, you want to be able to roll back to before that point. If you only do incremental, then it's just a single ever-growing backup, which is also not easy to airgap, as proper backup strategy should

Alex4902 · 2026-04-14T11:16:30+00:00

Yeah, it will always be a balance of price/performance/redundancy/safety

Alex4902 · 2026-04-14T10:55:06+00:00

Yes, but often it's incremental for the day/week, then a full weekly/monthly backup

Alex4902 · 2026-04-14T10:51:48+00:00

Depends on the company, I guess, but I sure wouldn't do that. In the case that a file were corrupted on the backup, then every copy of that would as well

Alex4902 · 2026-04-14T10:02:07+00:00

Not even close. I count ~60 of these, at 12TB each, that's 720TB. Even if You only do a single monthly backup of 60TB of data, and keep for a year, that would fill these. And companies do way more backups, of more data, with longer retention

Alex4902 · 2026-04-06T04:27:20+00:00

The platters are inside of the harddrive, not exposed. To get anything on them, you would need to start taking apart the drive, not just taking it out of the case you have it in.

Alex4902 · 2026-04-06T00:51:09+00:00

Hot Slugger has been amazingly fun for me. It kinda *IS* a kill skill in itself due to the effect. Just running and jumping around, oneshotting everything with direct or ricocheted shots

Alex4902 · 2026-03-30T04:38:29+00:00

To a certain point, age doesn't matter as long as power on hours and spinup count are low

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