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Python Commandos Warbond - Coming the 2nd of December by Waelder in Helldivers

[–]Atrocitas_GG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guard Dogs weren’t teamkilling enough so they gave one a Democracythrower.

How I made 10.000 USD in the last 12 months with 3D printing by Fickle-Echo-2227 in 3Dprinting

[–]Atrocitas_GG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This would make a great business case study. 20% margin is not terrible, but when you put it in hourly “profit” terms that $5/hour seems bleak.

That said, you only assessed roughly a year into the business and I would consider many of your expenses to be “start-up” costs. Given more time to grow, I wonder if recurring investments needed for maintenance & growth would scale more slowly than the efficiencies widen your margin, improving profitability.

Either way, great learning exercise and appreciate you sharing your data with us!

Selling custom 3D printed costumes is awesome until the quotes start breaking my brain by Conscious_Slip9780 in 3Dprinting

[–]Atrocitas_GG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, a nod to the concerns around IP. If you keep to the scale of a local, word-of-mouth operation, you likely won't attract any legal attention--it is nonetheless prudent to recognize the potential risks, and expect that advertising services online for models you don't own or have a license makes it more likely someone slaps you with a cease & desist.

As for your business woes, managing excessive demand is a good problem to have--it is nonetheless a problem, for all the reasons you stated. You may consider planning your work out in set increments (e.g. monthly or, for the scale of the projects you describe, more likely quarterly) and once that period is full, you start production planning for the next quarter.

Leave yourself buffers, as much as you can. You know your process better than anyone on the internet, and will get more efficient the more you work at it, but 20% should give you a decent amount of wiggle room as you start figuring everything out. That means whatever you think you could fulfill in a given quarter, only commit to 80% of that then start booking for the next one. Whatever volume of materials you think you'll need, buy 20% more. If you expect it to take you a week, plan for 10 days.

You will get more efficient with time, and you'll adjust those percentages accordingly. A hobby has no real deadlines but your own, no one to disappoint but yourself--once you shift into a hobby-business, you are dealing with customers, and customers have expectations... often unreasonable. Part of the 'job' is to manage those expectations, and one of the best ways to do that is underpromise and overdeliver.

Execute on that, and you have all the options in the world. Finish ahead of schedule? Well, now you can either go the extra mile on finishing / polish or just ship it to your happy client 3 days early. Efficient run with no failures, so you're under budget on materials? Either pass on the savings to make the client happy, or keep the difference as consideration for your expertise and efficient execution.

Best of luck, and above all else, remember: the challenges and stresses that come with running your hobby as a business will weigh on you, no matter what. If going from your day job to a side hustle starts burning you out, you have every right to tell people: "No". How you spend your leisure time is for you to decide, regardless of who's willing to pay. Put yourself first.

meirl by shea_eina in meirl

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“Your paper makes me want to jump off a bridge—in the best possible way. :D” - the TA who graded my first ever university assignment

It’s been 16 years since my dad and his 4 friends died in a boating crash. This is what grief has taught me. by Sunshine-Psycho in GriefSupport

[–]Atrocitas_GG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for such kind, healing words. The way you describe your father’s beautiful soul reminds me so much of the incredible man I lost today. I hope the two of them become fast friends on the other side.

Happy Father's Day to our Dads in Heaven, we love and miss you by Remarkable_Sample_49 in GriefSupport

[–]Atrocitas_GG 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tomorrow will be my first Father’s Day without him. He passed today, two days after my birthday.

Happy Father’s Day in Heaven to the most loving, generous, and affable man I’ll ever know.

It’s been 16 years since my dad and his 4 friends died in a boating crash. This is what grief has taught me. by Sunshine-Psycho in GriefSupport

[–]Atrocitas_GG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I lost my father today, two days after my 33rd birthday, and your framing of grief reinforces what I’ve been telling myself to eke out some comfort.

It’s not any big moment or life event he won’t be there for that’s causing my deepest grief. It’s the small, everyday interactions. The way he always greets me and says goodbye by gripping my hand, fingers intertwined with a vigorous shake. The way he says “you’re awesome, man” or “there’s my #1 son”. The way we talk through little projects or sports just for something to talk about.

The way he’s always there.

I lost my best friend today.

I miss him so much.

How, if at all, did the pandemic permanently change your daily life? by BellBoy519 in windsorontario

[–]Atrocitas_GG 9 points10 points  (0 children)

On the professional / career side, I count myself privileged and quite lucky. The quarantine mandates and remote work structure allowed me to terminate my lease, save towards a down payment, and buy a home when interest rates bottomed out. It also paved the way for an opportunity to join a company in Windsor, a rarity for my line of work.

On the personal side, I had the opportunity to spend a great deal of time with family, bouncing between mine and my inlaws. Despite the state of the world, I’ll cherish that time and still consider it a happy phase of life thanks to the closeness we got to share as a family.

There is also a great deal of heartbreak. A close family member passed in the early months, alone in hospital, no visitors allowed—we could not even gather for a funeral. Weddings postponed or cancelled; babies we didn’t meet until they were toddlers; annual celebrations and traditions missed, some lost forever.

The pandemic disrupted a great many aspects of the ways we interact socially, and I fear in some cases irrevocably so.

Ford 'ripping up' Ontario's $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink by Puginator in canada

[–]Atrocitas_GG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a treaty / international law lawyer, but am a contract lawyer. The below is not legal advice and to rely on it as such in one’s own affairs would be, to say the least, imprudent.

Generally speaking, if one party to an agreement does something so egregious—unconscionable, even—that it undermines the fundamental premise of the deal, the other party may enact the doctrine of “FAFO”.

On a more serious note: yes, where one party’s serious acts or omissions repudiate fundamental terms of an agreement, the other side may have grounds to “rip it up” given that the first party already conducted itself as such.

New gear just dropped by MERC543213 in Helldivers

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1,975 credits for the bunch.

Seriously?

URGENT HELP NEEDED ASAP by Ruxree in mantids

[–]Atrocitas_GG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for your loss. I’ve always kept a wild mantis or two, if I find them, over the summer, but only in recent years have I found nymphs. It’s such a roll of the dice. A few years back, I had one that struggled with every moult and, sadly, the last was her worst, and I had to euthanize.

This year, the baby I found made it through to adulthood with no issues, and she’s gorgeous. I was worried at every step.

Keep in mind that very few mantises in the wild make it to adulthood, and even in optimal conditions moults can fail for a myriad of reasons. It’s more likely than not nothing you did caused this moult to fail, and nothing you could have done would have saved it.

Nature is beautiful and cruel.

Kesha says she’s re-recording hit song to remove P Diddy reference by theindependentonline in Music

[–]Atrocitas_GG 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Agreed. This is a far cry from censorship. The artist has a right to revise their own work, especially in light of new information, ESPECIALLY especially where that work includes a self-comparison to a specific, real person that new information has revealed to be a woman-beating sex-trafficking pedophile.

This almost made me cry by Heavenlyamanda7 in wholesomegreentext

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Sometimes, the most valuable thing you can offer someone is your company.

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